Ooooh, i love this Topic. i really do. We always play Friendly, we appraoch people in a Friendly way, we keep somebody close to the canon since our Friendly hails don't always get replied in a Friendly way...We sometimes play a big Athena quest or we just set out at Sea and see where the random bottles or parchment in barrels is going to take us.
The crew i play with has reached Legend status some time ago and we all come back to play SOT just because of the fun it gives us.
i have to admit that i come back because i'm addicted to my Friends and i'm addicted to the whole Sea of Thieves concept...i absolutely adore to be part of a crew without being the leader. i can play purely for the fun of sailing , for hearing the water clutch against the bow , to see that water splash over the ship when bigger waves hit us...i can completely dream away by the sunsets or sundown that are so beautifully depicted on our screens...
i don't roleplay , except as George Vane , the Brother of Charles appear...i like to play with accents too, and have pulled people leg's by telling them i come from Russia , India , South of USA and so on and on...But not to make them ridiculous , i gooff around and the only person i totally mock is myself...We have left many people behind with a smile because my sidekick Mr Jay4dio knows perfectly how he can guide me into Gooffmode...
My utter joy comes from hearing other people laugh....SOT is a strange but very powerful game in regaining confidense in yerself...Many years have i said no words, because in many other games my heavy accent acted like red cloth on a bull. Ever since the first Alpha , SOT was different , it's like that people like ,or let my accent live along with their language...It's very rare that i get shot down for my accent or voice...Therefore i regained the dare to speak again...i can tell you one thing : This kind of acceptance is a healer for me, and it drags the real me finally out of a dark mental cave...It has also given me an inner task: i want that people ,Friend or " Enemy" have fun, i want to hear them laugh ...Sure they may say that i'm an idiot or silly, i don't care ,as long as they laugh then i'm the happiest pirate of many Seas...
Even if we get attacked and we get sunk in an honest way then i simply don't care ...Becoming Legend liberates you from looking at yer levels , really ,i thought that if i would reach Legend ,then my gameplay would suffer because i have nothing " to look forward too". That was a real fear because i don't want to get fed up with this game...
Well, i have said countless ( * Really, the nag is not excagurating , it was COUNTLESS times ...sigh...moron) times that there is Magic in this game and after becoming Legend ,with fear of losing the will to play , the game opened up a new layer for me...Total Freedom...i don't have to play anymore , i just play because i want to, maybe need to , because it simply makes me happy...
What i also keep true is to play fair , i mean that if we get attacked and we beat the other ones ,we withdraw from spawncamping...There is nothing that spoils a person's game as hard as cheating or spawncamping...i like to give them an honest chance to come back from a lost position and since i'm an old fool ( * You got that right , dumbo) ,i mostly end up shot because the person was faster than me...And i don't care ...i feel somekind of hidden duty and respect that my "enemy" must have an honest chance...
Now , am i the Saint of the Sea ? Hahahahah, no , sometimes ,very rarely , i feel the need to blow up a boat...i absolutely love diving under the surface with a boom boom in the hand and blow up a boat...The intense struggle to supress my gigling before the keg set's off is just such fun...The burst of laughter and childish prank fun is really a summit in unleasing pure joy...But , i don't follow the fight up, i mean i let people run towards the ship and repair it ...After that we are garanteed to become involved in a chase ,wich we adore ...But we do that rarely, mostly we set out to come across and help where we can , we throw alliances around like flyers and we hope we can get people closer towards their Legend status in the hope that they may experience the relief and beyond the Legend status...
We just want that people can enjoy this game...We hardly steal a thing, and we rather help clean out a Fortress in company of an other crew then have to do it alone...The negotiations , if we decide to do that because sometimes we give away the whole loot, is something so educating...You learn so much from people by interacting with them....
Most Xbox multiplayers are about shooting ,racing, or being constantly focussed ..Sea of Thieves has moments that pure tranquility take master of yer being...Those graphics , that Sea that lives and sometimes hypnotizes you, those funny cartoony characters and most importantly the individual traits a person has can bring me in an utmost happy state...
i sometimes wonder , is there any game more beautiful than this one? i sit totally cosy in my sofa , my eyes are surrounded by a world i really would love to live in and i'm surrounded by Friends or friendly random crewmembers ...Is there any better game ? Yes ? And does it have a living Sea and great Sun up and downs? No? then you may keep it , i stay here in wich i never have been happier before...