GRIEVING BY HIGH LVS ON LOW LVS

Incorrect information aside... skill based matchmaking is not realistic in SOT. Someone's rank in any particular faction is hardly indicative of their PvP skills.

@callmebackdraft said in GRIEVING BY HIGH LVS ON LOW LVS:

@generolhavoc01 the thing is lvls say nothing about a player.

Also lvl400 simply doesnt exist

Whatever lv they were, they were really high and been playing since the start of the game.

There were 4 of them, two camp outposts while there mates go off and do quests.

When someone returns to drop off chests , they take the ship with all the cargo.

A new player just starting out, learning the ropes of the game, doesn't need this.

@generolhavoc01 said in [GRIEVING BY HIGH LVS ON LOW LVS]

A new player just starting out, learning the ropes of the game, doesn't need this.

A new player needs to realize that SoT has a habit of making pirates pay for biases from previous gaming experiences.
There's only Adventure, so we all share the same sea, and the sea is indifferent to your pirates wants and desires. In other words, you are not the center of the universe.
SoT is driven by crew encounters, hostile, friendly, and indifferent.

It helps if you don't present yourself as easy meat.

@generolhavoc01
This is part of a newer player learning the ropes. Never suspect the outpost is safe, even if there are no ships near it. Always be on guard. This crew taught you this valuable lesson and you could have taken this new knowledge and improved your game. Instead you take this experience and decide the game needs to be changed to suit your level of experience.

I've played this game for over three years and sometimes I'm still surprised by other pirates, but I always take what I learned to improve, and never have I said the game should change based on any loss I've had.

Now that you've seen someone hide on an outpost like that, the next time someone tries you might be more aware of it and actually defend yourself successfully.

I’am not even a level 30 yet though had someone over lv 400 attack and kill me, whom has been playing for months just to grieve and take stuff.

How do you know there "Faction" level?

Those over lv 250 can attack anyone over lv 250 as they will all be experienced players.

Again, how do you know what lvl they are?
No player has a Lvl, only faction lvls and even with those doesnt show your there "Skill"
Someone new can have a group of friends help them reach Pirate Legend, which requires Rank 50 in three factions. In at best a Day?

This is not possible, that Lvl 400 could join a new player and stomp rookies anyway, so is not the best way to fix the griefing on SOT.

I feel bad saying this but the best way to learn how to survive in this game is getting sunk over and over again, there is not another way to improve at PvP, there is not a magic button or a masterclass that will transform you from a Noobie to a nightmare of the seas in two days, that is just clickbait and lies.

Of course, if you don´t want to do PvP and just want to play a few hours per week, stack your emissary and leave until next month, you can find alliance servers and do your stuff there, but if you want to improve and play a lot... you must learn by getting stomped.

Is not easy, you are not going to feel good the first, lets say, 200-300 hours (I know is a lot, but is the truth) are going to be a hell and a continuous visit to the ferryman, but you will improve. Even with that hours, you will be destroyed a lot of times, but at least you will learn how to defend yourself and survive.

Sot is not an easy game,it has a lot of toxic players with ego problems and you will loose your progress tons of time, including time of your life, so you must choose wisely if you want to face this reallity or jump into another game with an easier acces to new players.

Sir this is Sea of Thieves not WoW.

Even if someone was maxed in every trading company, that would still only be a total of 345...

@generolhavoc01

Whatever lv they were, they were really high and been playing since the start of the game.

There were 4 of them, two camp outposts while there mates go off and do quests.

This sounds like a horribly inefficient use of their time and skill set while also being extremely unprofitable.

You are new, so I won't fault you for falling for the fallacy of Outpost camping being a profitable thing. The reality here is that Outpost camping is a giant waste of time and not worth the time and effort for what little one can get.

Take the two that robbed you, what did they gain financially from you? What may be a lot to you is chump change to the voyages they have access to, that isn't even including the skill set to do the more profitable ventures.

The other big thing is how easy these little ambushes can be discovered. Always look for mermaids, there is very few things one can do to prevent a mermaid from spawning. Mermaids will always mean players are nearby, if that is the case, move onto the next freely available outpost. Another reason why camping is a waste of time, there is more outpost than crews. In order to even camp half of them, the crew needs to divide entirely which diminishes all chances of success.

Finally, stealing isn't grieving. That is sort of the whole schtick here, if you can't handle people playing the game in what constitute as normal, might be high time you rethink on playing this game.