How long do you usually stay on an instance? We did 2 raids

@purplemajic When we played we stayed on for 2 to 3 hrs at a time as a rule. I have never seen anything to indicate server swapping and presumed people logged out and back to swap themselves.

Duo sloop GH and OOS took about 30 mins to an hour originally but got longer we're only about 20 GH so I think it would get even longer.

Not being PvP skilled meant we became easy targets and the stupidity that went with attacks (pirating as some call it) due to the lack of balancing player crews killed the game.

@stratcat51 we seem to only get killed when we decide to try PVP. Most times we can do 8-10 hours worth of slooping and not get killed by other pirates. We are not very good at PVP, and anyone boards we are dead. Haha! But we are good at the voyages. They don’t normally take us long not even riddles. I like the riddles. The X marks the spot are sometimes hard for me. The Raids we usually get them done in about an hour. We use the cannon and Hubby leads them to where I can fire upon them.

@purplemajic Sounds good, we got attacked each time we've met other ships. On one occassion we were at an outpost having completed and crew came in. They were fearful we'd take thier loot but we tried to communicate and play music etc. They pulled out weapons and simply left.

Other times we've been killed at outpost with no loot or before we have even boarded for voyage. Enjoy the treasure hunts and OOS sessions that we played but not losing everything after an hour or mores voyage when we get so little time to play.

Haven't played for a few weeks now but may come back if we hear the game balancing gets improved.

When was the last time anyone got a server merge? I've not seen it since release. And as is if you stay on a server for about 3 hours chances are it'll get deserted.

@celestron90 last week. It was about an hour after we seen the last sloop. One night before that we were pretty sure no one else was on the instance. A raid popped and we were topping off the supplies barrels to go do the raid, headed that way 3 galleons already in front. We turned around and went back to roaming the other side of the map doing voyages and sunken ships.

@purplemajic Since becoming a part of a regular crew it has changed from just a couple of hours to eight or so hours on the same server.

Sometimes we'll knock-out the fort in 10 minutes or so (duo) without contest, other nights there's up to five ships there where I've been a part of some massive battles as well as a full server skull fort party where everyone played music, danced and drank for hours before it got ugly and messy.

It was by far the most heart-dropping experience I've had since the beta.
So much blood and driftwood littered the surface making it almost impossible to save all of that spilled grog but I finally got through it all. hic

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@genuine-heather said in How long do you usually stay on an instance? We did 2 raids:

What is server hopping?

You join a server, look for a skull cloud and if you can't see one leave the server again and repeat until you find an active fort.
Once found set sail for the fort, kill the sloop that has been clearing the skeleton waves for you and sell all the treasure at the nearest outpost. If you're a friendly pirate you can leave a castaway chest inside the vault for the sloop to collect once it has re-spawned and sailed back to the fort.

I add to this, cause you forgot: after selling everything quit and start over again with logging in and looking for a Fort

We (duo sloop) stay in as long as possible, even had 3 Skull Forts appearing, but did only one, on the second where too many ships fighting and the third we were allready finishing the voyage and leave right after...
Once we had to switch server cause it was laggy like hell, and I'm not talking about the"regular" micro lags every now and than it was a full-length-flipbook-experience