If people are spawn killing you for 1.5 hrs without sinking you,I'm pretty sure that counts as griefing and is reportable
That said, as someone whoe primarily plays as a solo slooper I entirely disagree with your idea.
This game is primarily designed for people to crew up together. Going out solo is supposed to be the hard mode, and long may that remain the case.
It’s rarely I get into PvP on sea of thieves. I’ve been playing sea of thieves since release and I’ve wanted a private server however due to the new updates it’s rarely I get into PvP.
I think it may behoove us to look at occurrence rates as well.
I play solo sloop most of the time. You know what I see on the seas most of the time? Solo sloops. Yes, it feels horrible when you get sunk by the galleon and you lose all your loot. But honestly as a solo sloop 80% of my encounters are solo sloops. It may not be a wildly poplular playstyle, many of us do call it hard mode for a reason, but it is common due to many factors.
I think the challenge is that Sea of Thieves is a lot more of a strategy game than many pirates give it credit for. If you chose to approach that galleon with a sloop full of loot, that's kind of bad strategy on your part. If you are not checking the horizon at every opportunity, that's bad strategy on your part. If you're being chased by a galleon and not sailing straight into the wind, that's bad strategy on your part.
Yes, being sunk by a galleon feels horrible as a solo player, but if it happens once every few days then we can hardly race to the forums every time to declare "Rare hates solos," it's simply not the average experience. Judging by the OP's Castaway status, chances are they're a new-ish player who recently joined the forums. Maybe they've been playing for a while, maybe not, but they're new here. I'm not going to accuse them of getting sunk once and complaining immediately, but it has happened.
@rarehatessolos said in Solo Mode:
The game isn’t supposed to be just about completing voyages and world events and earning gold.
It’s supposed to be a PvPvE game.
PvP is supposed to be a part of the fun.
PvP as a solo against full crews isn’t fun for most players. It’s even less fun on controller with no aim assist.
Because boarding and close quarters combat is a necessity to sink competent full crews as a solo player.
So for all of the solo players on controller just know that Rare doesn’t care about your experience in their game. If they did they would put solos against solos in adventure mode.
Thank you, immediately refutes the "this is just a masked attempt to ask for PVE servers!" Copout.
Solo sloopers are much more likely to PVP if they know they stand a chance.
@rarehatessolos said in Solo Mode:
80% of your encounters are solo sloops. No way that is true.
That is absolutely false information.
You are most likely to encounter duo sloops.
You have roughly the same chance of encountering a solo sloop as you do a full crew brigantine or galleon.
I don’t know if PC servers and Xbox only servers are just drastically different experiences but on Xbox only servers you will find more full crews than solo players.
Yeah usually as a solo slooper as well, the other sloops I see are fully crewed.
@rarehatessolos
I hope you realize your style of posting and behavior does any cause you support no good. It annoys other posters, and will make them dismiss you (and your points). It is also likely to end up disrupting threads and getting you banned.
Plus, if you pretty well convinced that Rare doesn't care, then complaining about it on the forums isn't going to change their minds. Of course, changes in season 9, adjusting difficulty of world events so they are easier to be done on sloops/solo sloops, also makes that entire theory wrong.
@rarehatessolos said in Solo Mode:
80% of your encounters are solo sloops. No way that is true.
That is absolutely false information.
You are most likely to encounter duo sloops.
You have roughly the same chance of encountering a solo sloop as you do a full crew brigantine or galleon.
I don’t know if PC servers and Xbox only servers are just drastically different experiences but on Xbox only servers you will find more full crews than solo players.
To be completely fair, it could also be a peak play time thing. I do most of my solo slooping during the day hours, not during peak play hours.
So while I am being completely honest about 80%, the extraneous variables could be skewing that number up. Perhaps when I play I'm just meeting other working-from-home professionals trying to sail between meetings, or kids home from school sick whose crew are simply elsewhere.
@rarehatessolos
How very nice of you. I am at a computer all day as part of my job. Thank you. As for gatekeeping, I have not done anything to deter anyone from the game, or the forums. You, by your own admission, have left the game mostly behind, other than perhaps this odd broke-up-with-boyfriend style of stalkerish behavior towards the game.
I wish you the best, but recognize that your own abrasive posting behavior will end up being the thing that causes you the most difficulty in the game and on the forums.
@rarehatessolos said in Solo Mode:
Absolutely. If they actually acknowledge solo players and provide a fair and balanced experience for us by means of restricting crew size to a single pirate as a matchmaking preference then
Solo players would be greatly empowered to finally enjoy the entire game.
To stand their ground when challenged by any crew.
To battle instead of flee.
Rare doesn’t get this. Rare expects solo players to be happy just playing only half of the game, PvE’ing for thousands of hours.
I’ve PvE’d my mind out. Still largely can’t enjoy adventure mode PvP as a solo player. Rare doesn’t care.
S9 was the perfect season to introduce a proper adventure mode matchmaking preference that makes the PvP side of the game much more accessible and fun for the vast majority of solo players.
Guess what S9 is really about. Giving content creators a new chest to steal.
It’s always about the content creators. Almost never about what would benefit the average player.
No, Rare gets this, it's absolutely part of the intended experience. There is open crew (which the rumor mill is grinding they are improving soon), there is the official discord, there are alliance servers (not officially anymore but Rare could shut them down but doesn't), there are a plethora of ways to find a crew to play with and you are choosing not to do it for one reason or another. That's not on Rare, that's on you. Season 8 was centered on the mechanism for players to (try) and find fair (-ish) PVP, and it's on you if you don't use it.
Have you tried this: solo sloop and raise hourglass defensively. You'll go finish one or two of those newly nerfed world events for smaller crews, then get invaded by another solo slooper for PVP. Isn't this essentially exactly what you're asking for?
@rarehatessolos hmm I'm a pc main that plays on controller and usually solo.
I don't think we need solo servers. How else would I get galleons to finish events for me.
I don't think we need aim assist as all hits are considers the same. It would be neat to test though.
As for your claims about content creators, why do most of them use smaller boats then? Solo or duo and then go against galleys and brigs. It's because it's fun and challenging.
But here you are, making a smurf account for the forums so you don't post as your main account. Clearly you're worried or maybe it's already been banned from the forums.
@hiradc
I treat every ship, including sloops with great caution. While they may not have the advantage in an open fight, many choose other ways to fight, plus some sloops have taken out galleys I've been on before the galley crew has time to think.
Sloop: [after Galley returns from a sinking] Put it away, son. It's not worth you getting beat again.
Galley: You didn't beat me. You ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I'd kill you.
Sloop: That's not much incentive for me to fight fair, then, is it?
@rarehatessolos said in Solo Mode:
I can be here gatekeeper. You have zero control of that. Sad isn’t it?
Nope doesn't bother me at all. Note I didnt tell you to leave, I simply asked.
Why are you here?
and
Why post on an obvious smurf account instead of your main?
@rarehatessolos said in Solo Mode:
They make stuff up. Literally. No examples of why or how. They just make stuff up to dismiss ideas and maintain the status quo.
Remember Rare is perfect and so is Sea of Thieves.
Yeah tell me about it, I just block the ones that do nothing but blindly antagonize any opposing ideas.
No reason to even acknowledge these people.
