Sea of Thieves Changes the Number of Ships Per Server

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Rare's live-service pirate game Sea of Thieves has enjoyed persistent popularity since its launch in 2018. This is largely thanks to Rare's continued support of the game, releasing new content for Sea of Thieves regularly in the form of major updates, balance changes, quality of life improvements, and numerous cosmetic items for players to add to their collections. A recent change saw Rare tweak the number of ships and players in any given Sea of Thieves server, but it is already changing things up again.

With the January update for Sea of Thieves, Rare made it so that all servers would support six crews at a time with a limit of 16 players. However, Rare has now decided to dial things back a bit, reducing the number of ships in Sea of Thieves servers from six to five. Sea of Thieves servers will still have a cap of 16 players, but there will be fewer ships sailing the open seas. Rare hopes that this change will result in more Sea of Thieves ship size variety and will improve the game's matchmaking performance.

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The reaction to this change has been mixed. Some members of the Sea of Thieves community are welcoming the change as it means there's less of a chance they'll get attacked by enemy players. Others are asking Rare to actually increase the number of ships present in Sea of Thieves as they enjoy the PvP element of the game and find getting into fights with other pirate crews to be exciting.

With Sea of Thieves being a live-service game, it's always possible that there will be even more changes to the number of ships and players for each server. However, it seems unlikely that Rare will ever increase the number of ships or players in a server by too