So, as a new player, sometimes you are forced into pvp, and sometimes it isn't a bad thing but sometimes it's just harassment. Bare with me there is a story to explain my point.
Last night, we were harassed by someone that was solo slooping with over 1200 hours on the game. Between us, we barely have 2.
As soon as we seen this guy heading for us, we set sails and took off. 5 minutes of chasing before a single shot was fired (from the sloop) you would think we aren't interested in pvp, not to mention he could hear that we weren't.
He eventually caught us due to inexperience and almost accidently sailing off the map and having to turn back into him... We got sunk, he boarded and killed us all.
Now normally, pvp is fine, being forced into is fine... (although we hate it) Posting a video online of your achievement of destroying a bunch of new players, and then linking them the video, that's harassment.
But it didn't end there, he found us while we beached, island hopping to try and get back some kind of loot.
With one player on our ship as look out... (who wasn't quite looking out, but was looking at the video linked to us, of us getting destroyed) (another question is how come he could hear us from so far away without the speaker thing, it gave him a big advantage in the chase) he came back and sunk and killed us again.
But why? At this stage he knows we have nothing and he knows he can kill us, where is the point or challenge?
He was laughing the whole time, which is insulting
We personally feel like he found us as an easy target, so he attacked us again, we haven't even figured out controls properly. We struggle to kill a skelysloop in a galley.
We understand learning about pvp and the best way to just doing it but... You aren't going to learn by just getting dominated, sometimes the skill gap is too large.
-- My suggestion. Survers that link you with players with closely matching experience and/or hours in the game.--
Last night being forced into pvp, then humiliated online makes us not want to play a game we immediately fell in love with.