- Frozen Seas
- PvE Server
- Gambling
- Whaling
- Turtle Stew
- Bigger Ships
- Play Station
- Kicking Players
Just sayin :)
The Answer is Always NO
The frozen thing is just some odd gatekeeping thing imo
it's a fantasy game with a lot of casual players, super easy to lore it, would be more appealing to a lot of casual players than some of the content that has been implemented, and they tease it all the time with cosmetics that would be compatible for it
with instanced content it makes even more sense than in the past, it is something that gets a lot of "no" for whatever reason but it very likely would be some of the more popular "feel good" content.
Make it pretty, let it snow, people will be into it, especially as end of the year content.
@foambreaker watch this get lost under the endless requests for PvE servers that get locked, or complainers about cheaters asking for anti cheat. You can see why now I’ve said in posts I’m tired of repeating myself 🤣
@foambreaker tho a winter event where they add snow and the ability to pick up and make snow balls to throw is a possibility
@nex-stargaze said in The Answer is Always NO:
...Who's suggesting Turtle Stew? Where did that come from?
It hasn't come up in a while. One of those Hunter's requests/ses life requests.
@burnbacon said in The Answer is Always NO:
Need to fully explain some.
Like why they are no.Takes your salt shaker...
No they don't lol. The only one is the frosty zone and it's only an instanced TT away. Maybe if everytime it was mentioned a certain captain wasn't mentioned along with it... like if someone came up with their own ideas instead of parroting a streamer.
If you don’t give them a reason, they just gonna give a full list of reasons why they should add the feature. Avoiding the reason why it’s no.
@alienmagi said in The Answer is Always NO:
Gambling is already in the game in the form of the pirate generator, so you're wrong on that one.
Random and Gambling are not the same thing.
@foambreaker said in The Answer is Always NO:
@alienmagi said in The Answer is Always NO:
Gambling is already in the game in the form of the pirate generator, so you're wrong on that one.
Random and Gambling are not the same thing.
I never said random and gambling are the same thing.
However, random reward for paying real money is gambling by definition. The pirate generator is a gambling system
@musicmee great to see RARE's moderators being sarcastic and condescending to their players who take the time to get online and give you feedback. Really shows where y'all stand. Nice job.
@r3troraccoon said in The Answer is Always NO:
@musicmee great to see RARE's moderators being sarcastic and condescending to their players who take the time to get online and give you feedback. Really shows where y'all stand. Nice job.
I dont see what the issue is, he was making a silly joke, even i made a joke, but no one seemed to have issue with my joke. The mods are still people, they do have a right to have a sense of humor here.
@foambreaker There are reasons we say no and it's not just to be fun sponges. Running through them one at a time:
Frozen Seas - the map is already expanded and rather large and adding more regions would make it even bigger and could throw out the balancing of ships vs map size. We always aim for SoT to feel like a social game but not one where you're tripping up over other players every 2 minutes, nor one where you don't see anyone for hours and hours. It's all about balance. And climate XD
PvE Server - SoT is designed around risk vs reward, removing one of those throws out the whole game design and intent and turns the game into a gold grind simulator, which is not the game we made. We have spoken on this many, many times. So again, this might be a 'no' but it's a no with reasoning due to our design intent.
Gambling - This would affect the age rating.
Whaling - Really never going to be an approved thing considering the endangered state of whales.
Turtle Stew - See above.
Bigger Ships - This comes down to balance. A good sloop can take on a gally. Now if the crews are of equal skill the gally will likely win but the point is, ships in their current state are carefully balanced with years of research and playtesting before release. 1 v 4 can go either way if the 1 is good and clever about tactics but 1 v 5, 6 or even 7 is absolutely throwing out that chance of reward to the smaller ship. It would also hugely impact number of boats if you have 40% of the server on one boat.
Play Station - We're a first-party Microsoft studio.
Kicking Players - Too easily abused. You could do open crew, stack for hours then kick someone to get your friend in. Again, we're not going to support practices that can be abused.
So yes, it is always no on these topics, but it's a no for a reason.
We listen to our community a lot, through Insiders Programme, testing, upon release and more. We have eyes and ears everywhere, we see a lot - just because we don't implement everything it doesn't mean we don't see it, but decisions for our game are based on research, data, our design, intent and yes, sometimes community feedback.
Hope this helps.
@rarepineappless I don't work in Design. Maybe they will decide to do it, who knows! But my response was specifically in regards to adding a Frozen Region, adding a new zone. Maybe we will just freeze the entire map at some point. Maybe we won't.
And again, we haven't ignored the requests - we have given our response and stated why PvE servers do not align with the game we have made. It is a Shared World Adventure Game and always will be. It will always have risk and reward. We have never hidden from this fact and although something may be requested, if it doesn't fit with the game we have made, we will say why we won't act on it. Which we have.
you mean in the form of hitreg when you gather your crew at the ladder to guard one single boarder playing on Wi-Fi connection :D
thats what I call gambling :)
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