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Well you are blocked. Hope you're able to see this at least. Two other people posted in the last couple of hours but let's single out the one with a profile picture of a girl.

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@Deckhands

Be wary of all on the seas. Sailors can't be trusted.

For a more peaceful time, join a discord crew as they do server wide alliances which makes it very peaceful (and boring).

I have seen both the bad side and the good side of the Alliance system.
The Good side is, i have had many alliances when i have done merchant quests and they did the same. Wich means in the end faster REP and lvling.
I have also tried alot of alliances when me and my crew were on a Skeletonfort and we helped each other and split the loot.

On the bad side. i have tried where an alliance was formed.
The person from the other ship entered my ship and started talking and made jokes while crawling up in the crows nest.
The second i saw he went on top. i knew what was gonna happen!
He jump off with an explosive barrel and exploded on my ship!
Funny enough, i had seen it comming so i was off the ship befor it happend, i went on my ship and saved it and canceled the alliance.
Didn't lose any loot or anything it's just so... frustrating... and annoying... to see people ABUSE such system.

@vexed-anemone I hate this. Happens all the time. And then when you're on xbox they dont show up in your recent players so you cant report them. So many people use the alliance as bait to lull you into false security and then attack you for the loot when your not watching them. I get this is a 'pirate game' but that doesn't give you an excuse to be a jerk to another players and ruin their experience. This system seriously needs to be fixed.

I'm tired of people offering or joining someones alliance only for them to steal your stuff when they see you're at an outpost. They're going to get a cut of it the only reason is to kill me then leave the alliance and then get it all for themselves. Then they say their PL and they have nothing better to do. That's great that you finished the games how about you not ruin it for others so they can enjoy it like you did.
What the point of it if people can attack you while they're in it (it gives them such an advantage to know where you are and to have an idea what you're doing). And if they leave the alliance they should forced to leave the server so they cant just leave and then attack you for you're stuff. If you want to pvp do it the right way. It's called the reapers mark. This is a game. You don't need to be jerks to other players just because it's a 'pirate game'.

@augunslingin said in Alliance System: The End:

No alliance or pre-alliances. It’s really that simple. This issue stemmed from the whole big treasure load fad. I have no idea why Rare implemented this style of play into actual game dynamics. Were pirates all buddy buddy on the seas? Get real.

Multiple crews joined equals less skill and more trolling. Pirates don’t share. What happened to #BeMorePirate? SoT is currently #(ELE)EverybodyLoveEverybody

My point isn’t the single experience either, it’s the potential for disaster I am focused on.

Any alliance - formed when starting or during an event - could be permanent during and for two hours after an event finished.

Not only would that allow lots of PVP/loot selling time, it would make alliance loot distribution more probable as people would actually want to turn loot in, rather than run away for two hours.

@augunslingin L**O

No alliance or pre-alliances. It’s really that simple. This issue stemmed from the whole big treasure load fad. I have no idea why Rare implemented this style of play into actual game dynamics. Were pirates all buddy buddy on the seas? Get real.

Multiple crews joined equals less skill and more trolling. Pirates don’t share. What happened to #BeMorePirate? SoT is currently #(ELE)EverybodyLoveEverybody

My point isn’t the single experience either, it’s the potential for disaster I am focused on.

Our brig was just letting the water rise on the final Skeleton boat when a galleon rolled in, joined the alliance (whatever, I'm fine with that), then sunk us to grab all the loot and disband the alliance.

I was a little surprised there was no timer in place at the end of the event, but I guess Rare didn't see any worth in making alliances count for anything.

Clearly they prefer people to #BeMorePri.. than #BeMorePirate.

I can see this causing a lot of ill-feeling and I really expect the crossplay/hacking/unfair conversations to fire up again.
Sigh.

Sorry to hear you had a bad experience. My alliance of two brigs and a sloop ended up teaming up with another alliance of a brig and a sloop, and ended up splitting the loot. Was there some arguing about the split? Yes, of course there was. Had to threaten to fire on several of my allies just to get them to hush up and then promise to make it up to them with a gold hoarders haul. But we managed to hold our peace until all the loot was turned in, we then partied in the tavern and each sailed off for the night.

@ixxolos

In fact , last time I got a crew to do merchant everyone ended up getting bored and we all ended up finding ways to kill each other... Hot potato with gun powder barrels chasing one another with snakes and locking different people in the brig drowning them lol... It ended up actually glitching out on us and putting the entire crew in the brig 😂 it was fun.. but def didn't get much merchant done

@ixxolos
Hopefully you have a better experience today! Because it really can be fun! I agree hopping servers is insanely annoying !!

Pardon me, I should had said most of everyone gets annoyed with merchant it's just not as fun to a lot of people . I'd love to be able to find someone to help with merchant. But I never can. I actually like the gold hoarders some of the riddles I can agree are annoying and sometimes have horrible hints... I am getting better at them tho.. there has only been a few x marks the spots I've had problems with but I can't remember which island that was off hand. Normally before getting off the boat I double check the map on the boat for exact location of docking pull out my compass and we have a nice competition on who can find it first.

The most annoying of the riddles is the placement for some things... Like once we had to shine the lantern and we did so several times in the same spot... But not the " precise spot" that I guess between four of us some how didn't get in the exact spot between the stupid fish rocks lol.

@ghostpaw Now I want a pet turtle. Ships cat bedamned, I want a pet turtle that can function as a spare cannon ball if my pockets are empty during a scrap.

@pereraaa
I think that's a great idea!! I wish they'd also allow us to have more people on a server so we could have at least more then four working on what we need to work on together. Or possibly a bigger ship if that's possible lol.

I wish they'd also make wood planks crates ... Banana crates and cannon ball crates are hard enough to find .. yes .... Butttt.... If they'd make it purchasable at the merchant I'd even pay 200 gold for them lol only because of the fact that they don't offer wooden planks on the skele ships . Which I don't understand... And barrels are far and few bewteen.... We actually had a brig sailing back with some of our crew mates off the galleon helping the brig bucket water bc they were out of wood planks and we had like five lol so anyways they bailed and our crew mates ran the ship and went to the nearest island to catch up on some wooden planks and once they had been stocked and loaded .... Is when the glitch happened we weren't sure if they weren't there that theyd get the achievement so we tried to hold off a bit on the boss and booya a huge glitch by the time they made it back so we couldn't finish lol go figure.

@boxcar-squidy said in Alliance System: The End:

@jonaldinho Human nature. Some people will never miss an opportunity to screw over another human being even if they gain nothing from it. To them the pleasure of knowing that their actions have negatively impacted upon the lived experience of another human being is reward enough. In the UK they call them Politicians, but they exist in all cultures and societies.

Yep. A small number of people will go out of thier way to cause harm for no benefit.

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Have to say my initial experience with the new alliance system thus far has been rather weak to say the least.
Due in part to not a single Alliance being either accepted or offered from others left myself hunting the Cursed Sails campaign solo after finding nothing but getting insta briged and or asked to leave in random crews.

This lead to nothing but server hopping and countless battles with groups of other ships (most screaming with the speaking trumpet words to the effect of "You have to die, now give us the ship we need it for another crew of friends we want in our alliance") and an all together painful 5 hours sailing trying to speak to NPC's and find the quest items all the while being either chased, sunk and screamed at or all at once (probably my own fault here for being stubborn and sticking it out solo in a sloop but hey that's mainly how this Pirate sails)

I'll see how this evening fares but i suspect i'll be back to my chicken, pig and snake catching to earn some good coin soon enough and trying my luck in pre made crews for the actual Cursed Sails Skellie ship hunting.

@m0ther0fall3vil said in Alliance System: The End:
I hate doing merchant, it makes me feel like a bit of a cheater lol but no one likes merchant votages let's just admit that lol.

I beg to differ fellow Pirate, i really enjoy my Merchant voyages my gripe is with the Gold Hoarders. I just can't get into the "X" marks the spot fun, Riddles are a good giggle but i suspect most dislike them.

@m0ther0fall3vil Yeah! I even suggested once that Rare should make more events like gunpowder skeletons but to the others trading companies to inspire us to do those assignments. GS brought so much fun to OoS missions.

Last night I had 3 Brigs (a 4th joined up later) and a sloop, we fought and defeated the Skeleton ships. Afterwards took a group picture then had drinks at the tavern. I wouldn't let the bad eggs spoil the fun and benefits of this new alliance system. That being said, always keep your guard up and keep sailing.

@pereraaa

Yes!!!! Excetp I usually waste my Doubloons on leveling up my merchant 😂😂 I hate doing merchant, it makes me feel like a bit of a cheater lol but no one likes merchant votages let's just admit that lol. Skele is where all the funs at!! I love the added gun powder barrels too... Even tho I die a lot from skele sneaking up on me with them lol... It's entertaining to see how many times you can die on one island or how many you can kill in a row after luring them lol.

@m0ther0fall3vil Exactly my friend! During the campaigns and events I'm all about getting doubloons for the new cosmetics, achieving commendations and having fun to it's maximum, passing that I get back to do assignments and other stuff.

@l-mrmoonlight-l
Yeah agree... And in sot there is always a chance of bad experience lol.

you had a bad experience we had 5 Brigs 15 people on skelly ships It was an amazing night took down 20 ships.
We dueled played & hot potato Last night in the Pub