DIVING IN SAFER SEAS ONLY

You do realize that prior to diving, it was portal hopping for both Reapers and people being chased by Reapers.

I have not noticed a decrease in players on the servers I play on during prime time (NA West)

@dank-jimb0
1.) You can't know how many players are on a server, so you can't actually know if there is more or less traffic, and with diving more of the traffic joins the server far away from anyone else for fairness.
2.) Yes portal hopping existed but it was not a super common thing. You lose all loot going through a portal. The only thing it saves is your ship, which is the least valuable thing to save.
3.) I have noticed a significant decrease in player interaction. Regardless of if the server shows multiple people on (emissary tables) the issue is that they dive out of the server before you have a chance to get to them to interact. You can dive to and complete an ashen winds in like 6 minutes, then sell and dive away. Less than 10 minutes in and out. That's not even enough time to get to them if they're at the edge of the render distance.

Diving and portals should just be removed period.
Idk how they fix the portals for certain cutscene tall tales.

The seas are not empty, and diving really does nothing but take the minute that it takes you to sail to the first island of your voyage thats usually next to you, and instead replaces it with a minute of sailing, diving, and re-appearing. You arnt missing some grand battle with a ship that just left port, you are missing a simple easy sink since no one is diving with stacks of loot.

Diving really hurt the server life a lot.
Lots of grade 5 ships with no loot around etc.

Portals are too much effort to use really, so doesnt hurt anyone.

@goldsmen Do you actually know how diving works? It doesn't bring you to an event on the same server. When you dive to a voyage or world event, you switch servers. You do not move to a different place on the same server. If you can't see how that's different, you shouldn't be participating in this debate.

No diving should just not go to a different server u already lose loot when diving so it should just allow same server. The only time it should change servers is to replace scuttling to another server

@potatosord said in DIVING IN SAFER SEAS ONLY:

@goldsmen Do you actually know how diving works? It doesn't bring you to an event on the same server. When you dive to a voyage or world event, you switch servers. You do not move to a different place on the same server. If you can't see how that's different, you shouldn't be participating in this debate.

Yes I do know how it works, i didnt say it leaves you on the same server, I said it cuts out the minute of sailing to that first island that is typically right next to you when you start. That means that there is literally no reason to sink the person since they have nothing to offer.

I have absolutely no idea how you came to the idea that I thought you stayed on the same server when it wasnt brought up, just the time it takes and lack of treasure onboard if they are doing so.