Curious About Server Merging

@vreyjalee If no one is on your server and you drop your anchor then it will merge you to some server with people. Also, if you're playing on gally, all 4 of you need to be on ship to be merged.

I personally had no problem with loot disappearing, but I know some people do sometimes.

@bundui said in Curious About Server Merging:

@vreyjalee If no one is on your server and you drop your anchor then it will merge you to some server with people. Also, if you're playing on gally, all 4 of you need to be on ship to be merged.

I personally had no problem with loot disappearing, but I know some people do sometimes.

@guldlasse said in Curious About Server Merging:

@vreyjalee Pretty sure loot is only lost when there is server maintenance, and they shut down.
Have never heard about losing loot when merging severs.

Both are correct here but in some cases it does not merge until there are only 2 ships left in the server and both ships anchor, this is why when I was farming out forts for the commendations and I was the only ship on the server I would not drop the anchor and only use the sails to come to a stop.

In the case of the loot it was a recent patch that made it so that loot even near the player(s) on or around the ship is merged with them so it is not lost, it was an issue in the past where it would fail to do this and cause anything not already on board to be lost i.e such was the case for those that got merged back then after completion of a fort.

All that said don't stay unmerged if you intend to keep the ship going more than 24hrs as that is when the servers sessions start to keel over in terms of lag and overall stability issues.