Game is literally impossible to play without friends

It's ok, you'll get it someday.

No, the other guy is right. You're fucking retarded.

I've had several successful voyages with random people, so it can happen.

Anyway, who doesn't have three friends?

>Load into a game yesterday
>Immediately see a ship at a Skull Fort not far from us
>Sink them and take the entire fort loot
>Turn it in and made a hefty profit in about 30 minutes

It all depends. Some days the seas are nicer than others. But NOTHING in the game takes 3 to 4 hours to do.

>play solo
>constantly get destroyed by 4 man groups
>can't progress any factions
>can't do shit

wow an incredible game

You just need to learn to be defensive. As a sloop you're faster than any ship going into the wind and you can turn way faster than them, so if nothing else you can always run.

>But NOTHING in the game takes 3 to 4 hours to do
filling up the faction bar to get the faction quest takes us that long and our first attempt at vault shit took like two hours since we ended up getting into a shitload of fights. and you know, stocking a ship just takes time.

i know 4 people who play this yet it takes week of coordination to get 3 of us online at the same time

>our first attempt at vault shit took like two hours since we ended up getting into a shitload of fights.
So what you meant to say is it only takes an hour at most to get to Grade V, but you also spent time fighting ships (and possibly getting more loot).

,>Tryharding on a co-op game

>i know 4 people who play this yet it takes week of coordination to get 3 of us online at the same time
>get 3 online at "the same time"
>except 1 or two guys show up 20 minutes late
>can't swap ships once in a server
>either autistically stock the ship or sail undermanned

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>filling up the faction bar to get the faction quest takes us that long
>takes us that long
Ah, I think I've found the issue user.

Not to mention doing voyages is for suckers. I'm over 50 in all of the factions (except Athena obviously) and I have never done a single voyage. Every treasure I've sold has been taken from someone else, in the proper pirate fashion.

the better question is who doesn't have three friends that like vidya, all own the game and wants to play.

>So what you meant to say is it only takes an hour at most to get to Grade V
it only takes an hour to get to grade V if you get a fortress or fleet. everything in the game takes a huge amount of time, even something as simple as looting a ship you've sunk takes time. looting sunken ships takes a huge amount of time, sailing to the devil's roar for better rewards takes time, volcanos take time, ashen lords are time sponges. the entire reason me and my friends stopped playing is that if we wanted to play for under two hours pvp was pretty much our only option. Sailing around empty seas looking for something to do for minutes at a time is cancer

Perhaps you should go back to Fortnite, that sounds like something that is more your speed.

Sailing a sloop by yourself is kinda fun. But when a ghost pirate ship pops up you're pretty much fucked. Why do they not go away when you reach an outpost?

Most of the time they'll stop attacking you if you're near an outpost, but not always. They have a set patrol area and will leave once you get far enough away.

I haven't played much, but they always follow me to the outpost and keep firing at my ship as I'm trying to unload shit as fast as possible.

Nah, when you have a full time job and commitments you can't spend all night playing games anymore. I'm thrilled if I can get 2 hours of me time a night.

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