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I don't know if it's widespread etiquette or just my husband and I, but if we see another sloop heading to the same outpost as us one of us usually backs off. If the other sloop backs off we don't chase them later and engage them and they don't usually chase us. We enjoy the PVE aspect most and we can usually get a vibe from other players just wanting to do their own thing.
@@christinecollins5142 See I wish folks did that to me. I have been sunk mid selling and shopping while at outposts or port merrick more than on the seas. They see my noob ship and think “ Free sink “
I would think it’d penalize or punish players for doing this. The pirate lord and the Guardians frown upon how Flame Heart does things. So you’d think they’d not allow or punish members who fight or kill each other in their layer.
I'd feel terrible killing someone browsing a cosmetic chest menu in Athena's hideout lol This one seems self-explanatory-but of course there are always troublemakers
Solid list My one complaint is that you’ll get hate on your weapon combo no matter what you use. It isn’t just using sword or a sword/blunder combo Doublegunners receive hate often, usually from less experienced crews, which ultimately comes down to less experienced crews stereotyping doublegunners Sword users with any gun combo (especially blunder) will sometimes receive hate from doublegunners. Most doublegunners see the sword (and blunder) as a noob-friendly crutch and take dying to it as an insult ALSO The most important rule is to expect other crews to break all of the unspoken rules
If you double gun, you'll be called a double gunner, which you are. If you have good aim, yoyu'll be called a sweat and a no life, if yoyu use sword you may be called a sword lord. the only things you won't get as much hate for is the double barrel flintlock, beecause lets be honest. No one uses it
Real, it’s a pirate game, there will be swords, I just genuinely like playing pistol sword because I feel like a pirate, and it truly isn’t that difficult to defend against a blunderbuss, keep distance, or simply juke them out on a ladder, thats it, if you cant then its a skill issue.
I hate these "rules" where people say you cant use certain weapon/loadout/items. They are in the game so you can use them. Its like in Souls games when people say you cant use summons.
Exactly, like when he said the sword is overpowered and it annoys people….but there is nothing stopping those people from using the sword too. They’re just short tempered and don’t understand the point of the game.
Well unfortunately for summons in Dark Souls I can give them a smack down and maybe flat line the host first so I don't think that is equivalent enough for me, I just don't like double gunning, I can't do it and neither my friends and they have PC.
Resetting cos you have a bad broadside is running, resetting cos you don’t have angle, cos of islands or rocks or the enemy insisting on paralleling is not running. Resetting after a spawn-camp is not running. Resetting after a reset is running.
@@Razta_S Bro getting out of a bad orbit or broadside isn't running. Sometimes even a worse opponent gets some lucky shots (bottom deck spread/mast damage) I've won a ton of fights just by taking some time to get out of a bad situation and return with a better angle. Hourglass has borders for a reason.
As a person who often gets annoyed by being attacked, since I prefer pve most of the time, I’m often told, “just admit you’re bad at the game, bro!” So for people who complain about blunder and sword, I will simply reply, “just admit you’re bad at the game, bro!” 😂
@@Western-mc8dg I appreciate a measured response. 👍🏻 I do play safer seas. I do both. My complaints are not that PvP exists in the game, more the way some players target newbies in a way that makes them quit, which hurts the game. I have no issue with decent people who do pvp, even if they might sink me and steal from me sometimes. So be it. 🤷🏻♂️
@@BlindCave I’ve got easily a thousand+ hours and I still rock sword + blunder. Giving up the utility of sword lunging is just not worth the damage increase of having another gun. Sure I could kill faster with the blunder/EoR, but if I can get significantly more boarding opportunities from having the sword, then that’s what I’m going to do.
Another rule: don't get mad at the player who runs from a fight. Retreat is a valid battle strategy. Just because you want to pvp doesn't mean that they want to or that they want a direct fight. Sometimes they may even be running just to screw with you because it's more fun to see you get mad that they are escaping the fight. Retreat also goes along with the battle idea of fighting the battle on your terms, not the enemy's. If it's not worth fighting for, just leave the area. If they are too good on basic ship to ship combat, find an alternate way to sink them. Never let your enemy dictate that you fight them on terms favorable to them.
@berenthebear1313 aye what's worse? Wasting your time trying to play the game and sink people or wasting your time NOT playing the game and just running away doing nothing the whole time.
It is annoying when they run and it's annoying to be chased. no matter which side you're on, ask yourself whether it's worth the effort to sink them and if your/their loot is worth all the time you're wasting.
Rule 11: do not steal from someone in the middle of selling I live in die by this rule, and to try to get as many people as I can to obey it as well. I’m all for PVP but I’m not for attacking a defenseless ship that’s currently selling
always reminding myself the "It's not my loot until it is sold" each time I loose a fight with goodies on board. I will admit I get very pissy while playing some days, but I will simply get off and unwind with something else. I adore SoT since I started playing it after Christmas last year. I get my butt kicked a bunch, but hey. Pirates are pirates. Pillage and Plunder is the name of the game. I lied. It's Sea of Thieves, but you get the idea lmao
My husband and I duo slooped SoT for years and then got tired of the PVP aspect. Then we returned last month for Safer Seas, but don't like that you get less loot/money there. We're now back on the high seas and having the time of our lives! There are many ways to play safer on the High Seas if PVP is not your thing, but you have to have a good attitude when it happens. We ARE pirates after all. Thanks for this etiquette video. If we don't protect and nurture new players then we'll have less people willing to play and that's just boring.
Sadly some toxic players are deliberately making new players miserable so that they don't want to play the game anymore, this way the toxic players can claim it is their game and no one elses
My go-to loadout ever since Season 12 has been Sword + Knives. Partially because I love the weapons but also because having literally no gun makes certain pirates really angry at you. Jokes on them I'm the funny stabman.
I agree with most of these but the following 3 rules: ,,I use blunder and sword." I use the sword as primary weapon" and I use curseballs and bone callers in hourglass. And before some of you call me things I don't wanna say here, let me just remind you that curseballs are a tool the game gives you. Just like Kegs, Island Cannons and Cannon rowboats you are all using!
Ok but curse cannonballs basically ruin pvp with how ridiculously overpowered they are. If you have a half decent one there's bo reason to fire anything else and two hits is usually a death sentence
Admittedly for the tall tale one, you won’t know until they tell you or you see their quest table. So the initial attack isn’t toxic. As for the reaper pjs, it’s because they’re always worn by reaper runners, a big ship that attacks small ships then scream when they lose, kraken / ashen ships that scream slurs.
@@Senan_is_cool24 A few weeks ago, a friend and I attacked a sloop at an island but we immediately stopped when I saw a tall tale book on their table. Our two crews chatted for a bit, and then one of them hitchhiked on our boat to join us on our voyage for a bit after his friend had to leave. He was really chill.
My only real gripe is those that think the game is a purely nothing but PVP game. Yes you can fight you can steal you can do all these things. Doesn't mean you have to. And there's nothing better than wasting so much time sailing around the map when your solo slooping only for them to realize you don't have anything and you just wasted an hour or two hours of their time.
I freshly spawned in at an outpost, saw a guy selling loot. I tried to play some music and be friendly, but he blunderbussed me instantly (makes sense, he still had some loot on board) I respawned in the tavern and went afk for 2 mins, came back and looked outside and my ship was burning ablaze. why
I would add fishers to the segment about not killing Tall Tale players. Unless they have an emissary flag, me and my friends consider them a protected species
@@jedicrafter1767 To be fair, there is a rather nice trinket for doing tall tales on captained ships, but unless you really want that in particular I agree
@romanoxley2972 I'm going to accept the rep and food part bc it's hunters Call rep and generally fish good food when pirate get shot, however money exists in fish but money exists better in world event or voyage and take less time for the same gold
Was doing Tall Tales with my friend earlier and we happened to face a reaper emissary while running from a ghost bot ship, they helped us sink the enemy and we gave them some loot we got on the way for the kindness
If you see a solo or duo parked next to a sea port with their fishing rods out and a boat literally named "Just A Fishing Boat"...don't start shooting or trying to sink their boat. The rare legendary hunter title grind is hard enough as it is and we are already dead inside... Just come say hi and we might give you some excess fish. :)
Honestly, spawn killing any crew whether their bigger or smaller is toxic. Especially without the doing any damage to the ship. For instance, if you spawn kill me while fire bombing my ship I won't get mad and might say gg when I sink. But if your the type to sit at the spawn points so you can one buss me then your not really anything besides scum. Also one rule you missed, or that I think should be added is not attacking ships you find docked at a port, I'm not saying make every island a safe zone but I might as well wait. It just feels wrong to attack an anchored ship with no one on it. Another one would be not to attack people just fishing and chilling.
The sloop alliance is great, sometimes also for the bigger ship, me and my friends were on a galleon, and 3 sloops attacked us, the battle was just super great and epic. We sank all of them and it was a great feeling
I just got this game maybe a month ago, and I've been spending a lot of that time trying to figure out etiquette so I don't seem like a toxic player and draw unwanted negative attention. I have figured a lot of these out, but the weapon loadouts were new to me! Thanks for the informative video :]
Use blunder sniper for pvp if you’re trying to actually get good and improve your aim. I assume you are still in the learning phase so you do what you want
@@mothbeasts don’t worry too much about your loadout! My goal was mainly just to warn that a lot of players will rage if you use a sword or blunder/sword. But a ton of people still use them. It was really more of a “warning” than a “rule” Welcome to the seas lad
@@JavaSot I disagree with the load out, since imo you should either use a sniper or a pistol to work on your aim, and a blunderbuss or double barrel should be used for pve. Blunderbuss doubles as a pvp weapon but should not be used to just train aim. Throwing daggerr as far as I've seen hasn't quite hit the meta all that much, but it's still very good against pve. Sword is basically an all-in-one, except for kegs and gold skellies. In that case, you're screwed if you only have that. Overall, you'll be considered toxic for basically any part of the game, or a noob, because if you just try to do pve iin high seas, you'll be stolen from or tucked on, if you tuck you'll be called a coward or not a real pirate, if you fight, they'll run and call you a no-life, if you run you'll be called a coward, and no matter what loadout you use, you'll get hated on for it. The game is a bit toxic, but you get used to it after a whihle and generally it's just people malding, except for the running part. Also if you run with reapers (if you're new, don't use it. It's not worth it), then you deserve to be at the bottom of the ocean and frankly every ship on the server should team up to sink you no mattere whhat youo are because you shouldn't be running as the pvp faction.
People will get mad at anything in this game so don’t worry! This video is just warning you what to expect. Blunderbuss and sword is very overpowered for close range fights, so double-gunners will rage if they lose to you
I initiated a conversation about these unspoken rules on a SoT forum. The toxicity it brought out in people was horrendous. Every slur under the sun was used to insult me. They disagreed with every point here and said they go out of their way to make new players experience as miserable as possible, to get other players to quit, because this is their game and they get their kicks out of bullying others. I asked how does it show your skill to sink newly spawned ships with no crew or to spawn trap a solo slooper with multiple galleons? They don't want other players to enjoy their game or even play it. They argued that because they are not interested in Tall Tales then by stopping other players doing them, it will discourage Rare from wasting time on it in the future. They hope the devs abandon them in future.
My favourite thing to do in sea of thieves is steal peoples' ships. I have a folder full of screenshots of me stealing peoples' ships. Current names at the top of the list are: Minecraft Destroyer Le Phenix Black Pearl Enterprise NotBritish If you see your ship name here you need to be more aware that people like me will 100% swim the length of the map just for a screenshot. I'm not even joking, I was chasing the Black Pearl for 4 hours before I caught it. Never question what a player with max hunters' call decides to spend their time grinding next. I'm not even malevolent, sometimes I literally just steal peoples' ships in order to fill them with loot while the player is distracted. At one point a very confused crew left the coral fortress to find a chest of legends, and a chest of fortune on their ship. Why? I don't know, Felt like it. And that's the spirit of Sea of Thieves!
@@GloboCobra and that's what I call making your own fun. That's the kind of thinking this game is really about. It's not the PVP or the PVE but creating your own adventure and enjoying the player interactions. You never know what you'll find. I've stolen ships for various reasons. I've parked my ships on islands. I've tried to get to some of the highest points in various locations. I've even blown up islands and parked rowboats in taverns. What PVP only players and spawn campers miss is that someone may be doing something inherently stupid or funny. Killing someone who's doing something odd will often ruin the moment for both of you.
I paranoid when it comes to other players, there was a time when what appeared to be a new player anchored right next to me while I was on a legendary voyage, I tried to be nice and gave him a legendary chest to help him get started but I panicked when I came back to shore and saw him swimming back to my sloop with a gunpowder barrel, I ended up killing him and sinking his sloop before getting out of there, I don’t know if he was actually a new player but I treat all players with the same paranoia, im not afraid to light up any crew that seems like a threat, I wish I wasn’t so paranoid but I’m always getting ambushed by other crews so I don’t take chances anymore, but when I’m sailing around with loot I do often like to think of myself as a much more rewarding skeleton sloop, I just hate getting sunk while at islands or forts
For #3, me and a buddy dove to an outpost and there was a fresh spawn galleon we almost hit. They were chill at first because we didn’t want to kill fresh spawns but they started stealing shit so we had to take them out
great video,1 thing ive gotta say tho,hourglass has no restrictions,i hate to say this because i sound toxic but theyre in the game to be used,theres nothing against curseballs,people might get mad but its just the same as getting mad at double gunners or sword lords.
Nah, peope don't use curse cannonballs because they're either saving them or they don't have them. Not because they're being nice, and yeah, no matter what happens someone's going to call you toxic for your weapon loadout.
yeah, i found a new player and just asked if they had any crates, but they didn't have anything so i just told them "Remember don't trust everyone" and sword lunged off their ship after
Man I wish people took rule #3 to also apply to people at an outpost not really doing anything, idk why but lately mf's have just been rolling up to me and shooting even though I have no loot or emissary raised, AND they aren't reapers, like bro I'm just looking at what ship set I want next leave me alone 💀
Important rule for everyone Don't rob people who are just fishing, probably sitting on port or already finished Spanish fort Yesterday i was attacked by a sloop for no reason, even tho i had nothing onboard
I fish a lot and it happens to me all the time, like why else would I have my sails fully raised or my ship be anchored while I have my fishing rod out.
i bought a costume 2 days ago and i find it cool, its the dark warsmith set. but im kinda new to actually playing this game seriously, and based on my skill, it doesnt fit the costume at all. would others mind? or should i just focus on myself
A few things that I disagree with, but starting out, my guess is that Reaper's pajamas came up along with running reapers since running reapers tend to have at least one player wearing the costume. Now, I'm going to disagree with fresh spawns killing because unless it's a larger ship, I see no issue with it. Sometimes you just need some supplies and there's no point making a crew get started with no supplies, and 9/10 times they've been on the island for 15 minutes by the time you get to them, meaning they should've had plenty of time to buy supplies And go around the island. With larger crews, I'd say it depends, but generally same thing. It's a bit more annoying because sometimes you're waiting for friends to join and this happens, in which case, tough luck, but otherwise people are going to do it. While pre season 11 I would fully agree that you shouldn't sink someone doing a tall tale, after it, I believe it's on the person doing it for getting sunk seeing as they should be able to do it in safer seas, now I haven't tried doing it myself because I can't be bothered to try and spend an hour while constantly switching to a guide for a small sum of 8,000 and no new commendations because I've already done them once, so maybe it is better on high seas or perhaps you can't get those commendations on safer seas. Unless that is the case, I see no problem with it. Spawn camping depends entirely on what you're doing, now if you're trying to sink them with said larger crew and you have people on your boat shooting holes in them, with the intention of letting them sink, that's fine. If you're simply spawn camping without any intention to sink, then yeah, you're in the wrong. This of course changes if the person is getting really mad in voice chat or something and they're screaming at you and swearing or slurring or whatever, because no matter how bad it makes you look, 9/10 people are solely going to spawn-camp them until they scuttle, even bucketing for them. It may not be right, but that's what we'll do and you're lying if it's happened to you and you didn't spawn camp them. Noob killing is fine imo and depends solely on what you feel like doing, just like above. It may not be fun because they're bad, but if they have voice chat, then the situation as stated above is most likely going to happen. No matter what, I do agree you should at least give some advice no matter what you choose to do, and even if you sink them give them advice. For new players, I will tell them to go to safer seas. While that's more of an insult when said to older players, for a new player it is genuine advice. You can both experience what the game has to offer without having to deal with the toxic side of the player-base, and on top of that safer seas still offers anything you could possibly need to train. While sure you may suck at hand to hand pvp, you should be perfectly capable to train your naval with things like ghost fleets to train yourself to act better under pressure and when you're getting hit a lot, as well as skelly fleets which can help you train your aim and get used to where to aim to sink a boat or where is most effective. Cursed cannonballs are more likely not used out of ettiquite but because when people do hourglass it's either as the last thing they do in a session and will have a decent number, or it's their first intention, meaning they'll have very few cursed cannonballs because they didn't go out looking for them. Either way, we'll use them sparingly just for any harder fights, rather than because we want to be nice. Sword only has a name: Sword lording, it's also used when someone swords you and you can't get away or they're just excessively good at using it Rolls on deck laughing is used by people who deserve to be at the bottom of the sea with their xbox gamepass subscription or playstation plus subscriptioon cancelled, their console perma-banned, or their steam account closed. They tend to be sweat lords who you were likely never going to win against, but if you can win against them, it's the best thing. People like that are one of the leading reasons that people think the game is toxic. Breaking alliances, Squiddy said it perfectly, it's going to happen. Sometimes people are going to betray it, and try to sink everyone. Often times when I go into alliances (and I have a crew) I will plan to sink them depending on what we're doing while also expecting them to try the same. When in an alliance never put you or your ship in a less than advantageous position when it can be stopped. Of course when the person is really chill or you take pity on them (maybe they're noobs or they're doing something similar to you) then we will stay in the alliance and not do anything to them. Stealing loot, again it's going to happen, and it's a core mechanic of the game. You should expect it to happen and prepare to either defend it or die trying, even if you don't want to fight. Some additional rules: * If you're not solo and you have loot, don't expect people to be happy if you run for hours. * If you're capable of fighting and have a good crew, don't be afraid to fight people, it's a core part of the game and is one of the best things when you sink someone * Do not go into high seas as an open crew galleon if you're just going to do tall tales. (Personal experience while I didn't have anyone to play with, I was disappointed because safer seas was out and there were only two of them. They could've just gone to a sloop at the very least.) * If people get Shrouded ghost, even though it's fake, Don't kill them, help kill the shark, I'm not sure how it gives the achievement, but if it can be shared, share it because it likely won't happen again for any of you for a long time * If it's a solo, do not spawn-camp. It's against the rules now, and by don't spawncamp, I mean don't bucket. if you're doing it to secure a sink, that's normal and by all means go ahead, but if you can help it, don't do it. * Don't make your own sloop open crew if you intend to do anything. People are going to mess you up whether it be by not voting for a voyage, putting youu in brig, firebombing the ship, wasting resources, etc. It's just not worth it * If you join open crew, at least try to help and if you don't want to, leave. Don't fully screw up someone else's voyage for no reason. * Leave fisherman alone, they are almost always the most chill players on the server, and don't have anything of value, only there to get their commendations, and unlike tall tales, will have to be done on high seas. * Not as much a guideline as it is a suggestion, if you have a mic, use it. Mics save lives but they also condemn them. No matter what happens, they'll lead to the most interesting interactions between players. If you give someone a certain amount of energy, the other person will likely reciprocate, whether they try to sink you or not. (I.e. if you're toxic to someone, they'll likely be toxic back, and if you're energetic and enthusiastic, they'll do the same) * Contrary to the last one, some people (namely the people in my guild) Seem to hate roleplayers, I'm not sure why, but they do. I've only found one crew within the last 2 years that was open mic roleplaying and while it may not have been the most interesting stuff, it was just a different experience. in that case, you may want to do roleplay more in a call, and not in the voice chat, but it's still up to you and I wouldn't mind finding more of them. * You WILL lose your stuff that you spent a bunch of time on. It doesn't mean that the game is bad, or that the person that sank you is bad, or that the game is dying, or that the person that sank you is the reason that the game is dying. It happens to everyone, whether they're new or old. It happens to noobs and it happens to pros, it happens to me and it will happen to you. If you see yourself getting excessively mad at the game for getting spawn-camped or killed, just leave. It's not as fun for the people attacking you, but at some point, if they're that much better than you and you can't kill them, there's no point giving them the satisfaction of continuing you kill you. Come back another day when you've calmed down and stop throwing your controller into a wall.
Have to disagree on the fisherman thing. I fish a lot (it can be done in safer seas 100%, although i use high seas) and for me there is nothing more valuable in the game than a crate full of fish. I always look out for the horizon, and if somebody attacks me i defend myself. Everybody should be able to defend themselfs, so i'm not giving you a pass just because you're fishing. On the other hand, i would not sink tall talers ( i believe you're absolutely allowed to ) because they truly don't have anything onboard, while fisherman has the fish. Agreed on most of the other parts of your comment btw.
@@rutyuraptor2823 Fair enough, and at the end of the day for me, it just comes to what I feel like doing. If they're doing a tall tale and making us chase them for an hour, I'm going to sink them because of it, but if they tell us and we see something better to do anyway, we'll usually leave them alone. For the fisherman thing I just wasn't sure if you could get done in safer seas and even still for most people, we aren't going to bother spending time sailing to a seapost just to get the most money out of it, and even then we aren't oging to waste time taking things out of a full crate, so I'll just leave the fisherman alone to do their thing. besides, fishing is in my opinion far more tedious if you're trying to get the commendations
Another unspoken rule is don't be a jerk at Glitterbeard's hideout. As for the sword spam, that's a skill issue if they can't handle it. Same for the blunderbuss, you gotta be eating that muzzle for it to actually one shot, if you are even an inch to either side, you will survive.
lol I shot 1 cursed cannon ball at a ship in hourglass that we ended up sinking, the next match (after we sorted supps for a while) it was them again with 5 more cursed cannonballs to shoot at us haha
As a solo Schloop player most of the time the players are cool and leave you alone as long as you don’t shoot them either. There has been a few times where I was spawn camped. That and sometimes you think someone wants to sink your ship when you’re so close to completing songs of siren skull and then it turns out they just want an alliance.
With the be nice to noobs one I understand that if it’s just like a normal server nothing major you should help them have a good time but recently I met some noobs and there was a FoF and after I blew them up to show them that when there’s such a high stake thing, this may very well happen
1:16 As a solo slooper, I never get to face off against sloops. I don't need private servers but the game dynamic is so different with crew sizes that Sloops should only ever see Sloops. You are wrong if you disagree.
You speak the truth! I was playing with a noob on a sloop, and we were getting spawn trapped by a toxic crew. We didn't have any treasure on board, and just starting out. What is the point - other than their crew being a dick. I also have made alliances with other sloops who were really cool. I guess it is a 50/50 deal. Thanks for the video
DO TALL TALES IN SAFER SEAS. PLEASE. I was doing the Jack Sparrow ones and I was on the last part of the last Tall Tale and I was trying to get all the commendations. Long story short, someone boarded Jack's ship and killed me before I could read all the books and get the final commendation I needed to unlock everything, and because of where it happened in the story, me dying and my ship sinking caused the game to think I left his ship and triggered the end scene so I couldn't go back with a checkpoint. I hope they get treated the same way they treated me in every single game they ever play from here on out.
the reaper pajamas thing is a very old steriotype. the reaper pj's were the only faction costume in the first year or 2 of the game, and it was pretty easy to get. so most people saw it as people who are trying to be cool/edgy and the steriotype grew from there
People dislike it mostly because so many people have/use it as well as when running reapers was even more of a thing, the crew almost always wore thte costume giving it a bit more of a bad name
One very devisive topic is the use of exploits to gain PvP advantages. And what is okay vs what is toxic and what some players consider cheating. Some players say all exploits are fair game no matter what, and that exploits are the devs fault, some players are picky about what exploits are toxic and are frowned upon, and some players label certain exploits as straight cheating that should get people banned for abusing. I'd definitely say the SoT exploit scene is a massive can of worms of unspoken rules in the community that I'm surprised wasn't touched on here. Even without explicitly mentioning any of the exploits or what they do, I think it's worth talking about.
I say one of the more team based unspoken rules for me is don’t blame who is on the wheel for crashing if they were not informed ahead of time This mainly goes for brigs and galleons where the sails will block frontal view so it’s important whoever is on the wheel is informed of what’s happening
What about the unspoken rule of don’t sink a player who is fishing? Also is anyone else who plays Sea of Thieves on the ps5 having trouble getting on today? Cause anytime I try to I either get the Cyanbeard message (Which I have checked my internet connection and it is fine even restarted my router twice.) or I get stuck on the Opening crew ledger loading screen.
@@Eastonfectionits not about the fish, its about bothering someone doing the Hunter's Call grind If someone's willing to get on and fish for (usually) hours, dont be an asshole, leave them to their fish
@@decepticonsoundwave297 your fish have value… you said it yourself, hunters call is a grind. That grind is what creates the value. I’ve finished my hunters call grind and I never thought anyone is an asshole for attacking me. I would gladly give up a chest of legends to steal a rare fish and I would expect any self respecting pirate to do the same. You have every advantage to be prepared for an attack while fishing, so you have nobody to blame if someone sails up on you. Calling anyone an asshole for attacking you when you have highly valued fish is no different than a merchant doing animal voyages or resource runs doing the same. Your fish grind isn’t any different than any other grind and is absolutely fair game If someone is willing to get on and sail between outposts for (usually) hours, why should you get better treatment than them? How about you just don’t bother doing something if it’s so boring for you to do?
@@l2488l Yeah when I tried again around 12 am last night it was working again and I think I know what probably was the cause. Apparently there was a widespread technology outage that going on yesterday.
i run as a reaper in two specific situations both of them i think are justified one if im doing hourglass invastion stacking and a no emissary flag ship is nearby stopping the dive ima just leave two its a fake retreat for a keg play ( i use kegs a loooot )
Not quite sure what you're talking about, but if you're referring to resetting your ship in hourglass, that's not going to get you called a running reaper, because that's a common thing in pvp, if you're running around the map because you have loot and trying to not fight and wait for them to leave, then you're in the wrong because these people got supplies to fight and are just trying to work their way up, which you are now deterring them, depending on how long they sit there trying to chase you. If yoyu have hourglass up, you should be fighting. (apologies if I am misinterpreting what you're saying) If the person is stopping people from diving up on you/ you diving, then that's also not running reaper unless they are clearly intending to fight, whether they have emissary up or not. For the second one it's still not running reaper because you still intend to fight and I will commend you for actually using kegs, considering how dangerous and inconvienient they are to have on your ship, and even still to get on someone else's if they are too far from you.
@@jedicrafter1767 the first one I was saying if I’ve already won the hourglass fight but then can’t dive because there’s another ship nearby that doesn’t even have a emissary and they are being aggressive ima just either imobilize them and leave or shoot a white flare and leave like I love pvp but if niether of us gain that much from fighting and there’s a target with guaranteed rewards for sinking them one dive away I’m going to dive. That being said if they chase for more than like two minutes I’ll just take the fight to save time
What if im a 100% solo slooper who only runs Reaper cause i want emissary loot? If i want PvP i turn on hourglass. Im serviceable in PvP but im not gonna lose sleep if a galleon comes after me and i book it. 4v1 and the 4 calling the one a chicken is very high school vibes. (For context i dont attack people unless its a FoF or they attack me 1st. On the off chance i do attack someone, usually someone who appears to be camping an outpost im trying to use. The second i realize theyre very new/friendly i fix their ship and leave em be.)
Look, the way I see it, they have every right to sink you, if they think they can. If you sink them, then good for you, that's on them for going after you, not on you for sinking them. The thing is, is that it *is* still a pvp faction, whether you are doing hourglass or not, and people will always treat it as such. While many will try to leave you alone and keep their distance, other people who *do* want to fight, will come for you, and it is your fault if you sink or don't want to fight because it's the emissary you chose to use. Additionally, if you run, then people have every right to be annoyed at you for raising the pvp faction's emissary and not engaging in pvp. Yes, there's hourglass, but there's also safer seas. If you don't want to fight people and get mad at it when they do, whether you'rer minding your business or not, it's your fault if you're a reaper. Now, what you do as a reaper is up to you, but people should expect you to try and attack them, and be prepared, even if you don't. I'm not saying you *are* a coward or get mad at these things, i'm just saying how the majority of other people playingn the game will. At this point, if you don't want people to fight you then you should be using guild. Also, why would you be goingn to an outpost if you're reaper? Unless you're trying to get supplies or smth. Otherwise there was no point raising the flag
@romanoxley2972 Gonna disagree with you there, if you want to safely move cargo from one place to another play a cargo ship simulator. Not the pirate game. If you're going to run, especially if you're using the reaper's emissary flag, then the chaser has every right to sink you.
I played for 74 hours in two and a half weeks so far. I am mostly a noob but in my experience the only times I've been attacked was when i was fishing in different ports, when doing tall tales and one time when i was afk. Only one time i was attacked after having loot on me. And mostly ppl attack just to sink me and refuse to communicate. I am in EU so maybe that's something that has to do with it. I like the rush of having something to lose but it does annoy me when i just chill and fish.
I got several opinions of these instances, if you're fishing, you should not kill them, but if they can't tell you're fishing for whatever reason, that's on you to make sure they know, and generally just talk to them calmly. If you're doing tall tales, go over rto safer seas, it'll just generally go smoother. If you were afk, they have no reason to know that and it's not their obligation to wait for you to come back beforre they sink you. As for their lack of communication it's likely because they're in a discord call and don't have a need to talk to you if they don't intend to talk, or if they aren't trolling. I personally only talk to people when I'm trolling or if I've joined an alliance, but generally it's only when I'm trying to sink people. On other hands there's also a decent chance it was people on xbox, who either A don't have a headset to talk with, or B are in a party which if you've never been in one, in order to talk in game while in a party, you have to hit the home button, go into the party and the tab button then switch back into the game, which is a waste of time when you're in pvp, as well as for whateever reason theh game will not let you hear your party when you're in game chat, and when you're in party you can't hear game chat.
If u use blunder sword, ur just playing smart. It's honestly the best combo for ship warfare because everything is so close. And it's a pirate game, who cares if u spawn camp a smaller ship, a good crew knows how to avoid that
11. Be immediately hostile to everyone. 12. Spawn kill until people scuttle their ship, even after collecting their loot! 13. Send the people you harass offensive messages about being bad at the game including slurs! Seriously this community is one of the most toxic I've ever encountered.
From my experience. Litterally none of these are frowned upon. The players in Sea of Thieves are probably some of the most ruthless people in almost any video game.
I was doing tall tales and fishing then a flame heart gally came over to me when I was getting another tall tale and sunk me. I was a solo sloop and they had 4 people
Im aboit to get an x box and im comeing from switch my friend told me this is the first game i should buy and idk what to expect looking at all this it looks like fun, cant wait
Relating to using a sword, here's what I'd say: "If Im so trash, why am I still alive, while you and your entire crew of double gunners is dead?" Edit: I just spawned in and I had a grade 5 Athena sloop chasing me around the map. I have had beef with Athena players for a while and try to sink every last Athena I come across, but these guys were spamming rolls on deck laughing every time they hit my ship. They were annoying to the point that I logged off that server
Let me put it this way: A day 0 crew usually gets spared. A day 1 crew sometimes, but by far not always. I show them what is possible and whatnot by attacking them. I will make it quick and i wont be toxic to them. I am also not toxic regular players who are good sports. That being said, if you are toxic and i am far better than you, your boat will not sink for 30 minutes while ive taken all your supplies.
Now, if you have friends in your crew who are arround the same level as you, shame on you. If you're solo slooping I do not believe you should be running reapers so I do not condone that, but at least you *might* fight, which is more than some people will do. As for catching wind, not sure what the relevance is because I personally hate catching wind while I'm trying to fight someone on a turn, because the shots go a bit crazy, but to each their ownn
I’m pretty good at playing SoT, but terrible at PvP! I’m deaf and wear bilateral cochlear implants, I also play with a controller because I’m all thumbs on a keyboard. You can bet your ass I’m gonna use whatever means necessary to take you down if you attack me first. Most of time I try to offer alliance’s, but it’s rare that anyone accepts. Thanks for the sword/blunder idea. 😎👍🏻
0:43 I remember spawning in and trying to put up my emissary but it said my boat was far away. My boat was gone and when I took a mermaid they were in a pvp fight on my ship
My only complaint with the community is reapers trying to sink you then going nuclear with the slurs when they rest with Davy Jones and i sail away with their stolen loot.
If you want to do tall tales do them in safer seas If you don't want to be spawncamped then just scuttle your ship If people don't like my weapon loadout that's their problem, not mine. I'm here to be a pirate, not a people pleaser. Apart from those 3 things I agree with these guidelines
What about launching fireworks to show youre friendly/dont want to fight? As a solo (who absolutely SUCKS at pvp) i usually use fireworks to show people that im either not interested in fighting or if im sailing by them that i mean no harm. I prefer simply trolling people over fighting/sinking them because at the end of the day both of us will get a good laugh out of it.
Frankly I agree with the trolling, but fireworks are similar to the white flare. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. I know that when I'm trying to fight someone I'm chasing, I'll fire up the flarer so that they slow down and form an alliance, getting us close enough to go over. Though, I never go solo nowadays, it's just not worth fighting while solo to me.
It's not really like you get treated worse, it's just people call it that because it goes along with "running reapers" where running reapers tend to have people wearing the costume. It looks cool, but it's also the most overused costume in the game, which also leads to people not taking it seriously
At least you can recognize where they should be done. As long as you can get the commendations, you should do it on safer seas because people either won't know, or most likely won't care, so it's not worth wasting time
@@jedicrafter1767 Yeah I’m still new to the game so I’m trying to find out the best ways to do things and safer seas is 100% the move for tall tales since you don’t really get a lot of money from doing them either way.
Ah yes, a lot of these have already happened to me and my mate. Especially the "attacked during tall tales" and the "spawncamped by bigger ship" one. Worst experience was being called a "Na*i" because I spoke german with my mate on the open chat and being made monkey noises towards when the others killed us.
