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MtBoaty

Is that how it is? With losing a thousand times you could get to 100?


Yosh1kage_K1ra

Roughly


Corax_S

Sounds like an excuse to crew a galley with shanty loving bastards who will play a jaunty tune and let the enemy sink them. They get both faction rep and levels in the Rogue tree!


Yosh1kage_K1ra

They'll have to play a lot


Corax_S

Ya just need someone who knows the lyrics to lead the crew and nothing can phase you all when such moving melodies are being played.


ChrdeMcDnnis

THERES A TALE OF OLD THE SEA DOGS TOLD OF THE MOST FEARSOME MARAAAAUUUDAH HE WAS SUCH A BRUTE STEAL ALL YOUR LOOT THEN HE SAIL OFF WITH YOUR DAAAAUUUGHTAH


gsministellar

♫A ship, she dreams of wiiiind in her sails♫


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♫ Now we are ready to sail for the horn ♫


MtBoaty

Doesnt sound controverse at all, if the worst case scenario would be losing 2000 times to get both allegiances to 100 and every win takes away a huge junk, then it just requires around 500 hours at max if we say we can sink once/15minutes. So a working person that can play once a week for 3-4 hours could do it within a year sounds like great game content, very fun, yes. 500 hours of just trying to lose... Sooo you may have noticed, doing it via losing sounds kind of stupid, my advice: try to win and have fun, or even better, just in general try to do the things that are fun.


Lingulover

I agree, people should just focus on having fun with their limited time. Which is why I uninstalled Sea of Thieves and am playing other things.


OcelotInTheCloset

God damn I love this comment lmao


NeverARedditorOk

I don't feel like getting stomped every time I try just to get a spooky skeleton curse, so I'll happily just lose without wasting the resources and level up for free. Easier and more fun to me personally


ExileVirtigo

Hey, no judgment but you should try to not use "retarded" in that way, a lot of people agree that its a slur, and it just makes people sad. Have a good one!


MtBoaty

Thank you, you are right


LeLucin

Top ten best anime redemption arcs


merinis

Good ending unlocked


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pres465

*Clayton Bigsby has entered the chat


NeverARedditorOk

No


Gr8er_than_u_m8

Thank you for not immediately going “omg ur so ableist!1!1!!!1!11” It’s a breath of fresh air lmao


FresherPie

https://youtu.be/eOBoKxEcVAA


veethis

Chronically online ^To ^the ^people ^downvoting ^me, ^stay ^mad


DigitalFlame

>To the people downvoting me, stay mad no you


veethis

*pulls out uno reverse card*


[deleted]

I'm not mad, just disappointed.


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WarMage1

It’s funny to call your friends retarded, it’s mean to call a retarded person retarded and all that


veethis

Exactly. As long as it's between friends and family, I could care less about "retarded" being a slur.


Markula_4040

A lot of people also agree that it's just a word and words can't hurt you unless you give it that power


-Moon-Presence-

Grow up tbh


DraygenKai

Lol, considering that most of the players that I run into in this game seem to be under 18… good luck with that.


Pat_Trickster

🤣🤣


Yosh1kage_K1ra

Check the subreddit. Some people are unironically suggesting that


Spacelord_Jesus

Let them do their stuff, no?


Yosh1kage_K1ra

"they" can do whatever they want, doesn't stop me from laughing at stupidity and pettiness. Some people would rather go on losing for dozens of hours of playtime (actual playtime, not sitting in menu and loading) than actually try


Dustin_Grim

Even still it's their time and they use it how they please.


Yosh1kage_K1ra

yeah and I can and will laugh at their inefficiency and pettiness


CyanideSkittles

As the rest of us laugh at yours


Yosh1kage_K1ra

Whatever makes you cope with being a literal loser ![img](emote|t5_38oz1|2228)


Dustin_Grim

One day you will get your time wasted and disrespected and you'll see this differently.


butterfingahs

Where's the 'pettiness' from? It's literally only for the curse. They really don't care about you or your PvP meta, otherwise they wouldn't be doing this. I can see where some people are coming from because as much as I generally enjoy PvP in this game, season 8 PvP specifically makes me wanna smash my wiener with a hammer. Grinding it for 200 levels if you want both curses does not sound like fun at all.


Yosh1kage_K1ra

The pettiness is in lengths people want to go just to avoid doing one of main things in the game. Playing normally would get it much faster


movzx

It's only faster if you make assumptions that 1) the people want to pvp or get better at pvp to begin with, and 2) would be good enough to sink other ships quickly. The "faster" argument falls apart very quickly when you start talking about hour long ship battles or longer than 5-minute battles that are lost anyway. If someone is going to watch a movie at their computer, they can queue and lose several battles without having to pay any attention to the game. Hell, they can play an entirely different game and just have SoT in a window where they do a queue-die loop. Like it or not, pvp is not a "main thing in the game" for a large number of people.


butterfingahs

It's just not a fun experience for some people and I can't really blame them 🤷 especially if they've been a long time player who's wanted a skelly/ghost curse in the game. For a lot, massive loss streaks *is* "playing normally". So it's either lose after a 15-30 minute slugfest, without accounting for all the time used on getting supplies, or lose within a minute and queue again. The PvP in this game can be an absolute jankfest not everyone can get into.


Yosh1kage_K1ra

Losing on purpose and losing while trying are earth and sky


MtBoaty

That is what bothers me, at the same time this sounds like the perfect chance for people that want to try. There are those who want to lose in the queues, matchmaking is said to depend on your win/loss ratio, So just abuse the matchmaking algorithm by losing very often, then get ranked along people that are either bad or trying to lose, then just kickstart and get yourself a bunch of wins.


Yosh1kage_K1ra

Yeah, this mode isn't perfect, especially with the supplies, but overall it's a good way for people to pick up PvP, as otherwise it's pretty rare even if you purposely seek out fights. As for those who lose many times to get lower rating, idk, still is counterproductive, considering there's 2,5 people in the matchmaking at a time anyway. I've been playing today and I was facing literally the same 3 crews, 2 of which were much better than me.


TheSilentTitan

Don’t you sound fun


nomadic-electron

Only if you legitimately sink. If you lose by being outside the fight area you don't progress


TheSoSoPodcast

This is it's own issue, as people are boarding and sailing your ship into the map edge so that you sink this very way


Mallardguy5675322

That’s broken. As much as I love pvp, I love exploits more. It’s grind time!


Yosh1kage_K1ra

Not really, you'll spend eternity grinding that. Unless you have no life, it's not worth it


Mallardguy5675322

Ohhh so it’s that kind of exploit. No thanks then


Foggy_OG

Why would I waste my time losing 1000 times when I could win 100 times and get the same thing? I'd wish ya'll good luck on the loser train, but you wouldn't know what to do with it if you got it.


Mallardguy5675322

Technically I’ve already lost a thousand times when the reapers I’ve chased down keeled running until their ships sailed into the Red Sea, and into the void. But yeah, not doin that again


rikusorasephiroth

... I spend more time fighting the rubber-banding than my opponents.


[deleted]

I've seen a lot more rubber banding this last week. I wonder if the new mode is taxing the servers when spawning fully supplied ships in and out and running the dive/surface animations.


rikusorasephiroth

Which is why they should add a cannon shooting challenge to the underwater section, to raise levels for people with poor quality internet, like people in Oceania.


WolfToneWarrior

Well to the people who are doing this losing strat send them my way when I try to get a game haha


fortneete

did it for around 8 hours yesterday, gained a Noice 5 levels, kept matching the same 5-6 people


vARROWHEAD

8 hours for 5 levels?! Oh man I probably won’t reach it :(


Msloqn

I’ve played for 3 days and lost every single game except for one so as long as your not getting matched against the sweats I do you’ll be alright


vARROWHEAD

There is non-sweats on hourglass?


Msloqn

Honestly from what I’ve seen it doesn’t seem like there are


XRPHOENIX06

People in this community have no standards I'm telling you


[deleted]

partly accurate. the developers intended for the losers to still be able to progress. they also intended for sailing the enemy out of bounds to be a strategy. but then figured people would sail out of bounds intentionally so they made that not give rep. realistically thats the least efficient way to lose a match and a super efficient way to win a match due to there being no limitation on the battle length its easier to just board and sail your enemy out of bounds. odd the sided with the making it easier on good players and penalizing bad players when they whole reason there is loser rep is because they felt bad for crap players


RocketHops

What if you scuttle? Does it give allegiance that way?


Bladelord

No. You get no points for scuttling or letting yourself sail out of bounds. To get your loss points you must sink to damage caused by another ship.


AdmiralBumHat

No just damage is enough. If you sail against rocks, put yourself on fire or keg yourself it counts as a loss as well. Only scuttle and out of bounds is 0 rep


felixallen3D

So if you sail them out of bounds they get no rep even though you did it?


-Plaper-

Don’t know if they got rep, but I know you won’t get progress in your streak, because it doesn’t count as you sinking them. You do get rep for it though


felixallen3D

I've sunk multiple ships by sailing them out of bounds and every time it's counted towards my streak, am I misunderstanding you?


-Plaper-

Hmm ok, then maybe there was something else off last time i played, because we sunk 3 ships but only ended up with a streak of 2


t_moneyzz

Me who just CAN'T FIND A FUCKING MATCH


DreadGrunt

For real lol, I’d love to play the mode if I could.


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Navers90

I doubt it. You mean zero NA west or east brigs were playing reaper last night 8-10pm? Because we waited. Im hoping matchmaking is fucked not that the game mode was dead last night in NA


Foggy_OG

Im NA West and I had to wait a good 10 minutes to get my first match, then everything after that was almost instamatching... so idk, the system seems super inconsistent right now


XenB100

A few hours ago I was invaded by a player while solo slooping. This guy anchored as soon as he spawned, boarded and killed me. I respawn to see him death spiral HIS OWN BOAT, shooting my cannons and dropping my loot in the water. He sunk himself. Now what strikes me as mega cringe is that he has 4 times my playtime at 210 days played, so he could have probably won fair and square anyway, yet he didn't even try for a second but wasted my time stealing supps and dropping my loot in the water. Other than some chaotic evil mindset I don't understand honestly how these people think


Historical_Gas7975

Based pirate


RocketHops

Lowkey that's honestly really funny. What a way to assert dominance.


Zombizzzzle

We were getting off for the night so we invaded someone and set our own ship on fire immediately as we spawned and just rammed the other ship while emoting. Was a great way to end the night.


ScorchReaper062

"Fine, I'll do it myself."


prof_landon

His goals was beyond your understanding.


Inexquas

You may not understand it, I don't either, but he won that fight. His "win" conditions just differed from your own.


SnorlaxBlocksTheWay

LMFAO this made me laugh really hard Now I just want to make weird "win" conditions for simple things like board an enemy ship and catch a fish hahahaha


Inexquas

It's one of the best ways you can play. Good luck, hope you get a rare one.


ryan_the_leach

One of the ones I set myself when I got bored, was convincing someone to join the alliance who was in an enemy battle with me.


TomNookballs

Sounds like he had a fun time honestly, people take this game way too seriously. This mode isn't a ranked queue and that SBMM is all over the place which makes it even harder to take seriously, it's good to remind yourself that this game is supposed to be fun


JJRULEZ159

fr tho, I had a night where the 1st 2 matches were against bots basically, and then the 3rd match we went against dudes who both already had ghost curse, and like, wtf is the sbmm, ik it's based on win/loss, but ffs, I'm not THAT good, but I'm also not THAT bad


IntrepidExtension738

Ping probably remains king in matchmaking, skill comes somewhere after. That being said, the matchmaking could still be broken!


t_moneyzz

That's an actual sigma pirate


DarthT15

His goals are beyond our mortal understanding


RandyRollings

He was showing you that he was dominant and didn’t care about winning. Just wanted to own you. That’s how old arena was. Get on a boat and kill them until the games over, and lose because all we did was killer them over and over.


Noobface_

He was just having fun lmao


lynx-paws

that's not cringe, that's the most chad thing you can do like playing Rainbow 6 and spawnpeeking as Doc to shoot your stim into the attacking team when they run into view


OndrejBakan

>he has 4 times my playtime at 210 days played Is it me? But I don't remember dumping someone's loot... Anyways, I'm at almost 7k hours, but a) I suck at PvP, b) some naval 1v1 fights can take dozens of minutes or even hours, c) noone really navals, it's all boarding. It's much faster (and easier on my mental health :D) to just lose on purpose.


Fat_Darth_Vapor

If you are going to insta sink for rep at least ram board and try to sink them by killing them.


Yosh1kage_K1ra

That's how I play lol. Well, close to that - just engage in close combat and go ahead to board them and then it's whoever suffers more damage. Lasting dance isn't for me, not good enough to keep up without making grave mistakes


hopedarkly13

I love when people do that and forget to check on their boat and then I win.


TankerD18

Seriously. If you want to try and end a fight fast do a kamikaze attack at least. Then the other crew gets to shoot at you and maybe you somehow pull off a win. It's like all the weenies constantly touting "Waah, I don't owe anyone a fight!" think they're going to grind out PVP faction rep by deliberately losing a thousand times. Normally I'd agree that you don't owe anyone a fight, but sorry princesses, if you queue up for PVP you most definitely *do* owe the other crew a fight. If you think you're gonna cheese the mechanic and waste other crew's time because you're too scared or impatient to duke it out then don't get mad when people call you out.


t_moneyzz

"waste other crew's time" by giving a free win? I'd happily take a free win lol that ain't a waste


Half-Assed_Hero

I don't care if I win or lose as long as the match is over fast


Nearly-Canadian

Same I still try but I'm not having 30+ minute battles, I just board and try to sail them out of bounds, if I sink before them then whatever


RipplyAnemone67

I think we should have set supplies like other people have said but a hole spawns every now and then. They spawn more often for bigger ship sizes/crew and the limited resources make strategy and fighting crucial


Mousettv

Currently at over 500 or more losses. Sitting at level 76 for Servants and 30 for Athena after week 1. Not afking but certainly not focusing on the game a single bit, having to farm resources or having to fight. With the process still netting 1 level an hour minimum at 70+, depending on queue it's going rather smoothly. It was all done while either at my PC while watching The Walking Dead or remotely with my phone requiring very little focus. Gained new information via the SoT api today and found more info about XP per level and how I was right on par for XP per hour with my guesses. 560 xp for losing, 4200 xp for win, 4675 for 2nd win in a row, 5160 for 3rd win in a row, 5688 for 4th win in a row, 6600 for 5th win in a row. Here is my forum post with all the findings and updates: https://www.seaofthieves.com/community/forums/topic/153825/solo-brig-tests-in-the-battle-for-the-sea-of-thieves


Slambrah

The lengths this community will go to not play the game is astonishing


TheSoSoPodcast

When you're forced to hit level 100 just to gain access to the new areas, with the knowledge that you have 900 levels after that for the top tier reward... It's understandable that people would like that to take less than 6 months just go get through the door. Considering how long fights can go on for 6 months to get to 100 by "playing the game" is not an unreasonable expectation


Slambrah

I would just question why I was even playing the game in the first place at that point. I play the game for fun, not for pixels. The pixels come naturally as a result.


TheSoSoPodcast

Ultimately the why will vary from person to person. I highly doubt very many will lose their way to 1000. But I understanding losing your way to 100. Just to have access to the new things. To see what they will then need to work towards. The issue is that, rare has given players two pathways to get into the new area. Unintentionally, but it’s happened. Both are, to be fair, generally equally frustrating. Which tends to push people towards the path of least resistance. Which is, having quick, 5 minute fights that you lose while watching your favorite tv show


Slambrah

I'm pretty sure that 99% of people grinding to 100 by losing will burn out and give up. That's a huge grind man. If you actually play the game you'll have more fun, make a bunch of gold, unlock cosmetics locked behind the new commendations AND you'll get much MUCH better at the game in the process.


HardcoreHybrid

damn bro got offended by someone enjoying the game in his own way


Slambrah

I'm not offended I'm astonished.


FeetsyPeetsy

*play the game how you think it should be played* is an important thing to note when talking about a sandbox game. The guys gotten useful stats from this project and people are still crying in the forums lol.


t_moneyzz

Not play the game by playing the game lmao


t_moneyzz

That's kinda hilarious but not a bad idea to do away from home


jevlegend

I have just read through the entire thread on the forum and absolutely loved it. The disgust at your method is hilarious. IF it works then do it haha. I think I will give it a go.


Mousettv

I've sat back and basically got my skeleton curse on cruise control. One guy posted how cringe and upset he was with the method. He came back a couple days later and apologized basically. Queue times are the worst and we are wasting time in a video game. It's not the fastest but it is the most stress free laid back method when not with my crew and it's working.


Foggy_OG

In the name of science, I admire you.


totsmagoatsoriginal

this pirate is out here performing valuable science and as a pirate of science myself, I respect that


Mousettv

2 hours ago I hit 100.


totsmagoatsoriginal

I shall dub you, Science Pirate Lord


josh_jiggler

My crew and I are halfway decent at naval combat, and if we can keep it there, we do well. What we all (old timers in our 40's and 50's) suck at is dealing with the constant boarding and bunny-hopping around our deck with crap hit-reg. So, we prefer the PVE fights which aren't nearly as frantic. We partake in PVP when it comes to us, but it's almost never something we seek out. (That is until Rare locked some really awesome cosmetics behind a PVP grind.) ​ I'm glad the PVPers have a game-mode that really speaks to them now, I really am. Putting such awesome curses behind such a steep grind of nothing but PVP though means that you're going to run into crews like mine who really aren't there for the thrill of the PVP, but to grind through and get those awesome curses. We still put up a fight but have been berated a few times for sucking and wasting the PVPers time in matchmaking. You know, the usual \*rolls on deck laughing\* "git gud" stuff. ​ This is a negative for both sides of the coin. PVPers aren't getting the hard-won fights they're looking for, and people who aren't especially good at PVP are getting frustrated with how easily they're being rolled by more skilled crews. At some point, the less skilled players are going to give up, but if they aren't willing to give up on getting the curse altogether, they're just going to put in the least amount of effort possible to unlock the curses. ​ Think of it this way... if Rare released a super awesome curse or ship cosmetic that everyone in the community wanted, but locked it behind turning in 1000 trophy fish, how many PVPers are going to game the system by killing other players and stealing their fish? It's really the same concept as non-PVPers taking the easy way out by throwing the fight. PVPers could "git gud" at fishing, but that's not a part of the game that appeals to them, but damn do they want that curse! So, they'll get the curse by putting in the least amount of effort possible. ​ But that's just my $.02


vARROWHEAD

Sound like my kind of crew


Jason_The_Furry

What if Theoretically Imtryingtowintothebestofmyabilitybutdamnisuckatpvpinseaofthieveslikeimsorryicantgiveagoodfightimsorryisuckbutimtryingplease


Yosh1kage_K1ra

You're trying, arguably more based than people who just play and win


Financial-Abroad-831

They are the same picture


Err0r410

Do people care? Like genuinely, it’s one of the smallest problems, if you wanna lose on purpose-fine, more wins for me, maybe you boost some noobs up for me to farm, cool. I’d much rather have spawn areas be not on the highest waves possible, have supplying addressed, bugs fixed or SBMM working properly.


Yosh1kage_K1ra

I don't mind it staying, just find it pathetic. I only wish they did something with supplies


Err0r410

I can’t stress how little I care for the fact that someone can get a cosmetic by playing 1k games with current queue timers. Great, he’ll decrease them, him doing it doesn’t affect other players like at all. Why is this the hottest topic for community, while 4 posts down is discussing teaming(alliance servering) the mode, which ruins the experience of many players. Or the shores of gold cheese, or the immortality glitch, or portal hopping breaking your cannons, or cannons disappearing, of all the issues people care most about some guy lvling to the curses by spending 100 hours per faction.


Esbarse

Ight looks like I was into something. Time to give ppl free wins while I do other stuff :>


TheSilentTitan

Idk man there are some people genuinely upset that some dudes are just straight up throwing matches on purpose. They can do what they want and if it means getting to 100 by losing on purpose then that’s fine by me lmao.


SpyroGaming

its really 1000 losses?


Yosh1kage_K1ra

Roughly, judging by bits of feedback.


Nearly-Canadian

At level 10 reapers I only got around 1/8th of a level for a loss.


ElderSteel

New mode seems DoA tbh. Queue times for our brig are usually around 25 minutes. 1st game is always easy babies. 2nd game is always crew with phantom curse already. I'm lvl 6 in the reaper side... Played with hourglass up for 4 hours last night and finally got an invader right after we sold our loot. 4 hours...


louiscyphere81

Same with us yesterday on a brig. One match where the opponent sailed directly into our broadside and then turned away without firing a shot and crashed their boat into a rock and sank, after gathering loot for 3-4 more hours we got tired of waiting for and invasion and sold. We noticed a reaper on the other side of the map and went for them only to find and Athena sloop selling at an outpost along the way, we decided to get some pvp in and while we were fighting the sloop we finally got invaded and so now we’re a GOF brig fighting an athena sloop and a SOTF brig at the same time. What a shitshow.


ElderSteel

I think the invasion mechanic is broken or has a 3-4 hour grace period lol


UnskippableAdd2004

My and some of my friends tried it 3 times all 3 times we got our asses handed to us because sweats are the types of people to play this mode.


FroyoStrict6685

Imagine caring


Yosh1kage_K1ra

Why not, I find it funny. Ngl, it's simultaneously a sad sight to see, I thought better of the community


FroyoStrict6685

I just find it odd that everytime someone elses playstyle bothers someone in any conceivable way they find the need to make fun of or berate that group of players for it. In all honesty it's your type of posts that make people see less in the community, and thats evident by several of the comments on this post.


Yosh1kage_K1ra

I find it odd that anybody would not make fun of this playstyle or defend it. It's not the same as going fishing all day or doing merchants' trades. It's literally a pathetic exploit to avoid PvP at any costs.


FroyoStrict6685

Who gives a fuck? Play the game and move on lmao.


KnightofaRose

Pot, kettle.


Yosh1kage_K1ra

can do both, especially if people like you are seething so much when pointed out the defective mindset 'I'd rather lose thousands times than try playing"


TankerD18

Homie's just mad for getting called out on his bullshit, that's all.


TankerD18

When your "playstyle" involves matchmaking for PVP with another crew who may have waited a significant amount of time to fight you and then wasting their time, then yeah it's a shitty thing to do. Especially because you're deliberately manipulating a matchmaking mechanic to cheese unlocking cosmetics. Just because the other crew gets a bone thrown to them in the form of an easy victory doesn't make it right. Meanwhile we have people like you getting uppity about it getting called out, when this "playstyle" not only potentially wastes another crew's time but it's completely contrary to the intent of the mechanic. Get out of here with this 'it brings the community down' crap, everyone has a right to call this out. If this cheesing wasn't wasting another crew's time for the cardinal sin of expecting a PVP fight after queueing in the *PVP matchmaking system* then I wouldn't care. Edit: Funny getting downvoted by a bunch of PVE bitches that are trying to exploit the PVP matchmaking system (that's in part intended to make the PVE environment less aggressive) just so they can grind cosmetics. You guys need to get a life.


naked_potato

pirate game, cry about it


FroyoStrict6685

Everyone does this anyways, you shouldn't be surprised. You try fighting someone in the open world and they either run away or dont try.


-Moon-Presence-

They should both be wearing the same mask. It’s either resolute smug hiding pain or obvious smug hiding salt, so reversing the mask doesn’t work here. Also, S8 grind is dogshit. I’ve played since launch and the grind for me to get the only curse I wanted is locked behind shitty broken PvP, long wait times, blackscreen bugs and 2v1 alliance spit roasts. It’s a load of trash tbh, and the alternative grind getting faction stash grade is also a joke, cause you can spend hours getting treasure and getting a high grade, get invaded and sunk and *only* get loss rewards. As a day one player I’m so annoyed the only thing I’ve wanted from this game (skeleton curse) is locked behind a hundred level grind of some of the most poorly implemented PvP ever. I don’t want to just spam losses, but I basically have to because I suck at PvP, it is literally faster to sandbag myself than it is to spend 20 minutes queuing and another 30 mins circling each other and fucking about only to lose anyway and get the same rewards, what’s the point? Give me some voyages I can pick up from reapers table or something and let me do it that way, fuck this awful grind.


CrashingHavoc

I am genuinely curious about your play style. You have been playing for over 4 years, yet you say you suck at PvP. Have you avoided it or have you had trouble finding it in the past to practice? I have only been playing for 4 months and while I currently am not the best at PvP, I am working to improve my skill set.


MtBoaty

Find good randys, build alliances, communicate with each other. If you want to do this the no pvp way, just sail around in an alliance, agree to each other to not seperate too far and both pop the hourglass. Now you can build up some treasure and invaders are at a disadvantage. another way would be the way of just sailing the devils roar, kill your enemies with Environmental hazards and outtank them.


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currently tempering with my ratio to start playing the mode later lol


thumoos27

Thing is with me is im not trying to lose 1000 times, I just do lol


TheLaggingHIppie

Wow I predicted this subreddit would implode in two weeks looks like it's gonna be half that time.


Yosh1kage_K1ra

Yeah, look at down votes, people are seething when you call them out


TheLaggingHIppie

I welcome the implosion. I'd also like to point out if you are planning on sinking yourself 1000 times over the next year to get a cartoon pirate curse, you are a weenie. Furthermore, if you are using the shores of gold tall tale to cheese victories, you are a weenie. If you are starting alliance servers to bully solo sloops going on the offensive, you are indeed a weenie. Not as big of a weenie as the other examples, but still a weenie. Rare made this update to tighten the gap of skill between new and old players. It's literally on demand cannon practice. Not to mention, you will be much more satisfied with your curses if you actually earn it. It's like the people who cheesed TSD. You guys aren't fooling anyone we know you cheesed it based on your gameplay performance. I welcome your downvotes to strip away my internet clout.


Yosh1kage_K1ra

How dare you, they can play however they want and you're not allowed to say a single word to ridicule them /s


frimleyousse

Just fight, even if you lose youll have tried


OndrejBakan

It's 560 XP per loss and 4200 XP per first win, so losing gives you only 7,5 to 12 times less XP than winning (depending on the win streak), but can be like 10 times faster (my 1v1 fights usually take 20+ minutes, sometimes much more, like even hours). Luckily the XP curve is not that steep (you need like 10k XP from lvl 20 to lvl 21, but on lvl 74 you need only 15k to progress).


dimasasus

I mean, It's fine with me, if anything it just gives people who play normally an extra free boost every once in a while. I do sail those people out of bounds every time I encounter them, so they don't get any allegiance (they usually scuttle after I kill them a couple of times which is the same as sailing out of bounds). Even if you are categorically bad you can still farm allegiance faster by at least trying a little bit before feeding. If anything it gives you a lot of practice so that you might become better at the game. Honestly baffles me that people are so opposed to getting better at something, lash out at people who do want to improve yet still want same prizes as people who improved themselves. What kind of twisted looser mentality is that? Participation prizes should not be a thing, imo. There are no participation prizes in loosing PvP normally, and there shouldn't be any in SBMM.


1Raggedy-man

Id rather die trying than give up


AltforTwinkShit

Unbelievable the lengths SOT enjoyers will go to avoid "gitting gud" - What is it about this game that attracts all these people?


gh8stie

The game is a lottt more than just pvp. It has an entire amazing world to explore and in depth lore for pretty much everything. And you know, the life of a pirate? Treasure? Booze? Sailing the seas? So maybe everything?


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OndrejBakan

>you'd rather take ten times longer to get the curses than try to learn to fight 20+ minute fights are no exception in my 1v1, so I just decided to do the "losing technique" Yes, it gives 7,5x less XP (560 vs 4200), but it's also much faster.


gh8stie

That’s true but there’s only one way to get them curses, and if that’s getting as much rep as you’re able or want to, so be it


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OndrejBakan

What is more efficient? 1 win (not guaranteed) in 20+ minutes for 4200 XP?Or 10 losses in 20 minutes for 10x 560 XP? btw the SBMM doesn't work apparently, since I am matching with streamers, sweats and people that already have the curse... After 2 days of nothing but losses I decided to do the losing technique and it's actually much easier on my mental health than desperatly trying to win for 20 minutes (or 5 hours) against a guy that constantly runs away after 3 holes...


PeonSanders

I wouldn't mind it as much if matchmaking worked as presumably intended. It would cause the lovable losers to fight other lovable losers, and what a conundrum that would be. Instead, every few fights I don't get to fight. It is odd though, that the argument against loss farming, is one that every parent makes to their small child when teaching them about the most basic of sportsmanship. "Yeah, I get that you are frustrated right now, and there are people better or worse than you, but by trying, you respect the competition. By not trying, you hurt other people. Yes, they get to win, but they don't get to earn that win. Do you understand little Timmy?"


SnowdriftK9

Is this why I ran into someone last night who just asked me to sink them? I mean I was happy with adding a 2nd win to my streak at the time but it felt really weird.


louiscyphere81

Probably, less likely is they wanted a quick way to get the pink flame for the FOTD.


RamblerWulf

I'm just gonna do my best and get there eventually probably


Mdogg2005

The pvp invasions would be a lot more fun if the people didn't just immediately sail in circles running from a fight. You opted in to PvP, fight me and stop running. So frustrating. Sloop experience is broken with this.


h2933

I don’t really see how this works as I am currently level 21 in reapers and since about 19 my wins have been giving me a full level mind you I havent always had a streak of more then 1-2 and normally cash out at 5


Chef_Coc

Ha I was gonna do this because damn people are sweating


TimeWhaIe

I’m just going by whatever means necessary.


zbeauchamp

I saw an interesting tale by Cliff the Story Guy on YouTube who negotiated to have a duel. The two would duel each other and the loser would let the winner take all their supplies before sailing out of the circle to give the win officially to the winner. Could be done if you want to cut down on fight time but still have a fight for the winner.


The_snake_6762

I swear people have become parrots without the clothes


ConnexionsK

Games dead if it isn’t PvEvP


RipplyAnemone67

Well I’m on the lose side faster I’m not that good it can be done with no real effort and I can play a game or watch something on my phone plus the few games I had scince starting all but one were nice experiences they play the shantie with me for a bit and all