Adventure Sea Dogs

@wolfmanbush said in Adventure Sea Dogs:

Spawn camping should be allowed not incentivized in a pve/pvp scenario

Play how you want, kill how you want, kill who you want but individual kill incentives don't belong in adventure

I agree mate however this is in a scenario where Arena is removed. How else do you propose implementing a PVP faction where you earn rep for killing other pirates. Only 3% of players actively played arena and given the recent updates I would assume this has decreased dramatically. If there is less demand for Arena then alternatives need to be looked at.

I do think they should add more mechanics to Adventure that encourage more PvP interactions.

But this ain't it.

If they ever get rid of Arena, they should remove the titles and cosmetics from circulation as if they were time-limited. Whoever has them, has them. Whoever doesn't, should have supported the mode when they had the chance.

There's no sensible way to allow people to unlock kill-based cosmetics in Adventure without encouraging spawn-camping of noob crews or fresh spawns.

Same goes for win-based cosmetics. Some people avoid PvP at all costs, regardless of rewards or incentives. Arena guarantees a contest; Adventure doesn't.

Sounds good but, I would do something to make it so spawn camping doesn't give you as much rep.

So what people need to understand is if/when Arena gets taken offline, SoT cannot simply remove an entire faction from the game. I agree that the cosmetics and titles should be made redundant however people will still need to be able to level up their Sea Dogs. My proposal is that people can do this simply through killing players and sinking ships. Different from the reaper whereby you can cash in loot, this faction would not be loot based and instead just PvP therefore giving players trying to achieve max level a chance to do so.
FYI I have all cosmetics and commendations however this is purely an idea to encourage PvP and give newer players and those who may not play arena a chance to level up their Sea Dogs as it is a faction which contributes to becoming a PL

@itiwittytiti said:

So what people need to understand is if/when Arena gets taken offline, SoT cannot simply remove an entire faction from the game...

Lol why not?

It would be removing a trading company that was tied to a mode that would no longer exist. It's not like doing so impacts Adventure in any negative way.

Btw, this is all assuming they even do kill off Arena. I don't want that. I wish they would listen to community feedback and build a 3.0 mode that they promote and grow instead of neglect & let die again.

...this is purely an idea to encourage PvP and give newer players and those who may not play arena a chance to level up their Sea Dogs...

I can appreciate the first part.

But the fact remains that if you reward just for killing & sinking, crews will cheese the rep by killing & sinking noobs and fresh spawns. This isn't good sportsmanship. Doesn't sound very Sea Dogsy to me.

Arena works because everyone who enters, does so with the intent to PvP. We all have the same starting supplies, on a starting line, and can see each other. If you earn your kills in this environment, it's much more meaningful than if you were to spend your afternoon skee t-shooting some fresh spawn who just logged in to fish.

I really dislike the entitlement here.
I would love more incentives for PvP outside arena.

Now blocking cosmetics for a misguided self sense of entitlement its absurd. The fact that one should unlock it in adventure mode is a lot more impressive than arena.

@talvheet It's not about "entitlement," whether or not you want to make it about that.

It's about the fact that there's no reasonable substitute for the efforts you make in Arena, without facilitating meaningless killing and sinking in Adventure.

The fact that one should unlock it in adventure mode is a lot more impressive than arena.

Lol how so?

People get distracted in Adventure; there are more RNG elements than in Arena; not everyone is as prepared for a fight as the person engaging in it, whereas Arena guarantees the same supplies, same size crews, visibility of other crews, a starting line. It's as fair a fight as you'll get in this game.

Adventure PvP is ez.