Official Sea of Thieves Inn-side Story #25 Customisation

The part I picked up on was :
"...we know that players, at some point after launch, want to own ships."

So what exactly does this mean? Does this simply mean that ships aren't persistent yet? Or does it mean that we'll actually use gold to purchase different ships? Or something else?

To be totally honest, I thought that this one was a bit tone-deaf. The devs seemed fairly happy with the way in which character customisation and ship customisation/ ownership will work, but they failed to address the concerns of a portion of the community. For instance, quite a lot of people are unhappy with the restrictive nature of the character creator (which's to say that there really isn't one), and in addition to this a number of concerns have been raised over the omission of true ownership within the game.

I don't know, it could be that this was just filmed a few weeks ago. Though in general, I'm beginning to see more and more of a divide between community expectations and what Rare actually have planned for the game. I just hope that everything's sorted out by the 20th.

@capt-explodabob said in Official Sea of Thieves Inn-side Story #25 Customisation:

To be totally honest, I thought that this one was a bit tone-deaf.

The part that stuck me as odd is that someone is going to recognize a crew based on their sail. Maybe inside the instance. But what are the odds that you'll even see the same crew again outside of that first instance? It will probably happen, but it's so remote you likely wouldn't remember them unless you had some major interaction or actually friended them on XBL. In that case, the sail isn't going to be the determining factor.
And you can already kind of tell who the other crews are in an instance just by what type of crew/ship it is, and the general vicinity they're sailing around in.

I know that this game is meant to be heavily horizontal progression based, but I am curious to find out if there will be any vertical progression at all.

@k7-issues said in Official Sea of Thieves Inn-side Story #25 Customisation:

@timidobserver I think it's a total possibility, but it'll most likely be something trivial that we haven't thought about yet. Something that truly doesn't impact the players that much.... Who knows though.

I heard a rumor you'll be able to level up the distance you can throw puke from a bucket.

I don't know about you guys/gals, but to me that little circle thing in the word search looks more like the old map symbol for a Whale or whale sighting.

@xx-24k-magic-xx
quite likely!!

It's called Lucky Thirteen right, if you count all the O's including the one circling the Banana symbol, it counts to thirteen...eat thirteen bananas and you become legend, simple!