Ship Durability

[Coaster]

Greetings

 

First post here, but i've been following the game for 2 years, so i will try to keep it concise.

 

 

As it currently stands, a ship has a Durability value. When it sinks, its loses 1. When it arrives at 0, its gone. Otherwise, it lasts forever.

 

I would like to suggest a change, which would better reflect the lifetime of a ship, as well as provide economical avenues to refurbishing ships, and keeping a sense of economy in a PvE environment.

 

The change would be that ships Durability be represented in a % format.

 

When sunk, a ship would lose a set % value. (example 15%)

When on Open Sea, a ship would lose % based on time spent. (example 1% every 3 hours)
When sat in Port, a ship would lose % based on time spent. (example 1% every 3 days)
When a ship reaches 0%, its statistics are drastically reduced (to at least allow travel to a port). If being sunk causes the % to reach 0, the ship is gone.

 

A new crafted item "Refurbishment Contract" available, made mainly from Labour Hours. Its purpose is to restore % to vessels. The cost to replace 100% should be greater than that of building a new ship. Each Ship type would require a varying amount of these to reach 100% (example a cutter requires 1, a victory 100) so "Refurbishment Contract" covers all (and there not be a plethora of different ones).