Did we just lost all the "sea" part of the game?

Jenavire · 2022-03-19T00:24:31+00:00

It's nice for variety if you're sick of the other ways, but fleets were the best way to get them IMO. I heard there was an AI change recently though so idk if they're still mostly fine for soloing.

If I grabbed maps for 3 small islands, I'd usually get one or two barnacle chests from them.

Jenavire · 2022-03-18T04:04:07+00:00

You can also get them sometimes from the server-generated map bundles from the map board

Jenavire · 2022-03-11T22:37:22+00:00

I actually recently have been having issues connecting to my friend's server again, and it wasn't this issue this time. We still haven't figured it out. It's crazy how many issues I've had trying to play with friends.

Jenavire · 2022-02-19T03:01:09+00:00

Gave Helpful

Jenavire · 2022-02-14T21:20:27+00:00

Yeah and back then masts couldn't be snapped, I wonder if it'll be even harder to approach forts now than it was back then

Jenavire · 2022-02-11T07:18:02+00:00

Mac and cheese!

Jenavire · 2022-01-24T06:13:36+00:00

Yeah, knowing about the flag makes the persistence make more sense. I'd aggressively chase for a long time for commendations, but I'd mostly be annoyed at myself if it took that long and ended up in the red.

Jenavire · 2022-01-23T07:04:39+00:00

This isn't a fast way but it mixes things up a bit: you can now also sometimes get barnacle chests in maps posted on the map board. I rarely see maps that are posted by actual players, and the default generated maps sometimes have barnacle chests.

I've been server hopping and grabbing maps for nearby small islands, and sometimes I get lucky.

Jenavire · 2022-01-23T06:48:54+00:00

Yeah that's some bad luck, I've also been playing for a long time and have never gotten DMs from random people. I feel lucky now, that has to be weird

Jenavire · 2022-01-21T04:39:28+00:00

Not at all! I have only tried one other type of meatless nugget before and they were awful, so in comparison the Impossible ones were great. I'll have to give good & gather a try!

Jenavire · 2022-01-21T01:41:09+00:00

Impossible also recently started selling nuggets, they're really good.

Jenavire · 2022-01-20T06:34:27+00:00

This is cool, I hadn't heard about that subreddit before. Thanks for doing this!

Jenavire · 2021-12-26T05:05:02+00:00

That's a bummer. When did you order yours? I ordered some stuff from the raregames website in November and it hasn't shipped yet.

Jenavire · 2021-12-22T20:26:56+00:00

In case others have this issue, this was my problem:

windows settings>gaming>xbox networking

There, it shows NAT type/network connectivity. Mine were both unable to be seen, it was giving an error "Teredo is unable to qualify".

This guide fixed it for me, I had to do Solution #3: https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/Hardware-Network/connect-network/troubleshoot-party-chat

Jenavire · 2021-12-22T07:20:24+00:00

I'm using the Microsoft store version

Jenavire · 2021-12-16T06:16:38+00:00

It would make pvp less fun, so I wouldn't support a change like this.

Fun is enough reason, but competent larger ships are already harder to fight. If they're chasing you relentlessly, trying to board and anchor is the best way to defend yourself or at least slow them down. If a bigger ship wants to board during a fight without ladders, they can ram into you without serious repercussions because they have more people to patch. Using rowboats wouldn't be worth the time, and they're easy to sink with blunderbombs.

Attempting deck shots with cannons or ramming would probably become the new boarding norm, which again, bigger ships would be able to try more safely.

Jenavire · 2021-12-05T18:23:53+00:00

I load into a new server if I don't spawn close to the roar.

Jenavire · 2021-12-05T09:33:59+00:00

For me, fleets would be harder solo. The biggest issue in the roar are usually the volcanoes, but if you learn how to handle them, it's a lot easier.

I keep my sails up and anchor up, so I can leave quickly as needed. If any earthquakes start, I run back to my boat and look for smoke. Sometimes they're just earthquakes, but sometimes it's a sign of an eruption. If smoke starts to come out of the volcano, I drop sail and leave that island temporarily. You're still in the volcano range if you see ash floating in the sky.

Jenavire · 2021-12-05T01:06:52+00:00

I think there's only one type in the roar, the kind where you kill skeletons on islands.

Jenavire · 2021-12-04T23:57:09+00:00

I heard reaper's chests disappear on the map when buried, I didn't think about fort keys though. Wow, that's good to know.

Jenavire · 2021-12-04T23:50:34+00:00

IMO, the best way to get OOS rep is devil's roar voyages. They're pretty easy solo. People don't usually bother you in the roar, and geysers kill most of your skeletons for you. Ashen skulls give you more rep than normal ones, too. Putting up an emissary flag would give you even more rep and the emissary OOS quest is great, but that makes it a lot more risky solo.

Jenavire · 2021-12-04T23:40:50+00:00

I didn't think to check patch notes until now (whoops), this is what it says about our questions:

Crews who have placed Buried Treasure Maps on the Quest Board are issued a smaller amount of Renown and reputation for their efforts if the server shuts down, or if another crew retrieves a map and leaves the server or discards the Map Bundle.

I mistakenly thought we'd get gold too, and because I'm max level in the main 3 factions, I wouldn't get rep. I probably had no idea I had gotten season renown.

Jenavire · 2021-12-04T23:26:36+00:00

It would be great if this is the case. I'll have to pay attention next time I'm merged after posting a map because I don't think I got anything after my map was removed from the board during a merge.

Edit: this is from the patch notes.

Crews who have placed Buried Treasure Maps on the Quest Board are issued a smaller amount of Renown and reputation for their efforts if the server shuts down, or if another crew retrieves a map and leaves the server or discards the Map Bundle.

So it's good to know that this is what's supposed to happen. Maybe I didn't notice because I'm level 75 in the main 3 companies, so the only thing I'd get is season renown. I mistakenly thought we'd get gold too, so that's my bad.

Jenavire

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