Confirm server merge even with other ships on the server!

  • Schwammlgott
    Champion

    We searched for someone to do the event for the 10 reaper emissary flags to get the 2 emotes
    After a long search we finally found someone, I joined his crew, so another friend could join my "old" crew.
    We met at reapers hideout with both of our ships, sunk theyr ship, sold the flag...everything worked fine...they came back and sunk us, we took the mermaid and as soon as we came on our ship we got a server merge, my friends on the other ship didn't have a merge...

    So since when can this happen?

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  • mentimjojo
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    It can always happen if there is no one close by you can merge, or when the server is end of life. Since your friend didn't merge server was end of life so there was probably nobody in your range and the game merged you.

  • Schwammlgott
    Champion

    @mentimjojo ok...shouldn't it just merge when no other ship is on the server?

  • Schwammlgott
    Champion

    @mentimjojo was probably because the server went down...she got a merge now too

  • mentimjojo
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    @schwammlgott said in Confirm server merge even with other ships on the server!:

    @mentimjojo was probably because the server went down...she got a merge now too

    Ah that makes more sense then, since servers are packed right now SoT might not be able to merge everyone at the same time, so they merge one at the time.

    Every server has a life span of 12 hours +- after that it shutdown and a new one is created. Everyone on the server before it shutdowns get merged.

  • Schwammlgott
    Champion

    @mentimjojo thanks...but really a letdown after searching for so long...

  • mentimjojo
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    @schwammlgott said in Confirm server merge even with other ships on the server!:

    @mentimjojo thanks...but really a letdown after searching for so long...

    Well you can cheat it currently with your own flag :'). But you can search for reapers, more then enough on the seas right now with steam users

  • Schwammlgott
    Champion

    @mentimjojo sagte in Confirm server merge even with other ships on the server!:

    @schwammlgott said in Confirm server merge even with other ships on the server!:

    @mentimjojo thanks...but really a letdown after searching for so long...

    Well you can cheat it currently with your own flag :'). But you can search for reapers, more then enough on the seas right now with steam users

    Can't see any other reaper emissary right now...we serverd hopped a bit now
    It works with our own flag?

  • Guilleont
    Vanguard
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    Happened to me twice or so.

    We got sunk, and all my crew left. By the time I was alone I got merged, when clearly the crew that sank us was still in the server collecting our loot.

    Maybe this just happens when you end up solo, but it's kinda strange.

  • testakleze
    Vanguard
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    @schwammlgott
    I was merged once on a sloop with my friend while we had a third buddy on a second sloop. For the fun of it, he had dropped the alliance but we forgot to reform it so we were merged and he remained. I was also merged twice in one night while we could see an active reaper's mark ship on the map.

    And yes, you can use your own flag.

  • Captain Coel
    Commander
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    @schwammlgott you can avoid the merge by being in an alliance.

  • Schwammlgott
    Champion

    @guilleont sagte in Confirm server merge even with other ships on the server!:

    Happened to me twice or so.

    We got sunk, and all my crew left. By the time I was alone I got merged, when clearly the crew that sank us was still in the server collecting our loot.

    Maybe this just happens when you end up solo, but it's kinda strange.

    We weren't solo...both duo

  • Schwammlgott
    Champion

    @captain-coel sagte in Confirm server merge even with other ships on the server!:

    @schwammlgott you can avoid the merge by being in an alliance.

    Ok...good to know, but does the event count then?

  • Captain Coel
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    @schwammlgott it does. it's still a reapers flag.

  • Schwammlgott
    Champion

    @captain-coel sagte in Confirm server merge even with other ships on the server!:

    @schwammlgott it does. it's still a reapers flag.

    Thought it might not work...

  • nivada13
    Marauder

    I think alliance flags do stop server merges if there are enough people in alliance!

    Otherwise the alliance only servers would not exist.

    Now one tip for you all, reapers flag to see if your friend is in same server while being a great idea, is not perfect.

    cause of the chance of having somebody with a reapers flag lying in same spot at outpost(people who try same thing)

    the actual best way to find out is to blunderbomb yourself to death and your friend doing the same, if you are in same server you will see each other on the ferry of the damned

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