How to Fix the Low Player count..

I use the LFG Tool every time I play. This is a very good gauge of player activity.

I can assure you player activity is higher now than it was in the Summer.

Summer it was like 90-110

It’s been around 120-140 (about a week ago). Haven’t been able to get on in a minute.

X those numbers by 3 as that’s the average crew size. (Solo’ers don’t use LFG obviously). So that’s just even more people.

That’s JUST the LFG tool and only a fraction of the player base uses it!!!

Not to disagree with your post. Great ideas!

You are on to something with incentive. I hit PL10 some time back in April. And since then I have consistently played less and less.

Not because SoT isn't a good game. It is. But, unless you are a "Completionist" who absolutely just has to have every title, commendation and cosmetic, there's is nothing to "push" you onwards.

I am as good as I am ever going to get at this game. My character can't advance any further. I have all the cosmetics that I like...... I still play a few days after each new update. But when you've seen and done it all 100 times........

@a-double-deagle

The issue with incentives is that most of them require progression, which Sea of Thieves won't have. It's a sandbox pirate game, you're meant to adventure with old friends or find new ones on the Sea, and look back at the memories rather than look forward to the rewards.

The map is indeed too small for 3-4 ships per server, which is why the cap is at 6. The game tries to fill to this cap, however serverhoppers and interregional connection difficulties make this difficult sometimes. The game is also not capable of having more ships, both because it can no longer run anything more in that way (ships are very, very taxing) and because with the outpost count it cannot spawn more than 6 at a time.

Big streamers don't help. Summit especially drives players away if anything, but many of the very big streamers are incredibly underrated. Take a look at HitboTC as a good example - everyone who watches his channel loves it, but he doesn't have nearly as much attention as some streamers who have people that watch them and hate it. That said, Sea of Thieves has a relatively small playerbase in comparison to some games anyways, but it's great for those who do like it.

@a-double-deagle yes I want better unlockable items and different ship STYLES not livery’s right unlock. I want at least 10-12 ships on a server that would make for some epic pvp combat . But like rare said in pace 22’s stream with the devs its expensive and the memory can’t really handle it but hopefully rare is working on this.

@a-double-deagle
Your incentive to play is the fun of the game.

@mcgarnaglewolf

The game isn't only PvP combat, the 6 ship count is set where it is because in an ideally filled server, it gives the proper frequency of ship encounters that Rare wanted. Not only would we need to double the amount of outposts and nearly double the amount of power it takes to run the game, but having that many ships would be far too much to have the more peaceful moments on the Sea that you're intended to see. If Arena had fixed matchmaking times, you could use it to get a similarly condensed ship count.

@ultmateragnarok but also in the dev stream with pace you can look it up on YouTube they said they were working on increasing the player amount on servers it’s just the most expensive part of the game is ships and the memory can only hold six at its current state and this could be why they added the emporium but that’s just a guess

@mcgarnaglewolf

Yes, ships are incredibly taxing, with hundreds of interactive and moving parts that need to smoothly move along with a massive physics object on a body of water. It's not easy to run two or three, let alone the dozen or so that skeleton ships would add if the player ship count was increased to around 8.

@a-double-deagle said in How to Fix the Low Player count..:

@viperishemu2992 Thanks man, I really wanna get the incentive message out there, cause the game is golden and super fun the next couple days after a mega update.. but then after the 3 golden days, back to empty seas. This game has some SERIOUS potential to be one of the top games.

I totally agree that this game has tons of potential. It's a unique experience and there is certainly a decent enough sized market out there to support this type of game.

Unfortunately Rare have dropped the ball a few too many times. And on top of that SoT feels like a whole bunch of half-baked good idea's and best intentions that were taken out of the oven too soon. The result is a messy meal that still taste's pretty good. But nothing that you would serve to paying guests in a restaurant.

To be honest, the whole game probably needs to rewrite the recipe (Or hire a new Chef Cook?). Rare have tried all kinds of stuff so they should now know what works and what doesn't. They need to sit down, decide what they want the game to be, and follow that clear vision to a whole new better game. SoT2!

If they don't, it's only a matter of time before someone else does.

@a-double-deagle

Get more big streamers on this game! This game was thriving when all the big streames played it for a bit. At least summit1g came back recently, that may liven up the game and bring new players. We need the sea of thieves team to try to get streamers like CDN3rd and popular streamers. Maybe even Ninja (probably not lol, I also know he's hated)

Please no. We don't need more players that only play the game because their favorite mouthbreather on Twitch is playing it. Such a playerbase is fickle and an annoyance. Rare is buddying up with streamers anyways and it's not for the better.