@admiral-rrrsole This is a great idea!

@sardukar1234 I think he means you should spawn on the opposite side of the world when sail of the map.

No thanks. The sea of thieves is meant to be a cloaked section of Earth. Not a world of it's own. Just doesn't fit with the lore of the game.

@becausescience1

East is always East... because Science!

@admiral-rrrsole While the idea is good, I believe they have the map the way it is currently to allow for future expansions, I mean it would be a bit awkward if Earth suddenly gained a new region right? The same applies here, using the Red Sea or whatever it’s called adds an element of mystery, and allows for map expansions that aren’t completely weird. Anyways that’s just my thoughts on the matter.

This is a great idea, but also in conflict with the red sea, which I also love. Also, I don't know exactly how the Devil's Roar is going to work, but it seems a bit odd to (potentially) let a brand new player sail off the map and into this high level region. Lastly, in PvP scenarios, I like that ships can chase you to the edge of the map and escalate the encounter. If I could endlessly sail into the wind with my sloop, no one would ever catch me.

That's inconsistent with how the Sea of Thieves works.

According to the lore, it's an actual place that can be accessed from the real world, however, it requires you be capable of navigating the Devil's Shroud, a fog (or in our case the Red Sea) that consumes anything it touches. Meaning you can enter and leave it. It's not like a self-contained globe.

Additionally, it just breaks travel in the game in my opinion. I know sailing times can be tedious, but why trivialize the journey by just letting us sail East from The Wilds and have us magically teleported to the Shores of Plenty?

There's also the trouble of future map expansions. The Devil's Roar is going to be South-East of Devil's Ridge, and being able to sail "around" the Sea of Thieves means we won't be able to expand the map, since being able to instantly sail to the other side of the map by traveling in one direction implies that there's nothing in our path, which the Devil's Roar shows is not the case.

@enf0rcer said in Call me crazy but what if the world was round?:

@admiral-rrrsole It's an interesting idea, but it would conflict with the in-game lore (for those that care anyways) where the SOT is located on earth in the near or in the barmuda triangle walled off by a dangerous fog like shroud. I guess it would make sense If SOT exsited in a poket dimention.

it would still make sense with the lore if the shroud just cause you to loop around instead of just sinking your ship. The world doesn't have to be round, it just wouldn't have the silly red sea anymore. It actually makes a lot of sense. The map wouldn't be irrelevant as it would just scroll in a loop and your reference point would change depending on what part you are zoomed in on.

EDIT: I didn't think of the respawn from PvP and getting back to a battle quicker so that is a thing that may cause problems. It is a neat idea but probably not something that could be implemented easily.

I wouldn't mind that there was an island in the game where permafrost would also be an excuse to add makeup and warm clothes and cold damage.You can also add underwater caves where you can search for treasures

How would that affect PVP though?

I would love a round world.
I don't think it would ever happen as everyone complained about ships sinking after a fight but not spawning on the other side of the map. This would make it too easy for us to sail back with a restocked ship to the fight.

@Admiral-RRRSole

Excellent post and idea! This would have been much better. Maybe it is not possible for Rare to do this technically.

Of course there are the augments that it does not fit lore. That should not be an augment to suppress radical ideas like the world is not flat. The locations now do not exist in the real world, so no reason lore wise the alternate world we sail in is not round.

The shroud and the red sea could still exist in large areas between the islands. It could definitely be at the north and south poles, plus other large open areas until new content can eventually pop in. Many pirates want a frozen area and a round world could make that happen.

Would be cool to keep the charts, but also have a globe that we can spin around on our ships. Makes lots of room for our beloved world to get bigger as it becomes round.

@admiral-rrrsole It would make the map feel smaller and make the ship respawn distance irrelevant. You’d have ships you sank back at you even quicker. And, for islands near the edge - whereas you can currently see ships from several grids away, you’d have ships popping in fairly close literally out of nowhere. Not a fan of this idea.

Personally believe it counters the in game lore already set forth. The Sea of Thieves takes place within the devil’s triangle (starting cinematic map for new character reveals that). The Devil’s Shroud is a set in lore, a barrier around the sea that essentially rots away the materials of the ships (expect the crew). Devil’s Roar was revealed due to an enchanted figurehead that pushed back said shroud, but the figurehead was later destroyed by a volcano (check the trailer). It honestly wouldn’t make sense to have it teleport us like you suggested.

However, if they expand the sea to include something like “The Sea of the Lost” where maps are pretty much unusuable and a thick fog covers much of the waters, then sure, I could see something like that being added. Actually then it could be a rather unique feature of that part of the sea. Perhaps a new oceanic boss like an giant Angler fish. You could see it’s light and it could appear like another ship or an island. Could also have a ship wreck fragment with a bell on it so the closer it gets, the louder the bell sounds. Just imagine being at sea, fog all around, a light dancing through it, and the sound of a bell getting louder before it rams the ship, sending crew into the ocean.