Someone has to say it; The brig is absolutely useless and trash.

Haha, you can't play the game because there's 3 of us and 1 of you. That's going to get old fast.

@mate-fh3 I think they're planning on letting more than 2 people on the sloop in the final release fingers crossed

@shaggiedo I think the point is it's operable by a small crew of 1 or 2 unlike the galleon, but not limited to a small crew. From an IGN article:

"One element of how crews work will change from the beta to the main game, however. One player could now sail a four-person galleon alone, using the game's "Make Friends" emote to manually gather a crew. On the other hand, four people could use one small sloop - Chapman explains that this could even be used as a surprise attack tactic."

http://m.ign.com/articles/2018/02/13/sea-of-thieves-dev-explains-why-the-maximum-crew-size-is

@shaggiedo sure thing mate. I edited in a link, it talks about why they keep the max crew size at 4 as well. It's, oddly enough for a pirate game lol, a friendship thing. They think anything bigger and it's not as intimate and easy to play with all friends.

Plus in my opinion can you imagine 6 people on a galleon vs a 2 or 3 man sloop?? One guy steering, one on sails/bailing, and three on cannons (°_°). They'd eat a sloop probably lol

@shaggiedo

@shaggiedo no problem! It's acting strange for me too, my bad. Try just googling "ign sea of thieves crew size". The article is from Feb. 13 and should be one of the first things that pops up.

I made a very detailed post suggesting a system that largely remedied a lot of these issues. It was complicated, but much better justified and much better at preventing trolling. The response to it was largely negative, not through oppsition to the idea but through opposition to what the idea was assumed to be. There was a great deal of mudslinging, name calling and accusation. Unfortunately the community as a whole just doesn't sport the level of objectivity and maturity needed to approach an issue like this. You're all just going to have to wait for RARE to get around to sorting it.

@Natsu-v2 makes a good point with a random filling the space of a disconnected player. He offers a simple solution. Vote to kick. Rule: you can only vote to kick a player within the first 5 minutes of them being on your crew. That's fair then.

2 things that will definately help: 3 man crew setting and removal of free to play players.

@mate-fh3 Ikr?? At that point I think it'll be more like fish in a barrel than actually provide any advantage lol

@ironuzuka Like the brig system, a system to kick would be abused. Potentially more than used as intended. If you can only kick within 5 minutes, it can't be abused, because if you're in a game for 5 minutes and get kicked, you've only lost / wasted 5 minutes, even if you didn't deserve to.

If you want a system to kick at all times, then you need a better system, just like the birg system. 'Letting the players judge' is no a suitable solution, as we can tell from the consistant complaint threads regarding the brig system.

The brig was a cute idea if we lived in Fairville but unfortunately its nothing but trash here i agree.
All the problems could be solved ( and might on launch i dont know) with a better MM tool.
Let people click what they want from language, coms,time zone, whatever then let like minded people be teamed up by preferences.
Have a box you can check that will place you anywhere after xx amount of time searching if you want.
Then just make a kick player option and reward the kicked player % of reward relevant to the time he was in the group. That way they cant kick u before turn ins .
I would also suggest only being able to vote to kick player while at an outpost.

@suave-beard nope, not true. sent a couple kids to the brig this weekend when they goofed off. we played music, got drunk, and puked on them... upon their release they were better teammates due to the experience🤗