Hiding in plain sight

  • Sshteeve
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    So... I took some suggestions from the forum and decided to finish off the Skelly event last night as best I could.
    The first server I land in has a skull fort pop! "YAY!" I think to myself and head on over to it as soon as I can... There is a sloop circling, with a galleon very hastily trying to sink them, so I do what I have read on here and dump my own trusty vessel and run for the nearest tower...

    Lo and behold the gally immediately sinks my fine boat and they get back at it with the other crew. I take the time to clear a wave for them to get a new powder keg to spawn and go back to hide, using the sleep emote to hid my name tag, which then leads to the funniest thing ever: A fellow Pirate climbs my ladder, takes the cannon and fires at a ship ( no idea which one) and then runs past me a second time to shoot from the opposite side! It was only when he went to leave that he finally spotted me and decided to attack (having stopped for a moment puzzled)! I tried my best to defend myself, but to no avail!

    Gotta love the "Truce!" "I'm Friendly!" "Let's work together!" medley being completely ignored!

    They got sunk in the end by another galleon crew and the sloop and we all did the fort together! Happy days, the commendations are mine!

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  • Musicmee
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    @sshteeve THIS! This is what I too have become to find at the forts... is no one interested in getting these commendations unlocked?

    I have so far not had any luck in coming across any friendly crews who are the slightest bit interested in helping a fellow p[irate finish off his commendations. Even after the parlay, truce and we're friendly! I'm not bothered about the loot... you can easily sink me and kill me after. If its virtual currency you are after you can keep it... All I'm after is commendations and a little understanding. That is all/

  • Sshteeve
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    @musicmee Yup! I shouted down the speaking trumpet as well and I know full well that they were in game chat as I heard this guy speaking as he ran past me!

    www.adamsgardens.co.uk/images/Random/Hiding_Plain_Sight1.mp4

    Still funny to watch - tried to edit so you can't see the good Pirate's name!

  • Sshteeve
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    @ant-heuser-kush Haven't done it, don't fancy having to server hop to get it done either, it'll come in time I'm sure, enough forts fought over the course of my time on the sea and I don't need the Doobles!

  • Sshteeve
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    Turns out he's a streamer! Wonder if I'm now famous on his channel?! XD

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    @sshteeve The fort hopping technique is not easy and it's not fun... remember those fort hoppers are also fort hopping at the same time... so you basically end up on a server where everyone's so hungry to go over to the fort and attack it is hardly worth the effort or time!

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    @ant-heuser-kush Gonna try this myself tonight... seems like it works.

  • Musicmee
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    @ant-heuser-kush The hardest part I have found when there is another crew on the island is 3 skellies go off in one direction and the gunpowder skeleton goes off another way!

    So this will be worth a shot... even just for the one.

  • GotGabriele
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    @musicmee said in Hiding in plain sight:

    @sshteeve THIS! This is what I too have become to find at the forts... is no one interested in getting these commendations unlocked?

    I have so far not had any luck in coming across any friendly crews who are the slightest bit interested in helping a fellow p[irate finish off his commendations. Even after the parlay, truce and we're friendly! I'm not bothered about the loot... you can easily sink me and kill me after. If its virtual currency you are after you can keep it... All I'm after is commendations and a little understanding. That is all/

    Haha don't worry, sooner or later you'll find someone willing I'm sure. Just yesterday I was playing in a galleon with strangers, none of them communicated in any way (not even using quick chat) so I decided I'd sail us to the fort, because why the hell not. Turns out, we meet another galleon who are doing their first fort. We help them out, and leave all the loot for them in the end.

    Seeing how things go in Sea of Thieves I would've expected them to 'betray us' by the end and just kill us all before cashing in, but that didn't happen, so hooray. Gotta do the good deed of the day!

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    @sshteeve
    Glad you got the commendation though, however I did notice that a lot of people at the fort didn't seem interested in commendations. Probably because there's loot involved.

    I've done a few solo attempts for the commendations which had mixed results. Funniest one I came across was a galleon crew that just replied "Go away" when I told them I was there for commendation. They eventually kegged my ship and sunk it and I hid in a tower until they were done. Unfortunately they were pretty uncoordinated and almost seemed to make it an artform of only exploding 1 or 2 skeletons.

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    @fishst1ck They see the loot and get distracted by the possible shiny things on the other side of the fort door! All hopes of any cooperation just disappear for some pirates!

  • Sshteeve
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    @musicmee , @Musicmee which in the grand scheme of things is a pittance - you can earn more in a session, as we did last night, through voyages if you put your mind to it. Especially if a fort becomes contested and a battle of attrition...

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    @sshteeve This is why unless there is an event on... I will ALWAYS bypass the forts... not worth the time or effort... 5/6 gold animals later and you have already surpassed what forts are worth nowadays.

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    @musicmee said in Hiding in plain sight:

    @fishst1ck They see the loot and get distracted by the possible shiny things on the other side of the fort door! All hopes of any cooperation just disappear for some pirates!

    I've also sailed with a crew where one person didn't understand it when the rest suggested we'd just share the loot with the sloop that helped us. Going totally crazy when one guy walked off with the skull and just kept on nagging the entire way back to the outpost... Luckily that person wasn't on my friendslist to it saved me the trouble removing him.

  • entspeak
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    @sshteeve I got the single Gunpowder Plot (won’t get the Legendary). I did it with a plan to steal a piece of loot. So, I sailed past the island and hopped off - leaving my ship to seem to sail away. I swam to the fort and snuck my way aboard the single Galleon there. Went to sleep on the balcony facing away from the island and BLING - Gunpowder Plot commendation. My plan for theft was ultimately foiled, but I got the commendation.

  • Admiral GreyJoy
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    I’ve got one legendary left kill 5 at a fort. Won’t seem to track for me no matter how many skellies I boom 💥 on a occupied fort

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