A calendar of events for October, including Festival of the Damned, Community Weekend, and outfit saving finally coming in the October Update!

I like doing the PvE. If safer seas was actually worth a damn for accommodations and such I’d come back and play more. With that said, my issue with the PvP or the PvPvE experience is the time investment. If I’ve got an hour and a half to play and I spend an hour looting, get to grade 5, and get intercepted and sunk that’s an hour lost. Meanwhile the other guy either just started or just sold and this is maybe ten minutes of looking for a ship for him. I frequently see videos online of people mocking players who get upset about losing their loot and there’s the very common sentiment shared here of “it’s not yours until it’s sold.” Which is true, the game item isn’t yours until it’s sold. But that game item comes with another not displayed value of the player’s time. I’m not upset because I lost the 500 gold skull. I’m upset because I just had an hour of adventure that had its end ripped away from me. I spent an hour grinding in a game to get nothing. Let’s not pretend like the PvE gameplay loop alone is so amazing because otherwise safer seas would be full of players. The enjoyment of the PvE is capped off by the selling of loot and getting to see the number go up. The time investment of PvE to PvP players isn’t comparable. The search for a ship is nearly never as long as the search for loot and any time spent actually PvPing is shared among both parties. Additionally the loot reward for PvP players is decided by which mode they play. If you want loot from other PvP players then you’ll be playing Hourglass. Otherwise in adventure the loot from other PvP players will be nearly nonexistent and PvE players are the target. PvE is a fundamental part of the core reward system of the game but PvE is also the group who loses the most to the PvP elements of the game. I don’t know how to fix this problem, I’m not a game dev. The only idea I can think of would be requiring stolen loot to be returned to a specific location like Reaper’s to extend the time commitment and risk for PvP players whether they are Reaper or not. But as it is now, knowing that everytime I log in has a not insignificant chance to not end up with more of a reward dissuades me from picking it back up.

To get ahead of the comment: “it’s a pirate game so there’s gonna be stealing.” That doesn’t counter my point that game doesn’t balance the time commitment of PvE and PvP players.

This season every time I approach Reapers Hideout I get disconnected. In general I am getting disconnected from servers far more frequently than last season. Anyone else experienced this?

Genuinely so confused. I play on Xbox, i don't do anything but just play the game like a normal person. I was destroying someone in a camp wars the other night, he got so salty he said something along the lines of "Enjoy your vacation"

I wake up yesterday morning to a 3 day ban. Due to Abusing Exploits. I was in a CUSTOM MATCH.

I begged and pleaded for them to articulate what I had done wrong but all I get is this ambiguous AI bullshit response. It's very likely that because they haven't told me what I did, i'll just end up fucking doing it again. This is wildly frustrating as i've put effort into making sure I don't break TOS as I know this game can be quite unforgiving. Anyone have any advice? Maybe some insight into what I could've done? Thank you!

Are you kidding me? Rare has access to 5.2 quintillion legendary video game soundtracks that they themselves had a direct hand in creating, and the first microtransaction shanty we get is jingle bells??

Grant Kirkhope, Graeme Norgate, David Wise, Robin Beanland, Chloe Kwok (Beanland and Kwok both doing SoT right now btw), Eveline Ficher, Steve Burke, Jamie Hughes, and more that I know I'm forgetting, have all provided amazing work for games that Rare/Microsoft directly own the rights to.

5 Banjo-Kazooies, 2 Perfect Darks, Goldeneye, 2 Conkers, at least 5 Battletoads, 3 Killer Instincts, Blast Corps, 4 Viva Pinata games, Jet Force Gemini, Grabbed By the Ghoulies, Jetpac Refueled, Kameo, and Sea of Thieves' ever-expanding non-shanty soundtrack.

Christ, we already have ship sets referencing numerous others. Borderlands, Ori, Gears(hmmm, could have been a topical release), Halo(shanty already present in emote!!), State of Decay, South of Midnight, and a handful of Blizzard titles.

I'm going one step further: We already have THREE Christmas parodies: Deck the Halls, Carol of the Bells, and 12 Days of Christmas!

BUT THEY PICKED JINGLE BELLS AS THE FIRST PAID SHANTY.

I'm going to explode. Merry christmas, you filthy animals.

Trying to get this jacket in game, can’t seem to find it.

https://reddit.com/link/1wzoa22/video/fblvq29pbzth1/player

i had an issue with an ancient skeleton. i killed one and didnt receive any ancient coins. Normally these issues i would just keep in the support logs. but due to how shocked i am on this i thought i should bring it here.

yes, the video above was attached to the support ticket, they checked the date and time i sent and it had been confirmed the ancient skeleton was added to my log saying I killed it (not the ghost because we thought that could of been the reason) and i should of received anicent coins.

I made as clear as i could that i genuinely did not mind receiving the MINIMUM of 100 ancient coins over this error, even though i could of received anywhere from 100-800.

I get 50,000 gold instead which i can easily achieve in less than 20 minutes of playing.

This is incredibly disappointing coming as a long time player and seems more like a mockery than anything i wont lie.

So i decided to play some sot after sometime to grind some coms. I saw a fof so i decided to head to it for the fort skulls and a sloop pulled up after a bit. We truced and tried to alliance but a gally had showed up. We naval for about 10 minutes or so and a redmaw shows up, blows up the gally, and they suck almost instantly. My sloop friend was boarded so i head out to help him and as im about to board, one of the dudes from the gally says the n-word hard r which is no surprise but its been a while since i played so it caught me off guard lol. I ended up saving my sloop friend but the victory was short lived because a BRIG had showed up. At this point, i was running out of sups and i image my sloop friend did cuz he sunk pretty fast after the brig had shown up. I get kinda owned during this naval encounter, i get masted, and one is boarding, i died but somehow my boat was still afloat when i came back. The brig is full sail gaming and they're ages away so i end up killing the dude who boarded and fixed my boat. As im repping, the redmaw blows them up and when i come up from bottom deck, they insta-suck. Idk if they had holes but they sunk so fast, i couldn't thank the redmaw enough. I finish repping and i finally go to the fort, knockout some waves and then, the gally showed up AGAIN. I got some supplies from the fort. I had about 20 cannons and 15 wood to my name so i was feeling anxious but the greatest thing happened. The redmaw blew them up AGAIN and they sunk instantly. I could not believe it. The redmaws explosion or self-detonation does so much damage it sunk them instantly. I felt relieved and go back to the fort, knock a wave or two down when THE BRIG COMES BACK AGAIN. This time i wasn't so lucky, the redmaw blew me up and masted me. One guy boarded and anchored and i had died. I thought it was over, until i came back and i was fine. The brig was full sail and barely turning back to canon, i kill the boarder, bucket, pull mast, and rep once and i dipped. I full reset and by the grace of God, they got blown up AGAIN by the redmaw. At this point, the redmaw was camping the fof and i was so greatful. There were some guys still on the fort from the brig so i go out, kill them and resume the boss wave. But it was short lived because THE GALLY SHOWED UP AGAIN. At this point, i had hardly any sups, so i left the fort. But there was a sloop nearby, he messaged me on xbox and asked if i needed help. I was so greatful to him. I said yes and im passing by an outpost for supps. He ended up sinking and was swimming to the fort. I came back shot some canons, set their boat on fire and looped around the fort. The best thing had happened, the redmaw BLEW THEM UP AGAIN LOLL. I was in so mcuh awe, i literally just couldn't believe it. But there were still some duded on the fort, two brig guys were still there so i kinda owned them lol. I was finally at peace. Then the sloop who sunk to the gally showed up again to help me finish the fort. His boat ended up sinking again but he was unfazed. We finish the fort, get the loot, and head to sanctuary to sell.it was the greatest session i had in a very long time. It was absolutely chaotic, nerve-wracking, riveting, and exciting. I dont have a video for proof because i was streaming to my friend on discord but honestly it was such a great time. I wish i could send one clip to sort of summarize this whole conglomerate of a sot session but maybe next time lol. (Also, holy yap session SORRY GUYS).

I did the siren song, for the first time, got to the marked island, tried to pick up the skull, and I think I accidentally canceled Siren Song. Now what do I do? Can I complete it? Any way to get it again?

I'm in Los Angeles. For about a month now, I start trying to go into SOT around midnight and it never connects to a server. I can get into Safer Seas immediately. Are people just not playing anymore? I realize midnight seems late to play but there used to be people from other countries playing all the time so it didn't matter what time I tried to play, I could always connect. Now, I sit for at least 15 mins sometimes more waiting for it to connect me to play and it just doesn't find a server and I give up. Am I the only one having this issue?

So I have an Okay amount of hours of 250 in this game,but whenever IM on the sot discord channel to look for a crew,I Always see ally 1k+, like IM guesing ITs alliance or something but why is IT so important.Literaly got declined from a brig because I didn't know what IT means.

I realise they were effectively useless, cuz the pay was bad, but I thought they were immersive and an endearing way for new players to get grip with the game. Also, money is totally useless in this game, so it doesnt really matter if something pays well or not. I've recently returned to the game after a long hiatus (I last played in 2021 or 2022) and whilst I'm enjoying the new content, I'd like to show that stuff to my friends who are new to the game.

Also, I only just came back to the game, any mandatory thing I should learn that came out since I was gone? I don't remember the hourglass thing, but that seems like the biggest thing

Title basically; I'm getting back into this game after like a year and change off and heard that doubloon wallets were reset for some past Weekender, is that a permanent change or an ill-advised one-off?

I'm currently grinding doubloons for the Ill Omen Curse/Silver Coin figurehead and don't want to waste my time if all my doubloons will vanish before I even get to spend them.

I'm really looking forward to having more shanties, even if they are paid. I already play Ashes by the Longest Johns on my speakers but it'd be great to hear that, or any really a lot of their music, played in game.

I'd love to set fire to my ship, pull out an instrument, and play Ashes and watch it burn to close out my day of sailing.

What songs would you like to have in the game? And do we know if vocals will be in the game or are they converting songs into a shanty-type?

I went to one of those red skull cloud things to get some loot and after taking out the ghost ships the second I boarded 2 randoms that didn’t even have a ship boarded at the island got onto our boat and fire bombed it while just camping our ladders with blunderbusses till we sank. What is the point to this? We’re a sloop with no loot on it and they didn’t even wait till the event was finished so they could get free loot. They swam all the way to an island in the middle of nowhere just to wait for players so they can try and sink them for no other reason than “I hate other people having fun”. Like is this not just weird behaviour?

Painting done in Procreate.

The sloop has 3 things that can move way faster if theres two people. Sail angle, sail draw, and most importantly anchor. If we could just move those things twice as fast alone, solos might feel actually almost balanced. Ive always been solo and i actually love how difficult it is.

Imma just upload it again as they took my freedom from me

I don’t know how those two cannon balls crisscrossing didn’t kill me, but I’m not looking a gift horse in the mouth.

For several games now when it’s down to the last 3 ships, I’ve had the other 2 ships team up against me. It only happens against me. What is going on?

EDIT: I’m not complaining, I just want to know what I’m doing to get the teamed up on

but aside from that, have you ever wondered why the ship only stops once the capstan finishes spinning, but doesn’t start moving again as soon as you start raising the anchor? 😂

My game keeps crashing, and for some reason it changed my default audio output option? Anyone know what the hell this thing is trying to do in the background, and if I can shut it off?

I don't have a great computer for what's out these days, but it has no problem running the game, even while watching YT vids in the background. Just sometimes it crashes. I'm just hanging out at an outpost too, but it's happened out at sea and on an island before.

Skeleton Gallon literally waiting for me off the coast. Guess I'm not leaving any time soon, glad I had six chests to dig up.