So, last night I was out sailing with two of my best mates. We had been sailing for a while and as happens when playing for hours, my mates needed a break for various reasons. While they were afk and subsequently disconnected from the game, I came across a galleon and sloop at an outpost. They were clearly working together as before this I saw them at the skelly ships. Knowing that they were willing to work together I figured why not see if we can't expand that alliance for the benefit of all. So I approached, with caution, at half speed to make sure they didn't feel threatened. When I got there, several of them boarded my ship. At first all was good. They saw that I was a legend and began asking me to give them some voyages (any legend voyage since we weren't sure if the athena had been fixed yet). I said sure, it only benefits us all anyways since we were now in an alliance. One of them asked me to friend them in case we needed to communicate over distance. I saw no harm in that so we friended. Now is when things go sideways, and I am not sure how I feel about this. Part of me is upset at what happens next, and part of me is wondering if this is the pirate thing to do. Anyways, that person then joins my game/crew without asking me. I explained to them that they needed to go back to their ship as my friends were coming back soon. They wouldn't leave. Instead kept asking me to drop legend quests. I told them once they leave the ship I would do so, but not until then. I happen to notice one of the other crew climbing my mast, I told them to stop but it was too late. They dropped gun powder on the deck and blew up my ship, costing me my time stocking my ship. At the new ship, that player was still there, and would not leave the crew, in fact they brought another of their friends in game and put me in the brig. What now, I have been hijacked. They began berating me with insults and told me to give them my ship. They were taking over the server so the ship was now theirs.
Well, I am very stubborn. So, instead, I put some loud music on, at first love songs, then hip hop, then to jazz and blasted it over my mic. They couldn't figure out how to mute me at first, so I was interrupting their communication and making it impossible for them to sneak up on anyone else. They sunk the ship again with me in the brig, but again I didn't leave. They brought others on-board to kill me while in the brig. I just kept going from death ship to the brig, sometimes hanging out at the death ship. All the while barely able to hear them throw my loud music as they through insults at me and even message me in xbox app that I needed to leave. Sorry, but this is still my ship. After about half an hour of this, they realized I wasn't going to leave and unless they wanted me getting credit for anything they did, they were not going to get my ship. Along the way they got another ship from someone, a sloop. Not sure how they accomplished it, as they don't seem the type to bribe people. But they got another ship and left my ship. Just in time for my friends to be ready to rejoin.
Funny thing is, I was still in their alliance. They never thought to remove us from the alliance. So now we knew where they were at. They went to a skull fort and at first, we were going to go there and sink them (they had two sloops). But then I thought, why not let them do all the work while we continue on our OoS stuff for the commendations. If they don't notice us still in the alliance, we will simply gain profits off them for my time wasted. Sure enough, they finally defeated the skull fort and sold. Profits in hand, and not selling anything of ours we watched them. They went after a ship with the reapers mark. So we sailed in, and helped the other brig (with the mark) sink them. And they kept coming back, and we kept sinking them and sending them to the death ship. After three tries they realized we were still in the alliance and dissolved it. But we knew their last location. So we set off again, but this time allowed them to stock their ship. Once they set sail, we approached and sunk them again, making up for my sunken, stocked ship.
So after all that, was justice served? Did we grieve the grievers? What do you think of their actions. Was it a pirate move, or were they grieving and should this type of action be banned? Was our response appropriate?
