Why can you not reinstate yourself as captain after leaving the game?

  • me and a friend have been running the new update and i found myself glitched under the map and constantly unable to die due to a respawning bug so i had to leave and come back... then i found out i cannot reinstate my position as captain of the ship and all captaincy achievements are froze! not very happy.

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  • Does this happen with crashes?

    Me and my crew play on Series X and we each crash 2 to 3 times per session.

    I'd like to keep a ship and not need to find a new server each time our captain crashes.

  • @rougual I'm assuming it does so long as you leave the game (by any means) and are captain so if you are handling 2-3 crashes per session it may not be worth using captained ships for you guys if you are in it for anything other than the name and the chosen pre-set customisations

  • There needs to be a way to vote in a new captain without leaving the play season. I suggested a scuttling option. The old captain ship would sink and the new ship would spawn. Unlike scuttling, the resources would transfer between the old ship and the new ship.

    They could add a feature where you can’t transfer ships when another crew is close by. This would stop people from running with their supplies

  • this is what you get when you dont actually test an update. literally 4 months of testing adventures instead of captaincy SMH

  • @coffeelight5545 said in Why can you not reinstate yourself as captain after leaving the game?:

    There needs to be a way to vote in a new captain without leaving the play season. I suggested a scuttling option. The old captain ship would sink and the new ship would spawn. Unlike scuttling, the resources would transfer between the old ship and the new ship.

    They could add a feature where you can’t transfer ships when another crew is close by. This would stop people from running with their supplies

    Could be abused as an enemy-detector.
    "Is it save to sell our loot"
    "I cannot change the Captain, set sail to the next outpost".

  • @lem0n-curry

    I didn’t think of that. You can still have the vote in a new captain without that feature. I would hope that you could scuttle this way and keep your resources but at this point, I would just be happy having a way to transfer captaincy to someone else.

    Historically accurate pirates could transfer captaincy from one pirate to another. Why can’t we do the same?

  • @coffeelight5545 said in Why can you not reinstate yourself as captain after leaving the game?:

    @lem0n-curry

    I didn’t think of that. You can still have the vote in a new captain without that feature. I would hope that you could scuttle this way and keep your resources but at this point, I would just be happy having a way to transfer captaincy to someone else.

    Historically accurate pirates could transfer captaincy from one pirate to another. Why can’t we do the same?

    It's not a historically accurate pirate game :).

    My guess is, every pirate is linked to the ship. To move them to another ship, we could end up with pirates without a ship if something goes amiss (or when people find a loophole somewhere).

  • @lem0n-curry

    The only reason why it’s not a historically accurate game is because slavery was a part of the pirate history. Rare doesn’t support that play style that someone has more power than another player

  • Bc the update wasn't finished so they rushed it bc it was already delayed 2 times

  • Meanwhile all the alliance servers are falling to pieces.

    My ship, no my ship, my ship or I’m not playing 😂

  • @pabio-escobar said in Why can you not reinstate yourself as captain after leaving the game?:

    Meanwhile all the alliance servers are falling to pieces.

    My ship, no my ship, my ship or I’m not playing 😂

    That’s not alliance servers, that’s everyone else.

    Once a captain leaves a ship, the captain ship becomes a normal ship. In other words, nothing has changed for alliance servers. You can work on your milestones when the alliance servers are first formed but afterwards it’s pointless

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