As a preface I wanna say that I've been playing and watching SoT for a while got in on season 3 and cashed in 500 hours over a year, I took a break in September due to the game getting boring and way too buggy in my opinion but I got back for season 8 and I am loving it despite being rusty AF.
Anyways due to my rust I looked for players that wanted to improve rather than players on a similar level to me (in terms of time and ranks) because I feel that I would just drag them down, but in hindsight, I think I made the right call on getting to play with newbies, it's been so much fun.
I got to teach a couple of pirates more PvP basics and I hope sending them on the right path by getting a border pirate getting to try his naval a bit more, also showing him that being a boarder crewmate is fine for the battle since the other can help compensate with their own strengths to be an unstoppable duo.
Also got another newbie that was ok on most aspects of the ship, kinda like a balanced character in an RPG but with some issues being squeamish when it comes to combat which is actually pretty common when you dive deep into PvP for the first time but thankfully that fear dies down the more fights you get in, still, I gave him some good pointers on when to keep the pressure going to secure a sink rather than running to repair a hole.
In general a pretty good experience all around and I can't to see who I meet the next time I decide to go and get some matches... On the other hand how has everyone's matches been going?