The List
The List is, appropriately, a list of often requested game design features that the Ringers have confirmed will someday be implemented. Though there is no time frame or schedule for when these features will come about, all have been confirmed by various Ringers to be specific design goals.
The List consists of links to forum posts by Cleaver, Nemo, Peghead, Jack, plus Lizthegrey, a developer-intern. It is in chronological order, so that you may judge for yourself how likely an item is to still be Listed:
Contents
Warning
First, however, a warning from the desk of the Captain himself:
Cleaver wrote: Oh my, I am very excited by our ideas here, but I am going to be tight-lipped...we don't want to set the expectations that 'all these fantastic things' are going to be in the game real soon now; even if we can see a clear *design* path to them, by the time we get to implementation other things may have changed, and it could be some time in the future. We just don't know, yet...[1]
Distant Times (2002)
- Ambient Music
- Yo Ho Ho! Instant Messenger
- Sea Monsters
Fading Memories (2003)
- Adventure Islands
- Cliff Guns in Blockades
- Story-Telling Carousing Game
- Player-Generated Music
- Inter-Ship Communication
- Repairing Ships in Port
- Player Production of Memorized Charts
- Route Discovery via Navigation and Cartography
- Armadas and True Multi-Ship Pillaging
- Sea Battle Board Variation
- Crew Bank Accounts
- Limited Inventory
- Pirate Notoriety
- Crew Forums
- Piratey Mail System
- Books In-Game
- Fine-Grained Crew Controls (flexible crew permissions)
- Monthly Plunder List
- Following Targetted Ships
- Recording Puzzles for Playback and Sharing
Listed, but probably devalued, given the complexity of puzzle recording
- Consignment Shoppes and Auction Houses
- Review of Player Naming Limits
- Earning Visible, NPP-Style Titles
- Island Paving and Customization
- Revamp the Full-Screen Chat History
- Extended Ranking Information
- Digging for Buried Treasure
- More Complex, Player-Run Banking
Probably superseded by the Global Purse
- Variation in the Duty Puzzles
- Mutual Disengage Option
- Water Effects
- Improvement to News Posting Interface(s)
- Crowd Control Tools
- Cleaver
- Cleaver
- Bouncing players out of shops/stalls was implemented with the New Drinking release.
- Storms/Hurricanes/Weather
- Long-Term Ship Maintenance, Repair
- Commodity Decay
- Flag Logos/Graphics
Sweet Days of Yesteryear (2004)
- Island Minimap Matching Island Shape
- Arbitrary Chat Groups
- Surrender Option
- Information Accessible Outside the Game
- More Information in Sea Battle
- Clean Up Jobber Invites (and Remove Stale Notices)
- Skelly Hunting Record on Pirate Info Page
- Insta-Brigand Skill/Size Variety
- Customizable Ship Figureheads
- Display Duty Stations Filled/Available On Ships
- Better Brigand AI
The Recent Past (2005)
- Poker tournaments
- Keyboard equivalent for the turn about button when sailing a ship and other functions
- Delivering orders directly to the rack (especially for Doubloon Oceans)
- Showing the colors of orders in shoppe or stall records
- Alternate Tournament Structures
- Fixing Merchant Brigands
- Shoppe/stall Management Browser Based Client
- Mugs as Portrait Items
- Plans for the existing bank building
- Brawl countdown more visible
- Display swords used by pirates in brawl lobby
- Display experience in addition to standing of pirates in brawl lobby
- Furniture to store whisking potions, charts and bid tickets
- Shoppe racks as furniture
- Greenie might calculations
- Shanghai points or other rewards for referrals resulting in subscriptions or doubloon purchases
- Display rooms / model houses
- Display cases to hold untradable trinkets
- XML-RPC export of in-game data
The More-Recent Past (2006)
- Rugs or editable floor tiles (Not in the near future)
- Records of sunk ships
- Changing portrait titles
- Not something which could be quickly added
- Cephalopod
- Indication of skill of a pirate in the orders popup menu from the vessels tab
- Semi-drastic changes required
- Cephalopod
- Recording blockades for playback and sharing (Not in the near future)
The Present (2007)
- Throwing pirates out of your house when you're playing a parlor game
- A known bug which isn't a 5 minute fix
- Cephalopod
Historical Notes
Legerdemain performed the original research to compile the List.[2]
Attesmythe maintained an updated version[3] until The List was moved to the YPPedia.
