shouldn’t we have an interesting goal that keeps us playing?

  • we get gold, we buy cosmetics. and then what? it would be nice to have some cool stuff. i get that if they implement better weapons you can buy then it would be hard for new players, but honestly i would really like a satisfying reward for doing something. Me and my friend started playing and i can already tell he’s getting bored of just getting gold to buy hats. and the one single ship we’ve encountered were just tryhards.

    Also it would be so helpful to see how many ships are actually on the server. not even what kind of ships they are or how many people, just how many ships. it gives a sense that you aren’t alone.

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  • The game is boring if you play it as a fetch quest sim. Play it as a PvPvE sandbox game and make your own fun.

  • we get gold, we buy cosmetics. and then what?

    We sail around, we meet strangers, bad or good. We travel the sea, discover secrets, shortcuts, sailing routes, Fish, goof around, Role Play. List can keep going.

    Me and my friend started playing and i can already tell he’s getting bored of just getting gold to buy hats.

    Buy Pegleg, Hook, Sails, Hulls, Wheels, Anchor, Trinkets, Eyepatch, facepaint, beards....list goes on.

    Also it would be so helpful to see how many ships are actually on the server

    Often, the Faction tables tell who is doing emissary.

    just how many ships. it gives a sense that you aren’t alone.

    You be only one, people wanna be left alone...and not disturbed.

    Frankly, if you just started and already bored...maybe the game wasnt meant for you? you tried, didnt like it. Sail on.

    Instead of using your ship: Find a Rowboat and do random bottle quests/Forts/Fortresses/Shrines. Make it an adventure.

  • Want a goal? Buy the dark adventurers sails. They cost over 8 million gold and can only be bought at the Athena hideout. They actually help you in the game because of the cut outs on them.

  • Rewards are cosmetics and generally having fun, utilising the sandbox in the world itself. That's what keeps me playing.

    If you and your friend don't find any of those rewarding, time to search for some RPG cuz SoT isn't one.

    Everyone in it starts on equal footing in each session. Always was, and always will be.

  • @yameen3

    Look at the faction tables when you log in. If you see a little wooden ship on them, it means that someone of that faction is somewhere. To see exactly where they are, requires you to be lvl 5 reaper. Seeing where every non-factioned ship is in the game, will never be a thing, as it's up to you to stay vigilant.

    My friends and I were on a galleon, and we saw a ship parked at a shrine. We decided to have fun with them, boarded their ship, and sailed them over to a different shrine, then set their ship like nothing happened and we all hid. Watching them trying to figure it out was hilarious, and we have the video clip.

    A member of our galleon sees a brig kinda far away, so he swims over to them, and sees they're fishing. He sneaks on board, hides, and decides to eat the heads off of all the fish in their barrel. Listening to them argue and accuse each other, was hilarious. This brig then sees our galleon, comes over to attack us, and suddenly out of nowhere they get anchored and attacked.

    We had a lvl 5 reaper sloop chasing us. We decided to have some fun with them, so we put an empty carry-all chest on a rowboat, and now they're chasing the rowboat all over the place thinking we had something of interest. I was laughing so hard, I couldn't breathe. To say they were frustrated is an understatement, as they just couldn't catch the rowboat.

    A friend of mine calls me and tells me to get on--- he sees a brig doing a FotD. We park at Snake, he swims over while I wait, getting prepared. He uses their storage crate, takes all their supplies, and buries it at the fort. I'm already laughing, anticipating their reactions when they go to repair, or fire back at us once they finish. Greymarrow dies, they open the fort, my friend kills them all thanks to the kegs, and I open fire, sinking their ship. As we get their treasure, another sloop comes by, and we tell them they can have the rest of it, because we see the brig headed back to us. Again, I was laughing so hard, and between the 2 sloops, the brig had no idea which sloop was the guilty one.

    We see a sloop parked over a shrine, and decided to steal it to sink a brig in the area that had been stacking world events. We piled all of our stacked treasure onto the sloop, and went after the brig. The owner of the sloop comes back, fights us at first but gives up upon seeing how much treasure is on his boat. We sink the brig (with 5 people on that sloop, we were unsinkable), and then use his ship to harpoon their loot onto it. After that we just logged out, and to this day, whoever that player was is still probably scratching his head at what just happened.

    A friend of mine sees the Burning Blade, uses a rowboat to get over to it, boards, and without killing any of the 4-members crewing it, manages to steal the Ancient Tribute chest, jump off, board the rowboat and row away. I have the video.

    The name of our guild is Shenanigans for a reason. We don't just log into the game, do voyages for gold and then hop off. We like to see what we can get away with, we make our own adventures, and videos. We'll fight any ship that wants to fight us, as we've had epic naval battles (we dove onto a server that had a stacked FotD, 2 sloops, a brig, and a galleon all defending it. Despite getting mega-kegged twice, and everyone attacking us, we did not sink, and managed to sink everyone else. Afterwards we allianced with everyone and decided to go and do Glitterbeard. It was an incredible night. I have the video, and will never forget it). You choose your own adventure in this game. It'll be as fun, hilarious, or boring, as YOU make it.

  • @yameen3

    This is the case though.

    Some of the world events give you items that are actually quite powerful.

    Completing a Ghost Fleet will give you wraith balls.
    Completing a fort will give you a cannon of rage and mega kegs.
    Completing the Burning Blade gives you ... well, the Burning Blade.

    These should be temporary as per the design of the game.

  • thats why they are deleting doubloons. if they wipe our currency and force us to regrind it to get cosmetics then goal achieved.... we certainly will keep playing instead of quitting in disgust

  • I agree that the game has gotten stale in modern era, but I think there are still a lot of things to work towards especially for a newer player. All of the curses are a good amount of work, and there can be a lot of fun in doing comms, you end up finding an adventure you might not have. At the end of the day, SoT is supposed to be a sandbox for our stories and it's been around for longer than its been able to feed us with content.

  • @europa4033 If you manage to find a ship from the server, you are kinda lucky. The map is actually HUGE, it takes like 30 mins to sail from corner to corner, not everybody understands how big that is, and there is max 6 (or is it 8?) ships sailing there, and when we add the dive to quest and bad server merge to that you are lucky to find anyone, i have tried playing this game lately with my friends after we have had a break from it, and we got bored so fast because we just didnt find anyone to fight or have fun with. I dont know about NA servers or whatever are you playing in, but EU servers are big part of time dead empty. We are not interested in doing the same old "adventures" with map for 10 000th time anymore so fighting players is like the only option here.

  • @burnbacon

    We sail around, we meet strangers, bad or good. We travel the sea, discover secrets, shortcuts, sailing routes, Fish, goof around, Role Play. List can keep going.

    Instead of using your ship: Find a Rowboat and do random bottle quests/Forts/Fortresses/Shrines. Make it an adventure.

    After certain time of playing this game you simply are not interested in finding treasures or fishing anymore because what will you get? The same gold and same "adventure" every time. it has nothing whatsoever to do with if you are doing the quests on ship or rowboat, its still the same result, with that difference that with rowboat its 50 times more frustrating.

  • @fhat67 said in shouldn’t we have an interesting goal that keeps us playing?:

    @europa4033 If you manage to find a ship from the server, you are kinda lucky. The map is actually HUGE, it takes like 30 mins to sail from corner to corner, not everybody understands how big that is, and there is max 6 (or is it 8?) ships sailing there, and when we add the dive to quest and bad server merge to that you are lucky to find anyone, i have tried playing this game lately with my friends after we have had a break from it, and we got bored so fast because we just didnt find anyone to fight or have fun with. I dont know about NA servers or whatever are you playing in, but EU servers are big part of time dead empty. We are not interested in doing the same old "adventures" with map for 10 000th time anymore so fighting players is like the only option here.

    You can't "got bored so fast because we just didn't find anyone to fight or have fun with," because it takes patience and observation to find what other players are doing, and on which servers. Even then, you can create your own fun. Dig up a Skull of Destiny, start FotD, then wait and see who comes over while you monitor from a distance. I still remember watching Summit hide on a galleon doing a gilded Athena for something like 8 hours or so. Watching it back then, was intense. Once the 3 Athenas were on board, it was go-time, and it ended within seconds. It was fun watching it. Just last night we were laughing as we watched Mason steal 7 Athenas and destroy an alliance by using their ship to shoot the other ships, and then smack-talk them on the Ferry, "You guys suck, I knew you'd do this, I never should've joined this alliance...." (he was never in the Alliance). You can't be impatient.

    If there truly is "no one" on your server, I'd imagine you've been able to do a number of Molton Sands fortresses? Since the event is time-limited, gives gold and rep, and since you're the only one on your entire server, I'd imagine farming it must be quite easy.

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