Stop players from sailing into the shroud by dropping their loot on the edge!

"Im the captain of my ship, not Blackbeard. Im the captain of my fate, not Blackbeard" - Barbossa

Thus you are the Captain of your ship, what you wanna do with your Ship and the loot and people on board is up to you, not another. If they wanted to sail into the Depths and not anyone else have it, so be it.

Not that I condone that behavior I mean yeah ive done it just toy with someone but never with loot on board. With that said my view on this is you had 30 minutes to catch up and you did not, you lost that chase, move on. People can do with their ships as they please.

The solution to this is to make the edges continuous. Sail into the southern red sea long enough and you arrive in the Northern Red sea. It's like the Bermuda triangle: mysterious, dangerous and with no way out.

It may take a heap of planks to make it through, but now you can continue that chase forever.

Of course, this just means your target will start dropping their loot into the water at random intervals. Another favorite tactic of the desperate.

Otherwise, as much as the tactic is annoying, it's a legitimate move by a desperate pirate, who as a group, were known to be brave, vindictive, cruel, kind and cowardly in equal measure.

I just chased a sloop on my sloop for about 30mins.... I was gradually catching them due to better ship movements ect eventually I cornered them on the edge of the map and they just gave up and sailed all their loot and level 5 emissary into the shroud and they sunk themselves...
I could see their loot in the water but couldn't get to it as I kept getting TP'ed back to my ship!!

Awww. Diddums.

On summer evenings, a radio playing loudly can be a great source of annoyance to your neighbours. Another good way to annoy them is to set fire to their dustbins. — Marty Feldman

Another good way to annoy a pursuer is to drop your loot, piece by piece, into the sea. Do it widely spaced enough so they cannot collect it all together, and yet frequently enough to seriously slow the pursuer down if they choose to stop to collect each piece. Finally, sail to an outpost and vote to remove your emissary flag before the pursuers catch you with it.

And people try to tell you that you can only "grief" crewmates on your own ship. :-)

If you weren’t good enough to kill them before they made it into the Red Sea then you don’t deserve the loot they worked hard to acquire

@ian333333 why are you this toxic on forums. This is a fair complaint, and if a person knows how to run away, its nearly impossible to catch them. People dont care about losing their loot, they just want to frig over other players, like this person. No attempt to sell, no attempt to fight, just immediate suicide. Thats not how this game should be played

That's a valid tactic to out manuvear u and made sure u didn't get their loot

@rikology They clearly gave you no indication they were going to fight, so I fail to see why it’s reasonable to expect them to have done anything other than what they did. There are two types of sore losers in this scenario. One could argue that they were sore losers because they dumped it, and you are being. Sore loser because you didn’t get the loot, and feel wronged because of a mistake in judgment that you made. You didn’t get the loot. It happens. Next?

@huckfinx said in Stop players from sailing into the shroud by dropping their loot on the edge!:

@ian333333 why are you this toxic on forums. This is a fair complaint, and if a person knows how to run away, its nearly impossible to catch them. People dont care about losing their loot, they just want to frig over other players, like this person. No attempt to sell, no attempt to fight, just immediate suicide. Thats not how this game should be played

The game can be played anyway a player wants. If they want to sail into the red sea so be it. The loot didn't belong to anyone till it was sold. Players need to accept that you can't control fate and you can't win them all.

@huckfinx said in Stop players from sailing into the shroud by dropping their loot on the edge!:

@ian333333 why are you this toxic on forums. This is a fair complaint, and if a person knows how to run away, its nearly impossible to catch them. People dont care about losing their loot, they just want to frig over other players, like this person. No attempt to sell, no attempt to fight, just immediate suicide. Thats not how this game should be played

The irony of a PvP player complaining about getting screwed over by someone who doesn’t want to be screwed over by a PvP er

@bugaboo-bill

nah, its just like @entspeak said.
they are trapped and for whatever reasons they dont want to fight they are fine to decie that way.
The thing is catch them before or you failed.

They are welcome to do it just as I am welcome to call them out on what they are, unsportsmanlike sore losers. I will disagree with you on this, this is no different then someone flipping the monopoly board when they are losing. To make it so when you are about to lose and take steps to make it so everyone is losing, is just the definition of a sore loser. Their is nothing tactical about it. This is a video game, remember, stealing and battles is part of the fun, why be a sore loser about it? I will never self sacrifice loot just to deny it, its pathetic and makes you look salty.

Running is also stupidly easy in this game Bill, as long as you are paying attention to the horizon, you have a giant head start. That is more than enough time to B-line to the edge. The pursuer also has to deal with more threats over the lead due to boarding and kegs. The one chasing can't physically do anything but fend it off. I'm not complaining about that, but don't sit there and be all smug when someone can successfully flee for so long when they have a mountain of tools to not get caught. Runnign is absurdly easy when you understand you can board non-stop, attack them and they can't attack back, people can even launch over to island cannons to chain shot passing ships. They have so many tactics.

I have zero issues with people wanting to run til the ends of the earth, but to run it into the red is just pathetic. I have more respect for the runner than I do for those kind of people. They could even call me a mountain of names ranging from TOS breaking to minor ones, I still have more respect over the kind of players willing to flip the game-board when they are about to lose.

This may come off as me being salty, which isn't my goal, but I have zero tolerance for sore losers.

Sea of possibly thieves.

You win some, you lose some.

Just take your lumps and chase another ship for 30 mins 😝

@bugaboo-bill

the differnece is see is: to flip the table while playing monpoloy is a not build in feature, but the red sea is :P

I don't agree, the Red acts as an easily designed border to keep players in. This is no different then battlefield games that tell you that you are fleeing the map and force kill you. Its intended purpose was never to destroy loot, that is just a way people found to use it. A game board is designed to be flat and contain all the pieces on top of it, it also makes an excellent tool to make all the pieces fly at once. Just because someone can do something, doesn't mean they should. This is making the argument that Rare made loot eventually sink so that players could destroy Tall Tale objects.

Their is this Youtuber on Rust that did a video, let me describe it for you. If you aren't familiar with Rust, its extremely similar to SoT. Essentially its a bunch of nakeds fresh spawned on the beach who collect resources and guns to build bases and tools to rob the other people doing the same. This youtuber had a rivalry with this other base. They farmed up the tools and resources to launch a raid on them. They needed to farm up, because the base had the highest tier defenses. Even with the best explosives, it still will take time to breach their walls. While they are breaking into the base one of their rivals starts taking out all the loot and tossing it on the ground. This seems innocent, but what he is doing is making it go on a despawn timer so when the raiders finally breach the wall, the loot just disappears. Now the despawn timer isn't intended to be used in this way, its designed to remove items that may otherwise overload a server with too many resources being used up.

I ask you this, was the guy despawning the loot just outplaying them, or being a sore loser?

@rikology You are seem really salty about this. Relax its just a game. Sorry you could not catch up after 30 minutes but that is life on the seas.

@rikology said in Stop players from sailing into the shroud by dropping their loot on the edge!:

@combatxkitty sounds like you've done the sail of shame a few times!

Heck no I have not done this. You really think I am going to destroy my own loot lol. I need that gold to buy cute outfits.

I am good at sailing as is my crew mate and its very very Rare(see what I did there) any ones catches up and if they do we shall fight. By time they catch up though I have already sailed to every outpost and my crew mate has dropped off our loot. Also I sell loot so much I usually have nothing on board. When I do not have anything on board then yes of course let the toying games begin.

I just dont get all worked up about stuff . You had 30 minutes and it did not pan out. Its their ship and they did as they saw fit. Loot did not belong to either you or them and now it belongs to the sea.

I will say I deal with plenty of salty cry babies that I did not stop and make their attempts at stealing my loot for them easier. Im not their mother, I am not going to hold their hand while they chase me. I may have an explosive barrel or two for them but thats all they getting from me. Actually they do not know this but me and my crew mate enjoy their cries, yeah were kinda sick.

@rikology As far as I am concerned its not truly anyone's loot until its cashed in. However if you feel the loot did belong to them then they can do as they please with it even if that means destroying it.

Yeah I can agree its not the most classy way to go out. I mean back when we did skull forts and we had the same ship come after us 3 or 4 times we sunk them. We never lost a piece of fort treasure and we would never have imagined destroying our loot after all that work.

My feelings are im a real B to catch up to so if someone did manage to catch up and score a few pieces of loot well then good for them they deserved it. Im here for fun, not to get my pirate britches up in a bunch about virtual boxes of rare silks and exotic spices.

They can fix this when they fix the fact that you can be spawn killed before you fully load into the game. That would be fine with me.

@rikology we will never stop. This has been a tactic from the beginning.

You need to change your tactics if you want that treasure and flag so badly.

You cant ask to change the rules cause you got forced into an enpass. You have to get your opponent to play a different game.

Mindset cowardly it is when players are not playing by your rules?

You were chasing sloop for 30 minutes and you could not get it. Players didn't want to fight with you, maybe you should let them go their way?

I understand - you are pirate. So you pushed them to lose their loot, but you didn't win. You ruined their voyage and got banana :)

Sometimes you should respect other players hard work and their time, if they are not agressive players.

Exactly.
It's a PvP game, you can attack me, but that doesnt mean I have to fight you back just because you wish so. Maybe I just wanna keep goin on my quests, or else. This game is already unabalanced when it comes to crew size, as a solo player I know that really well, now it's even worse with the resurrection system. Galeons and brigantines always chasing sloops... is it "fair"? I dont care coz it's part of the game, you know that can happen,so it's the red sea; consider that option, and plan your strategy better next time.