This does not sound fun:
As a solo sloop, I just had a 4 man Galleon team attempt to engage with me. Obviously I can't win that fight, so I set sail with the wind and adjusted course in order to hit a outpost down-wind.
These guys were fucking horrible at sailing. They never had their sails aligned correctly, and were getting outrun by me. I thought I was home free, and then I suddenly saw their Galleon go bow-up and sink into the depths for no reason. I was very confused, but not upset, so I continued going towards my destination.
Their Galleon respawned at the outpost I was heading towards. They knew I had outplayed them, so they just scuttled their (obviously empty) ship and respawned exactly where I was trying to go. So I diverted to a different outpost.
As I approach the new outpost, I see their galleon freshly spawned and dropping sails to come after me. I once again divert, and a third fucking time these same fuckwads just scuttle their ship and respawn at the outpost I was trying to go to.
I obviously had realized what was going on, so I tried to outplay them at their own game. I started sailing away from them towards a distant outpost, and the instant I saw their ship start going down, I pulled a 180 and (now WITH the wind) started sailing towards the outpost they just scuttled at.
By the time I get there, they not only had time to realize that I had turned around, but to scuttle their new ship AGAIN, and respawn at the SAME OUTPOST they were at less than 5 minutes ago.
I have now wasted probably close to if not over an hour trying to get my chests and skulls to safety, and it's been made literally impossible because of these scumbags being able to perfectly control where they spawn. They are ALWAYS waiting for me. So I try to quickly go ashore and turn in at least one skull.
Nope. Obviously they were waiting for me, and all FOUR of them murder me. I respawn, they murder me before I fully gain control of my character with a point blank blunderbuss shot. They didn't sink my ship, they didn't even take my treasure, they just sat there and murdered me constantly as I respawned before I could defend myself.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Seaofthieves/comments/8698t5/people_can_abuse_the_scuttle_ship_option_i_am/
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