"Reduced" chance of encounters during naval battles.

  • EligibleEel6171
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    In the update video, they said they were going to decrease the likelihood of encounters during naval battles. Since the update, I have had skelly ship or megaladon encounters interrupt every single naval battle I've had. Has anyone else experienced a dramatic increase in encounters after they said they would decrease?

    To be clear this is not meant to be feedback/ discussion about battles being fair/ unfair, or whether more/ fewer interruptions is good or bad, or how the game "should" be. I'm just reporting that my experience has been the complete opposite of what they said would happen and wondering if other people have experienced something similar and it needs to be looked into, or if I'm just a statistical anomaly.

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  • Europa4033
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    @eligibleeel6171
    I was at the Shores of Gold fishing up ashen keys I needed for the new commendation. I was there for about an hour or so. When we collected our keys and left, we were nowhere near the new Smuggler's route, and 2 skeleton ships spawned on us along with a meg.

    We're parked at Fetchers, and a skeleton galleon quite far, comes over to us. We then hear the music and it starts shooting at us.

    Needless to say, they do seem to be a bit more hostile than usual lol. Fun times.

  • BurnBacon
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    I wish they wouldn’t.

    But then again. Players saying this happening to them and I’m sailing for 6 hours and not a single skelly ship or Meg spawn on me. You guys got better luck than I. That some easy loot

  • Magus104
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    @burnbacon Last season I couldn't go 15 minutes without getting a skeleton ship spawning on me. This season has been super inconsistent. I think smuggler ships are a % chance of spawning randomly on you. So if the game is doing a coin toss on a skeleton ship spawn it's possible due to old skeleton ships being back in the mix that the game wants to spawn a normal skeleton ship on you but if they fleet cloud is up it can't spawn so you have a break. Or the spawn frequency is somehow being tied to certain areas of the map. Definitely some inconsistency in whats going on or a new pattern I don't play enough any more to recognize. Something's different under the hood for sure. I probably wont be playing again till the awful new fort event next month. Though the rewards are dull and uninspired so on the fence if the effort it sounds like its going to require is worth it. Only thing worse than these new ship crests next month is the Guardians ghost cosmetic recolors.

  • Jusey1z
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    @burnbacon said in "Reduced" chance of encounters during naval battles.:

    I wish they wouldn’t.

    But then again. Players saying this happening to them and I’m sailing for 6 hours and not a single skelly ship or Meg spawn on me. You guys got better luck than I. That some easy loot

    There's a limit on how many active encounters can be on the server at once. Probably what happened. If you're on a very dead server or on Safer Seas, encounters are really common.

    Also, yes. There's now two Skevin encounters instead of one. It looks like Rare accidentally setup the Smuggler Skevin as a separate encounter instead of being a chance to replace the original, so we all now get doubled the Skevin ships than before but that also means half of them will have Smuggler items, including the kegs to easily sink them.

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