More than four hours of experience with Sea of Thieves...

@clumsy-george That is no problem, we play with everyone who can say "Guten Tag", "Achtung" und "Kaputt". In discord and LFG asking for german contributers does not mean that we are looking for Germans, only people who can talk to us in German. You know, the game has a lot to do with language. I like to watch english videos of crews with a sense of humor, who give the game its own funny story. My English is not good enough to do that and be part of it. I'm the one spoiling the party because I won't understand the joke ad hoc. I will potentially execute ironic orders as serious, laughingly ignoring serious commands. When you laugh, I wonder, when I laugh, you throw me in prison because you think I'm crazy. :)
I can do that in German. It's incredibly much more fun to play the game in your mother tongue - or a foreign language you're very good at. The last time I spoke my English was at school or on holiday. My accent, as I am told, is pronounced and somewhat unpleasant to some. When I am at vacancies in Wales, they think I was from Leicester. Or dutch. Some of you will know, what I mean. (Greatings to Wales and Leicester, by the way, and of course to the Netherlands). Be that as it may.

The other day I drove a few hours with a boy from Canada. After some time a harmless insult word slipped out of me (Bombengranatenelementplitzplotzdonnerwettersappramentnochmal!!). He laughed, he was at a German school and knew the movie my word was from, we could also speak German. Then we spoke a mixture, he didn't knew every word in German, I didn't knew every word in English. Functioned well and was funny.

I sailed with a crew mix of russians and italians, we tried to meet in english, it was a mess.

@qtrmaster-zeta sagte in More than four hours of experience with Sea of Thieves...:

Sorry that happened. If you need a crew mate to sail for Athena's when you have'best conditions' let me know. I just did an Athena Halloween night in devils roar solo in 2 hours.

Congrats. I tried yesterday, found empty discard and lfg, startet random, quit, started athena solo, began my first riddle. Met another girl doing solo sloop, offered alliance which was ignored, gave her some chests I found starting my riddle, and helped her solving her riddle, then she sunk my ship. Restarted to be chased by a brigantine, had one hour fun tricking them. Was in need to visit the bath and scuttled my ship. Restarted again and sorted my orders.
My router demanded to do some critical updates at once and I had to quit.

Have not finished athenas since two or three weeks, or so.

@marsmayflower sagte in More than four hours of experience with Sea of Thieves...:

@goedecke-michel we're arguing?

No, we're not.

Oops, sounds like you hadn't done the proper preparation for a night of Athenas, I have created this guide for people in your exact position!

https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/74791/managing-your-crew-mates-as-a-resource-building-a-better-crew

That being said, I don't understand why people consistently get such bad luck with crews, took me two starts to find a good crew to complete a DR Athena with last night.

@qtrmaster-zeta sagte in More than four hours of experience with Sea of Thieves...:

@goedecke-michel lol sometimes we get bad days in Sea of Thieves (aka clown attack from last dev stream).

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Yeah, the clown attack was bad. I hoped that the developers would realize that this constant jumping had to be stopped technically, so that a jumper gets out of breath after a few jumps, the jumps get smaller, you can no longer aim calmly because of heavy breathing... But no. They found it enormously funny, I was surprised.

@eelporridge sagte in More than four hours of experience with Sea of Thieves...:

Oops, sounds like you hadn't done the proper preparation for a night of Athenas, I have created this guide for people in your exact position!

I have to smile, no, that's not my exact position: My friends list in the Xbox is long, I'm not an online troll, but hardly anyone of my friends plays Sea Ot Thieves anymore. We aged together, everyone is now legendary, not everyone knows what to do with it.

It's no problem to find a crew with a little effort. I'll summarize my arguments from the discussion, if you don't mind, so you don't have to read everything:

Discord and group search of the Xbox are only third-party tools. Although I can contact people using those tools, this happens outside the game, which leads to some awkward consequences. Therefore, further steps follow - I list them alltogether, as I remember them, wether they partly only apply to Discord, group search or both:

• Start a query or Find a query
• Notice many discord or group searches are orphaned because they just forgot to delete them hours ago, many members are offline or busy doing other stuff.
• Waiting for feedback or invitation
• Search the corresponding X-Box account of the interested person
• In order to invite it, you need to add the account to your friends (and maybe delete it later if it was not a friendly contact)
• Starts the game on everyone without any problems, or someone has forgotten the update
• Due to the system of group search I start in a party, but prefer gamechat, so have to argue first fo do that
• In case of Discord you will have to tell and make clear you can not communicate by Discord channels, as you can only have xbox party or gamechat. (Don't know about pc's, I guess they can).

They're all breaks to me. I want to immerse myself in the game as quickly and uncomplicatedly as possible.

• How easier would it be to have a solution in the game? Just the fact that active people are and still are in the lobby would show that they have started the game and want to play it, now.

The effort by Discord and Co is higher, a shift of the crew selection into the game itself would be much easier and in my opinion highly desirable.

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@dmxbox Danke sehr. Nach einem Leiterunfall und Treppensturz bin ich noch etwas ausser Gefecht, würde mich aber natürlich freuen, meinen SoTspielenden Freundeskreis wieder zu vergrößern - der von Fünfzehn auf nunmehr statistische Einskommafünf geschrumpft ist. Zwischenzeitlich kommen immer wieder ein paar dazu, doch sie spielen nicht so lange, möchten mich aber gerne zu anderen Spielen überreden. Doch auf der Xbox wirst Du mich nicht finden, mein männliches Alter-Ego in der Box ist "Moo Crumpus". :)

Bei Interesse, schick mir doch bitte die Gamertags von Dir / Euch, da könnte ich meine Liste schon verlängern. Solltet ihr streamen, während ich ds Krankenlager hüte, wäre das natürlich schön ... aber nicht zu verlangen. :)

@dmxbox Feine Sache!