PVP: it's numerous issues.

@zig-zag-ltu Hi, Easy to say harder to do. Yes, you could do that, but as I said if they are already aboard you can't do that.

@tesiccl Hi, Haven't use Hourglasses, will try for the next run?

Yes, but that's the price you pay, could just mermaid back!

I disagree with the betrayal of alliance, especially as it reveals your location. If you break it off, there should atleast be a cool down IMO. To me, it still abuses the mechanics of what is suppose to support one another.

As far as alliances go,

Betrayal is personal in this game to a lot of the people that are betrayed. Many will try to spin that but it's a personal action in an adventure game.

This isn't a sus game where everyone is on the same page and it's clearly the point of the game. When people mess with people in that way, people take it personal and that's a completely understandable feeling for the situation. It being off-putting and leading people to play other games is always understandable.

There is largely nothing that can be done about it other than a person looking out for themselves and adapting once they find out how things are out there but it is personal to people and should always be acknowledged as such.

'Just thought that since you play this since 2018, you should have at least a few."

I know, sounds like I should of too! I think they either ended in stalemates or someone run away. For me I find that even more so now. Cannons are second nature to boarding. Maybe back then it was better but it was 5 years ago, maybe my memory has failed me!

@gallerine5582 Hi, Thanks for your comment.

Perhaps that is an aspect to use the blunderbus more, I find myself missing.

I would say it's the opposite. The 'lazy' option is to board, drop anchor and grief. Surely cutting it off means they can't just swim?

You could still board EASILY, by either crashing your ship into their's (thus taking a gamble for attacking) or cannon on (requiring more skill)

I've never said don't board. I'm saying make it tougher.

@wolfmanbush Hi, thank you for your comment!

This is arguably one of the best comments I've got. I think you make a great point.

I for one, do take it personally. Its hard not to when after an hour or so of work you lose your hard earned plunder.

The Safer Sea's update for me kind of answers this a bit but not alot. For me, I think PVP should have more incentives. For instance, getting a small bit of gold for being in game, or a bonus for staying alive? Rather than capping the Safer Seas at 30%. But encourage people to risk the open seas.

Overall I think there are better ways to bring about PVP without what we currently have.

@argentinehalo0 said in PVP: it's numerous issues.:

@wolfmanbush Hi, thank you for your comment!

This is arguably one of the best comments I've got. I think you make a great point.

I for one, do take it personally. Its hard not to when after an hour or so of work you lose your hard earned plunder.

Imo it's more about the community damage as an effect of betrayal in an environment where there are social/power imbalances.

It's a massive part of why cooperation has so often struggled and their vision of pirates dropping it all to get along for events or this or that.

They couldn't control it even if they wanted to so it's more of just an effect of the reality we play in rather than some sort of design flaw but betrayal has done quite a bit of damage to the community building part of the adventure experience here.

Alliances as a feature never really did much good for the game imo. It's just built on cheesing for gold, not really anything else is a part of the feature. I personally think the game would have seen less community damage by just letting people figure out their own situations without so many people feeling misled by an alliance feature.