That's what I have to say to friends when we are already 4 people and more want to play with us. And it sucks!
Please come with a solution so more of us can actually play together.
Sorry we cant play together tonight....
@binaryplayerone
oh hello BinaryPlayerOne, there is a solution but it takes a bit of social skills...If you are a Legend you can give Legendary Athena voyages away or you can go treasure hoarding and then give some treasure to ships you come across...Try to run a sloop, get your friend...Find a ship, don't shoot , talk to them give em something, athena or treasure , ask them to cash in, befriend you and get you into their crew...Ask them to leave and you have an extra ship to welcome yer friends...I want to see a glorious Man-O'-War with twelve guns and a crew of six. It would be fast at full sail, but very slow to maneuver and a snail sailing into the wind. But what a sight it would be! A floating fortress. The design would have to make it nearly impossible to sail effectively with a crew less than four, and would require excellent teamwork. They could make the sails impossible to trim or raise without two people working the riggings. Three people would be required to raise the anchor. This would help realistically balance the raw power of the ship and ensure solos or duos couldn't take them out. Even a three person crew would have to really struggle to sail her. But a well-coordinated crew of five or six could make her a powerful force to be reckoned with.
@binaryplayerone The solution is to split up in separate ships or play a game that has a higher co-op limit. 4 is the max. adding more players would just make things worse for sub 4 player crews. There's nothing wrong with a 4 player max, every game has a max team size and you just have to deal with that. Sometimes it's solo sometimes it's 2 player, sometimes it's 600+. If they let you do 5 player ships do they add 6 when someone comes crying "I have to tell my sixth friend that he can't play with us wahh"? then they add 6 when someone else cries, then 7, then 8, etc. 4 is the limit. you just gotta deal like everyone else does in literally every video game. The only way I can see this changing is if they add a PvE only server, so you can't gank other players with numbers, but even then there's gonna be a limit.
@eelporridge said in Sorry we cant play together tonight....:
A system to reliably join a server that a friend is in would solve this. Unfortunately it could be easily abused with 4 friends taking a sloop each instead of one brig. I think the solution is, if you want to play with more than 3 other friends, play a different game.
Yeah it would be great if we could just join the same game session. And form an alliance. The tools for doing so are in the game. We just cant join the samme session.
And as you say if I want to play with more then 3 of my friends then we have to play a different game. And that's what's going to happen soon as Fallout 76 comes. Where does that leave Sea of Thieves for us? I dont know. But for some of us probably at the bottom of the sea.....
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@eelporridge said in Sorry we cant play together tonight....:
We just cant join the samme session.There are some good reasons to do so.
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@eelporridge said in Sorry we cant play together tonight....:
We just cant join the samme session.There are some good reasons to do so.
Thing is those reasons are already possible by just making a alliance in the game. Only difference is you get to do it with friends not strangers.
Difference is they are strangers. Strangers are more likely to betray and chances are you won't be in communication with each other. A decent alliance is pretty strong already, a decent alliance of friends would make it unfair for anyone else on the server.
I'd be fine with a bigger well balanced ship but not friends being able to alliance on the same server at the click on a button.
Private servers is the only option I'd accept but even that I'm not a fan of
Personally how it is currently whereby you have to negotiate with another crew to get their ship is the best way
Sure with strangers you never know if you can really trust them. As far as communication goes I and my friends only us the ingame chat as it's how it should be played in my opinion with proximity chat and so that everyone in the game can hear you.
The end result is quite simple for me and my friends. If all of us cant play together we play something that we can. And me and my friends are probably not alone..
With Fallout 76,Anthem and Red Dead Redemption 2 Online coming up I think Sea of Thieves need to adapt to hold on to it's players or sink.
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