Build your own ship: idea by flarecrotch ...text by Jaws

Hello Bay,
I am writing this great Build your own boat feature. The idea came from guild member Flarecrotch.

1) start from scratch
2) have a total of 12 slots to choose from
3) can be any combination of any slot color.
The only limitation is only 12 slots of any type to choose from.
4)can choose whichever ship color you want. 5) choose any of the boat shape templates.

Imagine the fantastic combinations.
Like a 7 weapon shooter....
Or a 3 weapon speeder....
Or an enforcer with 3 weapons and one is an explosive cannon....
Or a Defender with a tesla shield and 3 ex cannons....
Or how about a 1 weapon fixer with a tesla shield and a big shield....

This concept is long overdue. And should be a part of the bay. Who needs new mark ships when this is the solution to the variety problem on the bay?

Letting players build their own boat and use it for battling is the way forward.

Again credit goes to flarecrotch.
But ...the new ship could be called. Biter. Lol. In honor of my Jawesomeness.

Who doesnt love to choose their own adventure. Let us build our own ship.
Its time.
Dun dun....
Jaws

@The Grim Repair
@Miika
@Dmg don
@Zeus

 

Interesting idea, whatever brings something new and more fun to the game.

 

1 red slot (2) Standard Cannon
5 green slot (5) Duct tapes here
2 blue slot (4) Bandages preferably
Fixer template, but ship name would be "Carry"
Run duct tapes, repeated shoot with cannon and troll the hell out of your opponent.
Have a great day.

 

The answer LAYS in the Boat template selected. Since boat templates already have turret, rudder, and speed, and h.p. base stats.
So selecting a speeder template would be a faster boat than a shooter template.
Same a defender template would have higher base h.p. Then a fixer template.

Provide the platform. And allow us to paint inside the lines with creativity.

 

I'd like it for customs, for regular battles I think it'd be Impossible to balance them.

 

Actually that was my idea but for custom...

Call it The Stinger (which follows the naming convention of ending in "er".) Purple with a flared front end like a stingray fish and corvette stingray. Starts with middle stats. Basically a blank slate with 8 blank slots that you can fill however you want. This would be for custom only. So no need for any kind of balance.

 

Penta repair pulse,standard shield and turbo FTW!!

 

Is it 12 slots or 12 slot points?

Mine would be like a mega Speeder:

Speeder Template
3 red slots - 4 points.
3 yellow slots - 4 points
3 blue slots - 3 points
1 green slot - 1 point

I’d build it as:
EC,BC,Flare
OB,Nitro,TS
2x Small Shield, Turbo
Duct Tape

 

2 cannons and 10 small shields lol

I would do 2 cannons and 10 small shields

 

Cannon
Big shield x6
Turbo

 

This is such a good idea. A.m. yes I’ve seen you give this idea as well but I actually proposed it in our guild discord prior seeing you talk about it in VIP . Great minds think alike! To clarify a couple points on my idea: it would be eight slots with a total of 12 points. You get to determine what color the slots are and how many points you have per color. I suggest it to be an independent mode not part of the ranked/constructed format, I’m also not for regular customs.I believe custom matches should remain as they are because it would be unfair for someone to take their custom boat into a match with standard ships. I would leave crew training as it is and have your current trainings affect your custom boat. Let players retrain crew same as it is now as desired for custom boat so there wouldn’t need to be a ton of development. (If someone wants to make talent tree specific for this mode then that’s there prerogative, they just have to retrain back to normal when they go back to standard format to be effective) Call it the wildcard mode or something. I also believe there should be a weekly event match mode that forces all players to use a preset loadout and talent tree specialized for that loadout (available to all regardless of what you actually have). This will give new players a chance to experience high end boat playing and something to look forward to for progression. As it is now it’s so hard for new players to advance in the game and it is probably so discouraging, if you offer them a chance to preview what big boats feel like it might help with player retention.
Thanks for listening and big thanks to jaws for taking time to promote my half cocked pipe dreams.

 

Expanding on the second idea a little bit:
There some options with the weekly event, you could force everyone to use the same boat same load out or offer a load out for each boat type And allow the player to choose which boat they would use (this would be the style I recommend)
Then you just let matchmaking do it’s job and try to pair up teams with a decent distribution of boat types. I also think that allowing custom matches in this mode type would be fine because it would help settle some old fueds of skill vs money because everyone would use boats of equal strength lol. Feel free to contribute to this idea people!

 

I like the idea... due to the uncertainty of a boat being OP, my idea is a single flex slot to be a little safer. For example a Shooter can opt to change a 1-slot (or 2-slot) RED to be a 1-slot Yellow, or perhaps only a subset of items would be eligible for a flex slot.

 

Speeder with 2/4 weaps and 6/8 yellows... DEAR GOD...

 

Nitrous all over the place

 

12 points or 12 slote?
12 slots:
Imagine-defender with 1 weapon, 8 blue slots (turbo, bandage and big shields) and 3 duct tapes, that would be behemoth, tanking damage and healing itself fast af
-fixer with 0 weapons (you didn't say we must have weapon), 3 big shields and 9 duct tape or 9 bolts, that would be realy hard to kill
-speeder (just because it has speed) with 10 t5 legendary RG (max training and damage perks), nitro and turbo, it's damage would be insane, I think you won't even cycle through them
that would break the game completely