Friendly Pirate Island without PVP

@alltugboat91297 all pirate islands are friendly as long as the pirates playing the games choose to stay that way. It’s all about choice, not being pigeon holed into not wanting to betray the friendliness, that’s what makes this game. You should always be suspicious of the pirates that approach you.

This isn't happening.. I'm pretty sure the devs have said before that they have no intention of making any kind of "neutral zone/island"

@tesiccl No, he is talking about a new area with PVP disabled, so you could do those mentioned activities without worrying about toxic behavior which usually has no consequences.

@foambreaker Well technically yes, but at the same time you could just switch off comms and play a dice game against Healing Naveeds

@foambreaker I think you guys are emphasizing completely wrong points of what OP wrote.

OP wants an area, like the Sea dogs tavern (Arena days) where PVP was disabled, but you could play music or chill in Jacuzzi with other pirates.
He is requesting for such an area so pirates could have a quick session of a game of cards/dice or similar. I really support this idea as well, I think it would be great. Perhaps this area would be limited for solo players only, so not do disrupt the balance and number of ships on the seas.

PVP safe haven is only a necessary part for this to work. Have you ever played Red Dead 2 - poker? Have you tried it online? Imagine what would happen if you bet a lot of $ and your hand comes out as 2 and 7 and pvp is enabled. bang bang! So in RDO where everyone kind of shoots everyone on sight (just like SoT) the PVP disabled poker game fitted really well and was a great way to pass the time.

@foambreaker Is it really tho?

Please tell me one game where this would work?

Also in real life, this would be bad for business, so after pirates have massacred the entire bar, the next owner takes away everyone's guns and puts armed men around to keep piece. Go be bloodthirsty barbarian in your own bar!

Also you never played the RDO. Not that I played it a lot, but was using it as an example.

P.S. Wouldn't some pirate gambling be fun? Betting the millions you earned for hopes of winning more? Loosing it all and then having that extra motivation to get back to the seas to earn more and do it all over again xD

@foambreaker And those games have social activities like card games/dice games or whatever where some betting/gambling would be involved?

How exactly does it work, there sure must be some mechanism preventing others from interfering, or stopping the activity mid game to start a fight?

@foambreaker Are you trolling or just trying to argue here just for the sake of arguing or something?

@d3adst1ck It would not work any other way. As one server of 6 ships would never keep it full. Would be a shared server instance, kind of like the pirate legend hideout.

@foambreaker Prior to that if you have forgotten, I gave an example of Red Dead Online having a feature where you can sit down in a bar and play poker with disabled PVP where it worked great.

To which you replied - something about being pirates and that you are supposed to shoot someone if you loose on a card game?

To which I asked you, how does this makes sense and in which game does this work, where you could have social activities inside a game with PVP enabled?

You replied EVE and Black Desert.

Now you also said that there is no such things in those games.

Perhaps some miscommunication on both parts, but I am still not sure what are you arguing for or against here if your not trolling...

@foambreaker Perhaps I should have emphasized it better then, my apologies if I did not come out clear on that one.

But yes, gambling. Betting Gold/Doubloons to participate in some table games would be swell. Restrictions could be applied if they would make it too good, so pirates would not spend ALL of their time there.

P.S. Having such place, would be a great way to make new friends, show off cosmetics.

And having PVP enabled in such zone would not make sense.

The other day was just checking out some cosmetics in PL hideout and some 'streamer' with 10 viewers and his mate started killing me for refusing to subscribe to his channel :D

To your 2nd post.

You can straight out right purchase accounts or go on alliance servers which is basically printing money for being online, since you can't buy items from players you would not be able to do it, and games would be for 4-6 people, so you could not just give away gold to your mates easily either. Idk Rare just needs to check how Rockstar set up their poker tables.

You forgot we have stealing, grog, vomiting, dogs urinating. How is gambling with fake money worse than all that you mentioned plus these? P.S. Did you know that Rare has named a new commendation for acquiring the new skull '' Getting a head'' Or at least someone went out of their way on reddit to make this one up :D

@alltugboat91297

We have that already. But it isn’t an island but a place, The Ferry

Contrary to popular belief, there is an "island" that you can visit that has no PvP in it that you can share experiences with.

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(I probably need to stop doing this before a moderator flags me)

Technically this is what the Sea Dogs tavern Arena lobby was. It could work but only if it exists in a separate instance to that of Adventure so that you don't have safe zone trolling and other shenanigans.

Could work nicely as an Open Crew matchmaking lobby or just a player waiting room.

@alltugboat91297

Basically, you are suggesting bringing back the Sea Dog Tavern. Anything Arena related is forever locked. There is the Ferry of the Dammed which I suppose could be expanded upon.

The truth is, Rare isn’t going to spend time developing something like this that’s going to be forgotten shortly after being released. Yes, the Sea Dog Tavern was fun with the cannon and parkour ledges but people were getting board waiting for the matches. People will get board quickly.

It’s a cool idea though

@alltugboat91297
Totally agree. My buddy and I have talked about that. Why not the useless arena location. A Port Royale. Drinking and dancing and winch chasing.

@alltugboat91297
I was thinking more about this idea. One possibility is that when your ship is in its waters it cant take any danage. BUT...your loot could be stolen and you could be killed. THAT would be fun!!!

As others have posted, we've already had two areas like this (Sea Dogs Tavern & the Ferry), so it's definitely possible!

Having a PVP-disabled area in the open world would be an impossible task, but a closed area (like Sea Dogs and the Ferry) would be feasible.

I've always thought the Pirate Legend Tavern would be perfect for this. It's already separate from the main game world. You can't bring treasure down there, so there wouldn't be much opportunity to exploit it.

Now that the game supports smooth server hopping, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to make the Pirate Legend tavern into a lobby where crews captained by Pirate Legends start out. They could hang out, socialize, and play games with other crews. When the crew is ready to go, they could vote to set sail at the docks.