Solo players, hear me out.

@bigbrother8340 said in Solo players, hear me out.:

As one of many players, who play alone is a target of "team" players. then we earn a great treasure, they easily hunt us down, mocking us, while waiting our respawn to kill us again. i tired of this. if they want our loot, they will do with our curse. our stuff became cursed as soon as they steel it, it will be cost only 1 coin, as steeling from solo- disrespect for themself. spread this words to all of solo players, and maybe, developers will do, as we ask them

Or... you join SoT Discord, find a teammate and don't play solo.

Saying this as mostly a solo player 😅

If you can't take the heat, you shouldn't be in the kitchen big brother.

Problem with your “loot” solution.
Most players sinking solo players, do not care what you have. They either want achievements, comms, or hourglass is down and need instant PvP

As a solo. I do not care if I sink by bigger crews. It happens and I excepted it since day 1, part of my overall adventure.

@bigbrother8340

Hard no to this. Also the only reasons I sell loot is to earn accomodations, see how big a hawl I got from PVP, stop other players from getting loot, not becuaise I need or want the gold.

If you made it 1 GP per item, it would not matter to me.

As someone who basically only plays solo, what are you on about? That would be such a useless feature. I get that you don't want to be attacked but it's a PvEvP game, it's gonna happen. Get good at evading if you think you are going to be attacked, or use distraction tactics. Put your loot onto a rowboat, go around some rocks, drop the rowboat, and let them chase an empty boat while you row to port.

@bigbrother8340 your perspective is so biased here you need to try and take a step back. People who attack you dont necessarily know you're solo. People are allowed to sink anyone and everyone. If they grief you while doing it then report but this feels like you may be someone who sees attacking someone without their consent as toxic behaviour which in itself is absolutely not. Youre suggesting that people who steal from you be punished and their actions discouraged, when there is no issue in doing so (if people make it personal and are toxic that is a different matter).
Good luck out there, a massive part of your enjoyment in this game is based on your mentality towards it.

@keylessword4029 said in Solo players, hear me out.:

its insane to me that other players, and the official Rare response to this is "then this game isnt for you, uninstall" rather than giving us a safer seas we can progress on. i have played on alliance discords for 5 years now because im tired of being 4v1ed on high seas. but the down side to alliance discords is you have to wait in a que, you can pay them money to skip the line (not cool) but the effort that does into making these servers and running them as well as not being able to do certain in game things because they dont benefit others or risk breaking the server.

it is in no way an over exageration to say they have lost millions of dollars due to their stance on pve servers. they have had over 30 million players. we have maybe 250,000 active per season. imagine if they managed to keep those pve players around? the ones who dont have the desire to be part of a discord thats only focus is making the pve servers rare refuses to provide.

the emporium cosmetics in this game arent cheap. as someone who was used to paying $25 for a horse in world of warcraft $40+ for a ship cosmetic is insane. especially when theres no way to save a cosmetic load out for your ship... well until captaincy where you now OWN your ship... but you cant be a captain in safer seas because.... god forbid youre able to enjoy what you have spent years grinding for in the game?

their approach to the future and prosperity of this game has been insane. i knew people on my alliance server who used to buy every cosmetics on the emporium, every new pet, all color variations etc... those are the whales that help keep games like this alive... and rares constant neglect of our play style and the game itself has even pushed away some of the biggest whales i used to play with.

fact is this game needs money to survive yet they are spitting in the face of the part of the community that would give them money. i would argue most of the pvp oriented crowd doesnt even buy cosmetics. heck the cheating crowd certainly didnt cause they played expecting a ban just to reroll a new character to then go ruin peoples day with their cheats. their "fun" was cheating and ruining the pve and pvp experience for all. they werent helping fun the game just helping push away more people who might have bought cosmetics.

So you're okay with playing on servers that were created by crews that would hassle another crew off the server to create an alliance server because you don't like 4v1 on a regular Adventure Server ... ?
You help(ed) keeping those discord servers in place where people are getting paid to spawn camp a crew that just happened to be on a server where those "alliance server" creators had two or more ships.

It makes me wonder what would be the ratio of people getting spawn-camped by people trying to create an Alliance server vs people getting spawncamped by people who did it "just because". IMHO both should be removed from the game!

@keylessword4029 it is in no way an exaggeration to claim that? You're right...its a complete fabrication. Your opinion does not represent an entire playerbase.

All of these single track minded requests dont consider (or likely care) about the effects this has on overall health of the game and whether other players who enjoy the fundamental game design that devs have confirmed they want it to be based around would leave in droves.
What is the point in progressing everything in a single player creative mode?

@bigbrother8340 said in Solo players, hear me out.:

As one of many players, who play alone is a target of "team" players. then we earn a great treasure, they easily hunt us down, mocking us, while waiting our respawn to kill us again. i tired of this. if they want our loot, they will do with our curse. our stuff became cursed as soon as they steel it, it will be cost only 1 coin, as steeling from solo- disrespect for themself. spread this words to all of solo players, and maybe, developers will do, as we ask them

unfortunately, nothing like that is going to happen. What you've received so far will pretty much be the extent of feedback. a very vocal group of PvP players who only want to battle PvE/solo players because of what they see as easy kills. And the usual response will be to stay in Safer Seas or "get good" at PvP. I would love to see some system in place that helps players not lose time spent trying to complete quests only to have it taken by players who are only interested in trying to sink other players. If there was a way to still get credit for the stolen loot or similar to what you're describing to where stolen loot is marked like reapers chests would allow you a chance to take it back while putting a target on that crew's back

@keylessword4029 said in Solo players, hear me out.:

i have played on alliance discords for 5 years now .....

I've been on the receiving end of guys trying to build alliance servers in the past, as have many others. Not a fan.

I hope you think about the younger ones being bullied by these bums.

@keylessword4029 Sovs and captained ships are rewards for playing on high seas. No need for sovs, and milestones are pointless, in a world with nothing to risk it against. Same with emissary.

@loneshadow29

What you've received so far will pretty much be the extent of feedback. a very vocal group of PvP players who only want to battle PvE/solo players because of what they see as easy kills.

OP heard a very vocal group of PvEvP* players that are representing 90% of the playerbase. Too bad you didn't read the description of the game before buying it

And the usual response will be to stay in Safer Seas or "get good" at PvP.

1. Stay in SS
2. get better* at PvP
3. don't get better at PvP, but just learn how to take the L and don't be a crybaby cuz you sunk in a cartoon pirate game

Yup, that's the general consensus here, and absolutely a valid one! 😁