Please add friendly servers

@spikeynator The Tall Tales are of a different matter, but removing PvP doesn't fix something like that. Barrels will still kill, so would blunderbombs and firebombs. There's so nothing short of private, single player servers that would fix that entirely.

And as I understand it, private servers are never going to be a thing outside of those silly alliance servers.

@sgtsniper887 You have to understand that such a player doesn't know what you're doing or what you have. Maybe he thinks you're turning in loot, and is trying to get a piece of that pie.

You can't blame a player for attacking you.

@a-few-moose Agreed a friendly server would be excellent. If they don't do that then anyone in an alliance that attacks and kills another player in the alliance should have a 30 minute penalty from playing the game. There after all should be honor among thieves or else why bother? It really does suck to work for 2 hours on a quest only to be hit by a random pvp player to end your quest to have to start it all over again and with the new update coming it is only going to get worse.

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@sgtsniper887 said in Please add friendly servers:

Not nice doing a normal adventure with your crew fending off megs, kraken and skullships, just to have your loot stolen by some bully pirate legend who is obviously bored of the arena.

Stealing loot is not bullying, and the two should not be confused. If he was behaving or speaking in a toxic manner while doing so, then yes, that's against The Pirate Code. But simply sailing up, overpowering you, and taking your treasure is not bullying. It's just playing the game as intended.
#BeMorePirate

so somebody waiting at the end of the heart of fire tall tale with boom barrels waiting for some poor sucker to walk up with the chest of rage to turn in while not speaking at all is just playing the game?

Yes they are. They may be playing as jerks to an extent but they are still just playing the game. That is the persona that have chosen to take during that particular play session. In the end it is just for fun (even if you do not see it), people need to stop taking a GAME so seriously.

Simply because you are doing a Tall Tale does not exempt you from the possible danger of other players nor AI/environmental threats. Just because they play differently than you does not make it any less a more valid way of playing. If they continuously harassed you end upon end that would be another story. But wreaking havoc without seeking any further reward than that is still just playing the game, whether you or I like it or not. Best to be prepared for this instances, once I accepted that I had a lot less stress and more enjoyment playing the game.

@maverian right? The tolerance from the pve community is great. I have a clip of me camping a boat on arena (because they said they’d camp me) and they were getting mad they couldn’t compete with me and I kept killing them over and over. But I have multiple clips of them saying things like “I hope you die” and other things.

@maverian but the pvpers are the toxic ones lol

@sgtsniper887 not saying I did it to you; but I did do something like that recently. Only because the person was shouting racial slurs like a madman. Eye for an eye.

@sherpa725 To be fair, as a PVP player. I can't consider myself toxic. The sole reason I engage in combat is if I see that the other person is being foul to another player. Like bullying. I think of it as a vigilante. So if you see a sloop being bullied by a Gally and you see a Sloop with red sails rolling up, just step back or hop in the fight chief. Because that Gally is going down.

I say as Insiders we should band together and make the Insider Sail mean something more than a fancy sail. Perhaps maybe a law bringer of the sea. Sound good? Who's in?

Interesting bit from Mike Chapman (Rare Creative Director) today:

This is Sea of THIEVES!

(His words😉)

We want players to experience the thrill of a player ship versus another player ship in battle. ----Turning the chance of these encounters off completely has never felt like Sea of Thieves---- but the Emissaries provide that opt-in experience whereby you can take on more risk and literally be a potential target, with the potential rewards being so much greater. Crucially, we felt it was important for players to still be able to play the game as it is today before the addition of Emissaries. This is why you can still progress through the expanded level progress without being an Emissary. We want to encourage it, but you don’t have to and are also able to choose based on the session you’re in.

This is all very deliberate. Emissaries will progress faster, but you are a target to others. Sometimes fate will be in your favour and sometimes it won’t. This is Sea of Thieves.

So there you have it. You will always have the opportunity to ramp up the chances of PVP (or not), but never down completely.

@kralon said in Please add friendly servers:

@a-few-moose Agreed a friendly server would be excellent. If they don't do that then anyone in an alliance that attacks and kills another player in the alliance should have a 30 minute penalty from playing the game. There after all should be honor among thieves or else why bother? It really does suck to work for 2 hours on a quest only to be hit by a random pvp player to end your quest to have to start it all over again and with the new update coming it is only going to get worse.

There is a reason why Sea of Thieves is named Sea of Thieves. The only time I have honor for a pirate is if they can out-trick me. I don't know when a pirate has spent the last 2 hours on a quest. I can't wait for the Emissary program, and the Reaper's Bones are calling.

I have a question for all of you: How will Emmissaries work on friendly servers? Reaper's Bones Emmissaries have to sink other players, right? Friendly servers, no Reaper's Bones rep, no extra gold.

@ghostpaw That would be funny. "YO! Sink me for rep!"
just imagine

@xblackwolfx9008 said in Please add friendly servers:

@sherpa725 To be fair, as a PVP player. I can't consider myself toxic. The sole reason I engage in combat is if I see that the other person is being foul to another player. Like bullying. I think of it as a vigilante. So if you see a sloop being bullied by a Gally and you see a Sloop with red sails rolling up, just step back or hop in the fight chief. Because that Gally is going down.

Soo you 'defend' a sloop who chose to play a pirate game, and is being attacked by another pirate? I wonder what happens when the sloop and the 'gally' turn on you.

@xblackwolfx9008 I don’t think you saw my post above the one where I said pvpers are toxic but it was 100% intended to be sarcasm

@emerald-hyper a dit dans Please add friendly servers :

I Might as well finally put my hat in this ring as out right say. The possibility of private severs would maybe happen in the coming future for these reasons.

1. Is the big fact of SoT coming to Steam and why be this important? Well usually Xbox users be online globally from 6-10 million a day roughly. But with steam its users are at 47 million global users. This in any case could just tip any scale of battle for the pc and xbox people. Now say SoT would be a big hit in steam and in theory there be more pc players than xbox players in the game. For one this will flood the severs full if people enjoy it. Now if it gets real good but say there is limited space to put more people in. So then if so then private severs would be more possible.

2. Because of the increase of players, adding in private severs wouldn't make a big dent or slip into the player base. Like another theory, say before steam there is roughly 7mil (just imagine if that be the case as I doubt its the real amount). Now 5mil out of the 7 are xbox players and because the cross-play thing happen now only 2mil be playing in cross-play lobbys and the 5mil are playing in the xbox only severs. But then when steam comes on and if its a hit then the pc player numbers be at 30mil (Again just random numbers but think it as possible) With such a big number adding private would only say take 5mil away from 30 so you still have a big 25mil left to play around with. Of course numbers change during time but you get the idea.

3. As much as the SoT community is the hub of what people think of the game and discussions etc, Steam would have the bigger voice overall for pc players weather you like it or not. And really in any case Rare would listen to the bigger voice because that be the majority play base now. But if Rare stay to there guns and stick to the xbox/MS side of things then they could just loose such a big chunk of players that they stay to same player count as we are today.

Of course im not expert in business of that kind of stuff but really in common sense most businesses would go for where majority are at to make profit. But in the end if it happens or not there will be people who will argue it be a bad idea or not. So really we just have to wait and see how it turns out.

I think there should be a server like the arena where the players cannot attack each other and make their trip quiet without being robbed or killed I agree it is his players who destroy the beauty of is game

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@xblackwolfx9008 said in Please add friendly servers:

@sherpa725 To be fair, as a PVP player. I can't consider myself toxic. The sole reason I engage in combat is if I see that the other person is being foul to another player. Like bullying. I think of it as a vigilante. So if you see a sloop being bullied by a Gally and you see a Sloop with red sails rolling up, just step back or hop in the fight chief. Because that Gally is going down.

Soo you 'defend' a sloop who chose to play a pirate game, and is being attacked by another pirate? I wonder what happens when the sloop and the 'gally' turn on you.

Well my friend. That's when the fun begins.

It really makes me laugh when a bunch of PVE players start playing a PVP game and then they want to change it to what they want. What a joke.