Make Everything Shorter

@d3adst1ck
Can’t tell if your serious or just trolling......🤔

Another millennial wanting things to happen faster because the old world is too slow for real time.

People living in a digital world with no idea of an analog existence. Like perhaps during the age of sail, when mankind had barely just circumnavigated the planet in wooden boats, powered by wind, and with no satellite navigation or Google.

Yeah, make things faster and have a grog.

Then I agree. Many times there is more tedium than reward.
For me the most fun is fighting skelly ships, but that's not solo content and randoms are a stretch given the prep required.
Why not keep the current experience for those with the resources, but add a single skellie ship that appears at random from anywhere on the map?

@clumsy-george your right mate

Just one AI galleon that can be engaged, instead of a Meg now and again.
Preferably with a captain/crew in a rowboat with or without loot, as the cursed ship sinks.

@imadeyoureadme

The problem though isn’t just that it’s time consuming. It’s time consuming in a way that’s boring and not engaging. That, and there’s no way to necessarily make progress without going the full way through and spending the extreme lengths of time that is necessary to make progression in this game. I hit legend and Athena 6 way long ago, so it wasn’t an issue for me, but the fact of the matter is that it’s poor design. Games are supposed to be fun.

The difference between Sea of Thieves and any other game, is that I can get lost in another game for hours and be like, “whoa time flew by!” But then on Sea of Thieves, 10 minutes in I’m like, “ha, nope. Nothing changed, still pointless to play.”

I'm fully on board with what D3ADST1CK is saying. There have been multiple times of late, where I think about spending some time on SoT, but decide against it precisely because I only have an hour or so.

Allowing Athena voyages to be split up would be helpful. Let's say you have to complete ten maps before the Legendary chest map pops up, but you can complete two maps in your first session, four in your second, and four in your third. On your fourth session, you lay down your Athena voyage and the first map is your Legendary Chest.

Also, if a legend only has a half hour to play and they want to buy a level 5 gold hoarders voyage, let them.

Non-wave enemies would greatly improve the experience in my opinion. Filling the forts up with several dozen skellies would be far more satisfying. Golds in the tower, shadows on the walls and cannons and overgrowns roaming within the walls. You could even give them a respawn timer like players, adding some urgency to the mission. Imagine the Skelly captain raising his arms to the sky and calling the bones of his defeated crew back together. Awesome.

Same with OoS island skeletons. Increase their number, mix them up so a three captain island has a Shadow, Gold and overgrown type roaming three different parts of the island: Maybe with eight or nine of each type. Twenty to thirty skellies roaming the island and the captains have a more limited version of the re-animate ability I mentioned above.

In parting, I will add the amount of bottle and scroll voyages that have been added recently is a help. If I only have a lunch hour to play on, I'll often just knock out a couple of these, precisely because their shorter, but it doesn't fully mitigate the problem.

You...you serious? Let me tell you a story boi, back in my day (referring to in-game I’m just a millennial) we had to grind hard to reach our goal of pirate legend. Forts were difficult not because of the ai but because all of us were scrambling over each other to get the treasure. Now, letter of recommendations, devils roar has increased gold, skeleton ships and skull forts are dead, you can finish one in under 10 min, and you can complete Athena’s voyages on your way to pirate legend so by the time you get there you are done Athena’s Rep.

Tl dr: This game has a good span of levelling that happens organically and how much you do in a session is dependent on how competent your crew is.

@d3adst1ck Voyages do not need to be fully completed fyi. The only thing you gain rep from is the items you sell. As for things like skeleton forts being difficult or long because of the waves...I complete all my skeleton forts (as long as my crew listens) in 10 minutes. Add 10 minutes to find and arrive at a skeleton fort, 5 to hit an outpost and sell and boom you’re in your time constraint. The voyages take as long as you make them take. Granted if you get voyages with islands scattered all over the place, best to reroll.

@d3adst1ck No not really because some people like to do longer voyages, the option is there to do the shorter voyages but also the longer ones. Athena’s will always be long because that reputation is meant to be the grindiest.

You can get on and play as you see fit, no issues with that, but it’s like complaining that a shooter game has 10 minute matches and you can only afford to play for 5 so you want them to shorten all the matches by 5 minutes.

There is realistically zero reason to complete a voyage unless you’re aiming for commendations which as a casual gamer you shouldn’t be concerned about anyway.

@d3adst1ck Sandbox game*

@d3adst1ck No but you’re excluding elements of a sandbox by calling it strictly a casual game. Point being is you gotta take a look at the community. Rare have a sandbox game that they can shape to meet the needs of the community, and they are doing just that.

The majority of players I run into are either pirate legend or very close to it and have no problems with the length of voyages, because they, like me, enjoy the grind aspect of the game. You prefer the casual side of sea of thieves, so you may enjoy moreso the little things in the game or the interactions you have with other players. Both play styles are perfectly valid in a sandbox game and neither one should take priority over the other.

Don’t expect the grindy aspect of the game, aka voyages to be changed to suit only your liking, because then it would not suit other people.

You can technically do whatever you want in sea of thieves, but if you want to experience the grind of sea of thieves, then do so and if you don’t like it, then stick to just sailing around and having fun. You gain nothing from grinding aside from being more efficient at rep and gold gain.

@D3ADST1CK I like the idea of breach mechanics to enter and take over a fort.

I think the pre-PL voyages are probably ok as they are for the types of voyages available. However, I think Rare needs to adjust the way the spawning of skeletons happens during voyages. At many times there are too many skeletons popping up over and over. It is like the spawning gets stuck in a chain and the waves do not stop. The waves can also have way too many guns and gunpowder barrels.

As most have posted in lots of threads volcano range needs to be shortened and the eruption frequency made less frequent.

Athena voyages need to be brokened apart and not served bundled with a bow on top. Allow PLs to select the voyages they want to sail from the available vendors. Once a set number of the combination has been completed, an Athena chest voyage can become available. The skeleton damage and health could also be reduced slightly to speed up the voyages at this level.

@d3adst1ck If all you’re asking for is another option to do a short voyage then that’s fine by me but it doesn’t make a difference. They can’t make you get as much gold as someone on a regular voyage so you will be netting the same if you started a regular voyage and hit one island and sailed back to an outpost.

The voyages aren’t going to be an effective means for you to achieve max rep and attain lots of gold if that’s what you want, and you. Can do any voyage and halfway terminate it to sell the loot you got. The sole difference is the voyage commendation counter which should not be something a casual player is concerned with.

@rakan-le-rouge

Yes we need to have more things to do on the open sea. Fishing and cooking is a given. However, I also hope we can still fish anywhere and cook on campfires on the islands.

Would be nice to have dice to gamble with your crew. Dueling and shooting fruit off your mates’ heads would provide lots of laughs and fun.

Could even come up with a shuffle board game using the skulls we collect. : )

@d3adst1ck So mostly I would assume its the Athenas more than anything that would be a problem for you, since they need to be completed to get to the legend chest. Otherwise what does it matter if you actually finish the voyage or not? You get the rep and gold still for whatever you complete. I will agree maybe how the athenas are done might need tweaking but even doing them you can do speed run versions if your just after the legend chest anyway in an hour or two (with competent crews anyway). I'm just not sure what your looking for I guess other than if your going after commendations for completing the voyages.
EDIT: and while the skelly ships take a bit longer, I've done solo runs of forts in less than 30 minutes so they are definitely doable in your time frame assuming you don't have to fight for it.