I’ve been playing sunless sea for a while now, absolutely love it despite not playing Fallen London. After a lot of grinding that was only made easier by selling a lot of the captivating treasures(somehow finding at least 6 judgement eggs in the process) I managed to buy the Dreadnaught ship.
After using it for a while, it seems to me the only real benefit to using it is the extra cargo hold for more supplies to go to naples or farming enemies, not to mention capturing corsair ships for a 60% luck chance. Given how much more supplies my crew is blowing through its a bit ridiculous. with the first ship I only needed to buy about say 5-10 supplies to make a round trip in the zee, now I need at least 40 which is not without farming every zee beast I come across. Given all this the "Weight" feature that hasn’t been implemented yet seems to be a big future problem because it would mean a substantial increase in terror damage by slowing your ship down which is never a good thing, making it even more unattractive to go to the trouble of buying better ships.
Another problem I’ve seen others talk about are the engines and the rate they consume fuel. Someone on steam posted this spreadsheet detailing it.
(http://i.imgur.com/YjCR3u0.png)
Its easy to see at the very least how pointless buying better engines are at least so far in the game. The very best engine gets a measly 20% increase in speed yet guzzles fuel like a fat kid on candy. The amount of fuel required to keep that engine satisfied would require a large hold, like the dreadnought, to have enough fuel to be effective. Otherwise you would keep running out of fuel due to not being able to hold enough. With a larger hold, this would easily compound with the problem of a larger crew eating more of your supplies at an insane pace. For such a small increase in speed vs overall cost, its a problem that needs to be addressed as soon as possible. As it stands its more economical to not get a better engine at all, not even the Serpentine which in my experience didn’t increase my speed nearly enough to help me counteract terror damage at zee(even when I used the best route to do so). I wouldn’t know the best way to tweak it but maybe you guys can think of some ideas to help the developers out.
I know this game is still being developed but I don’t know when these problems are going to be addressed, so I’m just saying this now since I love this game enough to make an account here which I rarely do for indie games.
edited by oisean11 on 7/19/2014