Suggestion for improving positive relationships in the game - Social Area in game

Remove all traders from the outposts and relocate them to the Sea Dogs Tavern

Perfect place to attack people just trying to shop.

I suggest creating a Safe Zone where players can enter to meet others without the use of weapons and without treasure on board.

Only safe space is. Safer seas and Ferry
Anywhere else would just be exploited and more of a place to run to and hide.

Access to the Sea Dogs Tavern is only possible by diving in, so that the area cannot be used to escape combat and lose all the loot on board

At this point is a hassle to shop for my clothes having to leave a server every time just to join it. No thanks.

But!! a social hub is always welcome. Just have nothing in it.

@burnbacon ha detto in Suggestion for improving positive relationships in the game - Social Area in game:

Remove all traders from the outposts and relocate them to the Sea Dogs Tavern

Perfect place to attack people just trying to shop.

Without weapons how you can attack?

I suggest creating a Safe Zone where players can enter to meet others without the use of weapons and without treasure on board.

Only safe space is. Safer seas and Ferry

Safer sea is for only 1 crew. This mecchanic would push the social area in High sea.

Anywhere else would just be exploited and more of a place to run to and hide.

No because you can't expoit the diving. Its the same if you run out in HG or Tall Tales.

At this point is a hassle to shop for my clothes having to leave a server every time just to join it. No thanks.

Its optional, no one force you to join the hub.

Safe zones are a bad idea to be honest.

@littletex1220 ha detto in Suggestion for improving positive relationships in the game - Social Area in game:

@mogetius-ita I think the concern is with the canons/ ships right outside the safety barrier? Plus, kegs?

One might imagine an area that acts as a shield against cannon fire, a sort of invisible barrier (much like our beloved invisible rock in the middle of the sea)

@soloventure6142 ha detto in Suggestion for improving positive relationships in the game - Social Area in game:

Safe zones are a bad idea to be honest.

Why? There’s no real benefit to it, and it couldn’t be used as a refuge to escape open-world PvP. It’s simply a way of enhancing player interaction.

@mogetius-ita

Since you've been playing for eight years I assume you remember the Arena days and how we had to wait for a match in the Sea Dogs Tavern with random contestants and it was just players blasting trash r&b and hip hop, brain rot and nonsense speech.

I think removing the shops from the outposts is a bad idea as well, the outposts don't feel populated enough as they are and removing those stores and NPC's would make it feel more noticeability dead and empty.

I really don't like criticising people's ideas and suggestions but I don't feel this one would work very well.

What we really need is an adventure co-op mode to bring players together in a common goal without the risk of losing progress by participating with eachother.

I don't know if you ever played destiny raids but I think something like that in the SOT world would be good and better than a static safe zone location like a virtual chat space.

You know what I mean? A challenging cooperative raid adventure with puzzles and bosses with RNG prizes for completion. Maybe 4 to 8 players.

@mogetius-ita

You could host a hang out space when open seas arrives and see how it goes? You could use the sea dogs tavern too.

I get that the intention is to foster better interactions on the seas but I don't think this is the best way to do it. Instead, the game designers need to focus on real reasons for teaming up, to distribute loot according to the Trading Company, and to also have specific reasons to approach them.

If Emissaries were able to select 'trade perks' (on Grade III and Grade V), that were unique, and able to be solicited by other crews, it would be a reason to be approached knowing that another crew is coming for your assistance and not your loot.

Of course, the entire thing could go south, and everyone could blow each other to bits if they wanted—that's part of the game—but having a good reason to approach a crew is the step in the right direction. Right now, there's no real reason to do so unless you're really struggling with some PvE.

@mogetius-ita I think people (including you) tend to forget that SoT is a pirate game