look at this post https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/60887/order-of-souls-second-journey-type-suggestion

i was speaking with a Rare employee on their sloop (was lucky enough to get into one on a server jump with the pretty sails) the guy I was playing with said this is a thought and there is lots talking about it within the company, all he said is we will have to see if this happens (so yes rare are thinking and its possible maybe)

@triheadedmonkey said in NPC SHIPS:

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@StrawyCascade00 hope this can ease you eager for truth...
And no I not remember it wrongly.. I know exactly what they said...
They said this is a shared world and every Ship we are able to see and encounter is a ship with other players and that was the reason why there won't be NPC ships.

@nunoazuldimeter said in NPC SHIPS:

And why would you want a recent reference.. people need to say the same time over And over to make it be true?

No, but a more recent refrence will mean more than saying that you read about it a long while ago in a Q&A, and more so if you can't remember it clearly. For all you know, you could be remembering it wrong. And again, i have seen other people who have said the opposite of what you are saying.

If you want this to be ended once and for all, you need to have real proff that Rare have said something like "we will not add NPC ships, not now or ever."

@strawycascade00 but I surely think it was a Q&A session..

@strawycascade00 said in NPC SHIPS:

@nunoazuldimeter could you give some recent refrence to the Devs saying that this will never happen? because i have heard different things on this. Some saying that Rare have said no, while others have said that Rare have been thinking about it.

I'm on this for about 2 year.. checked every single Devs video on YouTube, every inn-side history.. my memory isn't that great enough to tell you exactly where it has been said..

And why would you want a recent reference.. people need to say the same time over And over to make it be true?

@nunoazuldimeter could you give some recent refrence to the Devs saying that this will never happen? because i have heard different things on this. Some saying that Rare have said no, while others have said that Rare have been thinking about it.

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@nunoazuldimeter said in NPC SHIPS:

@kaydence
THIS
WON'T
HAPPEN
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why are you yelling? tc is just saying something they'd like to see. i would as well, and i honestly can't imagine why someone wouldn't want this in the game. whether it ever shows up is on rare, but they'll never know what tickles our fancy if we don't voice it.

Never said I wouldn't want this to happen.. Rare did.. and no many have raised this subject, regardless of what the Devs (people who made this and had the main idea for this and we often forget about they are the people who decides what is to come and what isn't) said.. and that was in this game the only ships (Galleons and Sloops) we would be able to encounter roaming the seas were player's ships. That way we would clearly know there was another crew there. Of players like us.

@nunoazuldimeter said in NPC SHIPS:

@kaydence
THIS
WON'T
HAPPEN
....

why are you yelling? tc is just saying something they'd like to see. i would as well, and i honestly can't imagine why someone wouldn't want this in the game. whether it ever shows up is on rare, but they'll never know what tickles our fancy if we don't voice it.

@kaydence
THIS
WON'T
HAPPEN
....

Following the rumors, The most likely you'll have is a ghost, stationary ship to work as fort..

The hungering deep shark should be an example of the camaraderie of playing together against a mutual foe and NPC ships can be this as well at a smaller scale.

I was literally talking about this with some crew members last night! It would pretty epic, like if the keeps or strongholds had a ship off shore defending it, NPC ships have so much potential, ranging from easy to gawd mode, just don't over do it, I still wanna see more people actually playing an not a bunch of npc on the game

to me it is amazing this wasn't in at launch, or at least discussed as coming soon. i could think of nothing more fun, short of a contested fort or some pvp ship fights, than working as a crew to take down a well defended ai ship. they could even make especially tough one that required most pirates to team up to take it down.
the real blast would come when a second or third human controlled ship joined the fray, either in pvp or pve. things would get dicey.