Here's why Server Changes are game breaking to Sea Of Thieves.

@iseeurpeeinhd said in Here's why Server Changes are game breaking to Sea Of Thieves.:

The following issue will be testified by other players and mates who have encountered the same frustrating issue. I want this to be directed towards the developers for rectifying.

Please read the following break down of how the event happened in order to understand the problem and FIX it.

• We arrived at Plunder Outpost with about 3 hours of loot to cash in, just as we start a Galleon comes straight us, carrying on board loot from a Skull Fort.
• We fight it out, firing at each-other to smithereens, travelling to each other's boat to kill each other and prevent repairs, in sum, a fun Sea Of Thieves battling experience.
• As I'm killing the enemies crew in the depths of their flooding ship, they detonated a MEGA keg, which sank both our and their boats.
• You can imagine the amount of loot floating in the water.
• As we respawn and so does our ship, we have to head towards the outpost to see what we can salvage or if we can intercept the other crew.
• As we set sail the server change message appears: "The world is changing, new dangers there be, Between boundless sky and treacherous sea, On rolling waves with sails unfurled, Ships come to plunder this new world"
• This resulted in the other crew and all the loot to vanish.

I want explanations, why does the server change like that when there are clearly other players sailing the sea's and forts being cleared. It broke the environment we played in for 3 hours.

I'm not angry about losing the loot and battle, I'm very upset that because of a game mechanic there was no chance for us to do anything.

Please address properly.
Cheers.

The other crew left the server and you were left on an empty server so the game did what it does whenever this happens. There is nothing odd about this happening. How do you know there were other crews on the seas.

My bet is that your crew and the other crew were the only crews on the sea at that time. You both sank, they left the server, leaving you on a empty server, which resulted in server merge. There is nothing weird about this.

You should probably try to sell more often and not bank for 3 hours so in case of stuff like this happening you won't lose everything.

@iseeurpeeinhd said in Here's why Server Changes are game breaking to Sea Of Thieves.:

@tuukkatl said in Here's why Server Changes are game breaking to Sea Of Thieves.:

@iseeurpeeinhd said in Here's why Server Changes are game breaking to Sea Of Thieves.:

The following issue will be testified by other players and mates who have encountered the same frustrating issue. I want this to be directed towards the developers for rectifying.

Please read the following break down of how the event happened in order to understand the problem and FIX it.

• We arrived at Plunder Outpost with about 3 hours of loot to cash in, just as we start a Galleon comes straight us, carrying on board loot from a Skull Fort.
• We fight it out, firing at each-other to smithereens, travelling to each other's boat to kill each other and prevent repairs, in sum, a fun Sea Of Thieves battling experience.
• As I'm killing the enemies crew in the depths of their flooding ship, they detonated a MEGA keg, which sank both our and their boats.
• You can imagine the amount of loot floating in the water.
• As we respawn and so does our ship, we have to head towards the outpost to see what we can salvage or if we can intercept the other crew.
• As we set sail the server change message appears: "The world is changing, new dangers there be, Between boundless sky and treacherous sea, On rolling waves with sails unfurled, Ships come to plunder this new world"
• This resulted in the other crew and all the loot to vanish.

I want explanations, why does the server change like that when there are clearly other players sailing the sea's and forts being cleared. It broke the environment we played in for 3 hours.

I'm not angry about losing the loot and battle, I'm very upset that because of a game mechanic there was no chance for us to do anything.

Please address properly.
Cheers.

The other crew left the server and you were left on an empty server so the game did what it does whenever this happens. There is nothing odd about this happening. How do you know there were other crews on the seas.

My bet is that your crew and the other crew were the only crews on the sea at that time. You both sank, they left the server, leaving you on a empty server, which resulted in server merge. There is nothing weird about this.

You should probably try to sell more often and not bank for 3 hours so in case of stuff like this happening you won't lose everything.

At the time of fighting, I saw a sloop and a brig on the horizon, there were skeleton ship raids being completed elsewhere while we were fighting as the cloud dispersed shortly before the Galleon came and fought us. I shouldn't have to stress and worry about selling all our loot for something as silly as a server merge, the only thing I should worry about is players, megs, kraken.

The clouds disappear after a while on their own if no one is doing them, same goes with forts. But were those ships on the server anymore when the server merged ? It doesn't matter if you saw them 5 minutes ago if 5 minutes later they are not on the server anymore.

You just had some bad luck of rest of the ships ending their session and then getting merged. There is nothing wrong with this system. Had you been close to the outpost with your loot it would have probably been there after the merge.

I'd rather lose a little loot than be stuck on a server with no one else and I have lost loot to this.