After Jasons and Hooks comments about the weird timeing of the 'Escape from Oxbay' video, and my one weird experience(where it came during CCC's survial mod activation in the tavern room upstairs - before i had even put to sea!), and after having replayed the standard starting scenario(not stormy start) about 30 times in the last couple of weeks; I have a few suggestions we could talk about.
The first thing occured to me after playing around with the national flags during the start of the game. You know ts accepted good advice to change your flag to a french one before leaving Oxbay by sea? Trusty Malcolm may tell you the same himself(depending on the beta version or if your flag is set as british).
Well for a new player i'm thinking a portugese flag is the best one to raise before you leave. Everyone likes the portugese at game start(and for a good while into the game), except the Pirates of course. The problem with raising a french flag is that:
1. you might get sunk by any british ships that are in the location of Oxbay
2. you have to be very carefull when you arrive at Redmond!
Its a tircky manouvre really - you have to make sure you leave the mini-map sailing mode far enough from Redmond that they dont want to shoot you out the water - and your bearing that vital news for them! tricky especialy for someone new to the game maybe?
If you leave under the portugese flag no-one will bother you, except the Pirates. Its plain sailing all through the entry to Redmond and the subsequent quests of sailing to Falaise de Fleur? So why not get Malcolm to say:
"and before you set sail i would change the ships flag to fly the colours of portugal - everyone loves the portugese and that French Battle Fleet we saw coming this way may sink you otherwise"
something like that - i think it would be much easier for a new comer to the game? what do people think on that? We could even set the player up with the portugese flag flying - just in case they dont read malcolms advice?
And now the starting video. I think its better placed in 12.1(full) - as soon as you set sail(no needing to go into mini-map mode) it plays - so you know whats going on from that point. Now i can see that the way it 'teleports' you into the mini-map mode just outside Oxbay area might not be to everyones likeing - its not as exciting as sailing out the port as the french and british ships duke it out. So we could keep the player in the 3D mode after the video has played. Combined with the player flying the portugese flag they get the best of all worlds.
The video in a logical place(which only plays the once), and the chance to see any ship-shore action if that happens, and they remain safe to carry on the adventure under the 'neutral' flag of portugal?
what do people think?
The first thing occured to me after playing around with the national flags during the start of the game. You know ts accepted good advice to change your flag to a french one before leaving Oxbay by sea? Trusty Malcolm may tell you the same himself(depending on the beta version or if your flag is set as british).
Well for a new player i'm thinking a portugese flag is the best one to raise before you leave. Everyone likes the portugese at game start(and for a good while into the game), except the Pirates of course. The problem with raising a french flag is that:
1. you might get sunk by any british ships that are in the location of Oxbay
2. you have to be very carefull when you arrive at Redmond!
Its a tircky manouvre really - you have to make sure you leave the mini-map sailing mode far enough from Redmond that they dont want to shoot you out the water - and your bearing that vital news for them! tricky especialy for someone new to the game maybe?
If you leave under the portugese flag no-one will bother you, except the Pirates. Its plain sailing all through the entry to Redmond and the subsequent quests of sailing to Falaise de Fleur? So why not get Malcolm to say:
"and before you set sail i would change the ships flag to fly the colours of portugal - everyone loves the portugese and that French Battle Fleet we saw coming this way may sink you otherwise"
something like that - i think it would be much easier for a new comer to the game? what do people think on that? We could even set the player up with the portugese flag flying - just in case they dont read malcolms advice?
And now the starting video. I think its better placed in 12.1(full) - as soon as you set sail(no needing to go into mini-map mode) it plays - so you know whats going on from that point. Now i can see that the way it 'teleports' you into the mini-map mode just outside Oxbay area might not be to everyones likeing - its not as exciting as sailing out the port as the french and british ships duke it out. So we could keep the player in the 3D mode after the video has played. Combined with the player flying the portugese flag they get the best of all worlds.
The video in a logical place(which only plays the once), and the chance to see any ship-shore action if that happens, and they remain safe to carry on the adventure under the 'neutral' flag of portugal?
what do people think?