Request: Instanced Adventure

@jjblackhat said in Request: Instanced Adventure:

It needs both, not one or the other but both. It already has the dynamic sandbox foundation, now it needs branches off of it so we are not creating consistent repetition.

While i understand where you're at, that doesn't seem to be the game that Rare has built. This is a game with multiple players but no means to meaningfully interact outside of killing each other. Teaming is at best random but there doesn't seem to be an easy for two crews to merge or for a solo to join a galleon. It's not a game built around building a group for instanced content. It's a game about taking everything not nailed down.

I respect the desire to see them work towards a more MMO like experience but that will have to be a different game about 8 years from now when most of the mistakes of SoT are forgotten or fixed.

@jjblackhat said in Request: Instanced Adventure:

I would like to put in an official request for Rare to add instanced adventures to Sea of Thieves.

Imagine if you are sailing on the sea with a crew that you feel confident the crew is good, and you all decide to head on down to Dagger Tooth Outpost to pick up a Quest from a Pirate who has appeared on the island who has parchments pinned up to the side of the clothing shop and is constantly trying to decipher the riddles that all point to 3 different entry points to an instanced adventure.

You and your crew approach the crazed Pirate and he explains to you that he has all of these 'riddles' and he will let you in on what he knows about treasures buried deep in a cave that is believed to go deeper than the ocean bed itself for 100,000 coins. All the players in your crew enter in the amount of coin they can spare (allowing diverse amounts to be given from each player) to get the riddles, and map and he gives you the map (offering 3 locations on the map) where you can enter the instance where the riddles will become clear.

You and your crew gather up resources, and head towards one of the locations. Upon entering the location with the 'quest' in hand you and your crew are loaded off the map and into your own player instance.

As you login your ship sails into a cave, and in the cave are sparkling fish that you've never seen in the game before. There is something unique about this cave. You all choose the items you will take off the ship and head on into the cave where the ladder leads downward.

In the instance you fight several bosses each reaping its own rewards, and find several resources that are not 'typical' in the regular game that can be used to solve riddles and find secret passage ways. Several ways of using the environment to kill swarms of pirates, or skeletons (AI) are found in the caves, and you can get lost in this cave as its map does randomly generate to some degree.

This cave (instanced adventure) could take you 2 hours to complete. After defeating the main boss (3rd boss) an over arching story is revealed about Sea of Thieves, and other instanced adventures will come in developer seasonal updates.

You and your crew gain a 'randomized' horizontal progression item, but perhaps the randomized item is not what you seeked - now it's time to do it again with your crew until you are satisfied.

Lets say you and your crew all need a special coat, boot and glove set that will allow you to enter the far North side of the map where the waters become too cold to fall into, and ship battles here are far different than the ones on the main seas, and if you don't have the set you constantly take damage. Our instanced adventure lead to an open doorway into another part of the map that expands our adventure and way of playing.

Sea of Thieves needs Instanced Adventures like this, and more!

The devs said they don;t want to split the player bases. I'd rather be able to encounter the people doing this quest to kill them and take the reward. yarr.

@ve111a said in Request: Instanced Adventure:

@jjblackhat said in Request: Instanced Adventure:

I would like to put in an official request for Rare to add instanced adventures to Sea of Thieves.

Imagine if you are sailing on the sea with a crew that you feel confident the crew is good, and you all decide to head on down to Dagger Tooth Outpost to pick up a Quest from a Pirate who has appeared on the island who has parchments pinned up to the side of the clothing shop and is constantly trying to decipher the riddles that all point to 3 different entry points to an instanced adventure.

You and your crew approach the crazed Pirate and he explains to you that he has all of these 'riddles' and he will let you in on what he knows about treasures buried deep in a cave that is believed to go deeper than the ocean bed itself for 100,000 coins. All the players in your crew enter in the amount of coin they can spare (allowing diverse amounts to be given from each player) to get the riddles, and map and he gives you the map (offering 3 locations on the map) where you can enter the instance where the riddles will become clear.

You and your crew gather up resources, and head towards one of the locations. Upon entering the location with the 'quest' in hand you and your crew are loaded off the map and into your own player instance.

As you login your ship sails into a cave, and in the cave are sparkling fish that you've never seen in the game before. There is something unique about this cave. You all choose the items you will take off the ship and head on into the cave where the ladder leads downward.

In the instance you fight several bosses each reaping its own rewards, and find several resources that are not 'typical' in the regular game that can be used to solve riddles and find secret passage ways. Several ways of using the environment to kill swarms of pirates, or skeletons (AI) are found in the caves, and you can get lost in this cave as its map does randomly generate to some degree.

This cave (instanced adventure) could take you 2 hours to complete. After defeating the main boss (3rd boss) an over arching story is revealed about Sea of Thieves, and other instanced adventures will come in developer seasonal updates.

You and your crew gain a 'randomized' horizontal progression item, but perhaps the randomized item is not what you seeked - now it's time to do it again with your crew until you are satisfied.

Lets say you and your crew all need a special coat, boot and glove set that will allow you to enter the far North side of the map where the waters become too cold to fall into, and ship battles here are far different than the ones on the main seas, and if you don't have the set you constantly take damage. Our instanced adventure lead to an open doorway into another part of the map that expands our adventure and way of playing.

Sea of Thieves needs Instanced Adventures like this, and more!

The devs said they don;t want to split the player bases. I'd rather be able to encounter the people doing this quest to kill them and take the reward. yarr.

developers say a lot of things before a game is released, but they quickly change tune when the bottom line is at stake. yarr.

Instances are wrong for Sea of Thieves. MMO devices like safe zones, social zones, and instances are a step backwards into immersion breaking territory. Games like Sea of Thieves eschew MMO design flaws for more elegant solutions that do not pull players out of the world and into pocket demensions.

God god, god no.

One of the few things this thing has going for it now is all open world , they in fact need to make it where's there's more players/ships around than currently in the "worlds".

Backed Camelot Unchained heavily because I (and others ) want a return to an actual mmo world without instancing.

Everquest , DAOC , UO etc all felt far more like mmo worlds to me due to no instancing (originally till many years later for a couple of them).

@greaseman85 said in Request: Instanced Adventure:

@ve111a said in Request: Instanced Adventure:

@jjblackhat said in Request: Instanced Adventure:

I would like to put in an official request for Rare to add instanced adventures to Sea of Thieves.

Imagine if you are sailing on the sea with a crew that you feel confident the crew is good, and you all decide to head on down to Dagger Tooth Outpost to pick up a Quest from a Pirate who has appeared on the island who has parchments pinned up to the side of the clothing shop and is constantly trying to decipher the riddles that all point to 3 different entry points to an instanced adventure.

You and your crew approach the crazed Pirate and he explains to you that he has all of these 'riddles' and he will let you in on what he knows about treasures buried deep in a cave that is believed to go deeper than the ocean bed itself for 100,000 coins. All the players in your crew enter in the amount of coin they can spare (allowing diverse amounts to be given from each player) to get the riddles, and map and he gives you the map (offering 3 locations on the map) where you can enter the instance where the riddles will become clear.

You and your crew gather up resources, and head towards one of the locations. Upon entering the location with the 'quest' in hand you and your crew are loaded off the map and into your own player instance.

As you login your ship sails into a cave, and in the cave are sparkling fish that you've never seen in the game before. There is something unique about this cave. You all choose the items you will take off the ship and head on into the cave where the ladder leads downward.

In the instance you fight several bosses each reaping its own rewards, and find several resources that are not 'typical' in the regular game that can be used to solve riddles and find secret passage ways. Several ways of using the environment to kill swarms of pirates, or skeletons (AI) are found in the caves, and you can get lost in this cave as its map does randomly generate to some degree.

This cave (instanced adventure) could take you 2 hours to complete. After defeating the main boss (3rd boss) an over arching story is revealed about Sea of Thieves, and other instanced adventures will come in developer seasonal updates.

You and your crew gain a 'randomized' horizontal progression item, but perhaps the randomized item is not what you seeked - now it's time to do it again with your crew until you are satisfied.

Lets say you and your crew all need a special coat, boot and glove set that will allow you to enter the far North side of the map where the waters become too cold to fall into, and ship battles here are far different than the ones on the main seas, and if you don't have the set you constantly take damage. Our instanced adventure lead to an open doorway into another part of the map that expands our adventure and way of playing.

Sea of Thieves needs Instanced Adventures like this, and more!

The devs said they don;t want to split the player bases. I'd rather be able to encounter the people doing this quest to kill them and take the reward. yarr.

developers say a lot of things before a game is released, but they quickly change tune when the bottom line is at stake. yarr.

putting a dress on a pig doesn't fix the issue

Just take away the idea of being instanced and it's a fine idea. SoT is not an MMO.

@jjblackhat said in Request: Instanced Adventure:

@ve111a said in Request: Instanced Adventure:

@jjblackhat said in Request: Instanced Adventure:

I would like to put in an official request for Rare to add instanced adventures to Sea of Thieves.

Imagine if you are sailing on the sea with a crew that you feel confident the crew is good, and you all decide to head on down to Dagger Tooth Outpost to pick up a Quest from a Pirate who has appeared on the island who has parchments pinned up to the side of the clothing shop and is constantly trying to decipher the riddles that all point to 3 different entry points to an instanced adventure.

You and your crew approach the crazed Pirate and he explains to you that he has all of these 'riddles' and he will let you in on what he knows about treasures buried deep in a cave that is believed to go deeper than the ocean bed itself for 100,000 coins. All the players in your crew enter in the amount of coin they can spare (allowing diverse amounts to be given from each player) to get the riddles, and map and he gives you the map (offering 3 locations on the map) where you can enter the instance where the riddles will become clear.

You and your crew gather up resources, and head towards one of the locations. Upon entering the location with the 'quest' in hand you and your crew are loaded off the map and into your own player instance.

As you login your ship sails into a cave, and in the cave are sparkling fish that you've never seen in the game before. There is something unique about this cave. You all choose the items you will take off the ship and head on into the cave where the ladder leads downward.

In the instance you fight several bosses each reaping its own rewards, and find several resources that are not 'typical' in the regular game that can be used to solve riddles and find secret passage ways. Several ways of using the environment to kill swarms of pirates, or skeletons (AI) are found in the caves, and you can get lost in this cave as its map does randomly generate to some degree.

This cave (instanced adventure) could take you 2 hours to complete. After defeating the main boss (3rd boss) an over arching story is revealed about Sea of Thieves, and other instanced adventures will come in developer seasonal updates.

You and your crew gain a 'randomized' horizontal progression item, but perhaps the randomized item is not what you seeked - now it's time to do it again with your crew until you are satisfied.

Lets say you and your crew all need a special coat, boot and glove set that will allow you to enter the far North side of the map where the waters become too cold to fall into, and ship battles here are far different than the ones on the main seas, and if you don't have the set you constantly take damage. Our instanced adventure lead to an open doorway into another part of the map that expands our adventure and way of playing.

Sea of Thieves needs Instanced Adventures like this, and more!

The devs said they don;t want to split the player bases. I'd rather be able to encounter the people doing this quest to kill them and take the reward. yarr.

You'd be able to, they don't just get the reward and it's theirs, they would have to deliver the goods first. It doesn't take away from PvP at all, it just adds another element to PvE so it's less BORING.

I still just make my own content and mix it up. Start with a voyage and see where the seas take you. Every new day is a journey.

@jjblackhat said in Request: Instanced Adventure:

@ve111a said in Request: Instanced Adventure:

@jjblackhat said in Request: Instanced Adventure:

@ve111a said in Request: Instanced Adventure:

@jjblackhat said in Request: Instanced Adventure:

I would like to put in an official request for Rare to add instanced adventures to Sea of Thieves.

Imagine if you are sailing on the sea with a crew that you feel confident the crew is good, and you all decide to head on down to Dagger Tooth Outpost to pick up a Quest from a Pirate who has appeared on the island who has parchments pinned up to the side of the clothing shop and is constantly trying to decipher the riddles that all point to 3 different entry points to an instanced adventure.

You and your crew approach the crazed Pirate and he explains to you that he has all of these 'riddles' and he will let you in on what he knows about treasures buried deep in a cave that is believed to go deeper than the ocean bed itself for 100,000 coins. All the players in your crew enter in the amount of coin they can spare (allowing diverse amounts to be given from each player) to get the riddles, and map and he gives you the map (offering 3 locations on the map) where you can enter the instance where the riddles will become clear.

You and your crew gather up resources, and head towards one of the locations. Upon entering the location with the 'quest' in hand you and your crew are loaded off the map and into your own player instance.

As you login your ship sails into a cave, and in the cave are sparkling fish that you've never seen in the game before. There is something unique about this cave. You all choose the items you will take off the ship and head on into the cave where the ladder leads downward.

In the instance you fight several bosses each reaping its own rewards, and find several resources that are not 'typical' in the regular game that can be used to solve riddles and find secret passage ways. Several ways of using the environment to kill swarms of pirates, or skeletons (AI) are found in the caves, and you can get lost in this cave as its map does randomly generate to some degree.

This cave (instanced adventure) could take you 2 hours to complete. After defeating the main boss (3rd boss) an over arching story is revealed about Sea of Thieves, and other instanced adventures will come in developer seasonal updates.

You and your crew gain a 'randomized' horizontal progression item, but perhaps the randomized item is not what you seeked - now it's time to do it again with your crew until you are satisfied.

Lets say you and your crew all need a special coat, boot and glove set that will allow you to enter the far North side of the map where the waters become too cold to fall into, and ship battles here are far different than the ones on the main seas, and if you don't have the set you constantly take damage. Our instanced adventure lead to an open doorway into another part of the map that expands our adventure and way of playing.

Sea of Thieves needs Instanced Adventures like this, and more!

The devs said they don;t want to split the player bases. I'd rather be able to encounter the people doing this quest to kill them and take the reward. yarr.

You'd be able to, they don't just get the reward and it's theirs, they would have to deliver the goods first. It doesn't take away from PvP at all, it just adds another element to PvE so it's less BORING.

I still just make my own content and mix it up. Start with a voyage and see where the seas take you. Every new day is a journey.

I'm not a role player. So while you're imagining your own content - I buy a game to actually play the content.

I think you bought the wrong game then. Maybe something on rails like gears of war or uncharted or assassins creed is more your style. When I buy sandbox it's to do my own thing. It's the same when I play Bethusda games I don't do the story I explore. Sandbox RPGS are about YOU as the character and how YOU choose to live your virtual life, Not about holding your hand with quests and pop up tips.