No one says anything about removing god gear actually, I just want to clear that out.. only detph strider, which makes you faster than boats = boats obsolete in any combat situation.
I personally would also like to remove vanilla boats and i believe I’ve voiced that somewhere else too, because they make ships obsolete from a transport point of view.
So, with our current environment you are better off in a fight, in water, rather than on a ship and you are also better off in a vanilla boat, while transporting things, rather than the ships.
So why ever use ships, other than for the aesthetic looks and the feels? ..and also adding the huge risk of someone coming over and stealing or torching your hours of work. – I’d pick the vanilla boat any day, but if it was not there I could be forced to use the ships and if you add the opportunity to put a lot of chests on board, then it would also give incentive to use instead of tp, as u can only tp with 1 inventory at the time, unless u have the shulkerboxes of course.
building on to that, if you have loaded ships, you also get pirates who want those goods and without either depth strider nor vanilla boats, they are in fact forced to hunt you in their own built ships, right? and the incentive to actually steal your things rather than just blowing the ship up just for the heck of it, might also mean more ships survive longer – maybe? idk. all in all I think we could see some very positive changes to the environment and the style of game play.
Idk what you need the vanilla boats for so much that it can’t be replaced by a plugin ship though. Maybe it will confuse newbs, but I’m sure they’ll get over it as they discover the way to sail is through your own built ships.. I only see the vanilla boats gone as a less convenient way of going shorter distances by sea very fast. I think that’s ok, because if you wanna cross an ocean, you can’t just drop a boat from your back pocket really.. and its not like it takes that much longer to just build a small plugin craft and then piloting it, unless you are crossing a pont of course.
Anyway, It was nothing more but a hopeful joke.. I know this will never be changed as popularity would never allow it.
Let me just finish off by saying that I really admire Max’s commitment to throw ship battle events. That way we can at least have good experiences where the plugin do see proper usage and the contestants can use the ships like they are supposed to. 😀
