Consider adding High Seas megalodon hunting to Safer Seas

@coloradotech486 said in Consider adding High Seas megalodon hunting to Safer Seas:

After making a previous post and getting a better understanding of what I think could be helpful, I think it would be awesome at some point to be able to hunt the megalodons in Safer Seas just like you currently can in High Seas.

First thing I would do when loading in is look around the outpost. There are a lot of situations where you might see one nearby from any of the outposts that you spawn into.

Another thing to try is to chill in open sea in one of the common areas for one to spawn. I've had quite a few spawn right in the area I was chilling at.

Think of it like hunting, you can go out there and try to find signs of one in common areas

or you can wait in an area they spawn in and see if one spawns near you

In safer seas you could even make a whole thing out of it with a crew and leave people in a few different spots and see if you can spot one that way.

I've been about half and half with mine. I'll use the emissary once in a while but I prefer a more organic encounter so I'll keep an eye out while I sail around.

A good multitask situation would be to do fishing voyages and then keep an eye out around you as you do those.

Plunder is a really good outpost to check, there are 3 hot spots around it.

@lem0n-curry @WolfManbush @Look-Behind-You - Thank you! You are great and I will look into doing these suggestions.

I liked reading the full thread here, too: https://www.seaofthieves.com/community/forums/post/1980372

That helps with the perspective. Upon reflection, it appears that Safer Seas does have a lot of the content and the mentions about families playing with kids in SS feels like a better fit. I somehow got onto the train of SS has less stuff, but if I look at the bigger picture, SS has a ton of content.

I was so focused on what it doesn't have that I missed what it does have.

@coloradotech486 said in Consider adding High Seas megalodon hunting to Safer Seas:

That helps with the perspective. Upon reflection, it appears that Safer Seas does have a lot of the content and the mentions about families playing with kids in SS feels like a better fit. I somehow got onto the train of SS has less stuff, but if I look at the bigger picture, SS has a ton of content.

I was so focused on what it doesn't have that I missed what it does have.

You can always do a mix.

You don't have to always have access to limited content and you don't have to always deal with the stress of high seas.

You could dedicate 1/4 of the time to high seas and if you go on a good run you can extend it to half, as long as you don't stack loot you won't lose much.

And if high seas gets stressful you can just spend more time in safer seas.

You could get to grade 5 hunter emissary pretty quickly and then you can just dive around looking for a meg that is out of high traffic areas.

Even if it's once or a couple of times a week for a one or two objectives it could get you more comfortable in high seas, or it might just make it feel like you are experiencing more of the game without daily stress.

I'd be interested in updates about your meg hunting if you're interested as time goes on. You are welcome to send me a message about how it's going as you play more.

I'll help with strats and ideas in any way I can if there is an issue.

I really enjoy when casual players start getting into meg hunting so it's no bother to me at all. I wanna see you and your kids stick with the content.

That applies to whatever gets released the rest of the season as well.