@jedimasterfraze said in Alliance name tag colors:
@xultanis-dragon "Hi I'm a pro player who can remember everyone's super long gamertags within a matter of seconds and when I sail around the Sea of Thieves and crash into two boats I can tell exactly which 4 people are on my team and which 4 people are the enemy. Also, everyone in my alliance also has a photographic memory so that we never accidentally kill the wrong person."
Seems legitimate...
"Hi I'm a bad player who just assumes that everything should be done for me because I'm allergic to effort."
I don't make alliances. On the rare chance that I do I meet the whole crew, I don't just sail by, hoist and flag, and then sail off. I put work (I know a hard concept to learn but you should figure it out) into finding out who is in my alliance. After I figure out who they are I let them know a simple rule. We won't go on their boat unless they ask, we won't let them on our boat unless we ask. Guess how often I've had problems with sabotage on my boat. ZERO.
What about the ships that join the alliance from the other ships? Guess what? Same rules apply. We don't trust them. They do not come near our boat, they don't climb our ladder.
My ship gets kegged? We kill any white name trying to climb up our ladder. When my ship is being put into a defensive position we kill anything that has a white name, I don't even care if I know the name from my "photographic" memory. The only people I trust is my crew.
I think the "you don't know how to attack" point is garbage. It's hard enough trying to remember my friend's gamertags sometimes and being expected to remember 4 new people's gamertags after only playing with them for a few minutes is a big stretch. I've been in a fight before with two people with Boba_Fett in their username and only a few different numbers, so I had to kill them both because I didn't know who was who.
@PDT-Mindstream was right I meant "who" to attack not "how" to attack. Corrected it. For you though I'll just assume you don't know how to attack either.
Where you killed both guys named Boba_Fett. GREAT. Thats what you are suppose to do. When everyones dead you can tell the guy. "Hey I'm sorry I just wasn't sure so I had to play it safe." I've never had anyone get angry over that.
Not everyone wants to spend time staring at other people's outfits and trying to remember their gamertags. We just want to play the game. Simply changing allied player's gamertag colours is much easier and isn't too difficult for the devs to do. Why you would disagree with changing allied player's gamertag colours is completely beyond me. And "not knowing how to attack" has nothing to do with getting confused over who is on your team and who isn't.
"Not everyone wants to spend time staring at other people's outfits and trying to remember their gamertags" - So you want to be lazy? You deserve to lose your loot if your alliance gets sabotaged.
The reason why they should never change it is this game is based around Thievery and cunning. You get good at doing it and defending against it. Its suppose to be a game where sometimes its a battle of wits over anything else but you don't want that. There's suppose to be a downside to everything and being weary if the guy climbing your boat is part of your alliance or not is one of the downsides.
"We just want to play the game." No you want to play a completely different game obviously. You want Sea of Friends. Go find it or make it.
@jedimasterfraze said in Alliance name tag colors:
@pdt-mindstream Your points are good but my main issue is that if someone gets off of SoT and a new player joins, and they aren't aware of the alliance, they could start killing people in the alliance because they haven't checked with the other players first and they don't have blue nametags to show they are friendly. Also, when versing full Pirate Legend crews, they usually have their purple and gold attire or ghost clothes which make it harder to differentiate who is who in battle.
Aren't aware of an alliance? If someone joins your ship you let them know hey we have an alliance going. If you fail to mention that and the guy goes on the killing spree than you need to be better at relaying information. Its suppose to make it harder to differentiate who is who. Learn and adapt.
