What do you do after being sunk?

It depends. I usually rage out, raise anchor and go for revenge. If time allows. Sorry i dont like to lose

Usually it ends up with me being p****d at myself for not paying attention. I think I've been sunk 4 times, I'd say 3 of those were due to me not paying attention to my surroundings and being sloppy. Cue a crew that gets the drop on me.

I try to not get angry at other players, it's a game after all. A player that sinks me one day could be my crewmate the other day.

If I'm sailing with random and a ship sinks us, then I will hang of of that ladder on their ship till they anchor and do whatever they were doing before. Then boom, throw all their loot of the ship. Then camp ladders and drive their ship right into the island. (I'm a tactile scurvy b*****d on the seas.

My crew has really only been sunk by 2 or 3 ships. We are a rock solid group who know how to outsail, out cannon, and outsmart yer crew 11-1. We only lose to a group of ships. It's egotistical I know. But my ship the Wiggity does not go down.

@nwo-azcrack said in What do you do after being sunk?:

It depends. I usually rage out, raise anchor and go for revenge. If time allows. Sorry i dont like to lose

I usually react in a much more manly way than you. I rage quit the game, sulk, and play Ark Survival instead. ;-P

Whatever you do, don't go back to the battle where you last sank because that's griefing!!!

... or so I've been told here multiple times.

I'll act out whatever fantasy I chose to utilise.

@combatxkitty Usually only happens with a crew of random new kids or if we're at an outpost. I'll come back and get revenge. After that, it's up to them how they want their evening to progress.

Close the game and play something that will actually allow me to have a good time, like MHW or even Overwatch.

@ant-heuser-kush We carry loot and attack people all the time. Got sank once doing it because we were all fairly inebriated and two of the crew were new. Usually don't have problems though. Heading to an outpost takes time away from hunting ships.

@combatxkitty I've done all of my violence during my youth in real life. I have nothing to prove to anyone any more and try to just go about my business playing the game the way I want to play it and respecting others who would also like to play the game in a laid back fashion.
I have been with crews who say that they want to do voyages but then flick a switch inside their brain when they see a ship, either close by or distant.

I have mellowed with age so I try to be the voice of reason but it only takes one crew member to start firing cannons to turn everything upside down. Especially when they appear to be as blind as myself, missing most shots by a country mile.

My main objective is that almost every time I have been in this situation they haven't gathered any supplies. You can't fight a war with 8 cannon balls and 3 planks. lol
This is why I have turned to manning sloops. Now I have a 50/50 say.

We recently defeated a galleon who started the attack on our sloop while we were on an island. They sunk us and the gold skeletons shot us dead but we returned in a replacement ship to sink them and reclaim our 7 chests and a few skulls that were still in the water after sinking. One soul/skull was still on the island where we left it.
Although that only proved that they were worse than us at battle. lol
There was no communication at all from them and neither of us met on the ferry.

They came back a couple of times and we drove them away licking their wounds. Unfortunately the game is bugged and we had to wait forever for two chests to finally hit the floor of the shallow waters. The other five (more valuable) chests that we could not physically grab, eventually de-spawned before our eyes.
Had it not been for this bug they probably would have been long gone before our return. So that worked in both ways, in and out of our favour.

I'm still not sure if this was more or less frustrating than had they made away with our loot. Six or half a dozen I suppose.

We stayed on the same server but if it happened with every other ship I imagine we would have switched servers.

I had a sloop following my sloop and I just couldn't shake him. He was taunting us with text chat (we were a 2 man crew, he was solo), so we decided to fight him. He sunk us good after killing us several times. After he sunk us, he still kept taunting us and even messaged me in xbox, reminding us of how much we sucked. I think he was just being cheeky, so I congratulated him on his victory. He was good, I can't deny that. So why not tell him he outplayed us? He later messaged me in xbox saying he was taking on a galleon. lol...I told him galleons probably fear solo sloop players like him. I had to admit, he was a tough player.

If I'm playing solo, I usually quit if I end up sunk. It's a rare occurrence, but sometimes I get chased by a 2 man sloop for an hour, until I get bored and just sail off the map and log off to do something else.

With a galleon it only seems to happen at a stronghold, and regardless of my feelings the crew typically decides to respawn and head right back. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't. Today we had a sloop that was full of loot try and attack us at a stronghold. They were terrible and we sunk them quickly and grabbed all their loot while laughing at our fortune. They came back 3 times before we finished, dying quickly each time.

Left to my own devices I think it's a waste of time to spawn and chase, unless there is a clear path to quick victory I'd rather get on with something else. If my crew is good enough to get back and win the day we probably wouldn't get sunk in the first place.