Pirates Kings & Queens

@vorticalmoney7 Although I haven't mention a King or Queen I have suggested a leader board in several threads. So of course I'm onboard with this.

Just gather stats like FPS games have done since before the turn of the millennium.
Games such as Counter Strike included a huge list of player ranked by kill / death ratios, head shots, shots to the torso, arm, leg, which weapon they used, etc.

SoT could also do the same plus ship battles won / lost.

This could all be tied in with an introduced PvP faction rep. Which would take a lot of the focus off the PvP v PvE encounters if done right.

@vorticalmoney7 I understand what you are saying and to some degree I can see your point by keeping the list short.
However, stats on all players would need to be gathered to be able to find the elite 20 or so.
So they might as well list the top 100, 1,000, 500,000 as it makes no difference to the stats count and programming.

Simply divide the top 20 or even the top 10 in a separate table before adding the next table of 80 or 90 to make up the top 100 list.
The next page will contain the following 100 rankings and so on.

I for one would never make the top 10,000 lists as I am not fussed with PvP but the game needs an incentive to strive for especially for the devoted PvP players.

If you don't see your name after a search it would be pointless to have the list as fewer people will use it when their name doesn't appear.
There's no point in having any ranking system at all if you don't know where you rank.

@Barnabas-Seadog This would be best done as a webpage, not in game. Although a lot of people aren't into stats, a lot more are interested in them.

All of this should have been implemented since launch. Yet another missed opportunity with the game by Rare.

@vorticalmoney7 I am not disputing that Kings and Queens are a good fit for the game. I do like that idea.

@barnabas-seadog Yeah I see your point but the game needs something, anything, to make it more interesting. A handful of cosmetics simply doen't cut it.

That would require some stats system. One of the big reasons why I love this game is that there is no stats. There is no stress on keeping an above-avarage stats to your profile. One of the reason why I left Halo, COD, and GTA was for its competitive nature which revolves around stats. I like a game where you can jump in, work towards a goal, and mess around not worrying about your stats, and that's what Sea of Thieves is. I love Sea of Thieves because I'm not worrying about my K/D ratio.

@general-weighty I can see your point and I wouldn't be interested in it myself but a lot of people would be.
It kind of ties-in with PvP and bragging rights.
So for those of us who prefer PvE it's no big deal, nobody is forced to check out the player stats. However the PvP players need some sort of incentive to fight among themselves with a PvP faction to include rep placing less focus on PvP v PvE encounters.

@admiral-rrrsole who cares... that would just slow the game on loading stats. Let's make that loading time worth it on small details that would allow the game to be more immersive. Bragging rights will come with what you own and wear.

@general-weighty The stats won't need to load with game so it slows nothing down.
It takes a millisecond to record a kill. In fact 1,000 of a second. This is an actual fact, I am a programmer and I'm not just making up BS numbers.

It doesn't need to load or "read" stats, it just adds or "writes" each extra stat based on which parameters are set by the developer. The stats are recorded on the server pretty much like a config.ini file on a PC.

This is exactly the same as swapping weapons or any cosmetics you already own.... just without the need to load that information first. It's only writing the new "current" data / configuration.

Separate processors would access the stats data from each server and process it to the current leader board. I've even written that function myself regarding a betting system with football teams and the league ladder (aka leader board).
It's really quite simple to implement, even for an amateur programmer and it doesn't take up any noticeable resources.

The game already registers hits and kills including audio recognition with each cannon ball hit you make to an enemy ship or to the kraken.

It's all already there, they just need to join the dots.

The pay-off to many would make a huge difference to incentive in the game.

@admiral-rrrsole loading time is still loading time. 1/10,0000 of a second or 1/10,000,0000,000 of a second, it's still time not worth changing the whole style of what the game because few people want stats.

@general-weighty For crying out loud mate. The stats do not need to load.

@vorticalmoney7 said in Pirates Kings & Queens:

I would like to see a SMALL leader board with only the top players , at the home menu which would give us the Kings and Queens of the sea .
The list would have to be small to make it important so we'll all know their names and they may get a special item or tag as long as they remain at the top of the board .
We could even get some extra rewards for playing with a king or Queen therefore extra initiative to protect them 😉
And top players would get some sort of celebrity status from the all community 😎.

I won't be a King but I would like to see who are the true rulers of Sea Of Thieves.

Pirate Lords*

The Pirate King or Queen, is the number 1 pirate... There's only one king among pirates... But there are plenty of pirate lords. I think a top 10 list fits perfectly, 1 king, 9 lords.

@admiral-rrrsole I'm not going to argue whether it does or not but stats are always changing in-game. I use SPSS software where the same data is always there, and it takes time for the system to load the data when I manipulate it differently. My point is, stats will ruin an-already-perfect game. It doesn't need it.

@admiral-rrrsole and you said it take 1/1000 of a second to record a kill. What is that if not time? At least put "th" after 1000 if you want to talk about fractions of a second, Mr. Programmer.

@general-weighty Sorry to disagree, mate, but just by looking at threads and posts in this forum would tell you that it is far from being a perfect game.

By introducing stats would make way for a PvP rep based faction. Actually, your current rep is no different, as it too is a stat.

With a PvP faction, like-minded players could battle it out against other PvP minded players to gain rep. Let's face it, any rep is a bragging point.
Crews doing a PvP faction will lose rep if they attack PvE players. See where I'm going with this?

It could open many possibilities and help with weekly events such as arena style PvP ship on ship battles, or even guild v guild battles.

There is so much potential for this game to be the best ever and thousands of people who see this potential are coming up with great ideas right here on these forums.

We just don't want to see such a huge wasted opportunity slip through the gaps of any deck.

@admiral-rrrsole People will complain about anything even when there's nothing wrong. It's just human nature, people will complain about the sky being blue. Developers allowed for a forum for people to share their thoughts so what do you expect, people to post how perfect the game is? People are complaining about the sole purpose of the game, pirates stealing other pirates' loot.
The only stats the game needs are already in the game, commendations and how much coins you have earned.

Another con to this is that friendlies will become more rare. Stats will only promote more aggressive gameplay. It's fun coming accross a friendly player in the game.

@general-weighty You would need to read my other posts which are more in depth with the PvP faction and how it changes gamer tags and sails to red for easier distinction between the two modes of play.

I am 100% PvE (when others allow me to play the game the way I want) and by giving PvP players a faction or two of their own based on PvP rep activities, was the only way I could see us PvE players getting any breathing space to do voyages uninterrupted.

It won't totally stop PvPers (some people just live to be a kill-joy) but the majority would rather increase rep by only fighting PvP faction ships, than decrease rep by attacking a non-PvP faction ship.

All of this comes back to a stats system.