On another forum post @Azure mentioned that there are plenty of fortified towns and players with fleets available to be attacked by those pvp and action loving players on PirateCraft. This is true and its all great fun to attack and siege towns but using ships to siege? That’s pointless.

I really want to have one of those stereotypical ship attacks where a well armed ship enters the cove of a town and plunders it really quickly and sets sail back into the ocean. This is not possible however since ships are extremely vulnerable to attack out of claims.

I have a fleet of 40+ ships and I usually do ship attacks on players just for the fun of it but they are pointless and I will always lose and never gain anything out of it. I think ships are great for traveling but pointless for attacking. If anyone reads the scenarios below, I’m pretty sure they will agree that ships don’t have much use for attacking people.

Scenario 1: player 1 and his crew sails a well armed ship to a cobble stone base to siege and attack with cannons. The cobblestone base is sieged and the crew pours clusterbombs into the base blowing a large section away. The fort is armed though and the ship blows up killing the players. All damage to the siege cobblestone base reverts but the ship is sunk for good. Player 1 gets absolutely nothing from this attack and is down 1 more ship from his fleet.

Scenario 2: Player 1 sails a ship with his crew and they siege a base. They blow holes into the walls of the base and immediately, everyone goes into the base to kill the defenders and loot what they have. The attackers win the siege and steal tons of great loot. Meanwhile, the defenders have respawned and realize they ahve an opportunity. 1 person places a double chest on the boat and claims it while the others gear up and kill the attackers that are stuck in their claim since all damage from the siege has reverted and they have no way out with people constantly punching them keeping them in pvp log. Eventually, the attackers are killed and lose the ship to the enemy and lose the loot that they stole.

I hope these two scenarios show people how under powered ships are and before I finish this post. I’m going to put one more note…

Note: I have done sieges with cannons before and I found out cannons loaded with clusterbombs literally do 0-1 block damage to a fort and are completely useless for sieging as well.

Because of this lack of power, I’m afraid to send any ships out for fear of losing them and completely wasting resources to blow up an entrance just to have it sealed up again. I literally just use ships to blockade towns or just for the good looks. They have almost no attacking use at all so I would actually rather not have those pvp oriented people coming to attack me.

The main point of all of this is that I think ships need a little tweak to make them more worthwhile to build and arm for battle on the high seas