@jolly-ol-yep said in Season 8 bad for mental health?:
@targasbr a dit dans Season 8 bad for mental health? :
There is a lot of good content especially on YouTube that will teach you how to win most battles, of course, you will also need to train a little. In a week or two of training you will be able to sink the vast majority of players without any problems.
This is just false. wrong. Nothing is right here.
Knowledge doesn't automatically translates to skill you know ? I watched everything. Now I'm in my 30's, I just don't have the reflexes I had 15 years ago...
I'm 35 and I don't have half the reflexes I had when I was just a teenager, but that doesn't stop me from winning most battles. I also don't have as much time as I would like to play, work, study, family, all of this is a priority.
I'm not a god at this game, I'm far from it, what makes me win most of the battles is that the game's community is practically PvE, therefore, it doesn't know anything about PvP, so anyone with a greater knowledge wins the battles without problems.
I'm glad it worked for you that way, but stop thinking your example is universal. We're all different. I understand now
why you reason like this on other threads. You just think it's something everyone can achieve. Let me tell you it's not, you're wrong. Some people will struggle way more than other. It's like in school : some understand and apply right away, while for some it needs time, and for others it just won't work.
We are all different, but the biggest difference between people is that some give up even before trying while others try to push the limits.
A lot of content out there will tell you exactly what you should be doing and when to do it.
A player is firing a cannon at you? shoot him.
Are their guns better than yours? Bombardments, Cursed Cannon Balls.
The enemy's guns are silent and you see that they are throwing a lot of water out? Time to tackle.
Of course, it requires the person to acquire the ability to think and do these things at the right time, but let's face it, nothing that simply playing the game can't solve.
There's so much more to PvP than nowledge.... What screwed me over a couple of times is my empathy, I just couldn't but give them win, to those poor kids I heard crying and sobbing over hot mic cos' they couldn't take it anymore
I lost count of how many times I felt sorry for the other player and returned something I stole and even helped later. Games are meant to be fun.
Edit : And those youtube videos have their limit too... Nowhere did I see on YT that, depending on the sizes and number of holes I had, I had time to raise my mast, go back bail 3 times, repairt said mast, bail again, then sail away. You only gain that knowledge after you sank. A lot. Youtubers don't talk about priorities either, they just go "do that, then that, then you won", never taking into account the obstacles along the way (how to dodge cannonballs to your face, when to quit cannonline for your life, clutchhing with a blunderbomb.... This all come from experience, good judgement, quick decision making, all the stuff you can't learn in a YT video...
There's no way to say "Do this and you'll win", because that doesn't exist. There's no way to talk about priorities either, because this is relative.
If the ship is filling with water, the priority is to remove the water.
If it's filling up with water and you've been approached, the priority is to kill the person who approached you. If the water is too high, the priority is to remove a little before trying to kill the enemy.
Everything in this game is relative and we only learn that by playing.
Wanting the magic formula to win everything doesn't exist, in anything, not even in the simplest game.
But it is a fact that having more knowledge of the opponent will make the battles become absurdly easier.