Feature Request Bury Your Own Treasure

[Black Iron Oyster]

Of course goods can at the moment only be stored on a ship because they're not items.

How do the game handle stores then? What about creating a "store" in which random amounts of goods do not appear, the ones you left don't get erased, and you can "buy" and "sell" the goods for free? If it's possible then it should work for personal items too. Maybe that would be a way of creating the on land storage ANSEL craves for, as well as the "safe chest" I asked.

 

[ANSEL]

Something like such a "store" sounds like the way I want to see it done.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

That might be possible. Would require some figuring out and experimenting, of course.

 

[Black Iron Oyster]

The only possible drawback to this way of creating this feature is that you probably couldn't store your money in such fake store.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

A safe chest would serve that purpose just fine.
That is basically already possible.

 

[Black Iron Oyster]

That might be possible. Would require some figuring out and experimenting, of course.

Something like such a "store" sounds like the way I want to see it done.

I don't know if the ideas I gave are possible Pieter, with my actual modding skill level I can't really help. I can only hope it be so and you guys that have the know-how find a way, hopefully I'll become able to help out in a not so distant future.
But just in order to not let the brainstorm pass, if modders find a way to it, it would also be nice to have such type of "store" (treasure hideout) in your residence, accessible if you are not playing a Pirate nation character and in Cozumel if you are so. The one in your residence would be "managed" by a guy with the model of a respectable officer, while the one at Cozumel by a badass pirate looking one, and there would be crates and barrels, just like the ones that appear at beaches when you are smuggling, 1st image, to represent your goods, and chests, both closed and open, showing off golden coins jewelry, as well as coins (not possible to take, like actual items, just the model) scattered on the ground, 2nd image, to represent your gold and items.

 

[Black Iron Oyster]

The only possible drawback to this way of creating this feature is that you probably couldn't store your money in such fake store.

So, if it shows to be too complicated to make it possible to transfer your money to the Fake Store (Treasure hideout), then the two ways should be used in conjunction, the safe chest for items and gold and the fake store with it's keeper for the goods, the so called Treasure Hideout becoming the two things at the same place. I guess that this second option of using both mechanisms would be easier than trying to make stores keep coins.

PS: I was writing my post above while you posted your statement about safe chests, Pieter.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

What is "your residence"?

In any case, there is a very good chance nothing will be done in this for the foreseeable future.
Unless somebody decides to give it a try.

 

[Black Iron Oyster]

What is "your residence"?

Pirates of the Caribbean: New Horizons Beta 3 Trailer at 1:23

In any case, there is a very good chance nothing will be done in this for the foreseeable future.
Unless somebody decides to give it a try.

Personally I didn't expect it to be done overnight, nor I am demanding it either, my intention was just to give a suggestion of what might become a nice addition to the game.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

"Your residence" then is ANY residence after you've taken over that town.

 

[Black Iron Oyster]

"Your residence" then is ANY residence after you've taken over that town.

I didn't know, then the modder might decide to choose one of the residences arbitrarily to house the feature, probably in a major town like Port Royale, or just somewhere else instead of a Residence, no problem. Or if you guys feel like it, allow the feature to be in all residences, I don't know, I'm all ears to what you people think about it.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

If the town is yours, then its store is available to you. So what need is there then for a place to store your goods when there already is one?

As for a chest, maybe somebody should try sticking some belongings in a random chest and see if that sticks around.
@Jack Rackham is the "chest expert" and if I understand him correctly, using such random chests may just be OK.

 

[Black Iron Oyster]

If the town is yours, then its store is available to you. So what need is there then for a place to store your goods when there already is one?

But your conquered towns might be taken by others, right? If you then proceed to recapture it, the goods you had stored there get lost or not? If they do get lost, the point would be to have a "safe store", if they don't, then there's not much need really.

As for a chest, maybe somebody should try sticking some belongings in a random chest and see if that sticks around.
@Jack Rackham is the "chest expert" and if I understand him correctly, using such random chests may just be OK.

That's a point, just installed New Horizons and will test it placing some gold and items in a random chest at Oxbay in the tutorial then come back there by the main quest and see if it's still there. Will do the same at Redmond just to see if there isn't any interference of the tutorial in it.
If the chests are already "safe" then there would be no need, gameplaywise, for making the feature. The proposed treasure hideout would be only an eye-candy addition, and as such, in an inferior priority level.

 

[Black Iron Oyster]

By the way, how do you put the user link in the posts like in @Jack Rackham?

 

[Black Iron Oyster]

Duh, just did it, nevermind. You just need to add the @, excuse my noobiness.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Conquered towns are never retaken. No such feature was ever made.

 

[Jack Rackham]

When the time comes I can, if needed, help with placing chests or what you want excatly.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I think the main wish is a "safe chest" to be add to the Vanderdecken cabin model.

 

[Grey Roger]

If the town is yours, then its store is available to you. So what need is there then for a place to store your goods when there already is one?

As for a chest, maybe somebody should try sticking some belongings in a random chest and see if that sticks around.
@Jack Rackham is the "chest expert" and if I understand him correctly, using such random chests may just be OK.

I believe chests are reset when you leave the island. Possibly sooner, e.g. after a day or two. For example, there's one near the town gate in San Juan port which gets looted every time I'm on my way into town and sometimes when I'm on the way out after spending a few days with the blacksmith. Another good place for free stuff is next to the steps leading to Kralendijk tavern.

So if you leave stuff lying around in a random chest, don't expect it to be there when you return because some thieving pirate will have grabbed it.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I believe chests are reset when you leave the island. Possibly sooner, e.g. after a day or two. For example, there's one near the town gate in San Juan port which gets looted every time I'm on my way into town and sometimes when I'm on the way out after spending a few days with the blacksmith. Another good place for free stuff is next to the steps leading to Kralendijk tavern.

So if you leave stuff lying around in a random chest, don't expect it to be there when you return because some thieving pirate will have grabbed it.

That's what I expected as well. Which is why I was hoping @Jack Rackham would know how to make a chest "safe".
No random items to be generated and content to not ever be removed.
Should be possible because the player ship chests are OK like that.