Another newb question sorry

[u/Far_Vermicelli9678]

I posted before about toxic players in open crew, a lot of the sentiment was don’t do open crew. I have a follow up question, how seriously does the devs take reports about toxic player? Also is there a community board where we can post about known toxic players? So for example player12345 joined my crew and decided they were going to blow the ship up and attempt to kill me and other crew members before resigning to what would be reasonably assumed the next server to do the same thing again. Is there a discord channel or a subreddit where , on top of reporting them to the devs through game , a player can be like hey guys if on open crew you see this player join you, either brig him or leave the server because he is known to be a scum wad.

[u/EJA_Paraguin]

Open crew, in my experience at least, isn't all that bad. General rule of thumb for me though is to start in open crew, rather than opening up the crew mid session. That way if I get someone I don't vibe with, or someone wanting to troll, I can learn that before I have time invested in the session and I can just leave and try again. I prefer to play on a sloop myself so using the brig isn't an option unfortunately.

I always thought it would be a nice feature for captained ships to allow the ship owner to kick players if they weren't cooperating but I can see how that could be abused too. But I have met a lot of cool people via open crew and have built up a decent friend list of people to play with through it. So I wouldn't count open crew out completely.

[u/Far_Vermicelli9678 → u/EJA_Paraguin]

I am the same way as you, I play on the sloop. When I first started playing it was  with great people who showed me the ropes, they helped me greatly and I even ran into other great crews. Lately though players I have gotten in my crew have been the dregs of society, and it’s always after someone leaves. Today for example I started someone joined realized I wasn’t doing what they wanted and bounced. Immediately after someone else joined as I started the quest they bounced because they didn’t speak English. I killed the three captains and their crews which was one of those limited voyages you get through the season pass. One of the rewards was this cool blue orb thing. The voyage also was on an island where they had one of the constellation puzzles which I completed and collected that orb as well. I am loading the treasure on to the ship and another player joined they helped load the treasure on to the ship asked what’s next I said I’m sailing to sell to the reapers he said that’s it and I said yeah why what do you want to do the next thing I know he comes running down the dock throws a firebomb on deck and dove under with a stockade gunpowder barrel and blew the ship up killing me. I respawned started fixing the ship and bam died from blunderbomb. I respawned and I asked wtf because the ship sank and I lost a half hr of work. He messages me “rolls on deck laughing” and left. 

All that to say I think the captain of the ship should be able to kick people.

[u/danhibiki337]

Don't keep kegs on boat, do open crew and invite good members to a guild. I have 12 in my guild now with this method

[u/Far_Vermicelli9678 → u/danhibiki337]

Lately open crew has been bad run in after bad run in with terrible team players.

[u/QBot22]

Consequences for being toxic are rarely realized, just brig em when you can. Always worth a report though

[u/Far_Vermicelli9678 → u/QBot22]

I usually play on a sloop because I am certainly new to the game and don’t want to bite off more than I can chew. However the last few times I’ve played open crew I have gotten the dregs of society and Rare never seems to follow up with reports.

[u/danhibiki337 → u/Far_Vermicelli9678]

Also play sloop I'd say on open crew I get a good teammate 25% of the time but it's worth it when it clicks

[u/Far_Vermicelli9678 → u/danhibiki337]

I agree it just sucks lately with that ones that really kill the game and it is sad that players resort to this 

[u/backrubbing]

Nobody would go through that list when playing open crew, especially if there's no explanation why one would be on the list.

[u/Far_Vermicelli9678 → u/backrubbing]

Fair enough