Safer Seas FAQ

@chazburger19253 It's not about the reputation, it's mostly about the number and kind of fishes you have to get and sell to the hunters call.

@blackbeard-r Safer Seas with multiple ships will either be an alliance server or pvp again, which both are not intended with this mode.

Considering Guilds are coming out in a week's time - will Guilds be available in any form within Safer Seas or at all? Or will Guilds and their features be reserved to High Seas only?

Thanks for clarifying things :)

@brightpage174 I don't mind the unavailable functionality in Safer Seas. There's still plenty to do, including and especially the Tall Tales. This isn't intended to be a replacement for the main gameplay where you have to contend with other crews, this is just another option. As someone who will be making heavy use of Safer Seas, I'm happy with the restrictions in place.

Three points of clarification:

1. Are Ashen Chests and Ashen keys possible, despite no Ritual Skulls or Tomes?

2. If opening an Ashen Chest is possible, is it fair to say that Bags of Gold, Bags of Doubloons, and Ashen cups/coffers will be the only possible loot?

3. Is fishing for Ashen Keys still possible?

Thank you!

I believe that Safer Seas is a blessing in disguise, but only when done right. I've been wondering if there are any plans to grow this separate sandbox experience since there is so much potential to grow it further.

Having no real players around could give an empty vibe to new and veteran players. Sea of Thieves has always been a thrill because of the risk associated to losing loot or having to fight. This gives meaning to all the commendations that are unlocked, whether those commendations are for the OoS or Gold Hoarder. I hope this risk and social interaction will also seep a way into Safer Seas in the future, but in a different way.

Some features I've been thinking about that could at least enhance the social interactions and offer a more co-op and narrative oriented experience:

1. Safer Seas could offer crews within a guild to band together in a friendly environment;
2. Safer Seas could offer guild specific voyages like Athena or Reaper raids where at least one strong crew or multiple crews defeat bosses or ghost/skelly fleets;
3. Safer Seas could offer crews the ability to replay adventures as part of exclusive safer seas tall tales.

I have over 1000 hours in this game and will love this new addition to Sea of Thieves. I love taking screenshots of my ship and pirate in game and it would be nice to have a place for me to relax without the threat of other pirates. Still wish that I could bring my captained ship in safer seas just so I can take pictures with it and all the captaincy items there, though it is understandable why it is unavailable.
Also, I don't agree with having Ashen Tomes locked from safer seas. I already got all of them so I know how annoying it is and the rewards aren't worth it past the achievements on Steam. Though this is just a minor complaint.

By the way, for those concerned about the gold and reputation in safer seas still. Due to having no emmissary flags, your effective gold drops down to 12%.
Just for a comparison, you would need to stack 5 Ashen Gold Hoarder vaults in safer seas to get close to the amount of gold you can make from 2 matches of HourGlass pvp. and you would still likely make less there than HourGlass.

The "Get off my lawn" commendation can be gotten with skeleton ships.

What's the reason for disabling tomes?

Just confused about some of the comms being unavailable that you can do against skeleton ships? Was this never an intended feature?

Surprised about the Shrouded Ghost comm being available but I guess that will avoid major disappointments.

Otherwise, this was all kind of assumed, but good to get confirmation.

@vege00 in theory, yes that would be possible. But in theory it is also possible to use the letter of recommendations from level 1 to 75. I seriously don't think anyone would try to grind to Pirate Legend by logging in once a month for 10 months, or 74 months to max level.

very interesting! the only thing i really don't understand is not being able to use captained ships, i can understand not getting commendations, but what exactly is the issue with people earning ship milestones on safer seas? i've already maxed out my ship without ever interacting with other players, it would be no different in safer seas, aside from a few milestones just not being able to be obtained

Thanks for this, very informative!

Wouldn't it have been easier, and more informative for the people looking to play Safer seas, to have listed the "available" achievements, so they could directly see a list of what they will get to work on. Where as currently, each individual person has to comb through and see what commendations and achievements remain as to what they then can work on. Until some kind person of the internet does that list...

Could have just been you guys since you already had to go through the list, no?

Thanks again!

P.S For anyone that might think about being negative to my comment here, I will already have all achievements in the game prior to Safer Seas. Just looking for a more new person friendly list to pass around to the few people i'm trying to introduce to the game via Safer Seas.

Will 30% also affect the monthly emissary value?

Soooo... commendations like Raider of Cursed Strongholds, Seeker of Ancient Gold, Cabin Fever and lots more - will be possible to grind on Safer Seas? I'm not sure if I like the idea. I thought Safer Seas were meant to prepare players for High Seas, not to be a place where you can safely complete commendations.

@aurash8863 said in Safer Seas FAQ:

Considering Guilds are coming out in a week's time - will Guilds be available in any form within Safer Seas or at all? Or will Guilds and their features be reserved to High Seas only?

Thanks for clarifying things :)

Perhaps read the FAQ ?

Can I progress my Guild in Safer Seas?
It is not possible to progress your Guild in Safer Seas as you cannot set sail on Guild Ships in the same way you cannot set sail on Captained Ships.

@alyx34365 said in Safer Seas FAQ:

By the way, for those concerned about the gold and reputation in safer seas still. Due to having no emmissary flags, your effective gold drops down to 12%.

That would be only true if you turn in everything at grade 5 emissary - when sailing as a Gold Hoarder grade 5, all merchant, Oos and Athena go for 100%.
Besides - people complaining about getting sunk 9 out of 10 times would only get 10% anyway 😁 - Safer seas will net them more.

Good that you limited Safer Seas.

Personally, I won't use it since I don't like the idea of having PvE servers.

One request, PLEASE limit players from doing the "Complete this Tall Tale 5 times" commendations.

In December, my hard-fought gold curse isn't going to mean anything anymore...

With the amount of commendations available in Safer Seas, it's confusing to consider this the "extended tutorial" it's made out to be. It's one thing to offer commendations related to beginners/tall tales that healthily fit those circumstances, although now, most can be obtained through private grinding. For most of us long-time players, there was always substantial risk involved in order to complete the most grueling of commendations the game has to offer, only to now have them accessible in the easiest way possible through Safer Seas. What's to stop players from turning this "extended tutorial" into commendation farming in relation to skeleton/ghost ships, forts, fishing, and ones that reward cosmetics?

I truly love this game dearly and overall agree with that addition, I just personally believe the team should very much so look further into this particular matter.

Heey, can they consider inviting friends into the server BUT on a different crew so we can practice pvp with our friends? :D

@brightpage174 said in Safer Seas FAQ:

Rare doing literally anything they can to make the PvE mode absolutely unplayable for anyone looking for some form of progression. Literally 2/3 of the game is removed just to please the people who would do nothing but whine about others being able to have fun while progressing by doing the activities (you know, the gameplay) this game encourages them to do.

This is for new players to get started without getting rolled by some of th toxic crews in the seas. This is not intended for completionists.

@brightpage174 said in Safer Seas FAQ:

Rare doing literally anything they can to make the PvE mode absolutely unplayable for anyone looking for some form of progression. Literally 2/3 of the game is removed just to please the people who would do nothing but whine about others being able to have fun while progressing by doing the activities (you know, the gameplay) this game encourages them to do.

It's already pretty cool of them to make one at all, just to please the people who would do nothing but whine about not wanting to participate in 50% of the game.

Any chance we may eventually be able to have up to four friends on four sloop in safer seas?

@miri5329 But with this mode introducing someone to the game you could introduce friends and help them prepare for high seas with friendly pvp if they were to allow multiple ships no?

@pedroxtarrrr you can't do Emissary in Safer Seas, so you won't have any progress to ledger.

@Miri5329 I mean that feature is very useful for content creators.

Will we be able to invite friends to captain other ships in a Safer Seas session, assuming we would like to have the risk of meeting other pirates, but with a group of friends instead of simply random assignment?