@pabz-2-dope happens rarely and you can disable chat, not that much of a point)
They have limited ways to organize TDM nowadays

@scaryfawn235336 They spam it as their pet name in Arena

@galactic-geek fully agree with you, sometimes it takes quite a few minor steps and adventure showed it. but its always easier to abandon something

@capt-soul-beard same for me
At least I hope they make some minor adjustments

@wolfmanbush said:

The idea that arena changes are going to get the popularity anywhere near where it would need to be to be worth the investment is wildly optimistic and not realistic imo

Perhaps, but the same could have been said about the initial release of SoT as a whole. It released early in the year with little to no fanfare, and basically just had a vacant beach worth of features. It's review scores were quite low, and so too was its piratebase, but surely, over time changes were made, and pirates began too flood the Sea. Nowadays, it's a grand resort with new Thieves arriving daily.

Perhaps you shouldn't be so pessimistic. 😉

@galactic-geek said in Arena Seasonal progression:

If it ever gets removed from the game, I personally hope they transfer the associated cosmetics and commendations into Adventure rather than preventing those of us who didn't get them yet from ever having the opportunity to get them.

That's how I feel about it, tbh.

@wolfmanbush said in Arena Seasonal progression:

The idea that arena changes are going to get the popularity anywhere near where it would need to be to be worth the investment is wildly optimistic and not realistic imo

It also does not take into consideration that the biggest misconception is that Arena failed because Rare did nothing with it.

Rare did a whole event around doing Arena and people mostly just AFK'd it.

The majority of the player base does not care about Arena so I can absolutely see why Rare stopped development on it.

@thekratex7201 said in Arena Seasonal progression:

PvP players also get less renown that ppl who play casual pve, Voyages, and stuff like that. I get that the competitive, and high-end pvp community isn't that big, but it's unfair. I mean, hell you even get a lot of renown just because someone steal loot from you, but you don't get renown if you defeat someone... That is actually dumb.

I think pvp should reward players with the different activities you can do during a battle:

swift (green) activities should include:
Pirate Eliminated,
Ship boarded

grand (blue) activities should include
Mast takedown,
Hostile ship anchored (hostile as in: not yours or your Alliance's ship)
Loot stolen (cashing in stolen treasure)

epic (Purple) activities should include
Pirate ship scuttled

Sorry but fun is not allowed in SoT -s

@scaryfawn235336 Played since day 1 and got LSD within 3 months of Arena release, they need to rethink Arena tbh

@wolfmanbush your point is quite clear and has its ground, but it is not about gaining popularity in this case. Its just rational that pvp actions should also be renowned and awarded in current season progression

Otherwise it sounds unfair that some of the deeds are left forgotten and abandoned. Like sinking other players, destroying their mast etc. Some of us had enough pve experience in this game)

Im not trying to say you are wrong, just wishing that you can see the other side of the game

@thekratex7201 yep, just for comparison I played full pvp for a week and got minor season progression. Then I just started to do deliveries for trade alliance and progress was higher lol
Also your suggestions would be nice for arena mode cause its all about that pvp stuff

@capt-soul-beard so nice to see core arena player here, cause your suggestions are up to the point. Yes, arena could have more options if we had more modes
Agree with you, but I guess first of all it needs to restore its core competitive idea. In my case I suggested at least more progress within current seasons in the aarena and your idea for increasing the price of a win is up to the point
We need reason to win, 6k is really small amount for hard pvp experience, 10-15k would definitely raise its popularity and I would never go back to boring adventute mode
Also chest bug is still not fixed

Not sure if you played what srena initialy was, but that mode had something about it. There was a good topic related to it, but unfortunately it was abandoned

@capt-soul-beard said in Arena Seasonal progression:

@wolfmanbush

-Sword only mode
-TDM mode
-Capture the Skull (Flag)
-Team Battle 2v2
-Big Team Battle 3v3

And the list can expand in so many ways to give arena a new life.

People who say why add more to arena when it has a few players don't think of why arena is dead in the first place, it's not because of the players, the content is lacking so hard like this new Plunder Games update. (Absolute Gar****)

Imagine adventure without any Tall Tale and without anything PvE except for Skull Forts like Year 1 SoT, it was fun for a while but became stale real quick. If SoT was still like that adventure would be dead.

Above all the the payout is absolute TRASH 6000 for 1st place? Plunder games offers 10,000 for 3 ANCHOR TURNS.

Who even came up with this trash idea?! Not only that, the plunder games which is a reference to the Olympics would have been perfect for the arena to give new life to it! But no light a lantern today for 10,000!!!!!

People can say "if arena had this or arena had that it would be more popular" yeah ok but if it became 3 times more popular (which would be a huge success) it would be 15% and still not in any way worth it

The idea that arena changes are going to get the popularity anywhere near where it would need to be to be worth the investment is wildly optimistic and not realistic imo

PvP players also get less renown that ppl who play casual pve, Voyages, and stuff like that. I get that the competitive, and high-end pvp community isn't that big, but it's unfair. I mean, hell you even get a lot of renown just because someone steal loot from you, but you don't get renown if you defeat someone... That is actually dumb.

I think pvp should reward players with the different activities you can do during a battle:

swift (green) activities should include:
Pirate Eliminated,
Ship boarded

grand (blue) activities should include
Mast takedown,
Hostile ship anchored (hostile as in: not yours or your Alliance's ship)
Loot stolen (cashing in stolen treasure)

epic (Purple) activities should include
Pirate ship scuttled

@wolfmanbush

-Sword only mode
-TDM mode
-Capture the Skull (Flag)
-Team Battle 2v2
-Big Team Battle 3v3

And the list can expand in so many ways to give arena a new life.

People who say why add more to arena when it has a few players don't think of why arena is dead in the first place, it's not because of the players, the content is lacking so hard like this new Plunder Games update. (Absolute Gar****)

Imagine adventure without any Tall Tale and without anything PvE except for Skull Forts like Year 1 SoT, it was fun for a while but became stale real quick. If SoT was still like that adventure would be dead.

Above all the the payout is absolute TRASH 6000 for 1st place? Plunder games offers 10,000 for 3 ANCHOR TURNS.

Who even came up with this trash idea?! Not only that, the plunder games which is a reference to the Olympics would have been perfect for the arena to give new life to it! But no light a lantern today for 10,000!!!!!

@pabz-2-dope depends on what you mean. TDM resorts to situations when crews gather at forts voluntarily to use only ranged weapons. In this case never seen anyone imposing TDM or heard anything like that. People simply gather there unless anyone comes and tries to sink their ships.

May be you try to say that many times you were boarded and killed? This makes a big difference. In this case yes, such situations are possible. As for me I find it the best opportunity to learn how to defend your own ship and I made good progress with that
Not sure about 1k megalodons, but yep I did not see shrouded ghost either yet, maybe one day we will be lucky to have it)
In my case I play since beta, so I seen most of updates and stuff, cant say that Im a rookie)

Again I hope that you may get as much fun from arena as the rest of people that enjoy it and its good to see your feedback here

@scaryfawn235336 bruh, i have over 150 days played and hundreds of matches. Explain to me how in roughly 200-300 matches i’ve seen it everytime ?! It’s absurd. Lol, everyone has different experiences yea i get it. But i see it everytime.. don’t assume i’m some newbie eho is playing an hour a day i play 10-15 hours a day so i know what i’m talking about my dude… it’s like killing 1300+ megs and not even SEEING shrouded ghost, but yet someone who plays for a month gets it. So ya know 6 of one.

@pabz-2-dope again, too bad that happened to you

I had more than 500 matches and in none of them I was imposed to TDM. I was free to choose wether to join or let them be

Maybe if you give another try your arena stay will be as pleasant as mine

@damayaya there is toxicity lol, 2 or more crews teaming up and hunting you down cos you won’t tdm. 6 times in a row on different servers i’ve had tdm spammed(as a pers name) so there ARE ways round the comms ban (aM i RiGhT)

Pfft.

@damayaya exactly, because now we get almost no progress
Nice to see your feedback)

@pabz-2-dope Toxicity is not part of the arena anymore... no more comms, so your argument is not true for A) (you can't be toxic without comms... am I right?) And I TDM only with friend with a full server, otherwise go in galleon you won't have tdm's, you will play Naval against good crews and you will learn A LOT, it will be hard, but best way to improve!

As someone doing arena every day, I like that idea... I don't really like adventure, so it could be nice to do season in arena, at least increase with something else than only 'Distance sailed'! +1

@aniysan maybe one day
At least the mechanics are cool and interesting

@scaryfawn235336 Agreed.
I wish the PvP was thriving, like early last year and late 2019.

@aniysan yep, happens often. But still it takes quite some time to earn and shows some battle skills
If they abandon arena there will be almost no matching achievements for blue outfit. Thats sad

Personaly I was happy to get it back in the day)