Skull forts become anoying ... solutions here

Since the last patch, even if they change the respawn distance, it is still deficient. There is still endless fighting or chasing.

The skeleton forts are useless without a fix, I believe i'm done for the moment untill they think to a good fix.

I'm reposting my comment from another post here.

This could be an easy solution:
Lock servers with active forts for new players, and ships that gets sunk by other players gets moved to another server. (Only by other players so it doesn't affect players that is not engaging in the skull fort.)
That way you actually win when you win. The current situation with the respawning and server hopping makes it an unpleasant experience. Spending 2-3 hours fending of griefers just to have a (maybe more than one if you're unlucky) server hopping gallion appear. All out of resources you eventually loose even though you sunk other ships many times.

We entered a 4 way galleon fight last night for a skull fort... and sunk 3 more trying to come in... and honestly.. was the best time we've had in a long time.

You're crazy

Plays game with combat, hates the combat, says game is the stupid one.

@the-fantasticat написал в Skull forts become anoying ... solutions here:

@irhcsajr "Today we did 6 of them in a 2man sloop”. Today; 12? 15? hours? I have a regular sloop partner with approx 9-1 wins what concerns sinking other peoples ships. The problem occurs when you have 2 or more ships grieving you at the fort.

For instance: Me and my partner arrived at the fort finding another sloop and a galleon, -first we sank the galleon, and then sloop. Managed to do one wave before the galleon came back, sank him again, did another wave before the sloop was back. These two grieved us 3 times each: 8 sunken ships. We were fully stocked on cannonballs, so 200÷8=25balls per ship. I would say that says a little about our skill level.

The thing is, without any resources left, it does not matter how good you are, especially against a galleon. You have to sink them in order to get rid of them.
The fort usually have about 20-40cannonballs on the island, and sure you could do gunpowder barrels, but you run out of them too.
There is only so much resources you can stock up on, and when you're out you have pretty much lost, especially if a server hopping galleon/sloop appears on the closest outpost. Fully stocked, cocky as f- because they think they can determine their skill level based on sinking resource depleted ships.

Sadly true + on high lvl rep you can get more gold from quest then fort fighting.
Game need some pvp points and reward for them like Honor points in WoW - this would be good option and motivation to fight for fort with other pirates and if you are there near fort sinking and killing ppl for 3 hours and still not getting loot from skells you still getting this points that you can spend on some pvp cusomisation for example.

Like i said in another thread, i think this game is bleeding players. Yesterday me and my gf got to duo 5 keeps....without ANYONE coming. We saw galleons and sloops, but they never came over.

Id say the playerbase is fading, as before we NEVER got to be alone at a fort.

This is not about getting good, because we are. We sink sometimes over 12 galleon and we still stand at the fort. The problem is the boat coming over and over again. They make alliances and we still wins at 8 vs 4 and even 12 vs 4. We were full of cannonballs, planks and bananas but at start. We runned out of stock after maybe 16 fights.

I love PVP and i'm good to it, but I feel like something is not balanced at all and unfair when we talk about skeleton forts. They still always respawn too close from the fort and with a free re-stock!

I wish a kind of pvp reputation system too! There is no gain to fight all this time!

I just hear i want easy mode when i see post like this.

1. the skull fort is supposted to be hard!
2. It is a server event ment to be seen by everyone on the server. A.K.A be ready for a fight!
3. The idea is to fight for all that loot! its alot of reward for the time spend if played right.
4. Keep your eyes open if you go for skull or be prepared to lose the bounty you want.
5. People always claim something that is not yet theirs.
   (A.K.A people come back for the loot you also want, its yours if you turn it in not before.)

Anyways what you suggest is to please just spawn a key only so you will have a easy time getting rep and gold.

Just my 2 dabloons

@the-fantasticat said in Skull forts become anoying ... solutions here:

There is only so much resources you can stock up on, and when you're out you have pretty much lost, especially if a server hopping galleon/sloop appears on the closest outpost.

Yes, that is the main issue with forts at this point. The new respawn mechanic is great, but that alone doesn't solve the problem you're talking about.

Imagine that when you sink your remaining resources are converted into barrels that float to the surface (like what we already find spawning in the ocean), and then when you respawn you start with little to no resources.

Sinking ships leaving behind their resources would fix the issue. As it stands no matter how good you are or how many ships you sink at a fort, if ships continually return or roll up then eventually you will run out of resources and die. But if you could take the resources from the boats that you sink, then that player is rewarded for their skill by having the opportunity to restock. And for the ones that got sank, it balances the pvp and pve by incentivizing the player to pve for resources before returning to engage.

@a-trusty-mango

Very true but still people know what the mechanics are by now,
Its frustrating at times but you know what you are getting into.

That is the point i am trying to make. ;)

I don't agree with any of this or any other "easy mode" request. Why are people so against a challenge? Oh...safe spaces, no competition, stop sinking me, blah blah blah.

My favorite activity as of late is to sink the ship leaving the fort with all the loot. It is super easy, mostly because they go into a full on panic and stop thinking logically....it's awesome. You do the work, I will cash it in for you.

What's really annoying about Forts coincides with the current state of the community. Everyone is super trigger happy; I sailed up to a fort in a solo sloop, cannons raised all the way (as is customary to show you're friendly), and found a duo sloop already there. My ship got pummeled by the fort's cannons and sank. The other sloop came up, and one of them hopped out and tried to shoot me. He had no HP left and died to a single pistol round.

I was killed by a skeleton (their aim is seriously BS at times, and it's almost impossible to judge when they are going to attack), and sailed back, cannon pointed up again. This time, I managed to anchor and use my cannon to take out two of the towers. Then the guy I killed came aboard as I was patching and TNT barreled the two of us, and my ship, to the Ferry.

Either you're at the fort, are willing to split, and get sunk, or you come with no ill intent and get sunk by whoever was there regardless. No middle ground, just bloodthirst.