i play pretty much exclusively on the galleon with friends and we never attack sloops unless they shoot first. its not fair for them, they usually don't have enough loot to be worth the battle, and it just plain feels mean.

@lordzorddan said in The game is unplayable if u choose a solo or duo sloop. 😠:

@thewolfman321 Its not the shipfight [Mod edited]! Galleons just sink parking ships because they are "easy targets".

I try not to let a Galleon get the jump on me.

Usually do that quick 'crows nest scan' of the horizon before I jump ship to explore. If I can't find what I'm looking for in 4-5mins, I head back to the ship (or a high spot on the island) and scan the horizon again.

........ and you never drop anchor. Raise sails for that quick get away.

;)

I posted this, but I'll paste it in here as well.

I'm an ok player, not great at all. I did the sloop today and cleaned up. To play solo sloop, be smart. I thought I would share my tactics for those who are hesitant to play solo.

When doing a voyage, don't pull out that shovel until you check the area for ships. When your comfy, dig dig dig.

Don't get greedy, go back immediately to the outpost you came from checking all the time for a ship docked and cash in small loads.

Look for the skull in the sky. If it's lit up, most likely all Galleons are heading there, so get to your voyages, always looking for those "where did he come from" sloops.

Visit shipwrecks all the time. I found 3 chests and a skull on 1 shipwreck.

Most important point of all!!!! If you see another ship, even a sloop near where you want to go, turn away, even in the opposite direction. Go have a Corona on a small island somewhere until the boat is gone. If they see you, they will come!

Frequent quick hauls and taking your time is the key. Don't worry if you haven't put that first shovel in if your ship is empty and your about to be engaged in battle. Use that opportunity to practice your PVP skills.

My haul today was 24 chests and 2 skulls. I only had 1 sloop battle that I eventually won, but I did lose 2 chests in the exchange.

Finally, just have fun with the game. Don't get too serious. If a big Galleon comes up on you, stand in view and wave. If your sunk, remember, none of those people were hugged as a child, so you still win!

Maybe i'm full of c**p, but it worked for me. Enjoy the game folks!

@grumpie-bear29 I hav eto disagree entirely with your assumption. I have done nothing but SOLO since the official Launch of the game. I have 89k gold, complete Admiral outfit, and rank 22, 21, 21 with the three factions. I have sunk 3 Galleons and 2 Sloops solo. MY point is, therei s more to this game then just getting into a Sloop and sailing between destinations. You have to be observant, patient (which is impossible for many gamers), tactical, and understand the mechanics of both the sloop and Galleon.

For instance, if you are being chased by a Galleon, go into the wind. It will slow you down a bit but will turn the Galleon into a snail moving through tar. Learn to do the "carribbean drift" for sharp turns using the anchor. Outmaneuvering a Galleon is easy and they are screwed if you get shots off behind them since it takes a lot to turn the galleon around.

Another tactic I like using and works really good to repel boarders is to get some merchant quests that require you to trap snakes. cancel the quests out so you can have the snake traps to yourself. Place the snakes in the trap around your loot or by the ladders. Only music mesmerizes snakes so if a boarder tries to mez a snake simply shoot the hell out of them.

But anyway, this game is FAR from being unplayable solo or duo. Not to sound harsh but you are simply not good enough yet at suriving in this game. Practics makes perfect.

It's because solo Sloops like mine are constantly hunting Galleon's down and sinking them. So....they are a little unhappy about that.

Slooping alone is a c**p shoot. Any attempt to venture an island is likely to end in disaster. Going duo with a good pirate is OP. I don't know how you don't dominate your server in one. I took a brand new player in a sloop and took a fort with them.

Most of my playtime has been on a solo or duo sloop. My friend and I actually take on galleons because it's an interesting challenge.

But if you can't fight them, then run away. A sloop travels faster against the wind than a galleon can. It can also turn and maneuver faster as well.

Get the galleon in a headwind so they think they can catch up, then abruptly change course around an island and go against the wind. It will take the galleon a lot longer to get around that island than it'll take you and you'll outrun the galleon.

Sloops have just as many advantages as a galleon. If you can't hack it in a sloop, get yourself a bigger crew and a galleon.

I play almost exclusively solo or duo sloop. Been my ship of choice for as long as the sloop existed. In a duo sloop with 2 skilled players, a fortress takes about 15 minutes to clear and I've done it solo in about 30. Voyages are much faster and easier, and combat with gallies is mostly about clever escapes or bold maneuvering(and boom barrels). There are a LOT of places only a sloop can squeeze through, and each biome now has a big rock formation that galleons can rarely navigate(at full speed). The only reason I ever sail a galleon is when friends insist, and the only activity worth doing is fortresses and PVP. If my goal is voyages, I can earn about 4 times the gold on a sloop in the same time versus a galleon. Galleon is faster in a straight line, but takes too long to maneuver and operate. If I had one complaint about sloops, I feel they should be faster than a galleon, just based on weight, displacement, and sail ratios. Since that would be very unbalanced, maybe give sloops a grapeshot cannon mounted on the front with a 45 degree front firing angle. Grapeshot could temporarily shred sails, allowing the sloop to gain in a chase. I get very frustrated when a galleon just uses its speed to disappear over the horizon when running from my sloop. With the front angle, it would only be useful when chasing, and would not allow a sloop to just outrun a galleon in a straight line when fleeing.

@LordZorddan Please refrain from personally attacking other players, as it violates the Pirate Code. This would include name calling.

A general reminder to all, please keep disagreements civil, and avoid attacking other pirates personally. This is a heated topic, but keep the Code in mind!

Honestly I have watched people fill in the empty spot on my sloop after my mate goes offline, they will grab the wheel (excellent less work for me) but they will not check map, turn lanterns back on!, and when we finally get going after i've put us back on course, they are just relaxing( no problem, all easily remedied. )

But, never, have I ever seen someone join me that will adjust the sails to account for wind direction.

If you allow a Galleon to catch you, then you are doing something wrong, a Sloop is very nimble, always check ye lofty air streaks.

I've sailed plenty of times solo and most of the time, no issues. Only once did I come under fire from a ship and another time I was killed while AFK in a tavern--perfectly acceptable.

Heck, once (back in one of the stress tests), I was solo, came back to port with 3 chests and there were people there. They let me turn them ALL in without any sign of hostility.

That's not to say I like playing alone; I would prefer playing with people but most of the time I just don't get to--and I'm very picky on who I play with (sorry folks).

@lordzorddan said in The game is unplayable if u choose a solo or duo sloop. 😠:

Is there any reason that players from a bigger ship instantly want to sink a sloop when they see them?
Im starting to hate the game community.
For example in the 4 day that I play the game and was on plenty of server I only manage to find one frendly pirate. Why is this?
And please do something about the lag that happens when you fight with soneone that play on a pc.
Thanks!!!

The reason is they see them as an easy target.

I've never encountered a friendly galleon while in a sloop. However, the only time I've been caught off guard and sunk while anchored is when I was scouring a large island for a specific kind of chicken or pig. So... I don't do merchant missions anymore while soloing a sloop. They just take too long and keep your focus away from your ship.

That being said, I've never had a galleon sink me while digging up treasure or fighting skeletons. One of the biggest keys to being solo in a sloop is stick to the western side of the map, the islands are generally smaller and offer better views of the horizon. Same goes for the outposts on that side of the map. You don't have to circle them to tell if a ship is ported.

If you are on one of the larger islands in the west try to set anchor on the side away from a nearby outpost, so the island is between you and the outpost.

Always check for ships before you start to look and/or dig. If an outpost is closer than your next stop on a voyage, always drop off your treasure. Also, if it's you're having trouble locating the treasure, stop periodically and check the horizon.
If you haven't found the treasure, and you see a ship, temporarily abandon your search. If you already dug up the treasure and you see a ship approaching and you know you can't make it out in time, stash the treasure somewhere. They're probably just there to sink you and try to take what you have if they sink an empty ship, you can catch the mermaid and return to claim your treasure.

I've found I can generally run circles around a Galleon. So if they do change I just point in a heading with the wind and hit full sails. They generally give up relatively quickly after that.

I made 16k or so on a sloop in a couple hours yesterday.
90% of my play time is on a sloop.
Definitely not unplayable on a sloop.

The game does tell you it's going to be harder going on a sloop. Try matchmaking into a galleon instead?

There are lots of advices for solo sailing in these boards. If you have awareness is almost impossible that a galleon will jump on you with no way to avoid it.

Sail AGAINST the wind with a good management of sails trimming and any reasonable galleon crew will give up, as they don't really know if you have booty or is worthy. If they are stubborn and annoying for no reason and you have not booty travel to the out of bounds area or scuttle the ship. If you have booty set the course free of obstacles near a harbour, jump with your chest and use the mermaid to go back to your ship, rinse and repeat and scuttle when done.

They will learn that this game as any predator / prey thing, is about management of energy, time and resources.

Largely because it’s easy gold, when they get it. To much work hunting treasure or skulls and far to much work chasing chickens, its the lazy option

Despite being on record as not being a big fan of the non-consensual PvP, I would actually say that when I play on a sloop with another competent player, we don't have much trouble outmaneuvering a galleon. So much so that I'm quite happy taking one on in a fight.

Keep upwind, keep out of of their firing arcs if you can, get them in close to shore / rocks so you can maximise your turning advantages.

My beef with the non-consensual PvP is more around that solo / duo you have to be on maximum lookout and play very defensively, constantly, and that this isn't particularly fun. But in terms of combat with a galleon, I think it's fine.

@lordzorddan said in The game is unplayable if u choose a solo or duo sloop. 😠:

Is there any reason that players from a bigger ship instantly want to sink a sloop when they see them?

Sorry. That might be my fault. A friend and I like stocking up our sloop at forts and then spending time harassing the galleons. The galleons have a hard time maneuvering to hit us.

How are they sneaking up on you so easily? You can see the galleons a mile away. Especially at night since most crews don’t know to snuff the lamps on deck.

Man, if you can’t handle a sloop, dont choose a sloop.. that simple. Can’t say it’s unplayable, I just finished wreckig a galleon as a solo while they tried to take a stronghold.. 6 days after release and you expect to be godly. Get good, then come back and complain please..

@lordzorddan

If you go solo or in a 2 man sloop, cash in after every island if enemies are around.
Also check out Discord (search for "sea of thieves" and "discord" in google, you will find one. Good crews can be found there!

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When you're on a sloop you have to adapt and change your playstyle. For example, last night I was taking on a fort with a friend, and we were just in a sloop (yeah IKR XD). We spotted a galleon coming up to us, so we braced for a fight. Turns out they were offering to help, but we didn't trust them to not take everything once the fort fell, so we played strategically. Now we were trapped between them in a rock so obviously we sunk, no biggy. We respawn and wait for them to finish the fort that we had essentially already finished. Once they do we go in for the kill, utilizing our speed and agility to swerve right up next to the ship so my mate can jump off. He gets on board and grabs a random chest. Later we realize he had grabbed the stronghold chest. In the end, there was no way we were going to be able to get everything from that fort, but the fact that we made off with the most valuable treasure shows that sloops can still stick it to the big guys, they just need to play it smart. Also this was following after hours of my playing by myself without a single problem. I promise you it can be done. Is it sometimes harder with less reward? Yes. Does that sometimes make it more fun? I definitely think so.

Definitely playable. This weekend my boyfriend and I took a skull fort with a sloop and sunk another sloop and a galleon multiple times that both tried to come take it from us. Took down the NPC pirates, looted the whole thing and made off with the treasure.

Is it harder than with a galleon? Sure! But not impossible.

We also do a lot of our merchant missions on our sloop. Get in, get out, turn it in.

I am just gonna file this under "sucks to suck".

I sail mostly in a sloop because it's hard to bring more friends with me and a mate. It's very doable, especially because galleons are kinda grail. We usually park nice, I guard boat and scout for other ships/wrecks while my mate goes for mission. We also fight a lot and generally sail with around 4k+ gold in our cargo without fear, no1 challenges us :(. If you are disciplined you can be very succesful both in pve and pvp as duo.

Galleon encounters depend on size of crew and their coordination. 3 man is easy to sink but good 4s kinda impossible. Fortunately galleon crews also can't angle sails properly so running away is easy option