Solo sessions

@benh6803
You bought and played a shared world game with PvPvE.

Betraying an alliance isn't toxic.

@lem0n-curry yes but what kind of player just kills and sinks another play as soon as they join their alliance. It’s completely toxic

@benh6803 A smart player. You decided to join an alliance and accept the risks, and they played you before you could play them.

@benh6803 said in Solo sessions:

@lem0n-curry yes but what kind of player just kills and sinks another play as soon as they join their alliance. It’s completely toxic

You've been on the forums for a year, I am assuming you're playing for a year as well - and this is the first time another crew tries (and succeeded) to distract you by forming an alliance ?

It's a tactic used quite a lot, still not toxic.

@lem0n-curry Agreed. I have done it many times and it is worth it. I have made a pretty penny off of alliance crew's loot by stealing it from them.

@supersnipper60 you both clearly don’t understand the point I’m trying to make. All I’m saying is that lots of players won’t be that good at pvp and will be happy if solo sessions were a thing.

@benh6803 Yes I do. You are salty that you sank to an alliance that you joined. If you aren't good at PvP, then learn.

@supersnipper60 who the hell wouldn’t be salty. Plus I’m even more salty because I didn’t have any loot other than Briggsys skull and they even came on my ship and saw that.

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@benh6803 toxic is when you are verbally belittled. That wasn't a toxic move. However, that move was a smart one as you permitted them to approach your ship. They outplayed you in a pirate game.

While I feel for you, and know your heartache, solo sessions would be bad for the game as a whole.

RARE should make Briggsy's skull and all other Tall Tale items part of your inventory wheel (unstealable). This would lessen the heartache a great deal and won't matter to others since the items have no value.

@benh6803 said in Solo sessions:

@supersnipper60 you both clearly don’t understand the point I’m trying to make. All I’m saying is that lots of players won’t be that good at pvp and will be happy if solo sessions were a thing.

Oh, I am not good at fighting other crews - I do however succeed sometimes in out-sailing them, or making other choices.

If I had been in your shoes, and after spending some time doing a Tall tale I had the choice of (a) turning in @ Madame Olivia or (b) joining an alliance to profit from the other crew - my choice would have been (a).

But to be honest I probably wouldn't have been in this situation as I would have been scanning the horizon, and would have done a detour and waited so another crew wouldn't be at Plunder Outpost when I was ready to turn in the skull and not fail the mission for getting greedy 😁.

(nothing wrong with being greedy, mind you, just as long as it won't hurt the ship)

@benh6803 You have to understand that you are playing a pirate game. Learn to accept losses and bounce back. I have had loot taken away many times. Salty pirates like you just complain on the forums because they don't know how to PvP, and they want the game changed to suit them. This is a shared-world game. There will be other players in the server. Accept that you sank, figure out why you sank, and then put your new knowledge to use.

You can steer yourself
any direction you choose,
I will find you
where you choose to cruise.
Find a crew
before you queue,
or be sent packing
with your lack of backing.
Its not taboo
to steal what you acrue.
So before your fellows
you should mellow.
We need to exclaim
that this is just a game.
So do not blame
for your lack of fame.
So if you could
do not brood
it is necessary
that you Git Gud.

Alliance offer flags are great. Its a beacon for PVE crews.

@omnipotence13 And for extra loot.

@nabberwar how long did it take you to write that? I love it.

@captain-arcanic said in Solo sessions:

While I feel for you, and know your heartache, solo sessions would be bad for the game as a whole.

RARE should make Briggsy's skull and all other Tall Tale items part of your inventory wheel (unstealable). This would lessen the heartache a great deal and won't matter to others since the items have no value.

I disagree with that. Some of the items i.e. Briggsy's skull, Gold Hoarder's skull, etc. have values in gold, so they could be considered worth something.

@supersnipper60
Too long, and a google search explaining the nuance of Dr. Seuss and words that rhyme with crew. I don't do writing.

@nabberwar said in Solo sessions:

@supersnipper60
Too long, and a google search explaining the nuance of Dr. Seuss and words that rhyme with crew.

I think some applause is due.

@lem0n-curry agreed

@benh6803 Sea of THIEVES

@nabberwar I think you are a poet and you don't even know it.

@BenH6803 - This is why I do not join alliances. If you do not want the possibility of ending up with a peg leg in the back then I would recommend you not join them either. As far as why there is not single mode? Well it really is simple; this is not a single player game.

@benh6803 I understand your frustration. Let me start by saying if I realize a crew is doing a TT I will leave them alone or if I sink a crew doing one I will place the TT items on the island and message them to tell them where I left it. Also, I will not form an alliance and betray. I will attack you straight out as I don't believe in attacking through betrayal unless the other crew did something to cause me to turn on them. With this said, I would have ran Briggsy's skull to turn it in immediately and then dealt with forming an alliance. This way I would have lost nothing important. Also the game is meant to be played how you want to play it and immediately betraying an alliance is a viable option. If @SuperSnipper60 @Omnipotence13 the crew that betrayed you or any other player chooses to play like that it isn't toxic. It may be against the way you would do it and as I described is against the way I would do it myself but it's still something that can happen and if they, or anyone else, did that to me I couldn't be angry as they are playing their own way. That is what makes this game unique. I have had this happen and learned from it. I trust no one. If I am in an alliance with anyone I watch their actions constantly for signs of betrayal. I now prepare if a ship comes towards me with an alliance flag raised. If I choose to align I am also prepared to immediately fight them and don't let them very close. I hope you can get your TT finished and I hope that you learn from what happened as me and many others have before. I approach every seesion from the start knowing I may lose everything and if so learn from it and go again. Just always remember everyone chooses their own path and that treasure or item, no matter how frustrating, isn't yours until you hand it in.

@supersnipper60 The game would be better to devalue the Tall Tales items (except maybe in the case of the Gold Hoarders skull which comes after the Tall Tale is completed).

I feel that Tall Tales should have some exemption from the standard (oh, let's call it entrepreneurial) nature of pirates.

@benh6803 said in Solo sessions:

Why do I have to put up with people who don’t even play the game for the lore or the adventure but instead the decide to try and sink the first ship they sea.

Might be because its a pirate game called Sea of Thieves.

DONT MAKE ALIANCES PIRATES ARE MEAN! if alone go on close crew if see a rowboat mermayd or some ship coming sunk then or run safe place. Sry my poor inglish and yes i like do the tales too but on open crew almost impossble do it.

@rowge-gaming Private servers are only going to be used for special events such as Race of Legends.