I'm attacked/sunk by everyone at this point

This is how it used to be when it used to be 6 ships before they dropped it down to 5, and personally im happy they brought it back up.

Appreciate the encouragement & feedback from my fellow swashbucklers. I'll certainly keep at as with sometime the change may be welcomed and could very well grow on me.

@tap1017045 said in I'm attacked/sunk by everyone at this point:

Appreciate the encouragement & feedback from my fellow swashbucklers. I'll certainly keep at as with sometime the change may be welcomed and could very well grow on me.

If the big issue with getting attacked so frequently is a matter of worry about losing your loot, i might suggest a personal challenge that i used to put onto my self to learn not to worry about loot.

If you are willing, put up an emissary, stack to grade 5, and dont allow your self to turn in unless you sink at least 1 other enemy ship. It taught me that loot doesnt matter more than you let it, as well i learned a lot about how to fight and keep calm while fighting. I looked at it the whole time as, if i lost, then i didnt defend my treasure well enough and need more practice, and the enemy earned it for doing better, but if i won, i defended it well enough to earn it.

This type of challenge may not be for everyone, but most people i have told it to have said it sounds like genuine fun, and it does teach you a lot, and readies you to take on anyone who attacks at any time.

@goldsmen That sounds like a fun change of pace for a mostly PVE'er like myself. I'll give it a try next session!

@bro5eph-g
Two best recommendations: Don't toil for hours, and keep a weathered eye on the horizon.
If you toil for hours and stack tons and tons of loot, it's on you if you lose it. Use every opportunity and then some to sell, i call it my "Insurance Policy" so even if i get sunk, i get something out the session or towards what i'm working on.

And for things like vaults especially, that keep you away from your ship for extended periods of time, keep someone back on the ship as lookout, don't let people roll up on you if you see them coming. It's a learning curve for sure, and while i don't want to say "git gud lol" there's definitely a lot to learn, don't be ashamed about losing or not knowing. It's not about the gold, it's about the glory.

Your language here is inflammatory and while i understand that early frustration, nothing gives you the right to call people no-lifers if you want any respect in return, please understand that. The game might not be for you, and that's okay. But at the end of the day, it's a PVPVE game, with all kinds of players.

I am a Big new players defender, I do not like veterans abusing newbies, that is griefing and being a garbage player, but you guys must understand that the Game has a PvP component that cant be avoided unless you play on Pve Servers.

If you feel frustration when you loose your loot, is ok, I used to feel the same my first 200-300 hours, I got tons of bans from Xbox for sending DMs to others on rage attacks due to loose an entire morning of farm. But if you try and improve PvP, the Game turns a different thing, when you dont have fear of loosing, you can all in and try crazy things that Will make you better, even if you loose.

Hourglass is sht but It can help you to play PvP with zero fear of loosing anything, maybe your flag and you can literally rise It to 5 again on 2 fights so It doesnt Matter too much.

Or you can wait 1-2 months and play when all players get commendations and leave.

I have seen many posts like yours recently and I hate to be that guy but what you are describing is a skill issue ( and I do not mean it in a git gud way). If you wish to do PvE without having to worry about other players there are a couple things you should do. Firstly join a dead server (you can check for reaper and other emissaries at the table you vote to raise flag for each one). Second you always need to check your surroundings and your map. You might not see a ship on the horizon but there might be a reaper 5 on the map which could pose a big threat later. Also after you reach grade 5 with your chosen emissary sell all your loot and do little stacks after that to minimize your losses in case you get sunk. Sea of thieves is at it's best state for PvE players. There is a specific pvp mode drawing attention away from pve, harpoon changes and the sovereigns have made it so that you can get and sell loot very easy and the recent event changes
make it so that even world events (apart from FoF,FotD) are quick and easy to complete. Also if you are being chased learning how to outsail someone ,board spam in order to get an anchor, and drive-by sell your loot can make a big difference.

@dragotech123

Pirate Code is wet paper to be honest, nobody respects It. The Game used to be like you said on release, veteran people teaching newbies, but that changed 2-3 months after release, when people got tired of doing animal quests and barnacle chests hunting. Hunting people were more funny and rewarding in terms of gold, in that epoch emissaries were a dream and the amount of gold were ridiculous, too low.

All my Friends left the Game due to extreme griefing that times, raged on forums and let a zero on metacritic deserving bad things to devs.

Now, even with all the PvP encounters, the learning curve is less dificult than before, people is more agressive but you have more ways to escape from them, unless they board you, in that case you are done. And also more ways to improve at PvP.

But if you still refusing to engage combate with others and you like SoT, just check Google and join Alliance Servers discord, queue for a spot and enjoy Pve without being disturbed, is the only way to archive what you want, but you have to play with others because they have brigs and the dont allow solo sloopers on their Servers.

@bro5eph-g said in I'm attacked/sunk by everyone at this point:

This game is not fun enough to toil for hours, just to be ganked by a team of no lifers that solo the game. Consistently I get on with my duo to try a vault. We always get up to the point where we have a key and go to the island. Then the massive ship orbiting the vault island ruins our hard work in the 5 mins it takes for them to sink us.

We spawn to our fresh ship, with nothing to show for our playtime. Cool. Good game.

Thread title is accurate, it’s a problem that is losing rare players. “Oh boohoo get gud” whatever.

When did not being born with skill and having to work at something become a source of shame? I'm genuinely curious why people choose to be insulted by a game mechanic because it requires them to have to work at being good at it in order to overcome a particularly troublesome skill check.

None of us were born good at SoT. We all learned to be better.

@tap1017045 said in I'm attacked/sunk by everyone at this point:

I know this isn't "Sea of Friends" and after reading a lot of forums/discussions I can concede that a completely PVE server could eventually become dull after so long (granted it may take a lot longer for me to reach that point), but since season 9 has dropped my SOT experience has significantly declined. I haven't been able to really enjoy any world-events, shrines, or even tall-tales without being attacked/sunk especially if I'm not on my ship for more than like 5 minutes. I've played for a while now so of course this isn't a new experience for me, it's part of the game, but it's never been this frequent and I'm finding myself playing the game less & less now as a result.

I was thinking maybe it's a combination of increasing the server capacity to 6 ships and that hourglass PVP is no longer diverting PVP encounters as it once did or maybe I just have really really bad luck when it comes to populating in a server with very aggressive players. I personally tend to spend more of my time running PVE but have always enjoyed the subtle anxiety of having to check the horizon for other players but it's become almost guaranteed that someone will roll up on me cannons blazing at this point. I don't know if anyone else is having a similar experience?

Although it is still a beautiful game that is unlike any other, the PVE / PVP balance has significantly changed for me and I just can't immersive myself in it like I could before the Season 9 update.

I don't have a good answer to your complaint. I can, however, share my experiences. I am NOT a pvp'er. I generally suck at it, especially when I'm playing on my solo sloop. Here's what I've learned over time:

Join the discord, and find a group with a mic to play with. I very much enjoy playing the game when there's a group with me, even if we end up losing our loot due a sinking. (Though, it still stings). Everything from another slooper to a brig or galleon, so long as you have others to play with, it helps tremendously.

Second, I've ended up on an alliance server from time to time. Every time I actually ended up regretting it. Yes, you end up making bank, but to be honest.....the game is off when you do it. I've found a good part of the fun of the game comes from the tension inherent in the SOT world. On an alliance server, that tension is gone, and with it, the spark that makes SOT great.