@timidobserver evryones takes about the fact that you can put ppl in jail
but nobody is think about ppl playing in a sloop.
there is basically nothing you can do in that case
You have to abandon your own ship and leave your own party and can t do anything against trolls
@cupohemlock Aye mate, the wailing souls be reaching the bottom o' the barrel dregs for post topics.
Neverminding the fact that you be at endgame as soon as you log in for the first time.....
There is no need to create a protection against a minority of oddballs who want to afk the game. You get nothing in terms of power, so the gameplay is all there is. Who would skip gameplay to get cosmetic items and then play the game?
Even if some wierdo does this you can just leave the session with him in the brig.
@timidobserver Agreed, I've also thought the brig should have a time limit, once up the crew can vote to allow to resume, or make the prisoner walk the plank (ie. vote kick from party) that person then just gets spawned on a random isle with a sloop.
@edward-x-teach They should just make afk'ing a reportable offense that the team can review and lay bans for.
@lessermagic sagte in Sea of thieves is the first game you can afk and get to the end game:
Kicking should be through a vote, with a nice cutscene of the perp walking the plank. ;)
Ha, nice idea! :D
And yeah, I agree.. a kick/votekick option would be nice, since we had some trolls in our crew in the betaphase and couldn't do anything about it (besides leaving). In the end we rewarded the troll by selling our treasures and guess what? he left after grabbing the cash.. :/
@edward-x-teach Simple answer. If you are in the brig, you do not get treasure or credit with the trading companies.
@lessermagic
Yes! I have always thought that there should be an actual use for the plank! You figured it out that’s a great idea and maybe when they hit the water there’s like 6 sharks are waiting for them hahahaha
@tedakin Actually it is true, In the beta I went AFK to cook a pot of chili and came back and I was still there and my friends had finished 2 voyages.
(Edit: I forgot to mention I asked them to lock me in the brig so I would be on the ship if anything happened.)
The problem with not giving Brigged people any rewards and voting to kick them is that now the voters can easily start trolling solo people matchmaking. Before handing in all the rewards they just vote kick/brig them and they get nothing.
I honestly believe this is way more toxic than letting people afk farm. (Since the people who are being farmed upon can still start a new session when it's suitable for them.)
Just my two cents :D Let's keep thinking of solutions! Unless..maybe it's not that bad after all since people will leave and start a new session pretty fast? I guess we'll find out soon enough :D
@kigretheviking dunno about the final game, and how ppl will react but in beta i seen a lot doing that yes.
That or : sinking the ship, waste all my chests in the water, explode our powder barils on the ship etc etc
maybe ppl did that cauz hudge troll phase during beta and it was free...dunno
@edward-x-teach
You won't be able to reach legendary pirate status by doing this!
Not all of the requirements are just handing in chests & getting gold etc
What about defeating skeleton forts or fighting the kraken?? Both will inevitably be required to reach legendary status! I'm certain the game will be able to tell if you fought them or not, therefore you won't get those achievements!
No they shouldn't add the ability to KICK people for the simple reason that PLAYER don't even use the BRIG system CORRECTLY.
PLAYER are putting players the the BRIG just for simple being a RANDOM PLAYER. This has happen to me more than once.
That is the primary reason i choose to PLAY SOLO.
If RARE added a KICK system NEW PLAYER would be getting KICK for not reason at all.
@edward-x-teach said in Sea of thieves is the first game you can afk and get to the end game:
@timidobserver evryones takes about the fact that you can put ppl in jail
but nobody is think about ppl playing in a sloop.
there is basically nothing you can do in that case
You have to abandon your own ship and leave your own party and can t do anything against trolls
I'd be fine if they dropped the roleplaying brig stuff and just add some serious options dealing with mutual separation from your crew. The options should be designed to quickly resolve the issue and get all involved players playing the game. No walking the plank custscene or other roleplay time wasting needed.
For example the dialog could give you these options. For obvious reasons, number 1 is unavailable for sloops, but they still have 2, 3, and 4.
I think there is also another side to this coin.
When I join a random crew I always start by saying hello and trying to help them straight away by repairing, bailing water and or grabbing supplies and I will say to them in chat "is it okay if I join your crew and that I will help in anyway I can?", but even then there have been a couple of occasions where I have joined a crew and immediately been thrown in the brig for no reason. I have been tempted once or twice to stay in the brig and take a share of their treasure but I find that too boring so I leave and try another crew.
There was even an occasion where a new random crew member joined my ship and started messing about, wasting supplies and stuff. When we locked him in the brig he complained, so we told him that he was brigged for misbehaving but if he behaves we will let him out shortly and he will get a share of our treasure no matter what. He didn't stay though.
I am not really bothered by the brig system as it is, even though it can be abused a bit. A means of kicking someone might be open to more abuse but at the same time it could also be put to good use to kick a random to make space for a team mate who is joining.
It's a bit of a "stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea" situation.
I do not think it will happen like that. They probably have a "kick" feature for completely afk players like some comments say :)
The option to practically vote to kick someone out....hmm could be used badly when 2 guy join a random 3 or 4 galleon and they get the treasure chests and instantly before cashing them in they kick the other 1/2 out (yes you CAN get 2 people on the brig at the same time, watched it happen on youtube) and only the 2 remaining people would get the loot :( So a nogo for that ;)
And please!!! This is NOT the first afk winning game! BDO and getting gold is almost completely based on afk fishing or horse lvling :( :/ they even do events to promote such acts (stay 5 hours per day on to get look whatever) :/ and then they are like "look so many players online we are such a good game" :P
