The merchant will very often not give the crates when you buy them. (Food, cannonballs, wood, storage crate)
Rare has tried many times to fix this bug but it still exists. The only workaround is to buy captain supplies to be able to grab the crates, or leave the server and try your luck on a new one.
Perhaps the crates could be dropped by the merchant automatically? Please fix.
@bleu-solo I wonder if the actual solution is just increasing starting supplies and making the merchant crates empty on sale. I'm not too sure it makes sense for the merchants to supply your ship at all, and if they didn't sell full crates people would stop doing the exploit to buy 10+ of each crate.
200 cannons
15 chain
35 scattershot
15 blunder
25 fire
75 planks
15 of ea fruit except pineapples
Would be reasonable supplies
@captain-fob4141 I like this idea. Obviously this issue won't be fixed so they need to find a way to work around it. Wood crates and cannonballs crates could instead be found on islands, skeleton ships etc.
@captain-fob4141 I buy fruit supplies specifically for the pineapple. The others are just nice add-ons. I agree there shouldn't be as many pineapples. Maybe 2-4? One for each member of the crew, ship size dependant.
@procyon-mage yeah it just doesn't make sense to keep the exploit in when they could just sell the crates empty. It just seems like such a brain dead fix to the problem.
Quick tip:
Always buy merchant crates first, if the merchant then refuses to give you your crates go to the shipwright and buy the shipwright’s supplies.
This will allow you to collect the crates
@callmebackdraft Thanks for that. It would still help the masses to have a real solution by Rare that works. Also this trick won't work for non-captained boats. This has been in the game for years it's a bit of a meme at this point.
@bleu-solo i am aware that it should be fixed permanently by rare and its not perfect but by propagating this info at least more people can prevent getting fleeced by the merchants
