Reduction in Kill on Sight mentality

@lucid-stew said in Reduction in Kill on Sight mentality:

That's good. Lots of unsuspecting victims. Might be time to saddle up once more.

LOL I still keep my spyglass out and don't trust until I see that they are trust worthy. So I'll be still be suspecting. So far in the past month I've lost a total of one chest to PvP. So you won't get loot from me.

Zeffin

I've noticed this and mentioned in another thread. It's been a while since we've been attacked or chased. I kind a like it but then again I miss the smell of danger on the horizon heh.

@Zeffin I still have confrontations from time to time. For me, if I have any loot aboard and spot someone far off I am likely to stay away. If however someone sets sail directly for me, I typically prepare to attack. I feel like in a pirate game, to play "peacefully" you must give space. If someone wants to invade my area of piracy...I mean privacy.....they have become too aggressive for my taste.

@xxxrookxxx

If someone starts sailing towards me I assume they want a fight. I will sail away and try to avoid them. If I have loot aboard I will avoid all ships. If I don't have loot I will be friendly if someone is close by. If they attack I will immediately scuttle, and then try to board them and take out as many as I can.

Zeffin

@zeffin said in Reduction in Kill on Sight mentality:

@xxxrookxxx

If someone starts sailing towards me I assume they want a fight. I will sail away and try to avoid them. If I have loot aboard I will avoid all ships. If I don't have loot I will be friendly if someone is close by. If they attack I will immediately scuttle, and then try to board them and take out as many as I can.

Zeffin

Don't scuttle right away! Put up a fight! I sail directly into the wind, jump off my ship and grab their ladder. I have taken down at least 5 Galleons solo now by climbing their crows nest right after boarding and jumping down with a barrel and running below. Once they are down there with me, I kiss my butt goodbye and take out myself, all of them, and add new "speed holes" to their ship to make it faster....at sinking....

Arggg!

Just before logging out last night I sailed over to Wanderers Refuge to see what the sloop was doing. I approached slowly, pulled up alongside and hopped on board to say hello. There was no one there so I turned out all their deck lights (I'm an eco pirate) and left them my spare chicken coops.

At this point the pair of them returned to their ship, one carrying a chest and the other holding a gunpowder keg. The kegger dropped his powder and immediately shot it in some strange demonstration of his suicide ability. The chest carrier started swimming to his boat so I got back on my sloop and dropped a bit of sail. He then chased me for 5 minutes firing about a dozen cannon shots in my general direction.

Strange behavior as I could of sunk or ran their ship aground but chose not too. And they repay me by throwing their balls all over the place! So there are still some shoot on sight mentalists out there.

@moomintroll said in Reduction in Kill on Sight mentality:

I agree - there does seem to be a general calming of the seas, but I've still had a good share of purposeful action. I think there are maybe just fewer bloodthirsty players and therefore fewer itchy trigger fingers.

Just before logging off the other day I sat my pirate down at a campfire at the outpost and went to make a drink. When I came back a crew had spawned and were looking at me with suspicion, guns drawn, so I quickly used a non-threatening text emote and before long we were all dancing and drinking, before they headed off on their voyage and I logged off. But a couple of weeks ago I would have been dead before I got back to my Xbox and never even known what had happened...

Nice story. I actually pulled into an outpost with another ship in it. I waved and danced and I got no response. So I jump on his ship and waved and dance. No response. I figured he was AFK. So I did a few runs with bananas and wood planks and loaded up his stores before I sailed off. To bad I could not leave him a note.

Zeffin

@xxxrookxxx
It's not me. I don't like PvP. Happy that you like that part. As Austin Powers would say It's not my bag baby! Honestly it's not mine!

Zeffin

@kungfustu72
Eco pirate...just when i think i have seen it all. Lol

I've fallen in love with this game, don't care about rep (high 20's) just screwing around with friend, doing forts, and destroying other crews. I can't wait for hungering deep

@drunkpunk138 said

You should really try sticking around to see how it plays out sometimes. I get so bummed when we chase a ship, realize it's a solo then they scuttle,

Haha I have not been chased one time in this game, where the pursuing boat didn't want me dead. I don't think I will ever wait to see why a pirate ship is chasing me!

@blam320 said in Reduction in Kill on Sight mentality:

That's good to hear. Though, if too many active PvP-ers leave we might need incentives to PvP and raid ships for their loot.

I'm similar. I'm 24/25/23 right now. Working on getting them all to 25, slowly but surely. Just enjoying the journey.

Zeffin

I wouldn't say I kill on sight but I usually kill ships/pirates that get too close. I've been burned before trying to be friendly. (My fault I know.) So I don't take chances anymore.

@doubledragun said in Reduction in Kill on Sight mentality:

@xxxrookxxx If you have never been chase I question if you have played this game enough to even comment about it.

I think you misread something somewhere, or else I didn't explain properly. Easy on picking a fight there @Doubledragun

@DrunkPunk138 I totally agree about scuttling. I have never scuttled, a good pirate goes down with their ship fighting. I will say not from chase, but at an outpost I was walking back to my ship to get another chest to turn in and there was a galleon aiming directly at me side by side with my ship and they were tossing cast away chests onto my boat! Thought that was pretty cool! I also ran into one at a ship wreck and posted about it somewhere on these forums, and it was a fun and refreshing interaction.

@xxxrookxxx said in

Haha I have not been chased one time in this game (removed comma) where the pursuing boat didn't want me dead.

@Doubledragun
I deleted the comma in my compound sentence for you.

Wish I could say the same. Lately I've been getting attacked pretty much every time I come across another ship. Several of those have been griefers too that just love to wait for me to respawn so they can kill me again.

Though I can't change the minds of the 3 others I sometimes roll with, I usually say to leave sloops alone when on a galleon.

I've also started just Clap emoting when people pull up and sink my sloop with nothing but chicken and snake cages. I mean, you people could at least go take all my supplies before sinking it.

You know I've noticed this more, lately. I'll be honest though, if I know I can profit off a player a lot, I'll go after them.

• I don't random kill
• I don't kill merchants
• I don't camp on islands (But I will chase them onto an island if I was previously chasing them beforehand.)

I'll either sneak on board, or recklessly get on board and quickly look around. If all checks out and they have loot worth 1000+ that isn't only animals, I'll hunt them down.

People say it's a Pirate game and killing on sight shouldn't be looked down upon but even Pirates had some sort of code during their golden age. Those who did kill just for the joy of it were considered Monsters.