as of right now, there is a great number of players that hop servers for a couple of reasons
- To find pvp
- To find a specific PVE event
- To get away from a server they are getting dominated on.
I believe there are solutions to each of these that would absolutely take time to implement, but would make for a more consistant/fun
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To find pvp
Current: players are hopping to find active servers, or if streaming, having their community hop for them to find an active server.
Solution: enact or modify an existing faction to place you into an active PVP server.
For those wanting to go after reapers, talk to someone in the athena's hideout to be placed in an active server with reaper level 5s by walking through a portal as a crew.
For those wanting to go after others, Talk to someone at the reapers hideout as a group to be placed in an active server with athena's level 5 or other level 5s. This should only be for level 50+ players and legends.
Reason: TTA in this game can put off many players from pvp and arena isnt the same -
To find a specific PVE event
Current: players are hopping to find active servers, or if streaming, having their community hop for them to find an active server with the specific event
Solution: Have ways to activate specific event on the server by completing a task or paying for gold, or teleport players through a circle after paying gold to an active server with the specific PVE event
Reason: spending 1-2 hours on a server to activate an ashen lord spawn or other even that is needed will put off players from wanting to perform the actions -
To get away from a server they are getting dominated on.
no changes needed, this works well, but perhaps a method of the universe putting sympathy on these players by putting them in a kinder server would be good.
Edit: Let me clarify something, Server hopping is a symptom of the problem of not finding what tasks you want to do easily. I don't have a problem with server hopping, i have a problem that it exists because of how the games matchmaking can turn away players from finding the activities they want
Edit 2: Again, nothing wrong with server hopping, as its a symptom of the problem. If you dont believe there is a problem with finding events, look at the comments on this and let me know if no one finding the event after a week seems "intended" and "fine" https://twitter.com/SeaOfThieves/status/1290364996136972288?s=20