Pirate ships

All of these ships use sails, no steam, no paddled, no poled. Why not have a wind affect? Move faster with wind, slower against. Aground if blown onto an island. Shouldn't be that hard to write into the code. Smoke obscuring sight if down-wind, crew's berthing not smelling so bad with a good wind.

 

I have often thought that if it took actual sailing knowledge the game could be immensely more interesting—maybe even educational (!!).

Prevailing winds changing when near land.

Dealing with storms and tides, bars, reefs, would even out the odds considerably and allow a less armed ship an advantage if the player knew how to handle it.

Sailing almost dead into the wind is possible for some types of ships, difficult with others--impossible for most.

High winds/seas favor larger ships in open sea--smaller ships run risk of being scuttled. Smaller ships (less draft) favored in shallows and estuaries/rivers.

I’ll keep playing around with Blender and let you all know when I figure how to do these changes

I've lived on and sailed a 42 foot ketch and I know that the pirates of history did not have it easy. (Oh and the illustrations of ships and cannons here on PS aren't even possible on--do you know how big/long a ship’s cannon was?? How heavy?? How hot the things got??)

I wish, at least, that all ships in the game actually looked as if they could have once sailed from history--maybe a make over into a real sloop-of-war, brig, caravel, carrack, tender, gig, brigantine, frigate, galleon, schooner, barque, corvette, cutter, dhow, east indiaman, galley, ship-of-the-line (man-o-war), galliot, guineaman, ketch, lugger, pinnace, or chebec. Some of these use oars/sail combos. We already have the Valkyrie which is a Viking ship—but what bothers me is it is slower than the other ships but in reality those puppies were very fast (and had no cannons, sheesh).

 

palladian, and frostbrand must be based on a real ship. have you seen these ships??

 

Yes I have seen them, they are ok, wish the names were more authentic though. The original poster stated that some ships should use oars and actually that is a fact that Barbary Coast pirates used various smaller boats that used sails and oars.

Steam would be cool too--as in *steampunk*

 

and the old dragon ship was ok looking---but this new version? Jeez, someone was trying to do "cute" when they designed it.

The paladin looks like the old English ships of the line. Sits little high in the water though--like it as made of cork or something.