Yesterday I launched Sea of Thieves to do a little bit of story questing. I finished my quest without any issues and then I had nothing to do. I sailed around, noticed that some player sloop was fighting with a galleon. I approached slowly to help the sloop sink it but was met with them changing their course, and cannonballs flying my way. They approached and boarded me, dropped my anchor, and sank my ship for no reason whatsoever. I had no loot, nothing for them to gain. This just irked me the wrong way. I respawned, assuming they would get back to trying to sink the galleon so I sailed to Plunder Outpost near which wreckage of my ship embellishes the seabed. I spotted them and started the chase, helping the AI galleon instead. Unfortunately there were two of them and only one of me, so they kept boarding and killing me. Galleon AI also chose to attack me a couple of times. Good PVP practice, I had nothing to lose. Of course, upon respawning on my soon-to-be-sank ship I kept getting spawnkilled. I lost my ship once again, and once again I embarked on a vengeful journey to be as much of a nuisance to them. They. Will. Not. Sink. That. Galleon. After an HOUR of being an annoying insect, buzzing around their ship, ramming it with my own, they started talking to me in foreign language but I paid that no mind and focused on my task, my duty, my one true goal. They must have realized that I would not let it go, and they were right. Instead of continuing the fight, they started running away. Disadvantaged, I had trouble navigating as quickly as they did, so they kept getting ahead of me, stopping at some isles and probably burying their more valuable loot. We exchanged a couple shots and I thought that I'd never serve justice. Not a minute has passed since my panicked thought and a Steam notification appears. My friend wanted to join in a true Deux Ex Machina manner. Now we are on an even ground, now I could dish out the righteousness. The battle was fierce and we got close to losing our ship twice. But a drop of water more would have been the end of us. We also ran out of all repair materials so it was getting tense. The mistake. The two scoundrels decided to board us at the same time but we disinfected our ship with a swift application of Boarder Repellent TM. As they were respawning, we managed to deal lethal damage to their mast and the rest of the ship. Later on their ship sank, dropping magnificent Athena bounty. Originally I was planning to leave their loot to sink, it was all about the message, not gold, but the surviving pirate was extremely angry, said he'd report us for tracking them three times, and of course spouted 1000 swear words per minute.
I admit, it felt good to watch them sink, it felt good to imagine their shock and their pain. No thought has ever given me greater joy. Don't pick a fight with someone who has nothing to lose...
On an unrelated note, was what I done a bannable offense? I am quite fresh, and do not engage in PVP often, so I don't know if I've done something bad indeed.