Gameplay for the casual player?

So you didn't have time to play a game and are angry at the developer because they made a game that costs more time per session than you have?

Maybe we should have little icons on games that say the average seeion length like they have on boardgames.
But I feel like this is mostly on you. Having just an hour for a gaming session is just short. Heck in the average JRPG I can't even get from one save point to the next within an hour.

@octopus-lime

cant log out while in sight of or during combat, problem solved

@kenneth-mcgrew Dont buy a game before knowing what you buy. Problem solved FOR EVERYONE
Plus, Arena is coming and the sessions are going to be about half an hour

Allow me to summarize...

TLDR: I'm bad at the game and I'm upset about it. Game sucks apparently.

Hey @kenneth-mcgrew! I hear you -- I too tend to have 1-hour blocks, so I can feel a bit rushed trying to finish things up. I personally enjoy the way the game is paced to orient towards longer sessions though -- when I actually get a 3 or 4 hour block free, it's quite lovely. For when you have less time, though, the Arena should be a faster, more condensed version for you! More details March 20, so be sure to check back in then

let us save treasure and skulls if we "log off" and carry on where we left it!

Ah, the plot thickens.
Translation: "Let me combat log"

Sorry, OP. It's not a game for combat loggers.

As for the rest of it - it just sounds like you want the game to have no teeth. The game needs teeth if it's going to keep players interested. I like skele ships the way they are now. For the solo slooper, sometimes they are easy kills, sometimes they are murder machines with cursed cannonballs on auto fire.

As for the skeleton voyage - learn how to identify which voyages will be more manageable for a solo sloop and do those.

@vorondil1 said in Gameplay for the casual player?:

Hey @kenneth-mcgrew! I hear you -- I too tend to have 1-hour blocks, so I can feel a bit rushed trying to finish things up.

I'm with you on this. I tend only to be able to get longer play time at the weekends, so 3-4hrs at a time then no problem.
During the week if I can only pop on for an hour or so I tend to go beach combing, or pick up message in a bottles, ship-wrecks, quick skelly ship.
I can fill my weekdays quite easily without too much investment.

It's nice to have a bite-sized experience now & again.

@vin-delanos while I too am unsure about the idea of saving progress to rejoin later, I do need to point out that in this very thread, the OP made some suggestions for how this feature could be implemented without the danger of combat logging. So that doesn't seem like a very accurate accusation.

@vorondil1
I'm skeptical. Players can disavow any desire to do it now while suggesting it, but you bet if they could use it as an exploit, they would.

As for logging out when out of danger, the game forces everyone upon logging in to be on equal footing, save for their ship and crew size. Persistent saves would see pirate crews amassing not only hoards of treasure (which is far less important), but also supplies and cursed cannonballs, meaning a coordinated crew could login to a full griefer boat every time they start the game.

Saving voyages would be a problem because the game auto-generates them upon activation, based on the locations of other active voyages in the game. Having six players login to active voyages all on shark-tooth key could lead to potentially serious problems.

@vin-delanos yep! I agree with you on all those points, as I said I am against the idea of saving and re-loading. I think that people in general would definitely exploit it, but the OP of this thread gave us no overt reason to think that was his intention. I have in the past misinterpreted posts and made over-aggressive replies assuming the poster's intentions, and so now I try to give the benefit of the doubt where I can.

@vorondil1
That's fair. I'll try to be more open minded with folks.

@vin-delanos said in Gameplay for the casual player?:

let us save treasure and skulls if we "log off" and carry on where we left it!

Ah, the plot thickens.
Translation: "Let me combat log"

Sorry, OP. It's not a game for combat loggers.

As for the rest of it - it just sounds like you want the game to have no teeth. The game needs teeth if it's going to keep players interested. I like skele ships the way they are now. For the solo slooper, sometimes they are easy kills, sometimes they are murder machines with cursed cannonballs on auto fire.

As for the skeleton voyage - learn how to identify which voyages will be more manageable for a solo sloop and do those.

well no thats not what i want, combat logging sucks for all involved but being able to save and exit while your alone on an island out of combat is easy with a few conditions.

i mean to build on the suggestion above you already discounted

internet disconnections would still lose your treasure and progress

you would have to be in a safe location outside of combat and view of other players to "save and exit"

therefore it would be extremely difficult / impossible to exploit

you bought the wrong game. sea of thieves is online. and allowing players to log off would be dumb, goodluck finding a game that isnt difficult, maybe raft might be a good one. thats a single player game isnt it.

@kenneth-mcgrew
Read my follow-up, a couple posts down from the one you quoted.

@Kenneth-Mcgrew notice a different crew, sail around a rock and log.

Sorry, but progress saving has no place in a session based game.

The main thing this game misses is a reconnect feature, the ship and spoils will still be in the world while you are not, so can be sunk or everything stolen. Though it is frustrating to solo captains that a hiccup in your connection can lead to huge losses without a chance to recover.

Btw. You are doing OOS solo and want to be done quick? Why not go with a merchant or gold hoarder for the short game plays alone?