How to Not Join an Alliance in the Sea of Thieves – Part 3

I’ll be honest, I never thought I’d need to make a Part 3 of this type of article. Somehow, I do. You’d think that alliances would be good fun and even, occasionally, capable of getting you rich. When a ship in an alliance sells loot, everyone else in the alliance gets 50% of the gold earned. But that does require having one thing: an alliance of ships that don’t want to kill each other. Today, we are looking at even more ways to NOT join an alliance, because some people are stupid.

Lie that you are a newbie

The first thing you want to do if you don’t want to join an alliance is lie about being a newbie. Yes, there genuinely are players out there that actually DID buy the game yesterday, but you’re not going to see newbies sailing on a captained ship right off the bat. New players mostly stick to Safer Seas and newbies also generally don’t know how to fire themselves out of cannons. Sometimes an alliance can form, but in this article, we’re trying to NOT be in an alliance.

Lie even more that you’re a newbie

When the “I bought the game yesterday” lie doesn’t work, you can of course keep on lying. No, buying the premium edition of Sea of Thieves, nor playing on PS5 are good enough excuses to explain how you got a fully decorated, captained ship. This lie fails even harder when people notice that the sails on your ship required Pirate Legend, rep in Athena’s Fortune and a lot of gold. No, those sails are NOT part of a console exclusive set. Also, if you were a genuine newbie, you’d probably be wearing nothing but stock sailor clothes.

Have some rando join you and fire at the ally’s ship “by accident”

“Oh, it was an accident”. No it wasn’t. At least, not completely. Your buddy immediately spawned in, noticed nothing was going on and opened fire on the other person in an alliance. If you’re in Open Crew, that can happen, but come on, if you’re clearly not a newbie player, you know to not play Open Crew. Open Crew sucks. Find some friends.

Creepily follow the allied ship around

If you REALLY don’t want to be in an alliance, you can always follow another ship around, in just about firing range. Just do whatever they’re doing. Or just do nothing and watch on as they do all the work. The closer to them you can get, the better. Also make sure you’re in range for shenanigans, so you can shoot potential allies while they’re busy. But just keep on following them around for now. Until the other ship crews get suspicious.

Threaten the crew of the potential ally’s ship

Of course, the best way to not join an alliance is to threaten other ships. The threats are vocal at first. You can shout that you’re better than your allies, that you’d win in a fight and all that. You can fire a red flare as well to prove you don’t want to join an alliance. Of course, the other ship, the one being threatened, they’re not just going to stand there and take it. They’ll attack you. Quickly. They’ll also blow up any kegs you may be carrying “for fun”. It’s a good idea to have your broadside facing their broadside so you’ve got cannon angle, and you have bombs as well. If you don’t? Well… it isn’t going to be good for you. You now have to fight for your life, and fight just to stay alive.

At the end of the day though, whether you sink or not (you probably did), you do manage to do your main objective: NOT joining an alliance.