Scuttling a Stolen Ship

  • Hi.

    Today I was wanting to land at an island. I saw another sloop approach and I warily circled the island. After about ten minutes of the other sloop not doing anything, I stopped close by, thinking I was safe. Stupid presumption! I heard some obvious swimming sounds but ignored them. STUPID AGAIN!!! Another player boards my ship and instantly kills me with one shot of his bbus. I find myself on the ghost ship and respawn back on my ship right behind the thief who was steering my ship. I drew my sword. Too slow!! He turned around and one-shot kills me with his bbus again. xD

    Before anybody starts getting hysterical and shouting MATE, IT WAS A GRIEFER!!! No, I didn't class it as a griefer. It was simply another player who took advantage of my naivety. I should have, on hearing the swimming sounds, took out my pistol, aimed it at the top of the ladder and waited for his head to pop up. Or, I should have jumped into the water and swam to his ship whilst he was swimming to mine. xD

    Anyway, on the second visit to the Ghost Ship I opted to scuttle my ship. No treasure on it other than two empty coops. This got me to thinking. If the player was still on my ship when I scuttled it from the Ghost Ship, would he suddenly find my ship sinking under his feet?

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  • @myrm Yes he would :)

  • @myrm This is a slightly odd part of the game. You cannot steal some ones ship. It's very odd that this guy was still sailing your ship.

    The normal course of events is; kill solo sailor, sail his ship at the nearest rock to knock a load of holes in the ship, take supplies/treasure, swim back to your own ship. This causes you (the victim) to respawn on a new ship miles away and gives the pirate a chance to loot your treasure in peace before you can get back to the fight.

    This is the games balancing act, should you really be able to respawn on your own ship that the thief took from you perfectly legitimately?

  • @kungfustu72 said in Scuttling a Stolen Ship:

    This is the games balancing act, should you really be able to respawn on your own ship that the thief took from you perfectly legitimately?

    It would be a great addition if someone could climb up and replace the flag to take over that ship's spawnpoint

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