Im DONE with the game this stupid PVP System

Welcome to the sea of thieves experience.
Sadly, weekends are often a little more hostile on here.
I know this can be a pain in the backside, but leave the game and start afresh on a new server.
Not all servers will be hostile.

@needsmokes ok ty i will try in the week then again :)

Sea of ship scuttlers.. Once you have died you can scuttle your ship from the ghost ship, you will respawn away from the crew that just killed you, if they continue to harass you then switch servers.. Happy sailing me friend

@capt-niteshade oh nice i dont even know that thanks :) yep the spawnkilled me all the time no chance 1v3

@marbossaxiii it wasn't always like that, Rare brought the feature to scuttle from the ghost ship in as an anti dote to spawn killers

I have to chime in here and I completely agree. Now I don't mind PvP, and I don't mind dieing, but as part of this quest chain we have to speak SPECIFICALLY to Madame Olivia in Plunder Outpost, three separate times (three separate servers and over two days) me and a friend went there, no ship, looked fine, no mermaid, and there were campers literally hiding behind a bush ready to kill us when we handed in our loot.

Or on the occasion we had no loot and were literally doing the quest storyline, I typed 'look we don't want trouble we are simply trying to do the quest', he lets me hear the monologue, standing behind me at the order of souls, and the MOMENT she finishes talking, kills me... I literally had no valuable loot, this goes beyond clever PvP, it's griefing players... these PvPers are not stupid at all, they know that people need to come here during this peak time i.e. this anniversary quest... so they are waiting to ambush anyone and everyone...

Now I know it's a piratey thing to do, and I'm not saying killing people shouldn't be allowed, please don't misunderstand me. This is a PvP game I fully understand that. I do feel however that Rare should be helping people a little more who want to enjoy these kinds of quests. (Which are absolutely amazing, the storyline, being trapped in the trapped room, learning more about order of souls..)

For example, why can't I just continue this storyline at the order of souls at ANY outpost?! Me and my friend physically can not do that as it has to be this NPC... and this gives campers and PvPers such an easy opportunity to get the jump on people. It's all very well saying 'just look for the mermaid' but

1. There isn't always a mermaid
2. That doesn't solve the issue, you still don't know where the people are and they are often set up and waiting for you.

I know another solution is to change server if there are campers but the issue with this, I don't want to lose quest progress.

For anyone who is thinking 'well.. you should be able to outsmart them or continue eventually...' You are correct, and we have had tactics ourselves such as one of us jumping off the ship to hand in and continue the quest, or trying to gang up and kill the campers, which sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. My issue is not the fact it is happening, campers have always existed and it's a smart tactic.

My issue is the frequency with which it happens during fun events such as these... which require a significant amount of time to complete... and how easy it is for your 1-2 hours of time, to be ruined in all of 5 minutes by campers. They don't even have to work to ruin your quest, literally kill you once, take the chest, and hide it, run away with it, or whatever else, and you have to do the entire thing all over again! And I've met campers at outposts far more often than not...

Any suggestions?

You are making a serious assumption hahaha. We keep our treasure underboard and most of these people DON'T CARE if you have treasure, they'll kill you with or without it. Heck I've had people try to kill me when going to order of souls to pick up a quest, with no loot at all on my ship or my person.

And no, if they kill us even once, we're essentially screwed, they have PLENTY of time to jump onto our ship and take control. I'm normally in a 2 person group. We've been attacked by 3 people, and it wouldn't surprise me if groups of 4 have done it too. How on earth can 2 people ever hope to win against largers groups like these? If there are 3 people camping an outpost we have to get to, and we're only 2, what other option do we have? None. Unfortunately one group who camped us had their ship at the outpost too, we left to do some other voyaging, came back 10-15 minutes later, they were still there. So we braved it, and they were literally all on the shore and chased us the moment they saw us. Fighting commenced but 2 people are very unlikely to ever beat 3...

You miss the point completely. I am not debating the idea of PvP existing, or tactics in a PvP battle, PvP is a core part of SoT and it's fine. My problem is: why the hell should these quests be designed in such a way that it gives campers the advantage, because that is the reality at the moment. I've been on multiple servers where people are camping at the popular outposts as they know that is the ONLY outpost anniversary questers can go to. The idea of this game is to strike a balance between PvE and PvP, this isn't fortnite, this isn't overwatch, this game has a strong PvE component too and quests which are designed in this way give PvP players a huge advantage by giving them a free camping spot. Larger PvP groups 3/4 people can sail around these outposts or from what I've seen, most choose to camp on the island itself, meaning solo or 2 players don't really have anything they can do.