Sick & Tired of the BS in SoT!!!

I play solo because I can never find people to play with.

70% of the playerbase Im sure, and Im one of them. ^-^

Spend lots of time collecting supplies, running quests, etc., etc.!!!

Like everyone else.

I am so sick & tired of getting attacked by OP Skeleton Ships & Megladons!!!

Are they OP? As a fellow solo slooper, I can sink & defeat both these creatures. It just takes practice. Even together. Besides, they were ALOT worse.

I even get attacked while in port while I'm offloading & selling loot!

By skeleton and Meg? Doubt the Meg because they stay away once your near Islands, as for Skeletons. Yeah that can happen but it isn't a big deal. Sail away or Sink them

Lose all of my collected supplies & loot

I can see the Supplies being lost, but your loot can be recovered. IF your at an outpost, pick up your loot and deliver it to the place. A lot of swimming, and having a Rowboat.

keep trying to find excuses to justify the time & expense of playing this game but I just keep getting so frustrated that I rage quit.

Well that just normal gamer experience. Rest up and try again. "Why do we fall Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up"

Not good for a game that is supposed to be fun, not another job.

Seems to be your making it a Job by getting upset....Do you also get upset if a Creeper in minecraft blows up your house? Yes/No. Why? It part of the experience.

And please tone down the attacks by Skelly Ships & Megs!!!

I beg them not too. As someone who finds themself away from other players, I need these attacks. Again, as a Fellow solo sloop. It use to be a lot worse.

Who the hell designs a game this way?!?!

Same people who designed Donkey Kong Country ^_^ That was a tiring game with save points spread between difficult levels. Whew, you screw that up and you had to start over.

Skeleton ships and megs are far from op. Skele ships are very much easier to sink than any average player crew. Its an online session based game, so "saving" is not exactly a mechanic.

Im not exactly sure where the main issue may be coming from when fighting skele ships or megs, but one of the most common mistakes i see so many new players do is while their ship is flooding and near half full, they start fixing holes but dont bucket out their ship. The first and most important thing to save your ship if its taking on water is to bucket it out before fixing.

The second big mistake i see new players make on the sloop is they try to bucket out of the small window right up the stairs in the sloop, which is possible, but most of the time people end up splashing all of the water back into their ship over and over and eventually sink because no water actually left their ship. Throw the water out basically anywhere else.

The last thing i could recommend is that if you have taken a lot of damage, dont just sit in the cannon range of anything shooting at you, pull away from them and fix everything up!

Sinking and having your loot stolen is part of the learning process, we've all been through that phase of the game.

The level of frustration depends on the importance you place on loot, the more important the loot, the more frustrating it is to lose it.

Don't look at the game that way or you're not going to last very long, de-emphasise the importance of gold and loot, because you get to a point where you have nothing to spend it on and that's when it starts to get monotonous and boring.

Focus on learning, improving your naval and combat skills and the gold will come over time, if you go down don't take it as a frustrating experience, but as a lesson of what you did wrong so it won't happen again.

SoT is not easy, but it becomes even harder if every defeat makes you angry and frustrated.

Go to the Safer Seas, practice there for a while and when you feel confident jump to the High Seas, you will see that the situation is very different.

All you people suggesting safer seas for this person; they are losing to ai pve threats, not players. They will find the same on safer seas.

The suggestion about slowing down and handling one threat at a time, bailing before repairing, heading to an island to get rid of megs, those will help

Wonder how many others read start of this fully expecting it to be anti pvp post.

Have you tried the lfg function to find like-minded pirates?

Solo slooping especially early on is very much hard mode for this game as multitasking and priority management comes with time and experience.

@dreadscott63 I played this Sunday solo doing some athena and I fought off a skelly galleon a Meg and 2 skelly sloops. Everything is easy. Grant you you can get caught out if you're not on your game, but all these pve encounters have been nefed so much. Just need to practice my friend.

Skelly and Meg spawns (together) seem to be a common occurrence at the moment. I imagine it's unintended. That said, neither are super hard to overcome with experience - unless you're unlucky enough to get the super low chance of a skelly galleon spawning on your solo sloop, but that comes with its own strategies.

Most skelly sloops will sink within a volley of 10 cannonball hits, and Megs can be stopped from charging at your sloop in 1 or 2 hits. If you get both together, head for the nearest island to disengage the meg and focus on the skelly sloop.

As others have said, just watch/read some tutorials and you'll be dealing with them quickly on your own in no time. As an apparently new player, I would recommend you also mark your map in case you do sink. Usually, a PvE sink will spawn you pretty close, so you can come back and get most of what you might have lost.

Safer Seas.

Sea of Thieves.

The spawnrate of skelly ships and megalodons have felt kinda insane this season not gonna lie. I can understand if you're a new player it can be harsh. Hopefully they can nerf it down a tiny bit

@dreadscott63

Just yesterday, I had just started playing, gathered some supplies & left port. Before I even sailed very far, I got attacked by a skeleton ship. WTH!!!

It part of the experience of "Not knowing" what could happen. it be boring if you knew everything.

Shouldn't there at least be a timer on this type of game behavior so that you don't get attacked immediately

Well, you werent attacked Immediately. You had time to board your ship, get supplies and set sail right? And majority of skeleton ships (that appear below the waves) Make a audio sound, you have roughly 10 seconds to get ready. Nothing is Immediately.

So I got sunk

What did you learn from the fight tho? Did you fight or try to run? What could you do differently? Got to think, its either the Npc that get you or Players. One is worse than the other.

found the mermaid & respawned on my sloop at an island that I had never been to, nowhere near the port I had just been at. Again, WTH!!!

What the issue here? New island? Cool explore it. Not near a port...so? The Port should always be your LAST stop before logging off. IF your complaining about buying supplies, losing your ship and thinking "I lost gold" That on you.

Shouldn't I respawn at the same port or the island I was closest to. Makes no sense at all.

Game tries to place you in a location, away from threats. To get you a moment of peace. You got the moment.

And in previous sessions, I've been attacked by a skeleton ship & a megalodon at the same time, so I had no chance. WTH!!!

Best time of our lives if I must be honest. It a new players worst enemy. BUT!!!! As a solo sloop...A MEG WILL NOT ATTACK YOU! Skeletons will.

Mind you, all of my play is in Safer Seas, so again WTH Rare!!!

Yup, "safer seas" only means away from players. You need to learn to battle these threats. Again, it could be ALOT worse ^_^

Just wish I could get my money back for this PoS game

Refund on Steam is if you didnt play for more than 2 hours. :P
that why most the players in this game are Game Pass and they try to change it to fit there needs, even tho they are playing a free game xD

@dreadscott63

So you want your money back because a skelly ship sunk your ship..... WoW, I´ve seen a lot of players crying on this forums with absurd arguments, but yours is one of the best.

"I want to refund Call of duty because the other players shoot me on team death matchs"

Maybe devs should release a real solo ship with just 1 cannon, barely bigger than a rowboat, much slower, and capable of defending against skellie ships while keeping a straight line.

@soulstinger2k20 Yeah you try bailing a ship while having seven holes in the side of your hull over repairing the holes in your haul causing the flooding while trying to steer to an island and defend yourself at the same time while bailing and repairing your ship by yourself not to mention raising your anchor when he hit you with a special cannibal or dropping your sales again when they raise them with a special cannonball.