pve servers/ non reaper servers

  • I know Sea of Thieves is meant to be a game where you have people looting each other and what not, but I find it to be highly frustrating when you spend hour upon hour of hard work just to have some person who spends their time not even working on voyages and just thinks to themselves "hahah its a blast to ruin other peoples enjoyment of the game so I don't have to do anything other then sink other peoples ships" which is fine but to people like me who plays MMO's for the enjoyment of finding people who are like minded to work together and build rep and collect commendations.

    That's why I was thinking off a PVE server. a server where the environment is harder and any crews inside are instantly put into a permanent alliance - or at least, non-violence - so that any gold and rep earned is not lost on hard working individuals where the only chance of getting sunk is from mischance from the harder environment or a friendly crew having a laugh.

    To stop this from being advantageous for people, my suggestion would be that to enter the server you have to make a new pirate with no rep or commendations. and maybe make it so that people who are lower level in rep join others with low rep. etc

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  • @henry2403 said in pve servers/ non reaper servers:

    I know Sea of Thieves is meant to be a game where you have people looting each other and what not, but I find it to be highly frustrating when you spend hour upon hour of hard work

    Cash in your loot more often, then you don't lose "hours" of peaceful sailing to a single incident.

    Rare has also unequivocally said 'no' to PvE servers.

  • @henry2403
    Your idea has been posted many times of adding a PVE only server (a server for only friends) This is why this idea will never be implemented, and why it will never work:

    Let's say you want to stack the FOTD 10 times, that will take you around 8 hours to do if you're quick. Would you rather go into a server where:

    (1) You could be tucked on
    (2) You could have your loot be stolen
    (3) You waste 8 hours of work because a pirate boarded your ship
    (4) You're always under constant threat that you could die

    OR, would you rather be in a server where you are safe from all of those problems, and don't have to worry about some pirate stealing your loot?

    99% of players will take the second option, because there is no reason to put yourself in a situation where bad things could happen when you could alternatively be completely safe from other players.

    The problem with this is because 99% of players who do PVE missions will go to this private server, who's left on the normal servers? People who want to steal loot, but there's no loot to be stolen because everyone is off in fairyland completely safe from any problems that would arise. So all the PvPers leave the game, not to even mention that the most popular streamers have built their career by stealing loot. Pace22 would immediately leave the game because there's nothing left to steal, and many more streamers would leave, as well as most of their viewers, which means that SOT no longer has an internet presence. Now that all the news has gotten out that Sea of Thieves has a SEVERE drop in their playerbase, all of these articles will come out online saying things like,

    "Sea of thieves is a bad game," and "Sea of Thieves doesn't care about it's playerbase."

    So now that there is all of this stigma around SOT there will be no new players because there are only bad reviews. So people who want to buy Sea of Thieves won't, because there are all of these videos and articles saying that it's a bad game. So Sea of Thieves will no longer be getting an influx of new players, which also means that Rare won't make any money from people buying the game.

    What do you do once you've reached 75/75/75/20? By that point you'll have all of the cosmetics, and with the emissary system you can easily get the highest level in a 2-3 months. People will get bored because they're not working towards anything, they already have everything in the game and the highest level in the game, what now? Most players who are max level would normally turn to stealing loot so they don't get bored, but because of PVE only servers that's not a thing anymore. Eventually all of those people will leave because there's no point for them to play anymore, so the only people who play SOT are a few hundred people who didn't get max level and only play Sea of Thieves for 2 hours a week.

    That's why adding PVE only servers are bad, the PvPers will leave, all of the streamers will leave, people will get bored, the internet starts hating on SOT, and then you have a dead game. Not to even mention the fact that the developers themselves have said many times that they want this game to be one where people of all ideologies can play together. The PVPers, PVEers and the RPers can all be in the same server together, and they will do everything they can to keep that in the game:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_yrN70591Q&feature=youtu.be&t=3578

    There is no reason to pander to the couple thousand people who want PVE only servers, when you have hundreds of thousands of players who have bought and play the game because of the PVP factor. It doesn't make sense to change the game for a few, when the vast majority don't want that.

    People are always upset that in a PVP game, which has PVP in it, which is advertised as having PVP, a game that has always had PVP since the beginning of it's existence, a game that YOU bought knowing full well it had PVP, has PVP.

    People who think PVP doesn't belong in Sea of Thieves and complain that PVP is, "toxic," are the same type of people to play Minecraft and complain there are no guns.

  • You are in luck, the executive producer of the game spoke about PVE servers not long ago:

    https://youtu.be/e_yrN70591Q?t=3681

    Joe Neate: "The whole core premise of SOT is that it’s a shared world. To get to Pirate Legend, there will be danger and there will be other players, the risk and the reward is all part of it …that’s what SOT has always been, it’s a shared world adventure game, there is a purpose to that…it’s all about a shared world and we have no intention to deviate from that."

    https://youtu.be/e_yrN70591Q?t=3578

    We don't want to split players, we don't want to split player types, the whole identity of sea of thieves is a shared world and the different kind of motivations within it.

    Welcome on your first day on the forum, feel free to look at existing posts on the topic and also read tips and tricks to help your survival within the game. Good luck!

  • @henry2403 said in pve servers/ non reaper servers:

    I know Sea of Thieves is meant to be a game where you have people looting each other and what not>,

    Yet here you are.....

    but I find it to be highly frustrating when you spend hour upon hour of hard work >

    Never go hours upon hours not cashing in loot.

    just to have some person who spends their time not even working on voyages and just thinks to themselves "hahah its a blast to ruin other peoples enjoyment of the game so I don't have to do anything other then sink other peoples ships" which is fine >

    Yes it is fine, that is part of the game. They are not ruining your enjoyment to be nasty they are playing the game. What I mean is they did not hack into a game you are playing and do things they arnt supposed to do just to harass you, they are legit playing a game with PvP in it knowing you bought it with the knowledge that it has PvP in it. You could always fight back or send them on a wild goose chase like I do and make their choice to come at you not as rewarding.

    but to people like me who plays MMO's for the enjoyment of finding people who are like minded to work together and build rep and collect commendations.

    You can do that on SOT.

  • @henry2403

    Do you not think pirating is work? Do you think pirating is easy? Have you ever tried to pirate a ship?

    Let me tell you pirating ain't easy and i garrenty the vast majority of pirates you have run into has done more voyage work then you.

  • Ahoy! Going to anchor this thread as there are some already open regarding this topic.

    Regards,

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