@stundorn said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@symbiotic-storm ah ok, i didnt know

edit: @Symbiotic-Storm
i dont want to spam, but maybe try to understand me:
I for example participated in early events and preamde alliances were no thing, you had to risk it.
I was betrayed, i betrayed myself...
Who risks a regular formed Alliance for commendations today?
Nobody.
2019 Festival of Giving, not many have the Title Giver of Gifts and did it regularily, no they cheesed it.
Same for stolen Athena's etc.

Rare made a huge mistake with Forts in 2018.
Forts were rare, spawned random every 3 to 4 hours, it was a PvP Magnet, sometimes whole servers fought for the back then worthy loot. A hull was 75.000 and you were lucky to get 15-20k from a Fort you had to fight for with mulitiple ships. Others could maybe do their thing more uncontested.
But gamers started to hop servers to find active forts like today FotD and Emissarys or a server without a R5 emissary and whatnot.
And Rare did not restrict that but made Forts available every 20-30 minutes.
that was when things started to get wrong and meant nothing anymore.

Events arent rare and random anymore, arent special and make everybody yell OHHH a FORT, turn around, on the sails you lousy landlubbers stuf you know.
people got excited and fought hard.
Now almost everything is accessible and easy to get, easy to cheese.
From my PoV this is bad and takes a lot away.
I'm a sandbox open ffa PvP player since UO, i apreciate the tension, the immersion possible with stuff like this.
But people cheesing it all and ask for everything controllable is a no for me.
Maybe you understand me better now!

I do understand, I'm just not sure my post is the best place for this kind of feedback. These are feedback points that Rare needs to hear from you, but really don't have much to do with my idea...besides you not liking it, which is fine. I don't expect everyone to like it.

@symbiotic-storm ah ok, i didnt know

edit: @Symbiotic-Storm
i dont want to spam, but maybe try to understand me:
I for example participated in early events and preamde alliances were no thing, you had to risk it.
I was betrayed, i betrayed myself...
Who risks a regular formed Alliance for commendations today?
Nobody.
2019 Festival of Giving, not many have the Title Giver of Gifts and did it regularily, no they cheesed it.
Same for stolen Athena's etc.

Rare made a huge mistake with Forts in 2018.
Forts were rare, spawned random every 3 to 4 hours, it was a PvP Magnet, sometimes whole servers fought for the back then worthy loot. A hull was 75.000 and you were lucky to get 15-20k from a Fort you had to fight for with mulitiple ships. Others could maybe do their thing more uncontested.
But gamers started to hop servers to find active forts like today FotD and Emissarys or a server without a R5 emissary and whatnot.
And Rare did not restrict that but made Forts available every 20-30 minutes.
that was when things started to get wrong and meant nothing anymore.

Events arent rare and random anymore, arent special and make everybody yell OHHH a FORT, turn around, on the sails you lousy landlubbers stuf you know.
people got excited and fought hard.
Now almost everything is accessible and easy to get, easy to cheese.
From my PoV this is bad and takes a lot away.
I'm a sandbox open ffa PvP player since UO, i apreciate the tension, the immersion possible with stuff like this.
But people cheesing it all and ask for everything controllable is a no for me.
Maybe you understand me better now!

@stundorn Several updates ago they changed it so you can only "buy" one skull a month.

@symbiotic-storm

honest question, do you make a difference between people hopping for PvP or People hopping for PvE including to form an Alliance server?

I dont, and i'd like SH'ing isnt possible or at least gets a long and painfull time restriction.
but you know what, some will have 20 Accounts and circumvent it anyway.

@symbiotic-storm sagte in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

Unless you built up a TON of ritual skulls, a ship could not sit at a fort for 10 hours straight, but even if they did, this is no different than a FOTD, which is already in the game. Again what I'm describing is simply an extension of that available game mechanic.

wait, didnt do it for some time, but couldnt you buy a journey that grants you a ritual skull very easily?
Yeah that costs some dubloons, but hey i have 17.000 dubloons or so :D

@symbiotic-storm

i have to admit to me SH is cheesing and i for myself dont use exploits per principle, except the lunge what is accepted, but if you ask me and i had to sacrifice the lunge to remove all exploits, i'm happily refusing to use it and sacrifice it.

yes gamers gaming systems are an annoyance to me.
Nothing new, happens since the 90ies and since i play online games.
I never understood why players cannot play like intended, and the game clearly shows it's random in many aspects.
I'm a founder, play since tech. Alpha and this game is to some degree the best game for a decade for me.
Because of the sandbox character (wha to me does not include exploiting or SH'ing as a feature) and the horizontal progression etc...
It's what i wanted since i played Ultima Online in 1999 if you maybe know.
I really dislike "levels and itemization" stuff as it is never balanced.
And now the gamers exagerate even at horizontal rep levels and cosmetics.

btw if you can start the event you want, why wait for it to spawn random?
See i not only dont dislike stuff like this i am very happy, that after 36years of playing video games a developer made a game like this.
Although some things went completely wrong the last 3 years i still apreciate it to have a game like this around.
My biggest gripe is the gamers gaming systems and not having / roleplaying a pirate adventure, not accepting randomness, not caring for the pirate code as a code of honor but be dulled by games and communities like LoL, Overwatch, Fortnite and such where toxicity is normal, where trahstalk is normal, where exploiting is normal etc...

Your request sounded to me like a PVE Server request and a try to change the game fundamentally.
It would take away from my wanted experiences and the way the game is intended.
It would take away what it means to "play" the game and not game the system.

I know, majority is playing like this and that makes me very sad and sometimes even desperated.
But i fight this aproach for long time and i dont see why Devs need to cater to gamers who generally dont accept the Games core concept and design, but cheese it all day!

it's somehow ok they dont care, but if they start catering to it (hopping for whatever reason) i will quit over time for sure. And that is nothing i want to do, because the crew and me have still a lot of fun, although we have almost everything in thihs game.

@symbiotic-storm said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@jollyolsteamed said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@symbiotic-storm said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@jollyolsteamed said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@symbiotic-storm said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@xultanis-dragon But server alliances are ALREADY a thing, and nothing rare does can stop that. So for them not to develop things just because "alliance servers would take advantage of it", that's just bad development and not how it works.

But theres no reason to further incentivize and or increase effectiveness of the alliance servers

Which is exactly what this suggestion would do

You can't develop features that people can exploit this is not how game developing works

And alliance servers is one example

Anything they add to this game further incentivizes and helps alliance servers, from the simplest quest to the newest feature, it all helps. You wouldn't be able to add ANYTHING to the game if your goal was to stop that.

Are people soo upset by alliance servers on here that they wouldn't want ANY feature they might take advantage of? Better not add a new faction, alliance servers might take advantage...oh can't add a new quest...alliance servers are sure to farm that new item...it never ends. I'm sorry it hurts your pirate heart that some people play the game differently than you.

You cannot add or not add features to this game with the express intention of hurting alliance servers, it would be pointless.

Wrong on so many points having 5 fully crewed alliance ships take control over events is way different from being able to do 5 small normal voyages

And yes i am against alliance servers is that a problem for you?

"im sorry it hurts your pirate heart that some people play the game differently from you" i am aswell

theres no reason to add an op feature like event control to anybody not just alliance servers

giving this control to alliance servers would be the same as giving groups of friends the ability to kick people at will it would be abused and taken advantage of and cause greater damage than what they already can do im sorry

Have you voiced your concern about alliance servers to Rare? Has it done any good? I'll go ahead and answer for you, Yes and No. It should be clear to everyone now that Rare doesn't care to stop alliance servers, you should be able to understand that. That's their decision, not mine.

i never said it was yours and i have voiced my opinion quite recently

and i do agree everything we add would be abused by them im not arguing against that nor am i saying we should stop content from coming in due to alliance servers

but what i am saying however just as afking is against the rule and abusing the brig system is abuse so should abusing the alliance system be

hopefully this will come to pass when private servers drop i know one thing that would benefit them alot because you have to pay for private servers and punishing people who abuse the alliance system would incentivize them to pay for private server if they want to play pve mode

@jollyolsteamed said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@symbiotic-storm said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@jollyolsteamed said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@symbiotic-storm said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@xultanis-dragon But server alliances are ALREADY a thing, and nothing rare does can stop that. So for them not to develop things just because "alliance servers would take advantage of it", that's just bad development and not how it works.

But theres no reason to further incentivize and or increase effectiveness of the alliance servers

Which is exactly what this suggestion would do

You can't develop features that people can exploit this is not how game developing works

And alliance servers is one example

Anything they add to this game further incentivizes and helps alliance servers, from the simplest quest to the newest feature, it all helps. You wouldn't be able to add ANYTHING to the game if your goal was to stop that.

Are people soo upset by alliance servers on here that they wouldn't want ANY feature they might take advantage of? Better not add a new faction, alliance servers might take advantage...oh can't add a new quest...alliance servers are sure to farm that new item...it never ends. I'm sorry it hurts your pirate heart that some people play the game differently than you.

You cannot add or not add features to this game with the express intention of hurting alliance servers, it would be pointless.

Wrong on so many points having 5 fully crewed alliance ships take control over events is way different from being able to do 5 small normal voyages

And yes i am against alliance servers is that a problem for you?

"im sorry it hurts your pirate heart that some people play the game differently from you" i am aswell

theres no reason to add an op feature like event control to anybody not just alliance servers

giving this control to alliance servers would be the same as giving groups of friends the ability to kick people at will it would be abused and taken advantage of and cause greater damage than what they already can do im sorry

Have you voiced your concern about alliance servers to Rare? Has it done any good? I'll go ahead and answer for you, Yes and No. It should be clear to everyone now that Rare doesn't care to stop alliance servers, you should be able to understand that. That's their decision, not mine.

@symbiotic-storm said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@jollyolsteamed said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@symbiotic-storm said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@xultanis-dragon But server alliances are ALREADY a thing, and nothing rare does can stop that. So for them not to develop things just because "alliance servers would take advantage of it", that's just bad development and not how it works.

But theres no reason to further incentivize and or increase effectiveness of the alliance servers

Which is exactly what this suggestion would do

You can't develop features that people can exploit this is not how game developing works

And alliance servers is one example

Anything they add to this game further incentivizes and helps alliance servers, from the simplest quest to the newest feature, it all helps. You wouldn't be able to add ANYTHING to the game if your goal was to stop that.

Are people soo upset by alliance servers on here that they wouldn't want ANY feature they might take advantage of? Better not add a new faction, alliance servers might take advantage...oh can't add a new quest...alliance servers are sure to farm that new item...it never ends. I'm sorry it hurts your pirate heart that some people play the game differently than you.

You cannot add or not add features to this game with the express intention of hurting alliance servers, it would be pointless.

Wrong on so many points having 5 fully crewed alliance ships take control over events is way different from being able to do 5 small normal voyages

And yes i am against alliance servers is that a problem for you?

"im sorry it hurts your pirate heart that some people play the game differently from you" i am aswell

theres no reason to add an op feature like event control to anybody not just alliance servers

giving this control to alliance servers would be the same as giving groups of friends the ability to kick people at will it would be abused and taken advantage of and cause greater damage than what they already can do im sorry

@mystic-nefro said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@symbiotic-storm

Sounds good, doesn't work.

Just for the sake of possible outcome, imagine 4 crews doing 4 world events at the same time.

Didn't Rare say that their servers are only capable of running maximum of 2 events at the same time? Hell, not even Kraken and a world event can run together.

Another thing: Wouldn't this kind of kill lots of player interactions? Since everyone could be doing exactly what they want, not having to engage other crews that are participating in ongoing random world event? There could literally be a ship siting at a fort for 10 hours straight, repeating it over and over, not having to interact with rest of the game world.

Last thing: Alliance servers are already being abused and milked to the core with many players contemplating if it can even be consider legit anymore. I don't even want to imagine what would be happening there.

So its a big NO...

Those 4 crews would need to have ritual skulls to activate those new events, they can't just press a button and activate them.

As for what the game can handle? I would advise you to check out the insider forum, as i can't comment on that in this forum.

This would enhance player interaction! How many people would rather hop a server than deal with a flameheart that stays up for an hour because someone started it? This would get people to stay on a server and activate their own event, and signal to other players that there are actual pirates there doing that event.

Unless you built up a TON of ritual skulls, a ship could not sit at a fort for 10 hours straight, but even if they did, this is no different than a FOTD, which is already in the game. Again what I'm describing is simply an extension of that available game mechanic.

And finally for alliance servers, look Rare has had the ability to change that since its inception, they haven't, you need to deal with that.

@stundorn said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

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@stundorn said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@symbiotic-storm

But there is a way that is not playing like intended but trying to circumvent the randomness build in by a Gamedesigners intention you dont like and cannot accept.

Because its possible to endlessly hop Servers it is not a feature of the game , its not an ingame mechanic, it's at best lazy and knowingly have a loophole to game the system. Maybe even extra, but nothing the majority of players playing regularily or the devs need to care for.
Else you'd not need to ask for an ingame feature or get upset when you have to wait some seconds because of an immersive animation when you login etc...

Play like you want but if you ask for features that imho arent intended and are straight against the core ideas of the game - and we had tons of these ideas here for 3 or even 4 years - then dont complain if some founders disagree and say no and also explain why.

May i ask you why do you think its random and not an option from beginn?
You may consider all the random elements are a design choice some like, especially in combination with horizontal progression and no gamemechanical influence, only titles, cosmetics and such.

What you dont see is , your type of gamer and many streamers and such destroy communitys, split them , exagerate about gaming and what was there in the beginning of SoT "social experiences" , you refuse to see the roleplay and random aspects and have a meritocracy aproach for gaming?!
The bad thing is , these gamers are too often jerks , bullies , less empathic , overly agressively trashtalkers etc. ...
Not all, but a lot!

To me PvP hopping is like reverseboosting and really pitifull and hopping for events or to create Alliance Servers and grind or to get away from a Server with a Reaper 5 or whatnot is not playing the game and dealing with the hand you got dealed, but to ask for a new Hand until you think that fit's.

Do it as long as it is possible, i dont bother, but if you ask or make suggestions deal with others disagreeing.

This is just bizzare to me. You're acting like I'm the first person to come up with a player activated event...when Rare themselves added one to the game already, and guess what, it can be farmed endlessly. The FOTD (shocked pikachu face). This idea is just building off a system Rare already has in the game.

So then why change the random Events and dont do FotD ?

I want the Events stay random!
And i dont want to be on the one side of the Map to realize i cannot do any Event because one or two others have started one at the other end of the Map.

What you really want is control and grind aka work off stuff and not accept its random and cannot be worked off except cheesing it aka hopping servers.
Hell let it go its horizontal progression, means nothing , does not influence you gamemechanically.
All happens by the way roleplaying a Pirate who immerses and takes what SoT has today die him/them.

The Game is random in many aspects , get it and please dont ask to change this fundamentally , its one of the things why i play this for 3 years.

Sorry i have no need or want to care for any work hard , work off, ocd completionist aproach and i also think Rare should not cater to that but stick to their initial gamedesign , keep things random , unpredictable , unplannable , because else no Pirate Adventure possible.

I think you've missunderstood me. Random world events would still be active within the world, but players could activate their own as well.

It also seems you are really against people playing this game their way instead of yours, can't help you with that.

@symbiotic-storm

Sounds good, doesn't work.

Just for the sake of possible outcome, imagine 4 crews doing 4 world events at the same time.

Didn't Rare say that their servers are only capable of running maximum of 2 events at the same time? Hell, not even Kraken and a world event can run together.

Another thing: Wouldn't this kind of kill lots of player interactions? Since everyone could be doing exactly what they want, not having to engage other crews that are participating in ongoing random world event? There could literally be a ship siting at a fort for 10 hours straight, repeating it over and over, not having to interact with rest of the game world.

Last thing: Alliance servers are already being abused and milked to the core with many players contemplating if it can even be consider legit anymore. I don't even want to imagine what would be happening there.

So its a big NO...

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@stundorn said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@symbiotic-storm

But there is a way that is not playing like intended but trying to circumvent the randomness build in by a Gamedesigners intention you dont like and cannot accept.

Because its possible to endlessly hop Servers it is not a feature of the game , its not an ingame mechanic, it's at best lazy and knowingly have a loophole to game the system. Maybe even extra, but nothing the majority of players playing regularily or the devs need to care for.
Else you'd not need to ask for an ingame feature or get upset when you have to wait some seconds because of an immersive animation when you login etc...

Play like you want but if you ask for features that imho arent intended and are straight against the core ideas of the game - and we had tons of these ideas here for 3 or even 4 years - then dont complain if some founders disagree and say no and also explain why.

May i ask you why do you think its random and not an option from beginn?
You may consider all the random elements are a design choice some like, especially in combination with horizontal progression and no gamemechanical influence, only titles, cosmetics and such.

What you dont see is , your type of gamer and many streamers and such destroy communitys, split them , exagerate about gaming and what was there in the beginning of SoT "social experiences" , you refuse to see the roleplay and random aspects and have a meritocracy aproach for gaming?!
The bad thing is , these gamers are too often jerks , bullies , less empathic , overly agressively trashtalkers etc. ...
Not all, but a lot!

To me PvP hopping is like reverseboosting and really pitifull and hopping for events or to create Alliance Servers and grind or to get away from a Server with a Reaper 5 or whatnot is not playing the game and dealing with the hand you got dealed, but to ask for a new Hand until you think that fit's.

Do it as long as it is possible, i dont bother, but if you ask or make suggestions deal with others disagreeing.

This is just bizzare to me. You're acting like I'm the first person to come up with a player activated event...when Rare themselves added one to the game already, and guess what, it can be farmed endlessly. The FOTD (shocked pikachu face). This idea is just building off a system Rare already has in the game.

So then why change the random Events and dont do FotD ?

I want the Events stay random!
And i dont want to be on the one side of the Map to realize i cannot do any Event because one or two others have started one at the other end of the Map.

What you really want is control and grind aka work off stuff and not accept its random and cannot be worked off except cheesing it aka hopping servers.
Hell let it go its horizontal progression, means nothing , does not influence you gamemechanically.
All happens by the way roleplaying a Pirate who immerses and takes what SoT has today die him/them.

The Game is random in many aspects , get it and please dont ask to change this fundamentally , its one of the things why i play this for 3 years.

Sorry i have no need or want to care for any work hard , work off, ocd completionist aproach and i also think Rare should not cater to that but stick to their initial gamedesign , keep things random , unpredictable , unplannable , because else no Pirate Adventure possible.

I don't think the "we can't add it because alliance servers will abuse it" is a good argument. Look at emissaries. A lot of people think it was a good update. Introduced new mechanics, gave out new cosmetics, gave a reason to do voyages, and increased the level cap so even those at level 50 would have a reason to do it. But to an alliance server, it's just a 2.5x multiplier. You know those people just grinded away. They hit PL and level 75 easier because of emissaries. So should it have never been added? Of course not. Just because a small minority will use it to boost their progress doesn't mean it shouldn't be added. Same with the Fort of the Damned. You just know alliance servers had a field day with that one. But a lot of people like it. High value player activated world event which is often contested. Should it never have been added? No. Anything that gets added will be grinded away at by alliance servers.

@stundorn said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@symbiotic-storm

But there is a way that is not playing like intended but trying to circumvent the randomness build in by a Gamedesigners intention you dont like and cannot accept.

Because its possible to endlessly hop Servers it is not a feature of the game , its not an ingame mechanic, it's at best lazy and knowingly have a loophole to game the system. Maybe even extra, but nothing the majority of players playing regularily or the devs need to care for.
Else you'd not need to ask for an ingame feature or get upset when you have to wait some seconds because of an immersive animation when you login etc...

Play like you want but if you ask for features that imho arent intended and are straight against the core ideas of the game - and we had tons of these ideas here for 3 or even 4 years - then dont complain if some founders disagree and say no and also explain why.

May i ask you why do you think its random and not an option from beginn?
You may consider all the random elements are a design choice some like, especially in combination with horizontal progression and no gamemechanical influence, only titles, cosmetics and such.

What you dont see is , your type of gamer and many streamers and such destroy communitys, split them , exagerate about gaming and what was there in the beginning of SoT "social experiences" , you refuse to see the roleplay and random aspects and have a meritocracy aproach for gaming?!
The bad thing is , these gamers are too often jerks , bullies , less empathic , overly agressively trashtalkers etc. ...
Not all, but a lot!

To me PvP hopping is like reverseboosting and really pitifull and hopping for events or to create Alliance Servers and grind or to get away from a Server with a Reaper 5 or whatnot is not playing the game and dealing with the hand you got dealed, but to ask for a new Hand until you think that fit's.

Do it as long as it is possible, i dont bother, but if you ask or make suggestions deal with others disagreeing.

This is just bizzare to me. You're acting like I'm the first person to come up with a player activated event...when Rare themselves added one to the game already, and guess what, it can be farmed endlessly. The FOTD (shocked pikachu face). This idea is just building off a system Rare already has in the game.

@jollyolsteamed said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@symbiotic-storm said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@xultanis-dragon But server alliances are ALREADY a thing, and nothing rare does can stop that. So for them not to develop things just because "alliance servers would take advantage of it", that's just bad development and not how it works.

But theres no reason to further incentivize and or increase effectiveness of the alliance servers

Which is exactly what this suggestion would do

You can't develop features that people can exploit this is not how game developing works

And alliance servers is one example

Anything they add to this game further incentivizes and helps alliance servers, from the simplest quest to the newest feature, it all helps. You wouldn't be able to add ANYTHING to the game if your goal was to stop that.

Are people soo upset by alliance servers on here that they wouldn't want ANY feature they might take advantage of? Better not add a new faction, alliance servers might take advantage...oh can't add a new quest...alliance servers are sure to farm that new item...it never ends. I'm sorry it hurts your pirate heart that some people play the game differently than you.

You cannot add or not add features to this game with the express intention of hurting alliance servers, it would be pointless.

@rtl-saint See I do play insiders (about to unlock my insider jacket) and it kills me that you can't understand what I'm referring to, I obviously can't state it right here. If you read between the lines, it's pretty easy to figure out.

@symbiotic-storm said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@xultanis-dragon I think it's clear by now that Rare has no intention of stopping alliance servers, their game explicitly allows this to occur, because it's a sandbox game. You can be upset by that all you want, but Rare isn't going to stop it from happening.

As for your second point....."laughs in insider".

bruh im insider to and i dont think you have ever played insider

@jollyolsteamed

costy cosmetics are another 🙃

@symbiotic-storm said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@xultanis-dragon But server alliances are ALREADY a thing, and nothing rare does can stop that. So for them not to develop things just because "alliance servers would take advantage of it", that's just bad development and not how it works.

But theres no reason to further incentivize and or increase effectiveness of the alliance servers

Which is exactly what this suggestion would do

You can't develop features that people can exploit this is not how game developing works

And alliance servers is one example

@symbiotic-storm

But there is a way that is not playing like intended but trying to circumvent the randomness build in by a Gamedesigners intention you dont like and cannot accept.

Because its possible to endlessly hop Servers it is not a feature of the game , its not an ingame mechanic, it's at best lazy and knowingly have a loophole to game the system. Maybe even extra, but nothing the majority of players playing regularily or the devs need to care for.
Else you'd not need to ask for an ingame feature or get upset when you have to wait some seconds because of an immersive animation when you login etc...

Play like you want but if you ask for features that imho arent intended and are straight against the core ideas of the game - and we had tons of these ideas here for 3 or even 4 years - then dont complain if some founders disagree and say no and also explain why.

May i ask you why do you think its random and not an option from beginn?
You may consider all the random elements are a design choice some like, especially in combination with horizontal progression and no gamemechanical influence, only titles, cosmetics and such.

What you dont see is , your type of gamer and many streamers and such destroy communitys, split them , exagerate about gaming and what was there in the beginning of SoT "social experiences" , you refuse to see the roleplay and random aspects and have a meritocracy aproach for gaming?!
The bad thing is , these gamers are too often jerks , bullies , less empathic , overly agressively trashtalkers etc. ...
Not all, but a lot!

To me PvP hopping is like reverseboosting and really pitifull and hopping for events or to create Alliance Servers and grind or to get away from a Server with a Reaper 5 or whatnot is not playing the game and dealing with the hand you got dealed, but to ask for a new Hand until you think that fit's.

Do it as long as it is possible, i dont bother, but if you ask or make suggestions deal with others disagreeing.

But what you are proposing does not improve anything but worse makes it easier for min/max players to exploit a flawed alliance system.

Skull forts

Let's say I want to start my session with a regular skull fort, before I can do that I have to go find and chase a skelly ship or do some random dig map and hope I find a ritual skull. There goes 30 minutes or more before starting my fort. Right now players can load the ship and head right to a fort and start doing what want.

New players

How would new players know how to start a world event or how to get a ritual skull and what to do with said ritual skull? Which is why the random world event system works just fine.

"Sandbox" or "exploit"

If I wanted to make gold and reputation easy I could just farm flameheart and skelly fleets for endless supply crates ritual skulls and loot for gh,oos,ma or sell everything at reapers. These can be done solo or in an alliance.

Not every world event needs to be player activated or should require a ritual skull to start up. Fotd is the exception!

@vin-the-rat said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@stundorn said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

Sorry, bad ideas.

Better accept randomness and have an unpredictable Session, unplable Journey aka Pirate Adventure.

No sympathy for grinds and Players who hop Server and want more control etc...

Completely destroy the character of the Game and this is why most Crews you meet is not fun, because they dont play Pirates, but work something off and game the system

@symbiotic-storm said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@stundorn said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

Sorry, bad ideas.

Better accept randomness and have an unpredictable Session, unplable Journey aka Pirate Adventure.

No sympathy for grinds and Players who hop Server and want more control etc...

Completely destroy the character of the Game and this is why most Crews you meet is not fun, because they dont play Pirates, but work something off and game the system

It's almost as if the other players your complaining about are...playing the game the way they want to. Sea of Thieves is a sandbox game, there isn't one way to play it correctly.

I find myself torn between these two sentiments.

The way that Rare (from my understanding) has always described Sea of Thieves is first and foremost a sandbox game where players create their own stories on the seas through open gameplay. I think a lot of people lose sight of this, there is no power progression in this game, it's all based on cosmetics. I find is soo disheartening for people to bash others playstyles in this game.

@stundorn said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

Sorry, bad ideas.

Better accept randomness and have an unpredictable Session, unplable Journey aka Pirate Adventure.

No sympathy for grinds and Players who hop Server and want more control etc...

Completely destroy the character of the Game and this is why most Crews you meet is not fun, because they dont play Pirates, but work something off and game the system

@symbiotic-storm said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

@stundorn said in Lets talk about world events and ritual skulls.:

Sorry, bad ideas.

Better accept randomness and have an unpredictable Session, unplable Journey aka Pirate Adventure.

No sympathy for grinds and Players who hop Server and want more control etc...

Completely destroy the character of the Game and this is why most Crews you meet is not fun, because they dont play Pirates, but work something off and game the system

It's almost as if the other players your complaining about are...playing the game the way they want to. Sea of Thieves is a sandbox game, there isn't one way to play it correctly.

I find myself torn between these two sentiments.