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@look-behind-you safer seas? lol

@replied-sot There are many ways to make this work, be fun and eliminate some of the things people don't like or fear when Console community servers drop.... my thoughts are:

Goals should be to not punish players for playing community servers while at the same time not allow it to be an exploit to level or get hard work related achievements/commendations. They should compliment one another and add variety to game play.

1. Make a separate faction for Community servers that they can level. Other factions level at reduced rate except merchants. Merchants isnt pvp and gives 👎 coins and is difficult to grind already.

Different cosmetics to earn. Some commendations can be shared between Main seas and Community but not Pirate Legend, curses. There would be separate different things to achieve on Community.

All cosmetics can be equipped worn on both community servers and main seas.

Community seas would allow owners of server to adjust settings... rough seas, spawn of kraken, megladons, skeleton ships, ghost ships, world events, forts. Move island locations on Seas.

Rare could even use some of these to test out new content.

I personally own admin my own Rust server, beginner streamer and now WANT and can't wait for SOT to hopefully launch Community servers so I can get one!!

I love this game 🥰💓

@dragonborn12940 I wasn't aware that it was possible ! Still not endorsed by Rare though, as they want the world to be shared with random pirates.

@grog-minto said in Just add custom servers that anyone can start:

@dragonborn12940 That's what is called an alliance server.

As in, it creates a private server instance. An alliance server is where 6 boats get into a server and farm together. The private server method has only one boat for the entire server.

@dragonborn12940 That's what is called an alliance server.

@grog-minto said in Just add custom servers that anyone can start:

@dragonborn12940 a dit dans Just add custom servers that anyone can start :

Did the guide I linked to get removed because it was promotion? Or was it something else?

Rare doesn't officially endorsed Alliance servers. I assume that's what you linked. :p

Nope, it was a guide on how to create private server instances in retail.

Why not private instance, like other "game as a service" are offering?
For example, Fallout76 offer a private instance for players, with progression and gold enable.
Or Elite Dangerous, you can either plays open, solo or private group...
It just a managed instance, it hosted like any other public instance, so the game remains up to date, there is modding allowed that prevent exploit...
And it could also be a revenue stream if plyers have to pay monthly fee for their private instance. I rather pay for a private instance to play with my community than a useless “Plunder pass”.
At the end, money is king. Like any game editor they need money to continue to develop the game. Micro transaction for cosmetics is an uncertain way to generate revenue. But monthly subscription is a better way for a company to generate ARR.
This way is satisfying every bodies. People who don't want to pay or love wild pvp can still play in open mode. And peoples who want to play with their community can still have their private instance to play together in any type of gameplay they want.
I still not understand why some of the community are still afraid of private session.
It won't reduce the amount of player base. In fact, if it increases the revenue for Rare, it means more investment in the game and more new content for all players, that could leads to attract new players.
It's a kind of win-win situation for everybody....

@dragonborn12940 a dit dans Just add custom servers that anyone can start :

Did the guide I linked to get removed because it was promotion? Or was it something else?

Rare doesn't officially endorsed Alliance servers. I assume that's what you linked. :p

@d3adst1ck No, I was born yesterday.

Did the guide I linked to get removed because it was promotion? Or was it something else?

Just give us a TDM mode :(

@remakoro You understand there are different implementations of multiplayer servers, right?

@triheadedmonkey you are talking about the basic functional that every other multiplayer game had for decades like it's some sort of a groundbreaking feature.

You can create custom/private servers in retail, just a little more complicated of a process. As a bonus, the servers even have progression enabled. I use this method all the time to stack FotD and world events with my crew without anybody interrupting us.

Guide here:

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@tek-lt said in Just add custom servers that anyone can start:

Idk why so many people want the game to be so easy, what pride do you have in unlocking an item where there were no risks?

I am not against private servers, I am against private server progression.

I'm under the impression they still want to "complete the game" but in their own slow, boring, unfulfilling, low risk way that isn't disturbed by people taking advantage of their poor communication and lack of critical thinking.

People like these may struggle on full nights in Minecraft Single Player in comparison.

Idk why so many people want the game to be so easy, what pride do you have in unlocking an item where there were no risks?

I am not against private servers, I am against private server progression.

@foambreaker I don't want to pvp random people in a "prefer pvp servers" mode.. I want to be able to practice with other competitive teams. Yes, they have hourglass, no, it doesn't work the way I'm explaining. When I can get 3 ships on the same server, all of which are competitive teams and have a practice with them with 5000+ cannonballs for as long as we wish, it doesn't even compare to hourglass, or eve a "prefer pvp servers" mode.

@smurfuhdurf said in Just add custom servers that anyone can start:

@pabio-escobar Your simple mind can't understand that people who enjoy pvp, want to be able to have their own server to pvp eachother whenever they want to? Not everybody wants private servers so they can stack loot. 90% of the people asking for private custom servers come from the Competitive scene, where we're looking to get practice without having to load into 100 servers to try and get 2 boats on the same one just to fight eachother.

See that is different.

The key is you don't want to be on a server with certain players, you want to be on a server with a demographic.

That could be a choice in the master matchmaking preferences: Prefer PvP Server, similar to Prefer Xbox Server. Preferred, but not promised.

It could work for RP servers as well.

These special servers would have no loot, limited supplies, no events or unfriendly NPCs from Skeleton to Kraken. No bosses.

This wouldn't work for PvE because the whole point is the items the server would not have.

@burnbacon does hourglass have 5 ships fighting eachother, or just 1v1? Just because you don't see it happen, means it doesn't happen all the time?

@pabio-escobar Your simple mind can't understand that people who enjoy pvp, want to be able to have their own server to pvp eachother whenever they want to? Not everybody wants private servers so they can stack loot. 90% of the people asking for private custom servers come from the Competitive scene, where we're looking to get practice without having to load into 100 servers to try and get 2 boats on the same one just to fight eachother.

@replied-sot said in Just add custom servers that anyone can start:

@Foambreaker @Captain-Coel , yeah that would be the thing, no earning any rewards or anything. You could possibly do tall tales so people can stop complaining about killing them while they are on a tall tale

Only if achievements and commendations for those was also disabled. No threat, no credit.

i don't see why people wants a server custom. what should you do with it? i don't like too the PVP mode, and yes because i am a bad pvper, but i'd love to play with other people doing their buisness, or mine. it can be a dead server, a bad server or it could be a great one, where you can find new friends, do an alliance and know new people, maybe an important for you, how can you don't in your private server. more of that, what are you disposed to remove by your gameplay to do a private server ? if you can do a game full only of your friends, without threads, you must have to sacrifice something, like reputation gain or gold, so, what could be the point of all that? there are many ways to find friends in the same server BTW.

I don’t understand why people post about this all the time. If you want to play in private servers with just your friends, join an alliance club, or make one yourself, and sever hop with your friends until you have the server to yourself. Folk have been doing this for ages. Literally what you ask for exists, in a capacity that isn’t programmed in to the game 🤷‍♂️