A Hoi You Scurvy, Scurvy Dogs is your favorite curse captain, Hippo TC here with a new guide video on how to go about soloing the new MSS system. I get asked a lot of questions about solo swooping and wanted to give you some of the best tips and tricks out there. Before we get started, if you enjoy this content and you find it helpful, please hit that subscribe button. Each sub is greatly appreciated and I promise I will continue to work hard to bring you quality content worthy of it. And as always, a big thank you to all of those who have already subscribed. Now let's jump into today's video. With the introduction of the new MSS system, revive system and the Reaper bones trading company, one thing has become clear. Trying to solo-sloop in the CF thieves has become a bit more challenging and by a bit more, I mean a whole mech ton more challenging, especially if you want to grind out the MSS system and rank up. Hopefully that is where this guide can help. When putting this together, I wanted to give you some practical tips and tricks that you can use to give yourself an advantage when facing other pirates and help you come out on top. So grab a grog maybe, pull up your ship and let's do this. First and foremost, when you are solo-slooping as an MSS representative, you need to stack the odds in your favor. One of the first things you want to do when loading into a new server is check to see how active that server is. You can do this through checking these nifty little voting tables. There is one for each of the trading companies including the Reaper's bones. By checking these tables, you can see just how active that server is. Most experienced players will be rocking the MSS system, so finding a server with three plus ships doing MSS means you are probably on an active server of seasoned pirates. You will also want to be on the lookout for those blood-thirsty reapers by checking the Reaper's MSS table and by paying close attention to your map. You load in and see there is a Reaper on the server and you are wanting to stack the odds in your favor. My recommendation is to leave and find a new server. As a blood-thirsty scurvy dog like myself, this hurts me to recommend it. But I understand as a solo slupe who may not want to PVP as much as I do, you want every advantage you can get. So finding a less active server is going to be your safest bet. Once you find a less active server, the next thing you want to do is make sure you are optimizing your MSS grind with the most efficient methods. I have put together a farming guide where I cover how to do this very thing for each of the trading companies, so make sure to check that out. Now that you have found the best server and understand the best ways to farm your MSS, the next thing you want to do is become the best solo sluper you can be. Now I already have a full guide on this that covers the top five best tips for you as a solo sluper. I cover mastering your ship, mastering your weapons, best foods in health region, and even an inspirational message on keeping your wits as a pirate. So stop what you are doing and go watch that video. Another thing worth mentioning is a well-supplied ship is very difficult to sink, so make sure to load your ship up with supplies. A good way to do this quickly is to check all the barrels at an outpost, find a robot on an island, find a storage crate, or stop at a fort for supplies. The best thing to do though in my humble opinion as a solo sluper is to try to find a robot or a storage crate. You can use the crate to quickly load up supplies and a robot comes in handy big time just in case you need to make a sneaky getaway. Now that you are ready to set sail, here are some things to help you survive out there with that big beautiful emissary target on your back. Always and I mean always keep your eyes and your spyglass on the horizon. Pires these days for getting craftier by the minute, which means you should become extremely paranoid. Keep an eye out for mermaids, check your ship often for soes. Honestly every time you get on your ship I recommend checking the following tuck spots. Buy the cannons, in the crow's nest, buy the ropes for the sales, buy the voyage table, buy the water barrel, and buy the map table. Like I mentioned earlier, pirates are getting craftier and will go to great lengths to board your ship in sneaky sneak. As a solo sluper you will want to sell as often as you can. It is not recommended to hoard treasure on your ship. Now again I'm giving you advice opposite of what I really want you to do and that is stack that beautiful treasure to the stars. Speaking of stars have you ever looked up and wondered what they were doing. Are they real? I mean think about it. Think about it. Are they real? We'll never know. Anyway some more good advice for you to always be ready for a fight. This means you have the best food on you at all times. Your weapons are locked and loaded. You have cursed cannonballs, blunder bombs, fire bombs. I mean you are ready to fight anyone at any given moment. As a solo sluper you only have yourself to rely on. So make sure to give yourself the best odds by having the best stuff on you at all times. Always ask what if? What if the skeleton spawns on me? What if Karen spawns on me? And lord help us all if Karen spawns on us. Constantly be thinking and planning ahead. Sale around big islands make sure there's no one else there before you stop and for the love of the way lord do not put kegs in the crow's nest no matter how freaking pretty they look. They are a death sentence as a solo sluper. You don't need kegs on your ship. Period. If you find yourself in a situation where you are being chased and you want to turn in your flag make sure your parking is on point at the outpost. This means using your anchor. If you only raise your cells to park and your ship drifts too far you will be unable to vote down your flag giving the enemy plenty of time to start filling your poor slupe with cannonballs. Once you've lowered your flag you now have nothing to lose which makes you dangerous. So lower that flag, get those rewards and go out guns ablazing. You may lose the fight, your flag, and even your loot. But you will gain experience and that my pirate friend is priceless. With all of this being said I've put together a lot of guide videos diving further into pvp tips and tricks ship combat, blunderbonds, chain shots, even a freaking video with charts showing you all the things you need to know about food regen, weapon damage, and reload times. The only change would be to remember that the sword now does 25% damage per swing and 60% damage for a lunge. Now a little bit of a final word here from the curse captain. The two most important things to remember as a solo sluper is number one you only have yourself to rely on. So do not put yourself in a position where other crews will have an advantage because you were unprepared and number two shoot first and ask questions later. Thanks so much for tuning in. I hope to see you scurvy dogs out on the seas.