It is not uncommon for you to not see any progress updates when playing SoT. When I was playing, my crew would get that about 50% of the time. There were also sessions when nothing we did ever counted, because their backend infrastructure is not the greatest. Other times there were sessions when progression was delayed by several hours. Sometimes by few days, sometimes they would not be able to recover the lost data and would spot grant rep and gold to players that played during certain times.
I find that the game hits Network Road bumps every so often. For the past couple of years, the game has been running really smooth with few issues.
Recently however, my crew has been experiencing situations where we don't receive our gold right away, and we may not even see it come in during the session. On the bright side, all of the gold and exp has always come in and been awarded by the next time we play.
So while it can be a bit of a letdown to not see our progress indicators going up during a session, it's generally fine. I hope they can smooth this out soon, because it feels great to hear that ca-ching whenever we drop off gold.
By the way, I want all PS players to suffer like we have for all these years. I hope you never unsee this:
God damnit, why did you do this to me! Haha
To be fair, this may have been intentional from an art perspective. Making anything perfectly aligned and pristine on a pirate ship would probably look unnatural.
You kind of want to rough it up, grime it up and make it look a bit wonky to give it character. Kind of like how all those floorboards look kind of worn, a bit warped, and have gaps.
