So this is a question that I have been asking for a long while, since I started playing back in season 13, now admittedly when ever I or anyone seems to talk about safer seas and ways it could do with improvements a lot of people seem to comment "safer seas is just tutorial/tall tails" and essentially no one really uses it and everything goes on in high seas, but then I got thinking more, so I decided to do a little bit of maths, because I kind of like statistics in a strange way, now how am I going to do this cause I doubt that many people would admit to doing main game playing in safer seas, and its not that easy to go "well just look at what percentage of people became a pirate legend, so I took a look at more than that in the achievements, thankfully with it being cross platform and every player needing an Xbox account all the achievements are visible in the Xbox app, so I went there, and admittedly found something kind of interesting, somehow not every player has eaten a banana (even though its the first fruit in the barrel and I believe its the fruit given to you in the tutorial (which as a further side looking at the statistics not everyone has done which further adds to another annoyance I have which IDK if I'm allowed to say in this part of the forum)) only 66.8% of people have ate a banana and 63.65% have actually set sail, which is either a glitch in the system or not everyone who has played has even left the port they spawned on (unfortunately there is no like 100% sure fire achievement to say "you have played the game) anyway, I took the amount of certain achievements in sea of thieves and looked at them compared to "how many people who ate a banana also got this achievement" and this is what came up
| Achievement Name | Players Unlocked | Percentage (Adjusted) | Safer or High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legends - Cronch | 20,040,000 | 100.00% | Safer |
| I Wanna Be a Pirate | 15,849,000 | 79.10% | Safer |
| Shopping for a Promotion | 6,287,352 | 31.38% | Safer |
| Legends - This Is Unacceptable! | 7,908,000 | 39.45% | High |
| O Captain! | 4,947,000 | 24.69% | High |
| You Can Always Trust the Untrustworthy | 3,396,000 | 16.95% | High |
| What's Yours is Mine | 3,380,148 | 16.87% | High |
| A Crewed Wisdom | 2,287,164 | 11.41% | High |
| That's 'Captain', Mate... | 2,229,000 | 11.12% | High |
| The Shroudbreaker | 1,940,028 | 9.69% | Safer |
| Defeating the Damned | 1,334,664 | 6.66% | High |
| Summoning the Damned | 1,191,780 | 5.95% | High |
| A Spectrum of Shadows | 1,157,308 | 5.77% | High |
| Hold My Grog! | 1,080,156 | 5.39% | High |
| A Touch of Class | 843,684 | 4.21% | High |
I added in the "higher" or "safer" which admittedly there is nothing stopping you from getting any safer seas achievements in the game in high seas (honestly just for statistics I would love for them to add a safer and high seas exclusive achievement, like you log in and get it) something I find interesting with it is while 79.1% of people who have eaten a banana have sold something to get a rank up and 31.38% have got any trading company past level 5 only 24.69% of players have been a part of a captained crew, and only 11.12% have actually bough a captained ship.
until an achievement comes along that screams "THIS IS A SAFER SEAS ONLY ACHIVEMENT" there isn't a sure fire way to tell but looking at the details so far it seems that this game is played more by people who don't care about PvP or at least if they do care about PvP they aren't doing it how I expected them to do it, especially considering this is unacceptable and you can always trust the untrustworthy are both relating to stealing treasure and selling it which if you ask me is a key part of a PvP game about pirates, if anyone else has any achievements they think should be added to the list feel free to suggest it
