Great question actually. I've been turning them off a lot lately.

I enjoy the game just fine in open seas. I enjoy pvp. This particular instance of pvp didn't make sense to me...

Try reading next time...

I don't sail, nor do I desire to sail safer seas... Thanks for your valuable input...

Never said I didn't want to get killed. Just was frustrated by the way this situation went down. I'm fine with pvp in most instances.

Well I had spent 5k on a supply crate... Granted, thats not a huge investment, but it's still money spent.

See I enjoy stuff like this and something like this would almost certainly end in me offering an alliance.

Agreed. If I'm trying to be peaceful, I announce my intentions and stay well away from their ship until they respond.

If someone boards my ship, I attack before I get attacked.

You edited your response to something completely different, so my response to your post no longer makes as much sense, but I'll leave it below anyway... you originally asked what's the harm? Just sink and start fresh.

Well, today for example, I had limited time. And if they had just sank me, fine. They didn't .They set fire to my ship and messed with me for a bit.

It would have been different had they just pulled up on me and sank me. Then I may have done just that, but the trolling and tossing my supplies... It left me at a point where with limited time, I was too frustrated to bother.

As I said elsewhere in this post. Had they just sunk me. Fine whatever. This post wouldn't have happened because that's been done before, it'll be done again. It was all the extracurricular activity that urked me.

I dunno, supplies are massively easy to come by these days. There tends to be a supply crate on most every small island. There are plenty of ways to get them that don't require a sink anymore.

I'm not going to in this instance because after making this post, I spoke to the only one that showed up in my recent player list and he seemed reasonable, his buddy whose name I did not get was not.

I actually used to do that a lot. I would make a point not to sink them but I would get them away while my buddy sold.

I guess I can see that point as well. I guess I tend to be more flight than fight lol.

I can respect that. I know I've felt that way in games before. I just tend to operate on a code of only attacking when there is a benefit to me.

I realize that's my personal code and not everyone shares that mentality, nor can I force it on others, but that's what it baffles me when stuff like this happens is it's so far from my own moral compass.

That's actually fair.

I mean the thing on it is. Had they just sunk my ship. I don't think I'd have even bothered with this post. It's happened to me before, it will happen again. It's everything else that happened that was like "Why? What makes this fun for you?"

And I guess I could kind of understand it in that instance as well... but I dunno, it just felt so trollish to just stay on my ship throw my supplies overboard and keep messing with me after I tried sailing away from port to avoid them.

I don't want to sail on safer seas thanks. I have said many times in this thread, I don't mind PVP. It is a part of the game and had I been loaded up with loot, I'd have commended them and moved on with my life. But if you are standing on a man's ship (and they were on my ship) and there is zero loot, why are you going for a sink? What do you gain. Further, if you aren't going to actually sink them, why throw the supplies overboard? That's completely trollish behavior.

I didn't come here for you to promote safer seas. I asked a question. What is the appeal of harassing ship that clearly doesn't have any loot and just joined into the game.

Well and the dude I messaged after told me he was actually trying to say hello and I started attacking him first.

Which did happen, only he didn't say anything, he just boarded and if someone boards my ship unannounced I'm going to attack. If you're friendly, typically you say before you board a man's ship "Hey, I'm not here to kill you"

Apparently he was willing after the firebomb incident to just leave me be, but his rando crewmate wanted to be a jerk and keel killing me.

I actually reached out to the only one of the two crewmen that showed up in my "recently played with" He was trying to get his crewmate (an open crew crewmate) to not do any of what he was doing. Still sucks, but at least one of the two people were reasonable.

I always sail to a different outpost personally. I can kinda see the rationale behind it I suppose, but I'd rather just head to a safer spot and try again.

Again, I enjoy PVP, I'm not anti-PVP, I have no desire to sail the safer seas... I just guess I don't find catching someone who is just getting read to sail for the day completely off guard like this doesn't seem as enjoyable as a fair fight on the open seas.

I mean, I'm not a trump supporter, but this seems a dumb question.

He did just fine with it the first 4 years...

I'm officially up to level 42. Started a new character after watching fallout. Just started building my level 40 x-01 armor, but I am severely lacking screws.

I'm not a "new player," per say, I got to 63 back in the day when the game first came out before they added npcs.

This is a great move. Low cost (we traded back from 6th to 7th to get him) They pay the cap hit.

This doesn't mean we don't draft a QB Thursday, but this gives us more options.

Zach Wilson was not the problem in New York and we'll see now what he can do with better coaching.