Will hardcore PVP'ers take over Sea of Thieves?

@apocacide games that play simple are always complicated when you think of it. balancing a game is the hardest and complicated part.

@briggz77 said in Will hardcore PVP'ers take over Sea of Thieves?:

@aenima123 I don't really think they will either, but there is still that slight chance. Considering how many people in the beta just sat at outposts waiting for ships to come by and they just carved them down and jacked the chests they worked for 30+ minutes to get. I am sure they are making a safety net somehow to prevent griefing.

It's part of the risk and excitement. If you see ships at an outpost, you should play it safe and go to a different outpost. There are a lot of them, and I was never in a game where more than one outpost was being camped, and I played for 60 hours at least. You don't need a carebear zone in a piracy game. Just use your head and outplay other people. Strategy is part of the fun. Hopefully they don't add safety nets other than a social island similar to Nassau.

@briggz77 said in Will hardcore PVP'ers take over Sea of Thieves?:

@knifelife I couldn't agree more. I love the fact that there isn't safe zones, it adds more adrenaline to the 'cash in' aspect of the game to be honest. Another thing you have to look at also is if you do have a lot of chests you have to make decisions based on that. If this outpost has people already there while I come in with 10 chests or whatever, are those people turning chests in, camping, sitting in the ship or what. This adds a lot to the pvp.

Then after we think of what they are doing, do we chance cashing our chests in with people at the outpost, or go to another, or beach the boat or dock it lol. That is definitely an aspect of the game I love, it adds a whole different aspect to the pvp nature of the game.

The only thing I think they need to add is a reward for sinking a ship. If a ship goes out for an hour or so and just treasure hunts, then a ship that has done nothing but log in and try to sink other ships to steal treasure and is constantly hunting you because they have literally nothing to lose, what reward is there for the treasure hunters for defending their ship again the attacker? If I went out and got 10 chests and then successfully defended my ship against someone, I should at least get something out of it, but as the defending side right now, you have a big negative attached to that. You not only got attacked, but used a lot of resources and time defending, so even though you won, you are still at a loss.

That is the only thing I think they need to tweak, is a reward for sinking a ship.

Hunting ships is not the big payday you think it is...

@misterdoomed said in Will hardcore PVP'ers take over Sea of Thieves?:

There are things in modern games that has led to the hardcore pvp mindset crowd as you call it.
Back in the early days if online games and pvp there was TRULY no strings , no safty nets no respawn and no do overs, there was also not all the 3rd party mods that allowed key binds, macros and 15 button mouse to do all the work for you. So back in the day when you fought pvp it was your skill vs thiers and if you lost they usually got all your stuff etc. This led to a more " real" feel to pvp.
Todays gamers have demanded so many safty nets and ez mode mods etc that pvp is nothing more than a griefing tool once players have " got all the best pvp gear" in game.
That last sentence gives me a tiny bit of hope that most so called hardcore pvp players will get bored and leave asap because there is nothing to gain from grinding out kills and THANK GOD this game cost 60 bucks to keep out all the f2p trolls who just grief and leave and all the kiddies who like to click to feel good .
I have hope that after the inital few weeks or months this will be a pretty fun chill way to kill a couple hours with friends.

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