i tried SOT again last night after letting it develop somewhat.
I was solo Sloop as i didn't really have long to play and finding a decent co-pirate to play with would have taken all evening so off i went...
Order of souls mission taken and 4 island to go conquest, one was a massive PITA island so forget that one, and the other 3 were close to each other.
On my way there the was a shadow pirate ship on the map, best avoid that i though and then spend 45 minutes collecting skulls,
^^ you know the usual charm of needing to light up the skeletons, spawns of 15 skeletons all with blunderbuss, and then golden skeletons 17 miles from an ammo case all meant delay delays delays and more delays, throw a storm into the mix between the islands and then before you know it 45 minutes have gone.
4 skulls in the hold, and back off to the outpost i go because i've already been at this for an hour.
nothing on the map other than the outpost 2 mins away
On the way the music changed and some galleon pirate ship on the horizon (skeleton ship),so i stuck the sloop into fastest angle of sail and..... it still caught up
some silly NPC with god like powers and speed and nonsense cannon balls making you sick and fall overboard.... thanks
but alas despite that shower of dingle gameplay i did get back aboard and plug the holes and bail the water out and somehow escape that NPC bulldingery ship by exploiting sailing through rocks while that piece of rubbish got stuck
so back to going to my outpost delayed by another 15 minutes but ooohhh no Rare cant be having that nonsense can they? game crashes and i'm back to the loading screen
1 hr gaming for sod all profit, i mean even if i did get the 4 skulls sold for ~400Cr each and a custom sail costs an eye watering 49,000Cr
Rare, added to the "never buying a game ever again from" list
Why cant there be gameplay for the casual 30 minute gamer? why must i commit 1hr - 1hr30 each time if i want to progress a tiny amount.
let us save treasure and skulls if we "log off" and carry on where we left it!