@thesoulcry First of all: don't go and revive posts that are months old.
Secondly: if you're playing sea of thieves (a fantasy pirate game) to feel like a pirate, and don't like people that fight differently from you, then you're playing the wrong game.
Double gunning is definetly not ruining anything. if anything is runing pvp, it is the m1 spam sword meta combined with these terrible servers.
Third: All these solutions are bad & nobody should force a playstyle on others just because you don't like their playstyle. If you don't know how to deal with it, then learn & adapt instead of wanting rare to solve you're problems.
You ask "Why are these players playing a pirate game because they like guns?", when pirates also used guns...
Because this is a fantasy pirate game, its a one of a kind game that is for everyone & everyone likes to play different playstyles. This same pirate game that has krakens, skeletons, ghosts, jack sparrow, davy jones, the afterlife & more. So you can't compare SoT to you're average pirate game when it is so different in many ways.
I could also say, if you want more sword play, how about you go and play chivalry or mordhau instead? You see how silly that sounds?