@arweicher long story is you cant.... some of these cheaters currently have more power over the system than Rare does...I even posted about this that some of these people can apparently yellowbeard you if they want.... you can report these guys but then they just make new accounts....this is basically gta5 public lobbies all over again at the moment

@guildar9194 gigglingghostly did a whole video on it where cheaters yellowbeared her

@guildar9194 Reddit post

I'll do you one better rare even stated here that these yellowbeard error floods are even likely aligned with malicious players

@guildar9194 yea I'll wait on that part rare says the fix a lot of issues then it turns out the issue wasn't resolved

@guildar9194

Any proof? I can't imagine any cheating program being able to duplicate Rare's admin tools to the point of banning people.

It sounds like fearmongering or trolling in the same vein of that one guy who said the Brig was getting removed; Just a lie to stir up controversy.

Proof was posted on twitter, and Youtube videos where made about it. Unfortunately you can't link these clips in the forums, but if you want definite proof, feel free to PM me.

SoT streamers where banned live by a group that could yellowbeard players to garner a reaction out of the community.
Also a video on Twitter/X of a player being threatened by a cheater that he was going to get yellowbearded.
A few seconds later, the player got Disconnected and got met with a yellowbeard.

Sure they might not have the power to give out the ultimate redbeard, but when cheaters can give out yellowbeards like free candy, you better start worrying...
Also there are PAK files cheats where you can buy infinite supps and do a lot of goofy cheats in the game with them.
Who's to say cheaters in the near future can't give out redbeards or in the extreme case, steal and/or manipulate ancient coins which are real life currency.

It's time to stop acting blind and defending RARE and just admit the current situation as is...
Enough is enough, the era of whiteknighting over RARE is over...

Well, if Rust, Tf2, Minecraft, WoW, Overwatch, CoD games, GTA can all survive with loads of cheaters even if banned or whatnot.
SoT will do just fine.

all comes down to, time. As you pointed, you found the NA servers to be fine but "empty" Well...fill them :P

@burnbacon a good portion of those games have private servers that a large portion of the community use.... so you have the option to avoid cheaters that way.. even GTA5 put the content that was public lobby only onto invite only lobbies so people could do all the content and avoid the cheaters..... so when you post this comparison this can easily turn into a argument that Rare needs private servers for thier gameplay.

@goutfoot-stiner
RARE boasting about their game being a sandbox while having private servers only reserved for their partners which have not been updated in years will never not be disappointing. customizable options were also never a thing from the get go. (Outside of choosing what ship/s you want in the server)
Also the priv servers are running on old version of the game.

It's been a while since i've been invited to one of those, but a bug that they had which was present for months if you tried loading up say two galleons on a server, they would load into separate private servers meaning you had to try several times and waste a Partners time to give you the Server code to try and finally load up the ships that you wanted in the same server.
I wonder if that bug has been fixed as of lately.

@ix-indi-xi who can say but if the cheaters are able to keep running rampant private servers might be the solution if they ever fix that issue

Not really a solution, but....

You can deal with cannons teleporters specifically by loading your cannons up with flares or fireworks. They can't unload these.
You can also just load one of the cannons assuming you play sloop so you would consistently know where he pops out from and send him to the ferry.

Again. This is not a solution. That could only come from rares end.
This is just something that could give you a fighting change.

@hadtodoit

Its not new to It dont worry,he ask proof he never provide any. Even if you waste your time providing proof he Will blatantly lie in front of your face.

Another user who probably play forum comment simulator instead of Sea of thieves.

I will add that I don't think this is fully fixed yet.... a few people I play with are dealing with some of the same issues in Oceania servers still

@look-behind-you it's exhausting to report these people over and over for them to just be replaced by new ones... ultimately I'm done with hourglass and if this starts to trickle into the rest of the game I might leave altogether.... I tried getting champion commendations done today and always at around the 2 or 3 streak mark I had someone teleport onto my ship or I would watch the server just crash on me as i got booted from the game.... ultimately I'm just exhausted by all of this

Didn't Rare say they were making it so players have to actually play adventure for a set amount of time, before they can enter an hourglass battle. This is suppose to prevent cheaters from getting banned and making a new account to go straight into hourglass.

Several years ago i played a game that you had to pay for every month to play.
It wasn't a high monthly cost just around 8-10$. Unfortunately they changed this and it became free-to-play and they opened up more for PTW in the shop which was very sad to see.
But this change also set off a huge wave of cheaters who suddenly had nothing to lose if they got banned, they just created a new account and carried on.

Personally, I would have rather paid 8-10$ every month to the game developers because the cheaters would be forced to pay that too for every account they used up.
In this way the cheater lose something, and the game developers gets a cash flow at the same time so they can keep working on the game.

I’m not saying this is the solution, but I would rather pay and see less cheaters because I really like this game and the nice people I have met so far in SoT.

@toy8161 yeah this is why PC being free online isn't the brag they think it is.

@screenamesuck I think hg should be behind pirate legend

@guildar9194 every ban evasion account would still have to go through PL again to be able to cheat in hourglass.... it would give rare time to bust the accounts before they get to HG