Sea of Thieves fans are setting their own rules in the pirate sandbox - Which rules have you used successfully?

@drzoidberg-xxx said in Sea of Thieves fans are setting their own rules in the pirate sandbox - Which rules have you used successfully?:

@katttruewalker successfully.... None of the above lol

I second this. I have a couple rules of my own, they may not be popular but whatever...

I work the map edge, no one wants to chase a ship that close to the red sea. I off load as often as possible. I never fire first! I always try to wave, or play music. My final rule...if I can't have my loot, neither can you!

Aw, definitely as a sloop captain, always help that sloop in distress from a chasing galleon. That's the sloop code!

Complications arise upon discovering that said sloop is carrying a lot of treasure.

I quit trying to interact with people. It's not worth the headache of being killed repeatedly and sunk for waving or playing an instrument.

@rdizz I was really hoping servers would be handled like an mmo aswell. Or maybe like Runescape servers so that people can have larger fleets that tend to stay on the same servers or something. Maybe in 10 years For SoT 2 i suppose :(

The police lights are funny, and you can do it solo if you just stand by the front lantern and have it off but your OoS lantern on, and just click the buttons simultaneously. They rarely work from my limited experience though.

Waving, flashing lanterns and playing music work well enough, but voice chat is the only almost sure way of getting atleast a small pause of peace before they kill you anyways lol, but has a higher chance of actually turning into a parley than anything else. Sometimes it helps to actually start fighting and show that you would probably sink the crew and they will be a bit more willing to accept a parley rather than keep fighting. Though when I say this I mean ship combat not player kills, at that point they likely won’t trust you.

@rdizz yeah I’m not a huge fan of how the game is session based either, but I agree that it likely won’t change, that’s why in the alpha stages advocated for more modes, if the game is to be matchmade and session based with the small population we have, and the underwhelming cosmetic progression and lack of much meaning to the content that does exist in the open world beyond the pvp threat, I don’t see why they don’t have multiple game modes to choose from, with different settings to things and different rules etc, this would maximize the use of the few weapons and items we do have, the cosmetics aren’t such worthwhile progression to most people that earning the gold in different ways would be fine, and would set them up for a good MTX market where the gameplay is the focus and the cosmetics are an afterthought for fun. As is I’m constantly wondering where they are going to take the game, and why they didn’t hire like 200 more people and give the amazing concept the treatment it deserves, and the amount of content and sandbox elements it deserves Though I don’t know the logistics on how possible that could have even been.

Hopefully a lot more things like exploding barrels and other physics based sandbox items will be added that give us even more possibilities, hopefully there will be trading companies with more freeform sandbox gameplay or the old ones enhanced, they have the crates of tea and spices and silks and sugars, why not let us harvest and craft these, and be able to sell them for profit to npc regardless of a voyage buffing the value. They need to get past the “fair playing ground” in some areas such as cosmetic prices, and I think should do the same with the session based aspect in mind. Everyone should have the same weapons etc, but if I play in a session for 5 hours and you just join, I already could have an “advantage” from the cannonball crate or full supplies, why not add in more random things like this that can be considered an upgrade or sidegrade, but dosnt change the fairness in the sense of everyone having the same ability to obtain these each session and they will be designed to have situational advantages/disadvantages and not be OP.

Now I’m just rambling but I think I had a few good ideas in there. Hopefully rare has their own and many more and they read all of our ramblings and decipher them for their use lol.

On my ship we follow a few rules:

• Don't attack docked ships at outposts
• Don't attack sloops
• The less valuable item of the haul is left at the outpost when we deliver the loot. (We usually leave it in the Tavern)

We also try to not shoot first, but that depends on the other ship attitude against us.
First 2 rules are broken if we get attacked.

None. This game has no reason for people to cooperate unless they decide to.

@katttruewalker

I really enjoy teaming up with other sloops to fight Galleons. It's very satisfying.