Need to make ot easier to play with a large group of friends.

@sacredwo1f04 No, this is exactly what is NOT needed as it would promote non-organic alliances that team up on other players as well as promoting Alliance servers that cheese the Emissary leaderboards by making it easier to form them. This would also have a knock-on effect of people boosting commendations and achievements easier, thus ruining the rarity of cosmetics, commendations and achievements.

It does hurt gameplay in that you are removing the social interaction portion of the game as well as the uncertainty of the ship in the distance, both parts integral in Rare's vision for the game. This was decided upon well before the Pirate theme of the game was so they are not about to change that.

How, it's a dead game on xbox, its painful to do a gold hoarder alliance, when we have a full group of friends that want to play together, or against each other, but only 4 of the 9 can play on the same server, it's crazy.
This game is dying fast, and this could bring in a playerbase to keep it alive.

@sacredwo1f04 said in Need to make ot easier to play with a large group of friends.:

How, it's a dead game on xbox, its painful to do a gold hoarder alliance, when we have a full group of friends that want to play together, or against each other, but only 4 of the 9 can play on the same server, it's crazy.
This game is dying fast, and this could bring in a playerbase to keep it alive.

LOL, the game is NOT dying by any means. It remains one of the most played games on Xbox Live week after week, always in the top 40 and usually around 20-25 in the weekly rankings. And the Xbox base is the healthiest population of them all with Steam players being the least populated (happens when you are late to the party).

You have any proof that it will bring in more players? It could just as easily drive players away from the game when they come across pre-made alliances that prey on single ships and bully them out of the game. And if there was this large amount of people wanting to play together, then why is the Galleon the least used ship nowadays? That little fact pretty much shows that your suggestion would have little to no impact on player population or there would be more Galleons out there on the open seas.

I agree with emissary cheering and leaderboard Stat padding, but it's not that hard to make a server type to disable your ability to put said stats on the leaderboard.
However skin's are skins they don't give or take anything to/away from you.
In my opinion since you can just pay for every cosmetic via microtransaction every skin has the same rarity, except you emissary skins.
But you can fix that as I explained above.

@sacredwo1f04

You can't buy every skin thru micro's.

Go buy the Ancestral set from the Emporium... I'll wait for you to find it...

This doesnt sound like a matter of "Make it easier to have fun." Because its plenty easy to have fun solo, with a single friend, or with 3 others. This feels more like an attempt at filling servers with allies to make them safer, when the intended experience is to be able to get attacked by anyone, at any time.

Alliance servers are already a thing, and rare has expressed that the only reason they dont do something to get rid of them is because they are a very small minority of the player base. Seeing as rare has expressed they are against alliance takeovers, i dont think they have any intent to make it easier to do.

@pithyrumble said in Need to make ot easier to play with a large group of friends.:

@sacredwo1f04

You can't buy every skin thru micro's.

Go buy the Ancestral set from the Emporium... I'll wait for you to find it...

Or the good boy... Da set, wandering reaper, or even a set thats dirt cheep such as the hunter set. Its fairly clear that they never looked at whats in the emporium based on the claim.

Any way to make alliance servers easy to make is a no

Sad to have a large group that play, but frankly that never lasts forever.

@goldsmen ops first two posts were requesting pve directly, then indirectly by asking for pvp requirements. So yeah this is just attempt 3 at making it easier to have pve only

@hiradc said in Need to make ot easier to play with a large group of friends.:

@goldsmen ops first two posts were requesting pve directly, then indirectly by asking for pvp requirements. So yeah this is just attempt 3 at making it easier to have pve only

I figured so, it read as a very round about way to get alliance servers.

For years it’s been no secret that you can get more than 1 ship on the same server at the same time. 3+ years ago my friends and I were counting down and hitting sail at the same time trying to get multiple ships so we could go troll on people as a mini fleet. If that didn’t work we’d go find random ships and offer to trade them something valuable or ask them to give us their ship when they were done. No bullying necessary. This was before there was much to do in the game other than go find someone to fight with… and before “alliance servers” were really a thing. It’s not that hard. We were on Xbox only servers, it’s even easier on PC.

It sometimes sucks that you’re limited to 4 people, but the few times we really wanted all 8 or even 12 if everyone was online at the same time… we made it happen sometimes and we had a great time in our shenanigans. That was a long time ago for me, but they are still fond memories. Back when you could have all galleons on the same server, back when it fluctuated between 5 and 6 ship servers before they finally realized they needed to just abandon the 6th ship.

It would be nice if they’d add custom servers as an option sooner than later. No progression or gold is fine. We ran into this same problem on overwatch a lot, there were 12 of us in our core gaming circle and if we were all online at the same exact time we’d just make a custom server and 6v6 each other. You don’t get any progression from those either and we didn’t care.