Tall Tale Rewards & PvP

Tall Tales was intentionally created without "attractive" loot by Rare in order to discourage "theft". The underlying thought being that these are immersive private story based mini adventures within the bigger world of SoT.

While not actively "blocking" players freedom in how they play, Rare hoped to discourage interference. Or at the very least to not encourage it.

So I think it's fine the way it is. Just a shame that d-bags like Summit play this game. They tend to just attract more juvenile jerks to the game.

My opinion; if you discover somebody doing a Tall Tales just leave them alone. Just like if you saw someone enjoying a good book.

@rusty-xbone Not the first time I've run into this topic :)

@godsmack267
Honestly im glad they can be stolen. Im just recently started the tall tales and am soloing them 5 times each. If i didnt have to look out for other ships it would be way to easy. Seriously, tall tales are a boring grind of sailing island to island with no way to fail except other players

Summit and Pace play this game how it's intended to be played purely by name alone. Sea of THIEVES. It's a pirate game and people complain that they lose their stuff to people who sink them in such a game that is purpose built for that purpose. People seem to forget this fact and get upset when someone sinks them or steals their stuff. The more mechanics that are added into the game that allow for player vs player interaction is always going to be good and that's why FoTD was added and is such a massive success.

I agree with Summit and his idea of adding more stealable loot to the game. I've always been a fan of something you held on your ship that accumulated gold value the more time you have it on your ship. Perhaps something you buy from the Order of Souls that collects the souls of slain enemies that you can later sell. Maybe gold hoarders can have an item that accumulates interest over time or added it's value based on how many other items you sell to the company.

I never bothered with tall tales because I found them boring and the rewards aren't really worth the time. I play this game for pvp. I don't agree with the concept of allowing players having more 'unstealable' loot on a pvp pirate game. Makes no sense thematically. We shouldn't be catering to the pve side of the debate but rather looking at what the game is. It's a pirate game. Advocating for more features that discourage pvp is just wrong.

Also, thinking that people aren't going to pirate in a pirate game is just stupid. They didn't intend to discourage interference because you can't see what x person is doing until you're up on them on their ship. Interference will happen regardless but it's up to the individual whether or not they sink them or not. I'm more inclined not to sink someone if they have loot I can take. I'll take the loot and leave, but if they have nothing and the situation previous was them constantly running away from me then i'm going to sink them regardless if they're on a tall tale or not.

@d3adst1ck I'm not blaming players for attacking ships that are doing Tall Tales. I've attacked them too. I'm just pointing out why Rare made Tall Tales Loot "worthless". Obviously, until you've checked, there's no way of knowing if someone is doing Tall Tales or carrying loot or both. If they have loot, by all means take it.

My last comment was simply to point out that once you discover someone just doing Tall Tales, leave them alone to enjoy the story. Don't sink them or steal their Tall Tales stuff. That's just being a jerk.

@shiftyuu
Hi, i disagree with you on the point about SOT is a pirate game. A pirate is a person that decided to lives out of the law by attacking regular ships of real of fictive nation. Here there si no nations and most of the time, pirates were not attacling each other. So SOT is presented as a pirate game bu it is not.