Sneak Peek Seaport 2022

MartinSchulz

With the new year just coming around the corner, and with memories of 2021 still fresh in our minds, let take a brisk sneak peek into 2022 for Seaport.

Here i will uncover some of the things that you might expect to see in the game this year. Now as any changes and plans, everything mentioned below is subject to change. Some ideas might change, some Features might not be realistic at the time of making, and some others might be added during the year. So, take everything with a grain of salt.

With that out of the way, lets take a look behind the sails !

Admirals

The introduction caused quite some turmoil, so lets not dwell on that rather for too long.
One of the changes right out of the gates is their balancing, for more take a look here.
After boosting the Sailor Admirals, the percentage Admirals also received a bit of an upgrade.
But that is not all yet. One of the biggest points that where mentioned is, that Admirals need a proper sorting function. And we absolutely agree with this statement. A sorting feature will surely help in Admiral and Fleet maintenance.

And speaking of fleet maintenance...

Quality of Life

Sending out your entire fleets to destinations is quite the task nowadays, with fleet sizes growing bigger and bigger. Although i can not really talk specific here yet , adjustments will be made here to help with the ever growing task of dispatching your ships. This should help with the speed in which you can send your fleet to the intended destinations, and make the whole process a bit more streamlined. A dearly needed overwork, and something definitely to look forward to.

There is more...

As you can see from the points above, our main concerns are the general quality of life feature enhancements. Adjustments where already made, like for instance the recent map adjustments.

Remember Flowers and Decorations ? Well, we do, too. Expect something done about this topic too. What exactly ? Well... its rather early to say more. But we have them in our cross-hair.

The UI of our game greatly outgrew its once meagre sizes and needs. For what the game was, its was great and working just well. But ever since, not much has been done here really. Well, sweat and elbow grease will see to some well needed adjustments here too...

Much more

There is a lot planned for this year. Some points well overdue, and well needed. There is too much to mention, too much to discuss, and too little to spoil yet. So we will keep the rest under the velvet blanket of mystery. For now.

So, sail along with us into a new year, and brace yourselves for what is to come!

Redline_Diesel

MartinSchulz Remember Flowers and Decorations ?

Nope. What are they? Are they any good?

MartinSchulz But we have them in our cross-hair.

Just pull the trigger and blast them away...

MazdaMan

MartinSchulz Remember Flowers and Decorations ? Well, we do, too. Expect something done about this topic too. What exactly ? Well... its rather early to say more. But we have them in our cross-hair.

Could I suggest that we be allowed to exchange Flowers and/or surplus Admiral XP for Chevrons.
At least those that are happy with the way our ports look, might get some benefit from the excesses of flowers building up in the inventory and also utilize the massive excesses of Admiral XP.

RML_MIKE

Well, maybe you can say: is there pplanned to integrate a "slider" for ships ?
Ships getting always bigger (next generation 20 slots ship with 3 million materials). So when using 5000 Seasonal-Items for a commen-achievment or what else I sent a 50.000 piece ship to bring home (yes, not 7000, not 10000 - 50000 !).
of course there is no space available to store all these things.
So, why not (like in all train-station-games and like in near all tronsportation games I know) to give the chance, to tell the ship: bring 1 up to max. cap. things back home !???

Well, decorations and exploding chests when a ship comes back from Wrack - excellent performance of the coider-stuff.
Maybe you should set a focus in a working system how to sort ships when they wait in harbour.
Are they sorted bys time coming in ? By size ? By size per slot ? No - not at all. They are sorted like a randomized thing.

Ship coming home, unloading it. Unloading next shiop and - wow, the ship unloaded before disappears. Where it is ?
So, no real working sort-mechanims, so you walk through the list finding your ship.

Admirals .... a great thing to take fun away from players.

I had some 100 captains, but not crying about loosing them.
One captain was a +500% fright I can get when finishing jobline complete.

Ok, how many years I must buy cards to get an Admiral with same features ?
Oh, not to forget: I get some hundred millions XP-points to upgrade my Admirals.
Makes also not the big jump .....

Oh, maybe a message to the coder-stuff: arrays are noit really a complex thing .... most languages let them start wit h index zero and not one.
So, when filling up your fleet-list (e.g. 50 slots) you walk through the list of your ships and click "use".
before the last item/ship can be choosen, the option-window closes, because "array-coding" means, the ,ax. cap. is reached. Maybe something you can fix.

And - yes, how I can forget:
maybe you want to create a game in "retro style", means: old pirate sailing ships, chest with gold - a scenario from old times , also your letters in game are old-styled font.
So I have beautiful information of having 580 M or 13 B of stones, if I can read this ugle font.
Why you don't use something people can read ? Then maybe you can give full informations about game situation.

Challenges - I sent "2 K ships" and are currently on "a ranking in first 20%".
Nobody tells how much ships I really sent (why not 2431 instead of 2 K" ?
More terrible when you are in ranking on 1-3 ..... how much has my biggest competitor for the 1000 GEM. I have 12 K - competitor has also 12 K. Have I 12999 and competitor 12001 ? Or have I 125t01 and competitor 12500 ?

Big secret nobody should know.

Well, I think: after many years of promising to develope the game - you can start fixing basics and bringing in some realistic and useful functions like slider for capacity ......

Oh, in a wiki I found a list for the new Admirals ....
a +200% coins (the 250%, 500%, 1000% captains are not transferred to Admirals) costs
590 cards and 12,7 M XP-Points.
How many years I must work to get the tokens to buy the 590 cards ? For my 300M XP-Points I see I can upgrade then 20 of these admirals.
But the rest of the game (if there is any) is excellent ;-)

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RML_MIKE How many years I must work to get the tokens to buy the 590 cards ?

Many
Many times I received captain xp in 100token cards
Such a waste they must stop that xxxxxx nonsense

pixel_player529696556

Now I know why i keep on getting xp,
Maxed out admiral is converted there.

But this is wrong,

The problem with admirals is its presented in different way , that's why its unfair with players.
The pyramid common to legendary is wrongly placed its nesly impossible to fully upgrade admiral, not all at least one.

There should be lots of cards with common admiral cards and they should be upgraded to 5th level and not getting maxed out in 1 round , and there should be less no. Of rare admiral cards and levels should be less

The whole thing is upside down, thus the chaos.

If you implement system correctly everyone will be happy.

MartinSchulz

MazdaMan

Not much i can say yet about this yet, but what i can say is - forwarded to design team. Would not keep high hopes however since Admiral XP and Chevrons are balanced differently than Flowers slightly but i will forward it to the team as a possible option perhaps.

-K-

MazdaMan

Who needs chevrons anymore? My complete fleet is upgraded and for future ships I have >150k in stock... Exchange with Admiral cards.
Collecting cards for third star has been going on for a long time. I don't even want to know how long we have to collect cards for star 4+5...

MazdaMan

-K-

You are lucky to have that stock. I'm guessing that you have got them from doing the Expedition.
Be it to my own detriment, I don't do this side game. I hate it. With the Boaty McBoatface toy town boat and erratic stop start progress, it annoys me. So that avenue to chevrons is one path I choose not to pursue.

I have a feeling that there are many players who have huge stocks of flowers, which have no function but to buy adornments for the port area. Once again, something I refrain from using. I'm happy with the look of my port and still regret that PF stopped doing themed skins. Opting for this flower purchased alternative.

As far as I'm aware there is no option to purchase Admiral cards with Flowers, so I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Exchange with Admiral Cards" However as has been seen in other topics, plenty of other players seem to have an excess for Admiral XP.

Hence my suggestions above. For those that still require Chevrons to fully upgrade ships, the opportunity to utilise the excesses of Flowers and Admiral XP seemed like a reasonable suggestion. MartinSchulz has offered some potential reasons why this might not be possible, but one can live in hope.

The need to upgrade ships to the 7th level is pretty academic anyway. At this point in time I am running a fleet with a cargo capacity of 492,691. Way and above the capacity to successfully partake in the current and probably mid future events. Of course this fleet size is constantly adaptable. At this moment I am running a complete exploration fleet of multiple 1 anchor ships, which if I replaced, would immediately increase my current capacity, even if not all the ships are fully upgraded. So as I said, it's academic whether they need to be upgraded anyway.
But it would be nice to have an alternate way of accruing Chevrons, apart from doing the silly expedition.

-K-

MazdaMan As far as I'm aware there is no option to purchase Admiral cards with Flowers, so I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Exchange with Admiral Cards" However as has been seen in other topics, plenty of other players seem to have an excess for Admiral XP.

We agree that the flowers are completely useless. But it would be pointless if we could trade them for chevrons.
It would be much better if we could trade the flowers for admiral cards. The progress in the development of the admirals is much too slow for me.

LearningToSail

Considering the info from Martin, I'm curious about the issue of decorations and flowers. However, what the game needs is something to send all the boats to a destination at the same time.

MazdaMan

-K- But it would be pointless if we could trade them for chevrons.
It would be much better if we could trade the flowers for admiral cards.

I wouldn't say it was pointless for those who are eager to improve their available fleet capacity.
But I agree exchanging Flowers or Admiral XP for specific Admiral cards would be advantageous for those who are satisfied with their fleet statistics.

LearningToSail

MazdaMan Admiral XP for specific Admiral cards

That would be great as you can only visit the Academy once per day. Challenging.

RustySailor

I hope there might be a real world market where players can put excess resources up for sale. Prices could be determined by supply and demand. Failing this, or as well as this, some sort of way to get rid of any excess resources to exchange for something more worthwhile, albeit at perhaps a low rate would be good. For instance, at the upper levels, iron is almost useless and we have a huge amount accumulated. To be able to exchange it at a new location for say gold or wood, even if it is a 10:1 ratio and there is a cool down period for each visit would be better than having it sit there.