So first of all the best chance to get multiple ships in the same lobby would be to have everyone who wants to play all get a gallon or brigantine and start the adventure at the same time and when everyone gets in they should put their reaper flag up and then the ppl in the group look for the ship. I've done this and it's worked a couple times but it's definitely still a long shot. If it doesn't work then a couple ppl at a time leave the game and try again. It doesn't work all the time though. Secondly I feel griefers dont generally have a lot of friends to play with so the people who do this probably won't grief to much. Good luck to anyone who tries this, its still a pain in the but to pull off.

Perhaps Rare should release another game called “Sea of Holding Hands with Friends” and remove alliances from this game altogether. Then, people who want to play a pirate game can play Sea of Thieves and people who want to play a co-op boat campaign can play Sea of Holding Hands with Friends.

If you first ally other ships and see which one has free crew place you can ask them if a friend can join. When they finished playing your friend owns the boat and invites more friends.. its possible just takes time and making allies to get extra boats -.-

First off you wouldnt have guilds bc that would put you on the level of the merchants and such. They would have to be fleets. There is a lot of room to do things with fleets in this game such as having a 'clan' battle where 2 clans form their own fleets and have a sort of war. you could do something simple as make it like an alliance but able to stay connected to each other between sessions (i.e. not leaving once you close the game for the day) and maybe even be able to select your own alliance name (either from a list and just not random or even custom) OR they could make a fleet limited to like 1 of each ship: Galleon being the admiral/leader bc its the biggest and brig and sloop below it. A very interesting concept that will probably get fleshed out by a team of writers/devs some day. (but if Rare/MS studios are willing to hire an amateur programmer/designer with a dream hmu i will literally fly across the world if i have to)

Maby 2 or more ships is not far if you in your onw. And the is a big fleet.
But maby ther is on the galion more place for more people than only 4 player?

The only way it would be fun if you could do a double sloop instead of a gallion

@jdge439 pretty much all you're saying is "I like to group up and cheat and wreak the game for everyone

@Jdge439 Your thread isn't automatically "better" just because it's yours :P
I'm also not seeing how an event system is really related to the issue raised in this thread. Events would be, by definition, special occasions, and while that could certainly be entertaining, it doesn't do anything to solve the problem of "I have a group of 5 people that want to play together" on any given Tuesday. I'm not saying your idea's a bad one, just that it sounds to me like an idea that's completely separate from the topic addressed in this thread.

@kdm how are you planning to join the same server. As far as i know there is know way to choose server or see in which instance you are in.

@a-sinner-7ds I have created a better thread to discuss that very issue, and edited the original post with that

@solysdayga I adressed then in another post, I edited my post to reflect

@Jdge439 The issue is with server limits, if you and 2 other ships are side by side, thats 16 players of the total server limit of like 24? (I am basing that on previous estimates of 6 ships per server with 4 people) It basically makes it so you will never find PvP worth getting 3 ships together for. If they increase server sizes to like 20 or 30 ships, I think having the ability to "Fleet Queue" would be great.

I think that is point of game. They don't want GTA5 style of 31 VS 1. so they make every ship out for itself. If you get loney, yell out to other ships that are nice like me... then i will join aside ;-)

Ive created a better post, thats more along the lines of keeping the balance about this, take a look.

https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/33431/this-is-an-idea-about-multiple-ships-parties-that-should-be-read/9

Would just like to add a vote in favor of implementing some way to group up with more than 4 friends. If I've got a group of 7 or 8, it's not really a big deal to just split into two teams. Even splitting a group of 6 might not be so bad, though 3-man galleons are a little rough to work with. But splitting up a group of 5 is c****y any way you look at it. Playing with 3 of your friends is a lot more fun than playing with 1, which somebody gets stuck doing if you've got a group of 5. Even if you're limited to a maximum of one galleon and one sloop to a party, I think that's enough to appease those of us who've got a bigger group of friends all picking up this game.

I get that people are worried about imbalance, but if you allow for partying up mid-game, it gives anybody the ability to team up with another ship and have just as much firepower. Also I kind of like the idea of having to face the odd 2-ship opposition now and again. Could make for some great stories!

I have my doubts. I have about 10 friends as well and we keep discussing this. Recently I saw something about how ships will migrate to new servers if they're too close to several ships for x amount of time. So even if you do find each other, chances are one of you will be migrated to a new server after so long.

@im-axis-rahl yup
If the beta is anything to go by. There is indeed no way to “fleet up” with more than 3 friends.
Top tip. “Set sail” at the same time and when in game. Check your pocket watches if guys from different boats have the same time. You could well be on the same server!

@jdge439 Just got a group of four and stole some boats

@jdge439 Actually, we just had another question in Discord pop up.. How do we orchestrate a friendly PVP? that would also be a benefit to being able to find your friends boats.

@nunoazuldimeter I guess with the scale test going on we will see. already got 3 online this morning... and they are the ones who work at home.

Yep that's one of the things I would like most.
The possibility to join friend's session. Since it's an open world, should not be a.problem.

The crew could stay 4 at max. But we could be able to join our friends session. Even if we're not partners in crime by the game's mechanics.
The rest we would use our imagination and will to improvise that.

It's very frustrating when we have 5 friends on our list and we want to play with and you can only play with 4 of.them..

@im-axis-rahl Thats the thing, games like pubg, and borderlands, and such force friends into a place where they have to. Im not saying that right now, 15 people should be able to run a server, Im saying, if a 5th friend gets online, you shouldnt have to split your friends up. a reasonable amount of friends should be able to play together. 4 - 8 is reasonable.

I mean, we are constanly seeing it happen in pubg when we get off work in the afternoons. squads splitting in to groups of 3 and 2 until someone else shows up.. ya know?

and in game.... Honestly, you can out run a boat. If you are caught with your pants down, it shouldnt matter if it was one boat or two. your pants were down and they shot ya for it.

Otherise, you should easily be able to out run a boat.

@jdge439 I see your point, but it doesn't really apply here as you can play with 3 other friends. Sure you can't get your whole group together at once. But having a pool of players to fill out your crew is never a bad thing.

Myself, I have about 6 or 7 friends who play so we can usually get two galleons filled at peak times. Honestly I wouldn't want to voice chat with more than 3 others as it just gets too messy.