We seriously need some kind of punishment for toxic behavior in this game. the whole excuse of "its a pirate game" doesn't cut it. it doesn't excuse players kegging their own ships or setting it on fire the second the vault opens.
it doesn't cover sinking players with 0 treasure just doing tall tails saying they can have what ever they want on their ship. sinking them and the hunting them down on the island and killing them before they can even find and read the journal they're looking for.
It doesn't cover players who sink you and don't even collect your treasure so it despawns and you have no chance of even getting it back. people play this game like its just death match. Also every game has hackers. In this game they're especially focused on these behaviors.
It doesn't cover players who die on purpose and use a controller to spin in a circle in the death boat so they get free treasure....
It doesn't cover 4 people teaming up on a solo slooper and not even sinking his ship. just have all 4 on the ship spawn killing them over and over while all screaming in there mics forcing you to mute them but only after they've already hurt you're ears. making you scuttle the ship because they wont leave or damage it....
These people don't know how to play. By that I don't mean this game. I mean Play in general with other people.... they don't know how to have fun and games with people. There's a million games from video to board where the goal IS to screw over the person next to you. But it's done in a friendly manner. The kids on these ships DO NOT have a healthy mind set and are 100% doing everything for pure malicious purposes to try and hurt the PEOPLE playing. because the fun isn't in them winning but the suffering they inflict on others.
I got put into a Chinese server once and it made my head tilt.... They board each others ship and talk first. see if they want to engage or not and regardless of the outcome the person who boarded then loads them self into a cannon and goes back to there ship and they go forward with what ever they planned. EVEN THE REAPERS DO THIS. you often have 2-3 ships at port together... when we showed up and there was two other ships my chinese crew mate was unfazed and told me not to load the cannons. when i got shot by a player's sniper rifle he yelled at him and asked him "what do you think you're doing?!" the player apologized and dropped 2 chests of the damned on the dock said that was for us and sailed off. this all happened before i could pull out my own sniper rifle and return fire. Another time a reaper boarded us and my crew mate told them we were just doing tall tails and didn't have treasure. the reaper then asked if I wanted the party sword and helped me get it. This was such a shock to me because the north american servers are toxic by AVERAGE. not by exception....
If someone is ACTUALLY bad at the game they probably will lose interest. for the average player tho its gonna be win some lose some, but if every time you lose it's that much a toxic experience that will push players out of the community. more so if you're "losing" to your own crew mate who wants to sink the ship. it will ultimately kill the game.
My best suggestion. because it's is mostly kid's and teens acting like this. have a "report to parent" feature. have a ticket go to xbox first and its not false the kid is saying hateful things and acting toxic in general to then forward those messages and voice chats to the parents. Irregardless of the motivations of the game that behavior is completely unacceptable. It might even have a great benefit of parents getting a sneak peak in their childs behavior when they're not around.... Because I think we have ALL played with that one 8 year old kid who's parent should really be supervising him better based on how they talk and act. Remember if we don't fix childrens behavior now. they grow up with it and then we're stuck with them like that as adults. Best case scenario they go to jail because its so unacceptable. worst case they plague humanity with their behavior for the next 60-70 years....