(!Map Included!) MAP EXPANSION PROPOSAL

i would also like an area that is one big continent on the edge of the map with large rivers, jungles, and exotic life. with the continent being located on the edge of the map, going deeper into the jungle near the edge would cause a scene much like the shrouded sea.

Solid proposal. I might actually be onboard with an ice area for once. I'd also suggest, a second outpost for the new zones and DR, plus allow spawning at Morrow's. This would make 12 outposts total so, 12 ships possible on a server. (assuming ship population is tied to the number of outposts you can spawn in at).
Not sure how that would affect the servers but, they need to step that up anyways I feel.

Nothing here includes the lore that Rare has crafted.

SoT has a physical place in our world, somewhere along the equator.

@barnabas-seadog And no islands visible in-game are present in the actual world. If there's something else you dislike about the idea, do bring it up so we can discuss!

@geoffman72 I hope they can step up the number of ships in a server, but I think it’s a technical issue not tied to the outposts. This is one of the reasons I think any expansion needs to reuse existing ground creatively as opposed to always adding onto the sides, unless they can up the ships in a server count the map will feel more empty the more space they add.

I wasn’t too keen on a cold area either, but I hate The Wilds with a passion, and I think having half of it engulfed in snow and ice would make it much more interesting and make me want to visit it more for once, without also increasing the size of the map. Snowy wilds is better than existing wilds, at least to me, and they wouldn’t have to completely remove islands like old faithful or marauders arch, just creatively engulf them in snow and add new threats and moving icebergs around them. New islands can be added above them. Besides... I do think cutting through ice with my ship would be fun, and saying “captain, iceberg ahead!” Instead of those static uncharted rock formations we would have moving ones

@barnabas-seadog

-2 of the 3 lands I’m proposing come straight from the SoT official art-book

-I understand this is someplace fictionally along the equator and near the Bahamas, but we have already in the game areas like The Wilds and Devils Roar which look nothing like the Caribbean

• This is a game where we can shoot ourselves out of cannons, I think we can take some creative license for the sake of fun, I don’t see how introducing any of these places seriously breaks the lore

@shoothere4exp This is good. This is VERY good.

@bugaboo-bill Dont you think a world of nothing but bright green trees, and pure white sand would get a little boring to look at?

Will there be a great big wall between the Wilds and the Frozen Wilds? Winter is coming. :P

I like it. While others might not like the idea of a frozen space, I don't see a reason why they can't tie the weather/cold environment into the lore of the game. Charge it up to the Shroud, maybe it's a side effect in that space for whatever reason. I think it would be cool to see a land that has palm trees and a Caribbean look but covered in snow for whatever reason.

@iceyhot-doom I'm not @Bugaboo-Bill of course but, as someone who lives in upstate NY, it absolutely does not.

I’m pretty sympathetic to the idea that Cold seems out of place aesthetically, but I like it in this scenario for a few reasons:

• It’s better than the Wilds, it can only improve from status quo. It also utilizes the existing island assets, and doesn’t have to explain why some island disappeared
• Ice suggests lots of new gameplay opportunities, from sliding, breaking through and falling through thin ice, to using your ship like an icebreaker, and of course moving icebergs.
• As people have already stated, visual contrast is a big plus, I’m partial to the white sand beaches myself but I think aesthetic diversity makes the game more interesting, and to me “a cold wind out of the north” sounds perfectly reasonable in the wild lore of Sea of Thieves
• Did I mention it’s better than the Wilds? ;)

@shoothere4exp The way I see it, if the devils shroud can make a place of fire and death, why not an icy wasteland?

Volcanoes can be realistically imagined as able to exist close to a Caribbean type area. Not so much ice and snow. However, this isn't a sim of course.

One gripe - if they did an ice area, I hope it's not executed like the DR. DR is fine-ish, except I was picturing more Caribbean style with lots of variety in volcanic elements, not all volcanic. One island closer to ancient isles might be more tropical. Another farther in might be more barren/volcanic.
I'd hope something like that would happen for new zones. If this idea happened, picture Old Faithful half encased in ice and snow, but the other half still wilds. Something like that. Then the new islands pure ice/snow/small glaciers.

This game is marketed as living a fantasy pirate life.

So when did you ever see pirates in snow?
Fantasy or historical?

So, one can come up with whatever reason to implement a tundra zone, but why should Rare bother?
What does this bring to the game?

Ice Station Zebra meets Pirates of the Carribean.
Someone's going to want a viking dragon boat.

Because I'm not getting a very piratey feel from seeing an icy envoronment.
I'd rather see Asian or Polynesian themed locations, at least my clothes wont look as out of place.

@barnabas-seadog or Mediterranean

What if they just kept expanding the map like this and then the map gets so big that we would merge into another server entering the other side of the world map and completely make the red sea obsolete and not exist except for the edge of the "Sea of the Damned" so people can then sail around the entire map... no... world... yeah the world like a globe, a ball like earth with nothing but islands of all sizes around it.

Idk, idc but your idea sounds and looks cool to me bro. :)

Sea of the Damned would be a great idea. Just think about it.
Falling through a huge cascade like in the Pirates of the Caribbean movie.
You will have to set sail towards an area, cursed by the Devil itself, covered by an eternal mist, and fall through a cascade to land at another sea, basically under the world we know, with no sky, and always with the mist, the water being ver calm, and a slight eco from the voices of the ones who were damned, their souls trapped in a curse that will last forever.

Also there would be no restriction to enter, basically another area with new outposts that will be set inside the sea of the damned with ghosts instead of skeletons, with ghost ships like the Silent Mary in Pirates of the Caribbean 5. Also including new voyages with new islands and everything. And maybe adding Moby Dickk as the sea anomaly in here.

@lsargento10 instead of making ghost right away they could just put shadow skellys as the vast majority population of enemy skeletons in the sea of the damned. Same goes for all the other regions too cuz the main regions so far have regular skellys mostly.

They could make valuables change into like region specific to sell to the outposts that dont see the different regional stuff often to sell for more than what they are worth in those regions you found them in. This would also make to where you'd be carrying the risk of losing it by travelling across to different regions intercepting other pirate crews skellys or players, megs or kraken (possibly new and different world AI enemies). Maybe make new cosmetics that fits the loot for them being region specific loot items?

Give them an all new rare type of skellys to fight in the sea of the damned tho like a damned skelly that has tattered clothing and boots with hauntingly glowing green flames coming from their heads wrists and ankles. Idk that's just my picture of 'em in brain only.

This whole idea tho sounds like it would take a lot of work on even just what the OP's post is showing, not sure how long it would take but that would be cool if it happens at some point in the future.