Reaper's Bones Makes Solo Casual Play A Living Hell

I’ll be honest. If your trying todo reapers bones casually? Then you shouldn’t do reapers. It’s a faction that’s meant for pvp. Someone like me for example who easily bulldozes other ships that fight me? It’s perfect. If you wanna casually do it? Get a crew to friends who are good at pvp. Helps a lot for some who wants to “casually” grind a pvp faction.

Reaper's Bones is meant to be the riskiest faction to rep and it's also the most PvP-focused, despite a lot of PvEapers out there.

There are PvP players who specifically hunt Reapers and "Running Reapers" are a bit of a meme at this stage. If you want to do "solo casual play", representing the Reaper's Bones is the worst way to do it.

@b3afy The best way to deal with it is to perfect your awareness and 'running' skills. Before you leave your ship solo, make sure to check your horizon for any ships. Even if they don't seem hostile, consider them an enemy. I would say trust no-one unless you're in an alliance with another ship half the map away. Also the benefit of going solo is having the Sloop. If you can get yourself moving and against the wind with your sail facing forward (most important sailing tip for solo sloopers) nobody will ever be able to catch you. Although PvP players may consider this scummy or annoying, all you are doing is protecting your loot. During this you can also attempt a board of the enemy ship. Even if you aren't good at PvP, the most important thing is dropping their anchor, be annoying, throw fire or blunderbombs, anything really that will stall this crew from chasing you. The majority of the time you will either get away or the crew won't want to fight you. Hope this helps.

@b3afy
It's working as intended ... when you put up an emissary flag you are advertising yourself as a target with loot on board or at least a flag that's worth gold and rep and is also part of a commendation.
And you're not only advertising yourself for crew with the Reaper emissary, but for everybody, at least you can see the Reaper crew coming ...

You want the bonus, you get some risk to go with it.

If you don't like to lose loot to another crew: don't advertise your whereabouts, don't have more loot on your ship than you care to lose and keep an eye on the map and the horizon.

like everyone else said

@d3adst1ck said in Reaper's Bones Makes Solo Casual Play A Living Hell:

The emissary system is optional. If you don't want to take the increased risk of being hunted by a Reaper's Bones ship, don't fly an emissary flag.

• Don't fly the emissary flag.
• Watch the horizon, every other ship is a threat - run or prepare to fight.
• sell your loot often. They can't steal it if it's not on your ship.
• Sail into the wind (when running).

I've hit grade 5 Merchant emissary solo several times, never once lost my flag due to hostile players. The first thing you need to recognize is that playing Solo is already effectively a handicap. Second, playing with an Emissary flag paints a big target on your back, since sinking an emissary forces their flag to drop, which is worth gold and reputation with the Reapers' Bones based on the emissary level.

@b3afy

If you read this to the end, thank you and I hope you understand where I'm coming from.

I mean, you're frustrated that you're being sunk and I get it. Losing obviously isn't the most fulfilling part of the game experience but this is kind of what you signed up for when you bought and downloaded the game.

Sea of Thieves is a multiplayer game. A shared world crew based experience. Team play is catered to far more than solo by design, so you've already got yourself at a disadvantage there.

Emissary play is based around the premise of high risk for high reward. If you want the multiplied reward benefits from being an emissary, you have to deal with the drawback of being a target for a Reaper's Bones Emissary - there's no flaw here, it's a simple balance of risk and reward.

If you want a more comfortable solo experience, start by leaving the Emissary flag off of your ship while you hone your skills and watch some videos on YouTube for pointers on being a one-pirate crew. There's plenty of good advice out there.

I'm sorry you don't like that Sea of Thieves is a perpetually online/multiplayer game, but it certainly wasn't advertised as anything other than that.

Well Reapers do their own thing... they hunt for emissary flags and loot to plunder. That is their sole purpose in the game... and the Emissary flags are made to be PvP beacons. The carrot of the Emissary system is the bonus you get, and the balance to the system is the service the Reapers provide.

Every bonus needs a counter weight, and that is how a game is balanced.

@b3afy

The emissary system is an opt-in for a higher reward, higher risk strategy. When you by choice fly under an emissary flag, you by default void all rights to complain about being sunk by other ships and especially Reapers as it is their objective to sink other emissary ships. You put a target on your own back... don't complain.

The reapers emissaries are always visible on the map, so why are you even near them? Either learn to play better, accept loss with grace and take the risks you are willing to take. Sell when you are not willing to lose what you are carrying and take the risks that suit your needs. This is an online PvEvP game, play accordingly! If you are fed up with being solo, crew up.

I think the pvp it's the base of this game and, for this reason, all of us have to be pretty good at it. And mate, I say it for experience, with a bit of dedication you will become really good at it. Happy sailing!

@mr-rattles
@ajm123
@realstyli

They weren't talking playing as a Reaper casually and alone, they were talking about playing alone and casually but having to deal with reapers.
Just to be clear.