So I was chased for 2 hours.....

If you had nothing aboard, scuttle. Or, change servers. Or both. I disagree that anything needs to change to stop this. I don't personally understand why anyone would want to chase another boat for any extended period of time, but that's just me and other crews have that option. You have options as well.

I had a crew and a boat full of loot (60kish) after completing a Gilded voyage last night. I had a reason to stay and make it difficult for the chasing crew. Fortunately, it worked out for my crew and we sold all of it after crisscrossing the map twice. That wasn't the case in your situation.

Just my opinion.

@khaylezerker I apologize. My reading comprehension may not be at its best right now. You did have something of value on board. I get it. However, my opinion does not change. If someone gets a thrill out of chasing another boat for an extended period of time, so be it.

In your scenario, you were basically a merchant. Merchants never wanted to be chased and attacked by pirates. However, that's exactly what happened. Changing the game to the point where a crew can't act as pirates is against the grain of the game's intentions, in my opinion.

Better luck next time and happy sailing. I hope you are able to knock out that commendation.

it's easier to grief solo players, with a single other person, just imagine having him try to get aboard their ship purely to drop anchor on them, and delay them from raising it. a very simple task if they're chasing directly behind you. the "thieves" in Sea of thieves is plural, remind yourself there is less you can do against this solo, and that's just the sad part of the game is that it isn't remotely forgiving to solo play.

the absolute best solution right now is to continue enhancing the PvE perspective of the game so that it does not seem like PvP is all this game is about. for example, i can imagine most people hear of the game through streamers or youtube channels. these channels mostly feature PvP encounters rather than PvE exploration because PvP brings in the most viewers. it is sad but i dont blame these channels at all.

for now, scuttle your ship if you have no loot and hope for more PvE content.

You could have jumped on their ship to let them kill you for the flame and then after putting it on your ship you could have switched servers.

I might be missing something here (I read your OP twice) but if you were short the pink flame you were in a good situation (right?). All you had to do was jump off your ship and board them. Maybe drop their anchor or something while you waited for them to kill you... and then you get the flame, light it on your ship, and log off. Right? You get the commendation the instant you meet the requirements.

More broadly I understand the complaint as have been chased plenty when empty... normally I’ll just “let” them sink me if I need to get on with my Athena. There are plenty of people with time to just chase nowadays (which I don’t get at all as seems like a total time vampire given once the sail is set getting caught/sunk takes a ton of time). But most of the people who do that are actually pretty bad at sailing in my experience, so you end up being able to ghost-ship sell all your loot pretty easily. It is TONS of fun to yell “I’ve got the life-changing Chest of Legends” on the dock as they sail by BTW!

@khaylezerker said in So I was chased for 2 hours.....:

I've been trying to collect all the 6 flames today. I almost got it when my internet crashed, but that's besides the point. I spent another 2 hours getting them all except the pink one. I try my luck with a ship and guess what happened.... They chased me for a little over 2 hours. Yes, that's right. TWO HOURS. In the end, they managed to sink me as I was alone. I had literally no treasure, and told them that I just wanted the flames.

I know it's sea of "thieves" and PvP is inevitable.. But something needs to change. I was forced into a 2 HOUR LONG CHASE by two 9 year old kids with literally no life. There NEEDS to be a fix to this problem. I'm not touching this game ever again until something is done about griefing idiots

You were not forced to run for two hours, you CHOOSE to keep the chase going. You could have:

• Stopped running and fight.
• Use the environment, fog, storm, shallows, skeleton ships, etc. to try and lose them.
• Guide them to a different ship and request support or have them switch targets.
• Scuttled the ship.
• Change server.

As others have stated, needed a pink flame... make them chase you in a straight line, ensure nothing is in front of you to bump into and go board. Within two hours of chase it should be easy to at least get on their ship once and die by their hands.

I play solo quite often and persistent pirates can be annoying, but they are a part of the seas. I prefer to try and circle to get some pod shots off, slowly dwindling their resources as a pirate that stocks up I tend to have enough spare.

@binaryplayerone Rare treats violations of the terms very seriously and you can report players who break these terms.

What are not considered griefing or toxic are:

1. Sailing after someone
2. Killing someone
3. Sinking someone
4. Hiding on someone's ship

All of the above can be handled by using the ingame mechanic of player versus player combat or proper sailing. It is an open world PvPvE environment.

The seas are an unpredictable place and things don't always go to plan. It creates the best and most frustrating moments on the sea.

These moments are crafted by the players and to turn a bad situation into an epic story one has to engage in situation based on how they would want it to turn out and enjoy the moment.

@khaylezerker Let's be clear: nobody forced you into a 2 hour long chase, you made that decision entirely on your own. At any point you could have ended the chase by losing them, turning to fight, or scuttling.

@khaylezerker said in So I was chased for 2 hours.....:

I've been trying to collect all the 6 flames today. I almost got it when my internet crashed, but that's besides the point. I spent another 2 hours getting them all except the pink one. I try my luck with a ship and guess what happened.... They chased me for a little over 2 hours. Yes, that's right. TWO HOURS. In the end, they managed to sink me as I was alone. I had literally no treasure, and told them that I just wanted the flames.

I know it's sea of "thieves" and PvP is inevitable.. But something needs to change. I was forced into a 2 HOUR LONG CHASE by two 9 year old kids with literally no life. There NEEDS to be a fix to this problem. I'm not touching this game ever again until something is done about griefing idiots

Really, you should be rejoicing in the fact that you essentially made them waste 2 hours of their time by chasing you for nothing. When I first started playing this game, I would try all kinds of tricks to lose a tail. But I learned quickly, it is actually more fun to make them chase me back and forth across the map all night. If we have treasure aboard, I sail near an outpost, a crewmate jumps off with it and sells it while the chasers come after me. My crew mermaids back and we rinse and repeat until all of our treasure is sold.

If we don't have treasure, I still bait the chasers and get them to follow me. I find it rather amusing to see what lengths they go to keep up and if we get sunk, oh well. I relish in the fact that I wasted their time.

@swimplatypus7 said in So I was chased for 2 hours.....:

@khaylezerker

There is a fix, it's something we can all do.

Play better.

There's also a fix for dimwit.