Yes I know how often the debate with Safer Seas is brought up and I know it's a highly controversial topic, but I still want to share my opinion here anyways because I believe that everyone's opinion matters.
In my opinion Safer Seas is still just not what it should be. I think that the restrictions that have been added to Safer Seas are just too much and completely defeat the purpose of having a private server option.
I think not being allowed to touch anything reapers is fine as that's a purely PvP focused faction and that makes total sense. I also think that not being allowed to activate or do the Fort Of The Damned is also perfectly fine and makes sense as well. Same goes for not allowing emissaries, they are still technically a PvP option since level 5 reaper emissaries can see all other emissary ships on the map (yes I know some will disagree with me on this one).
But in my opinion only being able to reach level 25 in each faction is ridiculous and unacceptable. Same with not allowing players to reach pirate legend and unlock access to the pirate legend hideout. Also in my opinion I think Athena voyages should be allowed as well, as they are PvE voyages and have never involved any form of PvP (unlike reapers). Oh except for the Athena Voyage for the skull of destiny because that voyage is PvP focused (as it allows players to activate the FOTD PvP focused world event) and makes sense being blocked.
I think that players should be allowed to reach a maximum level of 100 in each of the factions in safer seas (except reapers obviously). This would allow players to unlock the vast majority of the PvE content, but wouldn't allow them to go past 100 into the distinctions so they could earn everything except for the rings (which are made to be shown off in PvP).
Also players should be allowed to use captioned ships in Safer Seas, this would give them the ability to sell all of their loot to the sovereigns, but they still wouldn't be able to use any guild ships or raise a sovereign emissary as those would still be exclusive to high seas.
I also don't think it's fair at all to restrict access to Athena voyages from players who don't wish to partake in PvP.
There's enough PvP only content in the game that even with these lower restrictions players would still have tons of reasons to go into high seas. Guilds would still be exclusive to high seas, same with sovereign emissary and emissaries in general. All of the reapers bones content would be exclusive to high seas, along with the FOTD. The hourglass factions and all of their rewards also only available in high seas. Distinctions and rings also only available in high seas.
Oh also I think the Fort Of Fortune should also be allowed in Safer Seas (forgot about that one XD)
In conclusion I believe that players should be able to have full access to ALL of the PvE content in this game in Safer Seas. All world events (except Fort Of The Damned), all factions (except reapers bones), all voyages (except the PvP one for the skull of destiny), use of captained ships and the ability to sell loot to the sovereigns (except for guild ships and sovereign emissary), ability to unlock pirate legend status and gain access to the pirate legend hideout and Athena faction & voyages (again except the one for the skull of destiny which in my opinion shouldn't even be an Athena Voyage and should instead be a reapers bones voyage since they don't have any voyages and that would make a lot more sense being a reaper voyage than an Athena Voyage).
Now what I think it should be and what others think is obviously very different, so I will say that I think if Safer Seas AT THE ABSOLUTE MINIMUM allowed players to use captained ships and sell loot to the sovereign, as well as be able to reach level 50 in all of the factions that are available in Safer Seas so that they can unlock access to the pirate legend hideout and unlock pirate legend status but not be able to actually do any of the Athena voyages or get any Athena loot in Safer Seas and have to go into high seas to do any Athena stuff, that this would at least be acceptable in my opinion and definitely better than how safer seas currently is.
I'm sure plenty of people are going to have their own opinions on this and I welcome you to please share them here, but do keep it civil and don't use any unnecessarily harsh or vulgar language plz & ty.
