Solo Player Servers

@metal-kor-3 watch this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P7dxstP9LZc

As a peaceful soloist you must adopt a 'stealth' mindset and lifestyle. Learn how to move, hide, evade, undetected. Practice cautionary strategies to protect your valuable haul that you have worked so long and hard for. Anticipate your enemy's moves and tactics and be prepared for all possibilities. Solo play is deliberately intended to be "Hard Mode". Accept and embrace that and you will do well and you may even derive great satisfaction from the achievements and successes you do have. Keep in mind the soloist life progresses at a much slower pace than a teamplayer or crewed life. You will be severely limited by the simple fact you are only ONE pirate in a world of pirate gangs whose only goal in some cases is to find easy skallywags like yourself and plunder and kill you on sight.

... if they can find you, and catch you. ;-)

Keep in mind as a soloist you will die far more often than a teamplayer. It's inevitable. That's just the reality and consequence of going it alone. Yet the rewards can be that much more gratifying by comparison to the fella who is far too reliant and dependent on his crew. You'll get better with time and experience.

Most importantly, enjoy. Have fun. Dying is cheap in this game. You'll always get a new life and new boat once you come back from the ferry. The world of SoT is filled to the brim with ever replenishing riches and resources ALL the time... don't fret losing your haul. There's always another opportunity.

@bloodybil said in Solo Player Servers:

According to your profile you appear to be an Xbox player are you not?

Be sure to opt-out of crossplay and the trolling and griefing problems will come to a complete stop.

So PC players are the only ones who attack? Also we all may want to look up the words we use so that we do not use them incorrectly. Also don't smash your tables hulk

@metal-kor-3 said in Solo Player Servers:

Can we please get private servers or PvE servers? I'm sick to death of dealing with trolls and griefers. I got so mad I cursed a couple out and destroyed my end table in anger, and I'm usually pretty thick skinned. Please stop these headaches because I'm certain I'm not the only one.

My brain when reading the same request for the millionth time that rare already officially rejected, multiple times.

I don't think we really need solo or PvE servers.
What we DO need is some way to keep people from trolling the people that just want to try and complete the stories or fish in peace without having to worry about mindless trigger-happy CoD wannabes who cant seem to fathom that the Arena is there for them. Not that they have the balls to use Arena naturally because that means playing with people that actually shoot back.

Attacking another player to nab his loot is fine. I have no problem with it.
Attacking someone that is clearly doing story quest or fishing and have ZERO loot is spineless and it needs to be dealt with.

This is a pirate game. Kill, steal, sunk a ship is not trolling or griefing.

it IS griefing ind trolling when they kill you 4 times in a row, and using the 'get away' button on the Morningstar spawns you close enough that they find you yet again, especially of they KNOW you haven't been gone long enough to even gather any loot to make it worth it, thats not being a pirate thats being a seriously nasty person of the nether regions.

@morkaarin582 Your stats tell me you need more experience before you can make an accurate judgement on the game... You also need more skill... I'm not even Athena 10 yet, and i haven't even started on the glorious sea dogs reputation... So i am far from being some kind of elite SoT player, i see myself as a perfect example of the casual playerbase, i've been playing since the pre-order beta week before launch. :P
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You should also read this:
https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/97111/sea-of-thieves-community-code-of-conduct-forum-rules
Specifically this part: "Be a good sport. Sea of Thieves is a pirate game, and stealth, stealing and battles are all part of the fun. All pirates on the seas accept that, but be a good sportsman in both victory and loss."

No matter how you look at it, or what motivation the aggressor has, PvP, is NEVER griefing.

@sweltering-nick said in Solo Player Servers:

You should also read this:
https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/97111/sea-of-thieves-community-code-of-conduct-forum-rules
Specifically this part: "Be a good sport. Sea of Thieves is a pirate game, and stealth, stealing and battles are all part of the fun. All pirates on the seas accept that, but be a good sportsman in both victory and loss."

No matter how you look at it, or what motivation the aggressor has, PvP, is NEVER griefing.

I've seen so many people defending horrific behavior with that.
Note that the code of conduct does NOT say anything about jumping people who clearly have no treasure or are a threat to you or your treasure. Nor does it say it's ok to kill someone and start hanging around their boat, repeatedly killing them until they get tired of spawn-dying and have to either scuttle their ship or change server.
If your motivation is stealing treasure its fair game.
If what your doing is target people to kill them for no reason and only that then it's not.

@roguedk

Note that the code of conduct does NOT say anything about jumping people who clearly have no treasure

because it does not matter if the person has treasure or not, not to mention, enemies cant know you don't have treasure, unless they check your ship for treasure first, and by that point, you're already under attack, and so it doesn't matter.

Though i guess someone like you with almost zero experience in the game wouldn't know that yet, i suppose:
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or are a threat to you or your treasure.

If you are ingame, you are a potential threat to ANYONE near you, and so these pirates will ensure their own safety, by attacking FIRST.

How you subjectively view yourself, is IRRELEVANT, if people fear you, they will deal with you as they see fit, end of story.

Nor does it say it's ok to kill someone and start hanging around their boat

That's part of how PvP is designed... there's a reason you have a "scuttle ship" option in your crews list, because spawn camping, is an INEVITABLE GUARANTEE... They couldn't remove spawn camping without taking away close quarters combat, they even tried to experiement with invulnerability periods when respawning, they tried a whole bunch of other things too, but none of it worked without taking away something crucial to the games experience.

And so they added a "scuttle ship" option, so that the victim has the power to decide how long they tolerate being spawn camped.

This was just a long-winded way of saying IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THEY HANG AROUND YOUR SHIP! The only thing that matters, is what you intend to do about it. : /

repeatedly killing them until they get tired of spawn-dying and have to either scuttle their ship or change server.

Yes, that is called losing, a game is not a game, unless there is an inherent risk of losing, that's what makes a game a game... Sometimes you lose, get over it... Either respawn elsewhere and try again using all you learned from your mistakes, or swap servers.

Nobody cares about your subjective views on this matter... The reason the rule doesn't talk about those things, is because THEY DON'T MATTER! THEY ARE IRRELEVANT! ಠ_ಠ

You don't judge rules based on what the rule DOESN'T say, you judge rules based on what they DO say... So read 'em, and weep, brother. : /

If your motivation is stealing treasure its fair game.

True!

If what your doing is target people to kill them for no reason and only that then it's not.

Wrong! I already explained why... ;3

@sweltering-nick
You know what? Thats the same lame excuse I hear from all the people who just want to be able to find people that are busy with story missions or fishing or whatever so they have access to easy kills. It's pathetic. What will happen eventually is no one will bother digging up treasure and just roam around and try to find people to rob. Only no one has treasure because it's easier to just rob other peoples loot than work for it yourself.
I have devised a pretty neat trick to mess with people that play that way. I might do a post or even a video on it at some point when I have the time. Once I do I really hope new players and players who are NOT INTERESTED in getting ganked by 3-4 people whenever they go fishing will take notes and much much less treasure will fall into the hands of lazy people who would rather harass others than work for their own loot.
For the record if you see me in game 9 times out 10 I dont have squat treasure on my boat.
Killing people that are trying to get achievements not relating to treasure needs to be left alone. People play game different ways. There needs to be room for people that want a break from PvP. Leave the damn questers and fishers alone!

@roguedk

You know what? Thats the same lame excuse I hear from all the people who just want to be able to find people that are busy with story missions or fishing or whatever so they have access to easy kills. It's pathetic.

Kills do nothing in adventure mode, and i'll have you know i am a perfectly friendly pirate, i do not attack, unless provoked.

So your emotional argument is irrelevant, yet again.

Calling people pathetic for playing the game is really about the dumbest thing you can do in these forums, bro. -.-'

What will happen eventually is no one will bother digging up treasure and just roam around and try to find people to rob.

No, because most people aren't that afraid of losing in a freaking GAME. Bro, i have been playing since the pre-order beta week, i am still digging up treasure, loud and proud.

I do not roam and rob, although i have nothing against people who do, that's their way of playing, their pirate way... They usually end up instantly sinking if they try attacking me or my ship though, because i am usually prepared, at all times, to handle pirates. :P

Only no one has treasure because it's easier to just rob other peoples loot than work for it yourself.

Tell that to the pirates who tried to rob me, lol. xD

No, it's not necessarily easier, bro... It is easy, if those you rob HAPPEN to be newbies who have no clue about what they're doing, but at this point, most you encounter in the game are reasonably knowledgeable about the game, so it's not that easy. . /

I have devised a pretty neat trick to mess with people that play that way.

I'm pretty sure it's not an original trick, but hey, if it works, it works. :)

I might do a post or even a video on it at some point when I have the time.

I'll be sure to give that a look. :D

Once I do I really hope new players and players who are NOT INTERESTED in getting ganked by 3-4 people whenever they go fishing will take notes and much much less treasure will fall into the hands of lazy people who would rather harass others than work for their own loot.

Oh, there's a section on the forum for that:
https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/category/62/gameplay-guides-tips

Of course, people like you, and other emotional newbies, are too concerned with their own emotions, and whining, to bother visiting that section of the forums, and take notes.

There are lots of really useful stuff there, a lot of what i learned, i learned from there... The rest i learned from various popular SoT youtubers, like Summit1g (Sneak strats), MixelPlx (Sword Play and PvP combat), Captain Falcore (Ship and Treasure Management), Zylbrad (Obscure meme strats), and AbsolutePixel (How simple things can be).

And, as i said earlier, it's not necessarily easier, and therefore, these people are not lazy. They're pirates, robbing is what they do, that's literally how the word "pirate" is defined in the dictionary.
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The only lazy ones are those who refuse to defend their ship and their treasure. : /

For the record if you see me in game 9 times out 10 I dont have squat treasure on my boat.

Wont make a difference, because i can't see your name unless i get close enough for you to consider me hostile, and i certainly can't inspect your ship without boarding you, which, yet again, is close enough for you to consider me hostile. :P

But, like i said, i'm not an attacker, i'm a defender, i mind my own business, until someone provokes me, then i sink them to re-establish my own safety, that is MY pirate policy.

So if you see me, keep a healthy distance, and we'll get along famously. :P

Killing people that are trying to get achievements not relating to treasure needs to be left alone.

You fail to grasp the concept that other people can't truly know these things, until it's too late... People are not Omniscient, they are not all-knowing, they will act, based on the limited information they can obtain from the situation in question.

And besides, the reason there are achievements, is because there are threats preventing you from getting them... I mean what would be the point of achievements in a game with PvP in it, if there was no PvP making getting those achievements worth it as bragging rights? :P

That's kinda what achievements are FOR in this game.

People play game different ways. There needs to be room for people that want a break from PvP. Leave the damn questers and fishers alone!

There is plenty of room, that's coming from me, someone who does not attack, unless provoked, AKA, basically a "PvE player". :P

I keep on my toes, keep my head on a swivel, keep my eyes peeled and glued to the horizon to ensure that i am indeed safe where i am. If someone approaches, i return to my ship, observe the enemy ship to see what they're about to do, and if they act suspicious, i drop my sails and move, evading them, if they give chase, i board them, anchor them, kill them a couple of times as i steer them into an island, or go into their crows nest and detonate a gunpowder keg if they have one, or now that fire bombs have been added, i could even use those to set the ship on fire.

Once that's done, i can return to my ship, and resume my business... Which consists 90% or more of being left alone peacefully, because most pirates on these seas mind their own business. :)

As this is a shared world, you are fully capable of playing the game your way, but you share the world with people who prefer their own way of playing... This produces a living and breathing, dynamic and immersive pirate experience... Nobody NEEDS to leave anyone alone, such is the nature of a shared world.

If you don't like that, there's a game for you that actually has options to disable PvP features, that is almost identical to sea of thieves, it's called Atlas, it's basically the pirate version of ARK: Survival Evolved, made by the same people too... Happens to be an MMO, apparently. o_.

Here's an up-to-date review of Atlas, enjoy.