Safer Seas should be better

should allow players to fully experience and enjoy this game to it's fullest.

High Seas. Done.

With all the restrictions you have put in place you're pretty much telling the hundreds of thousands of players who only want to play this game for the PVE and not experience or be at risk of PVP at all to go play a different game if they only want PVE (which is what they do and why this game has so much fewer active players than it could have)

Game is described as a PvPvE game. Not one or other. It never says its a single player game or PvE only.
They are going into the game under false information.

So for example ship captaincy and milestones none of that has anything to do with PVP

Your unlocking rewards basically for free. Fish trophies, which you could lose from pvp.

players should be allowed to use emissaries and to level up all of the PVE factions

what pve factions? Everything is pvp related in some way.
Emissary is a Risk=Reward system. You discover and defend the loot.

Also Athena voyages should be allowed and everything for the Athena's Vanguard should be unlocked and allowed in safer seas because it's all PVE only with no actual PVP requirements.

Same as above.

Basically anything that isn't exclusively PVP

So no, Forts...Fortress..Fleets...FotD...FoF...those are PvP content created.

So yeah I get that you guys want this game to be strictly PVPVE, but by not allowing players to choose not to engage in PVP if they don't want to all you're doing is making those people not play your game

And they dont have too pvp. They can Run, ditch the loot and survive another day, Or play SS.

So Rare, stop neglecting and punishing your players for only wanting to experience the PVE part of this wonderful game

Rare isn't. Players are doing that themselves.

Makes me wonder, did these same kids get upset when Elden Ring came out? Wonderful fun game, but punishing :P cant play with friends without being invaded. Could lose everything if you die more than once. But that the fun of it.

Its 2025, 2030, 3000. Nobody cares. Video games are created and stay as they function by the Devs main core. If they want a game to be this way, as they in vison it. That is there goal. Not everyone will be happy, so with that, The game isn't for you. Time to move on and stop trying to change a game to suit your own needs and ruin everyone else who purchased the game, As it was advertised.

If the game is strictly PvE, it'll get old and boring fast. Treasure wouldn't mean a thing. Achievements, gold, etc. all become worthless, pointless.

Also, your proposed changes wouldn't mean anything to a lot of veterans, who are already distinction 5 with all the factions, no longer get monthly ledgers, and have more gold than what they can do with.

Most times when I log on, it all depends on what I want to do, depending on what's on the server. If I see a crewed Burning Blade, it'll be fun for me to go after them, not because I need the gold or the loot, but for the fun and experience.

This is a pvpve game. Learn better defensive or offensive skills, and stop trying to change the game into something it's not. C'mon, it's 2025. Get good.

And again ive read untill emissarys.

You want everything unlocked exept PvP content, but emissarys are PvP content through and through.

Please inform yourself properly, before making a post like this.

All I see is tons of negativity and people telling me to find a new game and that's exactly the problem. I want to play this game more, but I don't because the PVE only option is extremely restricted to the point that it's unplayable and that's what I'm saying needs to change.

I want to be able to play safer seas and actually be able to fully progress all of my factions to the maximum level and not be capped out and I want to be able to play all of the PVE voyages in the game and not have a ton of them restricted to high seas only.

I'm not saying everything needs to be available, I'm saying that all of the PVE stuff should be available in safer seas (which includes Athena's Fortune and all of it's associated voyages as they're all PVE content and not PVP content like the reapers)

Also I should be allowed to use my captained ship and sell to the sovereign in safer seas, I shouldn't be forced to charter a ship and have to sell everything individually to each of the different NPCs it's absolutely mind numbingly terrible which is the entire reason the sovereign and captaincy was added to the game to fix!

Someone said that emissaries are supposedly PVP so don't add them to safer seas then idc about the emissaries as long as I can actually progress my factions to their maximum levels and not be capped out at only level 25 (which for a new player is absolutely ridiculous that it ends only at 25 that's not even halfway done because of the increasing XP needed for further levels)

I already have my main pirate maxed out and with the upcoming new pirate feature coming to the game next season I plan on making a new pirate and starting over again just for fun, but I'm not going to even waste my time if rare doesn't improve the safer seas experience.

The whole reason I made this post is because I keep trying to get my friends to play this game, but every time I try they end up calling out how BS safer seas is and how broken the PVP is in high seas and they uninstall and won't play it because people like y'all are so close minded about change and don't want safer seas to even exist

The way I look at this game is it's very similar to GTA online freemode as it's a massive PVPVE environment where players can actively attack each other or work together. The problem is that just like GTA Online 90% of the people playing in high seas want to attack and sink and kill and the people who don't end up getting quickly bullied out of this game entirely because of how truly terrible the safer seas experience is.

Safer Seas should be treated the same way Rockstar treated private lobbies, you should be allowed to do anything and everything you can do in a normal PVPVE server minus anything that requires other players

So I should be able to use my captained ships, and I should be able to use my guild ships too, and I should be able to progress all of my milestones and my faction ranks all to the maximum levels.

Don't include reapers since that's a strictly PVP faction, do include Athena's Fortune as it's not a strictly PVP faction and neither are any of the voyages for Athena's Fortune (they're all PVE not PVP).

Allow players to earn and progress all PVE commendations and only block the ones that require other players.

So what I'm saying is allow captaincy in safer seas, remove all of the reputation restrictions so players can earn reputation all the way to level 1000, don't allow emissaries in safer seas, I mean honestly even without Athena's Fortune as long as I can use my captained ship so I can sell to the sovereign and earn ship milestone progress and I can level my strictly PVE factions (merchants, gold hoarders, order of souls, & hunter's call) all the way to level 1000 I'd be pretty happy with Safer Seas.

"This game would have more active players in high seas if we made safers seas SoT single player"
Emissaries flags allow you to gain a multiplier on loot with the knowledge that it makes you a more valuable target. If you don't have people targeting you, the multiplier is pointless because you are amplifying reward while deleting risk entirely.
They do already heavily reward players for playing PvP. Hourglass rewards you with unique curses. Parts of the meg curse are PvP centric.
Skull and Bones is a flop harder than people say this game is flopping. Assassins Creed 4 is 12 years old, and a single player only game, with a massively different core gameplay loop and massively different naval combat that doesn't even play remotely similar to SoT.

I want to play this game more, but I don't because the PVE only option is extremely restricted to the point that it's unplayable and that's what I'm saying needs to change.

Only thing to change is the player mindset of things.

I want to be able to play safer seas and actually be able to fully progress all of my factions to the maximum level and not be capped out and I want to be able to play all of the PVE voyages in the game and not have a ton of them restricted to high seas only.

Well, that is a No. That changes the Core and Game itself from a Multiplayer game, to a Single Player.
I want to earn those Curses from Hourglass without Pvping, but that isn't gonna happen. Yet I still play HG just because its a Goal. Never giving up.
From what I hear, You want and want things that are already given, you restrict yourself because of minor issues the game encourages to happen.

I'm not saying everything needs to be available, I'm saying that all of the PVE stuff should be available in safer seas (which includes Athena's Fortune and all of it's associated voyages as they're all PVE content and not PVP content like the reapers)

You keep trying to separate pvp and pve in a PvPvE game, when its all together and not separate at all.

Also I should be allowed to use my captained ship and sell to the sovereign in safer seas

Captain Ship, Sure. But not the perks it gives. You dont need to Sell all your loot in one location, its a perk for Captain ships to quick sell during a run and gun. Being chased?
Without Risk, you dont need to sell quick.

I shouldn't be forced to charter a ship and have to sell everything individually to each of the different NPCs

Your not forced...Play High Seas for those Perks.

it's absolutely mind numbingly terrible which is the entire reason the sovereign and captaincy was added to the gam

haha..No they werent. If that was true, they would of just removed the whole thing and made Sovereign available to everyone regardless of ship. But no, selling to those npc is a learning curve and once you Unlock a ship and you be more appreciated for what you done to get that far. Hard work paid off, But only if you continue to play the hard part.

I already have my main pirate maxed out

So your just wanting to create a new profile...and not really Play all over again, demand the game change for your next Pirate Profile.
and funny, its near impossible to "Max out" in this game when they always add something new. :D

but I'm not going to even waste my time if rare doesn't improve the safer seas experience.

Hmmhmm..than dont. Your wanting a short cut. In the end, its a waste to achieve anything. Hurting yourself.

The whole reason I made this post is because I keep trying to get my friends to play this game, but every time I try they end up calling out how BS safer seas is and how broken the PVP is in high seas

Again, I blame Streamers and Youtube with it false advertisement of things. Sounds like your friends dont even wanna play if they can't play this game in Single Player or deal with simple pvp. Frankly I just got off a 6 hour run around and 0 PvP....

y'all are so close minded about change and don't want safer seas to even exist

Maybe so. But players like yourself tend to demand more and more and more. Until they come back complain again how boring the game is...