Rare-Sonicbob

Originally posted by _ROOTLESS_

During our maintenance period checks we've identified that players having made significant progress through the Hunter's Call since the launch of Season 15 will not be accelerated through the ranks as we intended. This does unfortunately conflict with the message initially shared in this State of Play update.

Now, these players will find themselves automatically pushed to the next rank, however any further progression earned to future ranks will not be applied.

We will investigate this though, as moving forwards we feel players' time should be respected and

u/Rare-Sonicbob I see that this is also mentioned in the comments on the thread from the official forums, is the team aware of this aspect of the accelerated reputation gains and are there plans to address them?

It is important to put emphasis on how these types of exploits are a waste of time to engage in as both the reputation le...

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Originally posted by lets-hoedown

I really like his doggo hoodie.

Originally posted by BonWeech

Keep removing seasons. They aren’t fun and are too stressful for the dev team. Love the performance updates. Love the grapple and blowpipe changes.

But Rare, I have a request, and I hope this isn’t a huge ask but can we have titles for the content updates again? I’m bored of “Season X” cause that means nothing so if the seasonal system fizzles out (as it should), bring content titles for the game back, I loved “Forsaken Shores” and “Cursed Sails” give me that back. They help me feel like the world has changed for artistic/lore/story reasons that the numbered seasons doesn’t have. Plus it helps players separate eras of the game easier imo. Idk maybe they’ll see this comment

Originally posted by PEAWK

Drew Stevens eyeing this comment like 'please god' 

Originally posted by Stay-Frostie

Has the guild bug been posted? After multiple launches and console reboots, I can’t access my ship through the guild. Just an indefinite “ loading guilds “ icon on the Sail for Guild option.

Edit: I resolved it by joining a friends sloop and exiting.

Originally posted by granty012

I'm sure u/Rare-Sonicbob can help the correct team see how their accessibility improvements has made a difference.

Originally posted by survivalist_guy

/u/Rare-Sonicbob Any chance here? This would be pretty cool.

Originally posted by Wiz4rdFr0g

The only issue I have with the invite to come to insiders and give feedback, is many of us were directly warning on insider forums that the fix felt broken and clunky pre-S10 without much response. I'm taking a break from the game for a while but I do have love for the franchise and do hope things get resolved in a way that has the players feel heard and the developers happy with their work.

Originally posted by _ROOTLESS_

Wow, it is actually unbelievable to get a direct response!

I understand that different approaches to a problem have different strengths and weaknesses and I don’t have a perfect solution. I also understand that clarity is extremely important for game mechanics and players need to understand what is going on as much as possible.

I am extremely thankful that what I have written has reached Rare in such a direct manner as one could really not ask for more. This is something I wrote at length about on the Insider forums but it never felt like the feedback reached the appropriate channels. Given that I now know that you know, I won’t write about this topic again.

Huge props for the communication, thanks again for taking the time. We all want Sea of Thieves to be the best it can be and feel great to play for all parties involved!

Originally posted by _ROOTLESS_

If against all odds this thread/comments happens to have something the team didn’t already know or consider u/Rare-Sonicbob

Originally posted by AlexRogansBeta

That's great to hear. Thanks for your work! I love when ya'll squash exploitations.

I have never interacted with a dev team member. So, forgive me the potential overstep, but I have a question that I have always wondered about.

As it stands, the sloop is the fastest ship sailing into a headwind. This makes sense, and should be the case. If only to give solo sloopers a hope of escaping thirsty crews on larger boats.

What doesn't make sense, and never has, is that this is true with the sails set perpendicular to the headwind. Why is that faster than with the sails parallel to the headwind? It is not intuitive, and I've seen it damage new players' experience with the game. For example, when a new player on a sloop is being chased by a larger ship they sail into a headwind (which they should do), and they do what any rational human would do: they set their sails in the position that would logically create the least amount of drag. However, this is actually slow...

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Originally posted by AlexRogansBeta

I hope you can differentiate between guild members who cheesed and those who didnt. I don't mind my guild getting nerfed because people in it cheesed. But you've alluded to other penalties (maybe bans?). I hope my account doesn't become guilty by association. If I get penalized in some way (like a ban) because some asshat in my guild was cheesing to help ppl get curses even though I told em to stop ... I'd be upset.

Originally posted by Silvercat18

If this was the case, then lowering the quantity of players would have fixed the issue - and it hasnt. Similarly, lowering the number of servers each machine is hosting hasnt fixed the problem.

What then actually is the problem then if not the game itself at this point?

Originally posted by DapperDlnosaur

That's good to hear, thank you. I hope I didn't come off as too hostile, I'm just trying to make the best use of your attention as I can while I have it.

Originally posted by _ROOTLESS_

Chiming in and saying that while I share the frustration of many players, especially in terms of weapon-feel clunkiness, I greatly appreciate your communication with the community through these comments. It can't be easy but rest assured that your efforts are appreciated!

Originally posted by tapczan100

I've been told by support to not make tickets as issue will be fixed for everyone.

Originally posted by DapperDlnosaur

Well, while we're talking about focus and priorities, I hope you guys are aware of how much of the playerbase really, really, and I mean REALLY want to see you guys put more focus on better game features and especially bug fixes and not Tall Tales. The amount of work that goes into one-and-done experiences that many people (myself included) don't even care to do the one time is grossly disproportionate to the payoff, and Tall Tales have sucked far too much attention away from, in many if not most players' eyes, drastically more important stuff for an exceptionally long time.

There's a vocal minority calling out for a conclusion/advancement of the Flameheart saga, but from what I've seen, it's quite stacked on the opposite side of people that just want better/more replayable stuff like world events and bug fixes to be the priority. A long time ago when all of the Adventures stuff was spinning up, the Rare rep in the video said that it would not be taking away resources fro...

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Originally posted by Robloxpro69420

Thanks for the update on the hg glitch situation.

How are you able to differentiate between legit and glitched guilds? Im in one of the highest guilds rn (top 10 or top 20) and we are at distinction 5 or 6 at this point. Can you somehow see if theyve done it legit or are you just gonna look at the guild level/emmissary value? I dont even want to know how, i just want to know if my guild is gonna be safe or not😅