No matter what, if you find a crew with two persons you lose all your chests.
Some balance please ? At least put us solo players in another server.
Single player = unplayable
@balaooziin pratice to be better been sailing mostly alone on the 2 beta and reached rank 15 on goldhoarder play safe and bring back ur well deserved treasure more often wish u luck on seas !!
@balaooziin I am someone who played solo most of the time when I do play. What I do is that I use the area to my advantage. Force the chasers into a situation to where they are in trouble, or simply hide behind an island/in a storm and drop anchor. Storms are horrible to sail in solo, but if you drop anchor while in a storm (and facing the waves) you will survive it.
hmm, I remember last session i had. I took down a Galleon of 4 people as i was sailing around in my little solo sloop.
All i had was 4 gunpowder barrels
"p**f"
But really All you need my Friend is practice, Patience and follow the tips that @El-Espectro-0 Mentioned here:@balaooziin Tips for Solo Players:
https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/24675/alone-on-a-wide-wide-sea-collected-hints-and-tips-for-the-solo-pirateI'm solo'ing all the time and yes you will get in trouble with others and yes you will lose, but you will also win if you get better ^^
I prefer sailing and adventuring and try to stay away from trouble...but currently, I try to get better at battleing on the sea to defend my ship and treasures. It's do-able, but it's a lot rougher alone. You will get better, just don't give up. Use the time now to practice as your progress means nothing right now and you ahve nothing to lose (I doubt we keep the scale test progress on launch)Me and my pig were sailing around last night with 21 artifacts and 6 powder kegs, and one sloop just couldn’t resist how shiny my ship was, safe to say he met his end multiple times even once when he caught me anchored and put literally 8 or so holes in my ship at once and I raised anchor, dropped sail, I bailed and cannoned.and bailed and repaired and cannoned and bailed and bailed and repaired the rest. My point is if they don’t board you and don’t hit EVERY cannon shot
You can usually have a chance in any situation. I have been caught anchored by a galleon and sunk them in a solo sloop, play for 500 hours and you probably will be able to aswell. Its experience that is key in this game. We all have the potential to win in this game it’s pretty fairly balanced. Player action is rewarded and inaction punished. The actual mechanics are fairly simple.Prioritize those player actions at the right time. Dodge a cannonball rather than firing that last one, drop sail in between repairs to make sure your moving. It can be chaos but it’s a video game, just don’t overthink it
Or get too immersed and you should be able to make the right decisions with practice.@zakarus said in Single player = unplayable:
I think the problem is everyone saying to practice. Some people don't have the time and want to play casually. A single sloop vs a two man sloop is at a massive disadvantage.
Granted but Ihad to take the time to learn how to solo the sloop and I 'm the most casual player there is. Everything takes time.
@zakarus
And if you play with your high Elo friends in a Moba you will die all the time and ruin the game for you.
Solution: Don't try to play above your skill cap, if you are not good enough to play solo start in a galleon with 3 more people and with time you will be able to sloop as 2 and finally to solo sloop.Instead of refusing to play with other players in a higher difficulty setting, failing miserably and then coming here to cry.
@lordvader1o1 said in Single player = unplayable:
I would agree but I just came across a small ship but when we offered kindness he used his cannon to respond 😐
He was most certainly suffering from "little pirate syndrome". Terribly insideous disease.
@shaggiedo yes I have heard of this... comes with the symptoms of Foaming mouth, bad manners and a trigger finger. Such a shame that death is the only cure for these poor diseased souls!
@lordvader1o1 said in Single player = unplayable:
@shaggiedo yes I have heard of this... comes with the symptoms of Foaming mouth, bad manners and a trigger finger. Such a shame that death is the only cure for these poor diseased souls!
One can seek treatment even rehabilitation, but the road to recovery requires a willingness to firstly admit there is a problem, and secondly have the commitment to follow through. Sadly for most LPS sufferers the task is too demanding, and the damaged done way to early. There maybe hope though with the most up-to-date pirate research indicating that BBS (thats BIG cannon BALL Syndrome) maybe able to offer sufferers some well needed relief.
@shaggiedo yes totally agree! I have also heard there is an experimental procedure for extreme cases of these diseases and it’s called “ASR” Aggravated Sucker Restraining... it requires the victim of the disease to find a rather dangerous tentacled beast and ask it for a cure... according to the notes... This beast will vigorously grab the victims with its sucker riddled tentacles and cure the disease rather quickly... however a very serious and noted side effects to this treatment is the case of IBS and PTSD
@lordvader1o1 said in Single player = unplayable:
@shaggiedo yes totally agree! I have also heard there is an experimental procedure for extreme cases of these diseases and it’s called “ASR” Aggravated Sucker Restraining... it requires the victim of the disease to find a rather dangerous tentacled beast and ask it for a cure... according to the notes... This beast will vigorously grab the victims with its sucker riddled tentacles and cure the disease rather quickly... however a very serious and noted side effects to this treatment is the case of IBS and PTSD
Dude or dudette I loves this, best fun Ive had on the forums for ages. Got to go but hopefully we can continue later.
Im a alone pirate too. Once while playing a chased a galleon to force naval battle as long as face to face. So i improoved my tachinche a lot. Sunk once, got sank 10 times. But killed two of them on na outpost and robbed theire chest.
I still Have a lot to pratice, so i will get myself in trouble today again!!
How a saied before, we, aloners, have to join other sloops battles against galleons to create a culture inside the game for those cawards that chase aloners just for fun!!! On sea of thieves is fair a bigger boat chase a small boat i know. But lets pirate them back💪@wturok Im not refusing or anything, is just that most of the crews that i join is like a bunch of people that doesnt know how to work towards a same goal, everybody just doing anything they want. Then i go for SP, i think its better because i have the autonomy to do what i want to do.
And the people really just learn how to talk instead of just being offensive hahaha
@balaooziin LOL this isn’t a solo game bro. You are supposed to cooperate with people. It’s all about team work. If you’re playing alone unless you’re really good you have a huge handicap. Make some friends. There are a bunch of forums and such to find crews. Find some like minded people to play with ^.^
Im assuming youre new? Solo play is effectively this games hardest mode that can even keep the most seasoned pioneers on their toes at times. I really dont class it as a mode you can jump in and learn, instead its chucked in cannons blazing and sails billowing.
@El-Espectro-0 provided a good link for tips. Maybe try some of the clubs popping up to find some crewmates with the same goal. The stress test doesnt always have the most focused of players.
https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/32227/pirate-primer-how-to-survive-on-sea-of-thieves/40
We don't need balancing. This post will help you TONS on playing solo. There's a lot of good info out there for you to read and learn how to function when playing solo. All I play is usually solo, because most of the Galleon crews I've played with were too focused on pvp. Not only that, during the recent scale test, I decided to pvp myself a bit, while playing solo. Not only was it fun, but if reminded me that getting killed isn't really all that bad, considering you don't lose anything and you can re-spawn and get right back into the fight. I took on a full Galleon crew right before the end of the last scale test, and they killed me and sunk my ship right off the bat... Then I re-spawned, remembered where they were, went back and sunk their battleship. It was BRUTAL! Especially since they didn't think I'd come back after them being a solo player. Tons of fun too.
Solo play in SoT isn't supposed to be super easy, but it's totally doable. You'll get the hang of it, just stick with it!
@k7-issues when solo play was introduced during e3 2017, I was terrified every time I sailed away or landed on an island searching for the treasure. Always looking to the horizon for any pesky no good pirate, who don’t keep to the code. But that was a lot more thrilling and exciting than on a Galleon with a player that doesn’t play well with the rest of the crew.
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