Open Crew Requirement Filters

@thunderdrago205

I feel ya there.

I despise being stuck with swabbies. I know they are just learning the ropes and we all started out like that too, but nothings gonna get done.

I understand the core concept of what you're proposing, and I do like that, but the examples you've given seem a bit extreme. (Excluding the world events)

• A filter for the type of activity (PvP, World Events, Voyages, "X" Emisarry) is definitely a good idea. Helps like-minded players get together.
• As for narrowing down the type of player and what they have, I don't think that's something Rare and it's system should enforce, they give players an LFG system (think Xbox LFG post, that largely do what you're requesting) and the captain could maybe inspect player request to join and basic stats like reps and time played.

@thunderdrago205 said in Open Crew Requirement Filters:

My idea for this is to add a button next to open Crew that lets you search through specific groups, something like this

Pirate Legends (Yes/No)
Over 1000+ hours of playtime (Yes/No)
Skeleton Curse or Ghost Curse owners (Yes/No)
World Events/Voyages (Yes/No)

I don't know how they'd program this in, but I'm tired of being stuck with newbies. Don't get me wrong, it can be funny. But I'm also trying to things done in sea of thieves, and I don't want these Swabbies to just sit around and relax. I'm looking for more you know, competent people. No offense towards newbies, I just would rather actually be doing something instead of sailing around like Swabbies do.

Until these ideas come to fruition (if ever), I recommend using the official discord for finding crewmates. You can spell out your criteria in one of the LFG channels and even feel out the person in voice prior to getting started.

I think making it harder for new players to find a crew to sail with would put them off playing, and harm the overall health of the game.

@ThunderDrago205 If it's a separate looking for group feature then that's something I can get on board with. I just think open crew needs to be kept completely open.

I think for people that want to be more selective, there should be a separate Sea of Thieves matchmaking service. Instead of having a single text box and having to read through all of them on forums/ discord to find what you're looking for (and it still being a dice roll because people generally only write a short sentence), you have a profile you can fill out with discrete checkboxes and dropdowns (age, hours played, hourglass level, preferred activities, communication preferences, headset?, mic?, languages spoken? etc. etc.) and maybe a bit about yourself. Then you fill out another form to say the kind of person you're looking to play with and an algorithm matches people up. Could do a similar thing for groups and guilds.