@mrestiercol said in Is SoT accessible enough for non-gamers?:
1* You can join a server and have a super amazing adventure, grab some treasures and sell everything without problems.
You can still do even if you do get attacked and lose. The fun is playing with friends, and sure it can feel better to sell a massive haul, but in the end that cheesy line of "The real journey was making friends along the way" is genuinely true for this game. People come in here expecting sailing sim. and when they find out there's so much more to it, a good crew to have a laugh with is the best way to go about anything.
2* You can join a server an be griefed by "Pvp Players" (This is how they call themselves, for me, true pvp players were the arena ones) and this will make your gaming experience awfull.
I'm gonna nitpick and say that the usage of "griefed" here is just wrong. Being griefed is someone joining your crew (assuming LFC or Open Crew) and purposefully making it harder or just sinking the ship, firebombs, kegs, blunderbombs, etc. If you got sunk that's not anyone else "griefing" you but more just getting sunk, nothing more unless they were toxic over the mic or spawncamped.
To be honest, this game as a huge wall for new players,
Wait you want people to learn how to play a game instead of being god tier already? This is the whole point of being a "casual / non-gamer" is to have a learning curve to experience. If you make it so there IS no learning curve, the game is too easy for the regular players and those who ARE "gamers", and then they go around without a challenge, player OR environment...
if you want to play it as casual, I do not recommend it because you need to invest a lot of hours to "Git gud"
Ah, I sense a distinct difference of "playing casually" and "playing solo". I feel like this is directed at or is from a solo player's perspective. Playing casually is literally the BEST way to play this game. The sooner you get over losing loot and just HAVE FUN, the better. If you don't sweat over a couple of infinitely generated loot things and have a blast just fighting other ships with your crew and have a laugh at some bugs or something, that's the best way to play the game IMO. Sold or sunk; you should still be having a great time with friends.
and deal with this kind of players who loves ruin others experiences.
What you see as "ruined experiences" (even though PvP IS a part of the experience, as a PvPvE game), the people who just sunk you could see as a great day out with the lads, or a serious motivation booster if they're solo and beat another ship for the first time. You never know the other player's perspective, ye pirates truly are greedy and only see the issue from your own side. For every sink you're met with, could mean something awesome for another crew.