Delete Half the Map!

@geoffman72 Why is map reduction not a good idea? What does having more map add to the game? (Other than more load on the servers)

@wilbymagicbear
Hello Mr Wilbymagicbear , if you want to see many ships to fight with , then i would suggest to try Arena a few times , you really don't have to search for a fight there....In the main game ,however , Sea of Thieves is simply much and much more than just search , battle and sink ships....i know that the trailers and other advertisement means put the shipbattles under a magnifying glass and with right, ship battles can be fun, Thrilling and Epic but there is much and really much more than just fighting and shipbatlles or stealing...

@awesomecoreusa It might feel like a vast ocean if the islands were unique, but it feels more like it's the same ocean duplicated 20 times over.

@clumsy-george Yes, I've played the arena. That said, arena goes the same way everytime and the stakes are always low. We should have crazy battles (or friendly interaction) in all parts of the game.

@wilbymagicbear
Allthough i'm a big fan of a friendly approach , in Arena it is purely a pvp fest , sure that can and should be done in sportmanship and respect but really having things like Alliances in Arena , would only destroy it ,i fear...
Oh , and Mr WilbyMagicBear , don't write things like "delete half the map" ,please ...That kind of writing makes an old Pirate Heart bleed... ;)

@contentzilla What's good about less ships? Makes it easier to enjoy this game's intense, action packed, AWESOME PvE?

@awesomecoreusa You know you could just have those great memories on other islands. Hell, none of what you mentioned even requires a specific island, that could have happened everywhere.

@wilbymagicbear THIS. THIS IS A WHOLE NEW LEVEL. Im almost lost for words

@geoffman72 Content? Islands aren't content. And yeah, I'd honostly prefer keeping the big map, but it seems that due to technical limitations a big map comes at the expense of well populated servers. Battles are better than different shapes to dig chests on.

@teammastadon ?

@awesomecoreusa He said "islands aren't content"...i can't ......

@awesomecoreusa this post is almost as wack as a previous post i saw titled "Nerf the dock" (dagger tooth). I'm not gonna lie thought they keep me entertained lol

@awesomecoreusa said in Delete Half the Map!:

@wilbymagicbear Aye, but returning to those islands is where the feels be comin' from. An' I have the same happy memories o' Thieves' Haven (the first time I sailed a galleon through her caves at full wind), Shark Bait Cove (where we met crafty Merrick an' hunted down the big beastie) an' the first time I locked my one good eye on an island spewing fire and rock into the sky... I love all the islands (except Plunder Valley which can sink back into the sea for all I care) an' I would hate to see any o' 'em go.

More ships, AYE!
Less sea, NAE!

*also more sea aye too!

One time we sunk a sloop around the shores of sunken grove, who at first must have thought he was going to win because as we traded fire he was talking trash and then out of the blue right before we hit him off cannon and he sunk, he laughed at us with literally exactly the same laugh as the happy mask salesman from majoras mask, so i turned to my crewmate and was like “was that just me who heard that guy transform into the happy mask salesman from majoras mask?” And then we both just started laughing really hard because of how perfectly recognizable it was and yet how unintentional it seemed.

He definitely heard this and then he ended up coming back afterwards and we talked in game chat, and was trying to say we were toxic and bullying lesser ships and blah blah, when really we had to run back from gathering loot because this was that weekend when random chests were spawning in piles, and he was posturing on us when we opened fire so either way know how to park to show your intentions or dont complain imo, but he also said we were making fun of him for mocking his laugh but i really couldnt help it, and its not like we were laughing in bad taste it was just because it was the same laugh as the character in zelda.

So instead of explaining that to him i just youtubed “happy mask salesman laugh” and then played it through my mic, which interrupted his sentence for him to go silent for about 6-8 seconds as he realized how similar the laugh really was, and then he quit without another word lol!

We laughed for a good while after lol. If they removed sunken grove i wouldnt remember this story everytime i go there.

Im all for more ships and expansion of the map eventually. The current areas need more first.

heres the laugh lol

And if you like that game i recomend the next video youtube gives you called “terrible fate” after the clip of the laugh.

@teammastadon Islands are to Sea of Thieves what the stage is to a play. It needs to be there, but it doesn't provide anything itself.

@contentzilla Arena is boring storm of chaos that plays the same way everytime, and has no stakes. It's emergent, unique interactions that make this game fun, but the lack of ships in adventure really hurts that.

@ghostpaw All the islands are the same. "Woah, the trees are a slightly different color! The rocks are in different places! This painting of the Kraken is red, not black!"

I don't want less islands for the sake of less islands, I just want to be able to find people! Those hour long sessions without seeing another ship are the norm, not the exception, and server merges don't seem to help.