Why is Open Crew just so bad?

i agree i think the devs should revork it... make an lobby or filter... for the people want join of your same lelvel, not an randoom level, it make very frustrating evrythink

Open Crew is really really an bad experience! I love story’s from me on an active Fort working to kill all Skellys, but one guy is sailing away with the whole galleon!

Havent really had a bad experience with open crew, just stay the voyage and jump to another if i do. After serveral jumps i usually find a reasonable crew for the session. It is interesting getting varied crews.
Just wish more hardened pirates use open crews; the more that use it the better probability of getting a good crew.

The problem with open crew is you’ll have players who want to still play the game solo but have their team to do the work.

Also the players who join and do not have a mic but either resort to not talk AT ALL or only talk via text chat...

The above is the worst issue in the game and very off putting.

The game is played with teams and mics communicating. If get into an open lobby, start talking and get them talking, if not then quit and find a new session, it’s what I do.. most of the time I will do the ‘looking for group’ and find players with mic required... again, they have a mic but do not use it, so I kick them from the party before inviting to the game because I refuse to play with these players not using mics or prefer to text chat which is the best thing ever when in combat.

Sadly there is no feature that can be added to correct and force them to actually use them unless they bring in a voice chat afk thing like VoIP platforms and AFK.

Not sure what can be done but yeah, this is the only problem.

Yesterday I did have a guy who joined in the party, said two words and as we where setting up for fort of the dammed, he ran off and sold the ritual skull and quit... again a rare circumstance we get this human waste people not worth oxygen but you tend not to get these people.

@yawnymoose agreed, met many efficient silent crews.
You can very quickly see how good they are and follow a common goal very easily.

@yawnymoose said in Why is Open Crew just so bad?:

@menphuess That's just silly; voice chat does not make anything automatically better in any way, shape or form.

No it does not make everything better but in a game designed around player communication, team work and actually built in mics... the only reason text chat was put in is because was because players not talking.

Also in this specific game, I stand by it making this game better. If the person is belligerent and just yelling, being annoying or anything like that, then yes I would meet them but otherwise team play, communication and overall positive voice chats makes this game enjoyable.

The devs even said in previous videos about mics and working together.

@ghost-of-rhyza

I think the main reason Open Crew attracts such toxic people is, perversely, because it's so easy to do.

Trolls/toxic players tend to be lazy creatures. Discord, LFG's, and other external means of finding like-minded players require a small investment in both time and 'ego' (there are greater social consequences for misbehaving) before you can start your game.

In contrast, open crew can be accessed directly from the menu. This ease makes it the 'go-to' option for a bored troll to jump in, mess with someone, and leave.

The lesson; use external resources to find crewmates.

@ghost-of-rhyza As bad as open crews can be... a lot of my awesome stories come from playing with randoms. 😂

I know how bad it is, for the first six to eight months I quit more games than I played in hopes of finding a decent crew -- and I found not so decent crews like 80% of the time. Open crews just put you at the mercy of matchmakings and we still need filters.

I didn't start rolling with a crew until like September of launch year and it changed my experience tenfold; I was actually able to hit Pirate Legend (it felt like a pipedream beforehand) and I even got to Athena 9ish over the coming months. The biggest game changer was just finding a crew that didn't complain about me not having a mic and we just got things done.

Not every random crew mate is bad... you juwt have to give them a chance.

@menphuess No, the non verbal communication was added to give a select few players a voice; it's how I hit PL and Athena 9... by communicating the best way I can and being an effective listener.

Aye many countries out there and many don't speak English fluently so are off mic but it's never a problem. I mean i think a Pirate Legend and definately a PLA10 doesnt really need a mic to be essential.

I also give obvious newbies their time they need to explore the ship and press everything to see what it does.

Its just the very few trolls you may have to jump ship from occasionally.

But this is what rare want right?, people to play together.

Beacuse it's the go-to mode when being new or/and want people to play with.

By the nature of online games trolls that got nothing better to do abuse the system aswell and ruins it for others.