Sea of Thieves - Captained Ships

I agree. The trinkets and stuff have become very familiar to me. It would be weird to not have them.

It does make sense to not have captained ship in it though.

What I would care more about is if I can still use my ship customization presets to make whatever I sail in the Safer Seas look like my ship. Trinkets and decorations are nice and all but they won't really add anything to the Safer Seas experience.

Besides, captaincy is one thing we can for sure consider a big selling point for the High Seas and such exclusivity will make the impact of joining the High Seas better.

Remember that before we had captained ships, we were able to use ship cosmetics, and as far as I know, you still can spruce up a random ship when you take it out to see so I don't see why you wouldn't be able to rock the same sails/hull/etc that you do on your Safer Seas ship.

All they have to do is remove Sovereign turn ins in Safer Seas if that is the issue? Hard to think of what other reasoning there is? Not being able to have your customized ship in there if you have one makes little other apparent sense and honestly seems an oversight.

You can still use all your cosmetics, including trinkets, you just can save them from session to session.

That's one restriction I truly don't understand and I would love to hear their reasoning. The "Safer Seas is supposed to be an extended tutorial" argument fell through already, so what's stopping them?

@linowx said in Sea of Thieves - Captained Ships:

That's one restriction I truly don't understand and I would love to hear their reasoning. The "Safer Seas is supposed to be an extended tutorial" argument fell through already, so what's stopping them?

I think they are serious about getting people out of there, at least some of the time.

If it's fully comfortable less will spend time on high seas.

It makes sense for their intent, people are just looking at it as what they want more than what Rare is actually trying to do with it.

@wolfmanbush If losing more than 2/3 of your rewards doesn't make you move over, I doubt gatekeeping captaincy will change anything. But that's my personal opinion, I feel like disabling captaincy commendations would be more than enough.

@linowx said in Sea of Thieves - Captained Ships:

@wolfmanbush If losing more than 2/3 of your rewards doesn't make you move over...

For the stated goal, new players, they are not losing any rewards, moving to high seas they are gaining rewards.

It is players fleeing to the kiddie pool that feel like they are "losing" rewards.

@mangzta said in Sea of Thieves - Captained Ships:

With the new 'Safer Seas' coming in Season 10, this will be perfect to invite friends to the game and introduce them to the game and teach them the basics to have a great experience, and I'm so happy this is finally happening, so thank you Sea of Thieves crew for this!

What I would like to add however; is that captained ships should be able to use in Safer Seas, without earning commendations or unlock new stuff, but just to use what you have. Since it would be great to use the cosmetics you unlocked to use while playing with friends.

As I've said in several threads now, my big gripe remains that the manual selling part is boring. The Sovereign tent is a quality-of-life feature that we earn (by earning the ship). Trying to explain to people that there's a faster way is hard; showing it is easy. Selling manually is only fun the first couple of times, and after that it becomes tedious. Beyond that, the obvious logic in that there's no reason to spend money on cosmetics if you have to keep reapplying them (and that captaincy-gated cosmetics are a large portion of the ship now).

The logic behind slow sales for PvP purposes makes sense, but in a safe environment, it doesn't. Ultimately, I'd have thought that more people playing the game was better than fewer.

@foambreaker said in [Sea of Thieves - Captained Ships]

For the stated goal, new players, they are not losing any rewards, moving to high seas they are gaining rewards.

It is players fleeing to the kiddie pool that feel like they are "losing" rewards.

Except it has been clarified this mode wasn't designed with only new players in mind, as others have mentioned already.

@shelley-preston said in Safer Seas FAQ:

Ahoy! Whilst we do refer to Safer Seas as a tutorial, it's not Safer Seas only purpose and goal. Absolutely we believe that Safer Seas will be a tutorial for many new players, providing them a safe space to learn the ropes before heading to High Seas. But for others, Safer Seas will provide an ongoing space where they can enjoy the pirate world of Sea of Thieves in their own way. That might be exclusively Safer Seas, or it might be a mix of the two.

@linowx

Here's the thing. Everyone that has a Captained Ship has earned it in the High Seas version of the game. Actually earning one in Safer Seas as described to date would be a tall task to say the least.

If I'm understanding the current make up of Safer Seas correctly, you can still decorate your ship with whatever cosmetics you've already earned/purchased/unlocked so if you are a Captain from High Seas and want to take your ship into Safer Seas you would need to tediously recreate it when you want to sail there, or otherwise live with a generic ship.

I kind of (kind of, but not really, since you've already earned it) get maybe leaving Sovereign Turn ins out of Safer Seas? Fine? I guess? If that is the thing that makes it too hard to have Captained Ships in SS a thing maybe just say so? Otherwise it just doesn't make a lot of sense and especially for those us that have all of the High Seas experience that some people want to gatekeep already. There are plenty that play the game now/already/for a long time that are going to enjoy the SS option for multiple reasons. This seems a small and odd thing to draw a line in the sand over.