Why do not more people play this game?

[BIT Bear]

Legit question. I mean it's really fun to blow people up and there's plenty of servers.

Even if it's just for a round or two once in a while. What happened?

[Tame]

No admins except on 1-2 servers.
Paper-thin players that can't cope with their suck, so they troll and ruin it for others.
Nobody understanding 'ping' or how to 'kick'.
Filled with toxic players from every arsehole of the world.

Take your pick.

[Gödeke Michels]

Even when we had a lot more moderated servers playernumber declined eventually. In the end the repetetive nature of the game has a highe impact.

[☺]

Because it's a mess.

[Marcus Suridius]

Originally posted by Tame:

No admins except on 1-2 servers.
Paper-thin players that can't cope with their suck, so they troll and ruin it for others.
Nobody understanding 'ping' or how to 'kick'.
Filled with toxic players from every arsehole of the world.

Take your pick.

Part of 2 and 4 are issues with nearly every MP game.

[Caly]

For me it was the introduction of harbors, it ruined the nervosity and the rythm

[Tame]

Originally posted by Marcus Suridius:

Originally posted by Tame:

No admins except on 1-2 servers.
Paper-thin players that can't cope with their suck, so they troll and ruin it for others.
Nobody understanding 'ping' or how to 'kick'.
Filled with toxic players from every arsehole of the world.

Take your pick.

Part of 2 and 4 are issues with nearly every MP game.

Not if the other players hold them to a better standard.
Kick or suffer your choices.

[King of Pleasure]

Originally posted by BIT Bear:

Legit question. I mean it's really fun to blow people up and there's plenty of servers.

Even if it's just for a round or two once in a while. What happened?

its becuse game iself... if it will be open world game where you can trade between islands or stealing cargo of other ship etc it would be famous but game where you just shooting ships without any progression (except levels) like improving your boat and have any reason why you want to win is just not fun for most people... i had my fun on this game but i just wont invest 500h + time on game that is "just" 3v3 without even mm

[☺]

Originally posted by King of pleasure:

Originally posted by BIT Bear:

Legit question. I mean it's really fun to blow people up and there's plenty of servers.

Even if it's just for a round or two once in a while. What happened?

its becuse game iself... if it will be open world game where you can trade between islands or stealing cargo of other ship etc it would be famous but game where you just shooting ships without any progression (except levels) like improving your boat and have any reason why you want to win is just not fun for most people... i had my fun on this game but i just wont invest 500h + time on game that is "just" 3v3 without even mm

That's why I vote for CTB.

[BobDoleReigns]

Its a niche game where there is no higher level gameplay and no matter what you're either stuck playing with or against folks who are rather literally dumber than monkeys. Individual skill and effort just doesn't matter. A superstar captain can't make the morons do repairs, reload guns or hit targets. A superstar crewman can't reload an entire broadside by them self while the morons are firing them off at allies. The community is pretty ♥♥♥♥ (as is to be expected anywhere) and generally the game isn't fun, end of story.

[Tame]

Originally posted by BobDoleReigns:

there is no higher level gameplay

Have to disagree with this part. There are tactics, techniques, strategies; all inlaid in the gameplay as is. You just have to figure it out through experience, because there's no hand holding in this game.

The rest of what you said, though.... Pretty accurate, although I have plenty of fun. Tenacity is the word.

[BobDoleReigns]

There certainly is tactics but I was referring to higher level as in enough and organized enough competent people to actually have a good fight without the wildcard of who's team gets the rejects. Its not all that dissimilar to Guns of Icarus except tremendously magnified due to the much larger crews; there is a clear divide in skill level among the playerbase and not enough population to have actual matchmaking which only serves to make the problem worse. Its not fun noobstomping and its not fun being noobstomped so ultimately nobody is having fun = dead game.

[Marcus Suridius]

Originally posted by BobDoleReigns:

There certainly is tactics but I was referring to higher level as in enough and organized enough competent people to actually have a good fight without the wildcard of who's team gets the rejects. Its not all that dissimilar to Guns of Icarus except tremendously magnified due to the much larger crews; there is a clear divide in skill level among the playerbase and not enough population to have actual matchmaking which only serves to make the problem worse. Its not fun noobstomping and its not fun being noobstomped so ultimately nobody is having fun = dead game.

This is exactly the point I was making in game a few times when all high ranks 300+ go onto the one team and just smash the other team with easy, all it does is make new players quit which will kill the game we like.

When I posted that I was called a noob and told to refund the game, I bought it on release years ago and im near lvl 200. I don't think people like these will realise their mistakes until the game is fully dead without a single busy server.

[Narayan]

I think all of these are good points, I started a server back when the game was launched, had multiple admins, even had girls on the server which im sure dont exsist in the game anymore. The major issues were.

1. The game play was just too repetitive, and the meta discouraged boarding at the time which made galleons the king of the game. People got tired of hull plugging simulator and many left.

2. Toxic like no game ive seen before or since, every ship had the N word in the name, so much so we couldnt kick or ban for it cause no one would be left.

3. I think the Devs werent prepared for success, this game was a huge success when it launched so much so there werent enough servers for everyone, the devs just couldnt make content fast enough to keep people around and when they finally did get the content out everyone had already played it and put it aside.

4. Team stacking is a thing, but its hard to stop in games like these, still it does hurt.

Some things that didnt kill the game but were annoying.

1. The requirement to restart servers, this meant that you couldnt keep a server populated 24 hours back in the day and really hurt communiy servers.

2. Community server infighting for population as the game started its decline, this lead to DDOS nasty reddits posts and such.

[Arokhantos]

it shows there 0 players playing this game and its on sale for 0,81 cents maybe consider going free to play or free weekend

[Marcus Suridius]

Originally posted by Franky:

it shows there 0 players playing this game and its on sale for 0,81 cents maybe consider going free to play or free weekend

Alot of players youd find on are from the EU which is why nobody was on earlier and nearly 400 are on now.