Looking For Honest Opinions Aboit The Seas

I don't really know.

Friendly interactions nowadays are infinitely better than they used to be. Meeting a new Player and forming an Alliance and then helping them do Sea Forts or a skull Fort or whatever is always fun and memorable. I've met quite a few interesting people from this. The other day we had an Alliance with 2 other Brigs and 8 of us just went around on this one brig for about an hour just messing about. Organic friendly interactions are so much better.

That PvP encounters on the other hand, have definitely gotten worse. Every ships you face falls into one of three categories:

• PvP Sweat lord
• Runners
• Noobs who don't really know how to fight back

One obliterates you, one wastes time and one is unfulfilling and generally better to be friendly with. If I'm feeling nice sometimes lll have a change of heart and repair the ship once I see that "Initiation Voyage" on the table.

My main issue with the game now is how meaningless loot is. I remeber when I first got a haul of like 10 Captains Chests and I felt like I was going to be rich and sailing back to the outpost was the most intense thing ever.

Nowadays I can triple that in about half the time and receive 1000 other prizes for raising the anchor from the Plunder Pass.

Loot is almost useless. It is all just cheap stuff which you can get in masses. Look at the Chest of Legends. What was once incredibly sought after can now be obtained within 30 minutes.

I think it largely depends on luck. Most of the community are decent people but of course you always get the sour ones in every games community. If you bump into them more frequently by chance then you develop a negative view of other players.
You always remember your negative encounters more vividly.

Personally most people I bump into are decent overall. Even a lot of the PvP sweatlords are decent people if you just throw up a gg at the end regardless of the outcome.

It's the same, the extremes have just gotten more extreme. But that is due to the fact that the fan base for the game has increased and with more players means more divisive and more extreme ideals. Players seem more distant but that may be expected due to the fact that players aren't bored to death of the OG bare bones nature of the game. Overall the game is miles better than when it started. I mean it literally had only 3 basic voyages to do, 1 boss fight (kraken), and the 1 world event (regular Skull fort) that appeared once in a blue moon.

It’s really hard to know. I feel people generally go about their own business more now but that also might be because my playstyle is different than it used to be. I used to solo sloop most of the time and play pretty passively, not I run with a crew and we’ll sink anyone that gets too close to us.

But I also play Xbox only servers and am on the west cost so I’m not sure how that factors into my experience.

@madfrito99 The combat skill has gotten better but the types of interactions are the same. You have good ones and bad ones.

Im still a firm believer of Mics save Lives. Communication doesn't always help, but I find it can create pretty awesome encounters. Also remembering it's a game and being a good sport when you lose can change things. Sometimes just saying GGs when you have lost will make it fun. There are plenty of wholesome opportunities out there.

I would say its about the same, but interactions are like the sea, they come in waves.

Same old, same old from my perspective, just with more activities available to do than when things launched. Some aggressive players out there, some passive players out there, some good sports in winning and losing, and some poor sports as well. And every session is a bit different on the configuration of all of that which can make for very quiet sessions or very active and violent ones.

All and all, I would say things lean more towards the positive on all the above than on the negative. I'm more likely to see aggressive people offering up a GG after a battle than I am to get people being vulgar and toxic. Thus I'm still playing this game some 4 years later and enjoying myself.

I started playing around May 2019, but I do not remember too much of what the game actually was like back then. I for one can't remember too many encounters with other players for some odd reason, with few exceptions.

But I'd say, at least in EU, even though people were as likely to attack as they're now days, people didn't avoid others as often as they do today.

I remember completing my first ever fort at Old Boot Fort, only to have a galleon park at Stephen Spoils. We finished it, toke the loot and swam two kegs over, sinking them in a boom.
If this had happened a month ago I bet they wouldn't have come so close, unless they were tucking, and even then, they would most likely have park at Crooks or Snake island instead.

I wouldn't say people are more hostile or peaceful as they were back then, people just seem to avoid encounters with others more than they used to three years ago.

Worse, it’s gotten so much worse, older players eventually become bored with PVE unless it’s new content, eventually only the sink first check for loot later aspect becomes prudent, then your the one they’re chasing, which is fine, but poor castaway voyage noobs don’t stand a chance

@wolfmanbush said in [Looking For Honest Opinions Aboit The Seas](/community

I wanna talk to people being themselves or being their pirate, not really interested in being a content pawn or participating in a social charade.
Capturing moments of an organically interesting moment is different than trying to create one for clicks imo. It feels different and it turns out different.

This!

@madfrito99 said:

would you say the seas have gotten worse or better overtime with regards to people interactions?

Depends on what you value in player interactions.

If you like PvP, then worse. The spread-out content, decrease in ship count, and now player capacity, all have led to fewer fights. If you like non-PvP encounters, it's been better. Though interactions are less common overall, I've found most folks who do interact are just vibin & friendly.

Now, you can have friendly PvP interactions; and in my experience, we had more back in the day. I remember there being more fights, usually around world events, as that's all we had. But there were more GGs passed around as well. There's more salt nowadays.

I noticed that over time that players felt more entitled to their loot (or other people's loot). People hate losing a stack, and they hate losing a chase; but they adamantly do either, without adjusting their strategies and tactics.

So, while the game may have added more casual and friendly players to the base, interactions are less common. And the few PvP interactions that do happen seem to be less healthy.

would you say the seas have gotten worse or better overtime with regards to people interactions?

Player interactions, For me hasn't changed.
I am still always worry over players, looking over my shoulder and mainly keeping to myself.

I think the game got slowly better, but mostly just larger.
There haven't been much "game changing" mechanics, the one that in my opinion had the most impact on the game has been the Emissary system, which is why it was my favorite update: it did a lot of good but I also think it negatively impacted some aspects of the game.
I think the stuff that changed the most for better is how they deliver content, but in-game not a lot of stuff got better, sure some QoL here and there but tbh the game itself, not considering the user experience as, as said, the way they deliver content changed for example, it didn't got better by a lot in the last years. Surely there's much more stuff to do but this doesn't necessarily make the game better, it mostly makes the game larger.

@wolfmanbush muting would only be half the problem but i agree it would help. there are still toxic actions that occur that cant be muted

It depends on ones stance, the game overall has made huge strides in terms of content. This has changed how interactions between players, but not dramatically. The main difference is the crews looking for PvP, resulting in being more focused on fights between single crews. People seek emissaries, maybe an odd FotD and that is a harsh contrast with the Fort wars that happened before, usually a minimum of 3 ships showed up and even the whole server eventually fighting it out and even crews leaving and being replaced by new ones. Sure you also had the dynamic organic PvP, which is pretty much unchanged.

The addition of more content is great, but it did spread out the crews that want to engage in riskier or combat play. This results in other crews more likely to cross their path. Hostile and friendly encounters still happen, mainly about how one engages and finds it. Communication is key though if people want friendly encounters, that was true then and is true now.

In short it was back then easier to understand where the action was going to happen. That allowed you to either seek it or avoid it. Is it better or worse? Mmmh, neither it just is different.

One aspect that did change dramatically is the value of loot, there is just so much around now. Even the chests of legends lost its rarity slowly but steadily over time.

@madfrito99 Been on this game since the Beta and it has changed dramatically since the release 4 years back. It slowly turned into a complete game by the time we got the first major update with the Brigantine for the odd crews. Then it felt like a good game to actually start building off of and adding content to. Been through a couple of crews since people come and go just like any game and I have learned to be very proficient at solo work. As for communicating with other player I rather not when solo but will join an Alliance every now and then. When I'm with my crew we still won't speak unless we need your ship for our friends to join. Typically we try to all jump around till we land on the same server but there are those instances we do ask and barter with loot for another players ship. Other than that we typically kill and sink you.

The PVP has progressed dramatically in the game over the years as well. For example.... Kegs got fuses so we can light and escape, cursed cannonballs, chain shots, fire bombs, blunder bombs, breaking of the masts and other parts of the ships plus setting them on fire, Mega kegs, rowboats, storage crates and now purchasable crates from the merchant to speed up stocking your ships surplus, Flameheart's wraith balls and also the revive mechanic. All these wonderful improvements to help PVP and PVE.

Content keeps on coming and while some of it seems boring ( cough.... FOF....cough) other times it is more enjoyable for the lore aspect. The only thing I truly despise is where Rare gate keeps events that requires another crew to complete and that I cannot get behind. I would prefer it would be 4 people max so you can at least do it with a Galleon crew but it's Rare's game in the end. All and all I will continue to support and play this game till the servers close down for good.

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@inboundbomb said in Looking For Honest Opinions Aboit The Seas:

@madfrito99 Been on this game since the Beta and it has changed dramatically since the release 3 years back.

Only 3? The Sea has been available to us all for 4 - I myself have been setting sail for 5 years (since the Technical Alpha).

Has it been that long!!! Wow, my bad! Thanks.