Anyone else finding servers empty?

I’m right there with you lad, I had a hopeful crew but they sailed to Plunder Outpost and spent 20 minutes looking at Sovereign armour. Hey, if you need an extra pair of hands feel free to invite me to your crew, my GamerTag is FrenziedMaple80.

Not empty just full of noobs.

@neolink hit me up too. I'm down to sail for the dancing demon

Yep servers seem dead, any ships I do find are filled with new players that are on open galleons and know nothing of the skele ships, when veteran players are struggling to battle the skele ships... new players don't stand a chance.

Yes been hard to nake an alliance when cant find any other boats period

I wish they would show us concurrent players rather than just spouting the same old "But 5 million people have played" we don't care how many people have played, we want to know how many people are playing. Sick of only finding one other sloop on the server.

A lot of time I see 4 ships at the same zone (usually, for obvious reasons, Shores of Plenty). People usually forget that, if 4 ships are at the same zone, the other 2 may think that the server is empty cause in fact they dont see a single sail at the horizon no matter what they do if they keep doing stuff where they are. If you spawn at The Wilds, the server seems empty, and you go for the south to Shores of Plenty, and the server still seems empty, well, "maybe" is not a full 6 ships server, and here is where problems start. When there's more people leaving the game than loging in, some servers will have only 3, 4 or 5 ships while waiting for the servers at half capacity to empty until only 1 ship stays, when the sistem should move that single ship to other server at half.

Maybe rare should polish this to refill servers at half capacity and not only picking servers with 1 ship left despite the servers with 2, or 3, because with the events of Cursed Sails is a problem to stay at servers not full of people.

The servers are dead because most of us have completed the commendations in the first 2 days and grinding skelly ships is painful with the amount of time it takes to fully stock a boat after each one. The absence of skull forts really proves the point that the majority of players out there want the pvp action that forts provide. The alliance system is cool and all, but this game does not have the content to become a PVE Co-Op. The stories in this game are made by defending your boat and attacking other boats, period! I have been a fan since the game came out and have logged hundreds of hours to become pirate legend and athena 10, but the DLC and the direction the devs are trying to take this game are disappointing. It feels like the game is dying. We need more ways PVP. Fighting the same predictable AI is so not worth logging on for. Just my 2 cents....

From time to time you read a post like this, as if someone's individual experience in the game is representative of how many people are on that server, or how popular the game is globally.

It really is quite absurd. It is almost as if people believe - from their own observed experience - that there used to be twenty people around the world playing Sea of Thieves at any one time, and now there are less than ten.

But, Rare tell us than FIVE MILLION people have sailed on the Sea of Thieves since launch. I reckon there must be hundreds of Server Instances running at any one time; and thousands of players online. I assume servers, in each region, are spun up (or shut down or merged) to meet demand. So, any individual server should, on average, be no quieter than it ever was.

This is the sort of stats I would like to see from Rare:

• The average number of servers, hour by hour, running in each region (Weekdays, and Weekends)
• The average number of pirates, hour by hour, online at once
• The average number of ships per server at any given time

For example, let's see something like this (Just a mock-up):

I'm having similar issue, spent 2 days sifting through xbox posts, discord servers for potential reliable crews. When I'd finally find an adequate crew we cannot find anyone to ally with or it's the kind of allies that get sunk multiple times before we could even get to the last wave. I simply gave up on this event and I think on the game as well.

The "Server Merge" feature has been broken since release. I haven't had a merged server for 2 Months, and the majority of the nights I play, are all bare empty.