I've come upon this by accident - www.navalaction.com - while reading the Star Citizen forums. Seeing as there's been sort of recent renewed interest in the genre (Age of Sail pew pew), I thought it appropriate to share. It's still very early in the development, but the devs are responsible for Rise of Flight, the sound in Metro Last Night and other less important endeavours. They seem to be following SC's tack here (punny eh?) in being very open in their development process and are openly getting help from their fanbase and supporters, i.e. a thread titled "What ships would you like to see in Game?" almost immediately got the admin's attention, promising that the next 2-3 ships will be voted in by the players. This is going to be a more simulator-ish Pirates of the Burning Sea-style MMO, with player-driven economy and open sea battles and encounters. But don't believe me - Alpha is already underway - clicky linky for AoS ship-pr0n.
Been following this game for a while, the Same company are making two games, The other is being developed by the Darthmod guy who done all the awesome mods for the Totalwar games. http://www.ultimategeneral.com/. Both games are looking good.
I like that it's going to be at a later year than most of these Pirate games - it's apparently set in 1796, so we don't only get the national flat-decked frigates (and of course, the American Super-Frigates) but also the latest and most developed Tremeriare-class 74's, the heaviest of the Brit Rates and of course, the Spanish 4-decker. Just look at the USS Constitution... utterly beautiful.
Yes I love age of sail games, No way has there been enough of them on the pc, Really looking forward to this, Wonder if we can recreate the battle of trafalgar, Got to be one of the most epic navel wins.
Or you can shiver the deck and swab timber - to answer the question though, it'll likely be one person as the "Captain" of each vessel - according to the forums. The development roadmap could possibly lead to having people over on your ship (Captain's Cabin, Officer's Mess) but for the purposes of sailing and fighting, they don't mention anything like that. Also, it's going to start off as simple ship vs ship pew pew dakka dakka, after which they will add Avatars for players, which will lead to live, active crews for boarding combat and later on, for the hardcore simmers - officers that carry out duties, from the ship's First Mate, to the boatswain and coxswain with every midshipman and junior officers in between.
Huh thought I replied in this thread, but either way I'm keeping an eye on this. Is there a playable alpha at the moment or are they still working toward something that people can play with?
They have a closed Alpha going - very limited invites and limited sever uptimes. A handful of early supporters were picked at random and allow to download what they have going. They're iterating much like Star Citizen - with the exception that they didn't start off with a basic backend (Hangar/Dockyard), but started on Ship Combat (DFM) first, adding gameplay features as they go along, and holding the "social, personal" experience until later in development. They haven't even finalised their revenue model yet. All I've been able to find on the forum is that they'll have something playable by the public (free or otherwise) by September 2014.
The Dev Update pictures look beautiful. Haven't taken time to go through the forums yet but I'm definitely interested. I came late to the PotBS party so I'm going to make sure I keep up with this one.
A little more on the features/projected features: on maps with an island as a centrepiece, expect a "wind shadow" on the lee of the island, but with accelerated winds as they pass close reach. Also, dynamic water and underwater currents affect how the ship handles. Cannon-fire will apparently be affected by the ebb and rise of the waves, and the same with swivel gun and mortar fire. They will eventually add manual sail control as an option to "auto-skipper" for the badasses out there. Also, while the campaign dates will be in the 1790's, you can have ships from the 16th century up to the early 19th century. Also, after a lengthy and emotional exchange about Piracy - there are no classes (again, looks like they took from SC here). There is only player Nationality - Brit, French, Dutch, Spanish and whatever will "Native" (they have yet to decide on the world location - Caribbean has been done to death, so they're considering either the Mediterranean (which fits best) or the Baltic (which is very original, but doesn't really fit). There are a few suggestions to world maps here. You're a "pirate" only to the nation who's shipping you attack. Whether you're a gun-brig captain with a scurvy-ridden crew and a bad Irish accent, or a posh British Admiral taking the HMS Victory out for a sail - if you hit a French convoy, France will have you and your ship marked as a pirate vessel. Want to leave the Pirate's life so you can actually make a decent port of call? Bribe someone.
Sorry for double-posting, but I had to share this: http://forum.game-labs.net/index.ph...shipyards-fitting-companies-ironworks-wanted/ Basically, they want to community to sit down and draw out ship plans, cannon models, mortar models to use in game, along with as many historical references the community can find. If the community does so, those members will be awarded special titles, become canon characters in the world space and own large dollops of land (once it's implemented). Also, user-submitted ships... Should I just go ahead and ask the Admins what they're Star Citizen usernames are?
Serious Necromancy here, but it has to be updated: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=259130636 It's been Greenlighted - available soon.
Soon (tm) Apparently. Anyways, it's going to start off as a PvP Arena thingy, then they will add customization in V2 en then, the big one (V3) will have the open ocean, ports to dock at, trade, socialise, etc. I'm getting it early so I can get used to the PvP so I can protect Fluffy when she's making us money! <----- Plan is WIP.
/me sighs and just resigns her self to being killbox's slave... Hey killbox that guy looked at me wrong, heres 1 million what ever money, . Hey killbox, that guy is harassing me, stopping me from getting our 1 million what ever money. Hey killbox, I'm bored, heres 1000 what ever money make something fun happen hey killbox....
