I full heartily LOVE SoT! I am glad they had made Safer Seas but it makes it at a stalemate when you can't push rep past 30 and unable to do a lot of the fun stuff on High Seas. It is a HUGE difference, Don't get me wrong I understand High Seas is meant for PVP but before they made Safer Seas people who didn't want to fight and deal with toxic players who do nothing but grief and troll, eta. then Safer Seas came out but Safer Seas is limited to progression and halts at a point. What fun is that? I am not against when I step onto High Seas I will come a crossed a few PVP players who want to steal and thieve my bounty of treasure I have dug up, which is apart of the risk in playing in high seas. But what I have seen as of lately in the Seasonal 16 for Reaper's bones has seriously brought out of serious amount of toxic, griefing players in High Seas. I used to be able to play for hours and not have many issues with griefing, toxic players who want to do nothing but get on the mic and talk trash, foul language to people. I have been chased for quite awhile with nothing on my ship, get boarded no one sinks my ship but they keep killing repeated to the point of just logging out. I play High Seas to progress in the game to earn titles and get ship decor and many other things which safe seas if again limited to what you can earn and you can't decorate your ship really and enjoy seeing the time you've put into the game to show it on your ship.
Again I am NOT against PVP, I will PVP from time to time but there is a point when enough is enough and stop the dang griefing and harassing when someone doesn't have anything on the ship or just loaded in and trying to gather everything. Then you turn around and snap of a fingers there are the griefing players who want to do nothing but harass and more. I will not full heartedly say Streamers are the HUGE part to blame but they are part of the player base being toxic and harassing other players who want to play high seas and not be constantly harassed.
