Im just curious as to if this considered inappropriate gameplay someone just did it to our crew. My sloop sank this galleon 4 times they got mad and used the key on gold fort because they didnt want to split the loot. Which was the offer we made to them.
Is using a key on lost gold fort cheating?
@ant-heuser-kush no you didnt read the whole thing they used the key from crows nest and open lost gold fort which is an inactive fort with the key. I though that was patched because it wasnt allowed
@blatantwalk4260 well you got played. It wasn't a nice or smart thing to do, but it wasn't cheating.
@blatantwalk4260 No it's not. Stop with this cheating nonsense. You didn't earn the key and yet you are mad because you couldn't profit off of someone else's work.
@sir-lotus but its not an intende gestire in the game they utilized a bug so they could feel better about not being able to beat me in a fight
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@sir-lotus but its not an intende gestire in the game they utilized a bug so they could feel better about not being able to beat me in a fight
If you expect that at Sea of THIEVES you would have honorable combats you have not been paying enough attention. They actually beat you at the cost of losing the fort too. And all the keys can open ALL the forts, so is not a bug, maybe this feature is in game for future content about skeleton lords or who nows, but its not a bug. And if its a bug, submint a ticket at bug report, dont post at the forum to tell the history of how you sunk a galleon 4 times and still you cant get their booty.
@blatantwalk4260 how is it a bug? It's a magical key, it can open any vault. If there's a crew camping on the unopened fort, you can wait for another skull to pop up and open the vault with your key, without having to actualy finish it.
I'm sorry, but you simply lost, move on and try again. It happens in this game.
@amancebacabras if the key is not intended to be used at another fort and they utilized a feature in the game that is not suppose to happen and Im right that it is a bug. Then they have knowingly used an exploit in the game.
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@sir-lotus there was suppose to be a patch back when this was first complained about.
Could you post it with the op? Maybe you're right, but from what I know its not, so I would love to know about this.
Hm it's not a bug. You can use the keys in all the forts.
On topic, if you have the key, you can do whatever you want with it. They could have easily just drop it in the red sea, on a random island or in the middle of the ocean somewhere. I heard it was even possible to sell it to one of the merchants before.
@amancebacabras ill hunt through and find it till then im going to bring it up with rare and send them in through the report system and see what happens
@blindnev that was actually a bug that you could be banned for by selling it. One of the people i play with learned that the hard way and he has to play on an alternate account now
@blatantwalk4260 It's not cheating.
It's deciding that since they can't get all the loot for themselves, no one will get the loot. That's fair. I am struggling in some places to specifically understand the step by step of how this all went down but correct me if I am wrong:
You paired up with another team at a skull fort. Upon completion the opposing team broke your pact and ended up with the key in their hands. Instead of sinking you and simply killing your team off so they could get the loot all to themselves they sailed off with the key in hand. You likely chased them or otherwise tried to claim the bounty, even if you still intended for a fair split. Unfortunately, they decided to waste the key by using it on the wrong fort. Now no one could claim the loot. They were happy with the nature of the betrayal, your team was not. Now your under the impression that the ability to use the key on the 'wrong' fort is a bug and cheating and think it should be report able.
It's not.
Working as intended.
Some people are just petty, and you got played and your time was wasted.
But nothing is out of line here. It was the holders choice what to do with the key. Because you didn't like how they 'wasted' the key your mad, sure I get that, but it's not a cheat or any synonym thereof.
@blatantwalk4260 said in Is using a key on lost gold fort cheating?:
@amancebacabras if the key is not intended to be used at another fort and they utilized a feature in the game that is not suppose to happen and Im right that it is a bug. Then they have knowingly used an exploit in the game.
You failed to get the key so they found a way to remove if from your grasp. You didn't win. Neither did they, lootwise. Instead of being upset about it you could resupply and wait for the fort to be active again and if it was the same one there would be double loot in it. And don't let another crew take the key this time.
I'm curious, if you sunk them 4 times and I assume you killed them all a bunch, why couldn't you get the key?
@blatantwalk4260 ah, well... the OP isn’t clear. No, it’s not cheating, it’s not a bug - the key can be used to open any fort... you can even save until the next active fort, IIRC. It’s bad form and sore losing, but not cheating.
@blatantwalk4260 said in Is using a key on lost gold fort cheating?:
@blindnev that was actually a bug that you could be banned for by selling it. One of the people i play with learned that the hard way and he has to play on an alternate account now
I find it hard to believe that he was banned for that kind of bug. If it was not intended, they could have just fix it and maybe take the gold he earned from it (which I also doubt).
@amancebacabras they hid it on thieves have somewhere player got mad sent me death threats then used it on the lost gold fort speaking of which can i share those or does it violate the no gamertag rule
@blatantwalk4260 hello matey.
No it isn't a cheat.
If I'm allowed to say, not a smart move of theirs..
There are only 3 active rotative forts. However, the key opens the vault door where it is used, regardless of if it's the
one active, the empty or the inactives.So it's a valid but not smart choice.
@blatantwalk4260
1.) you can't share msgs in here.
2.) next time please write the whole story first. Some of us might have been more sympathetic with you from the beginning. Now it honestly looks kinda like you're trying to get sympathy points after we told you, that you were wrong.I don't want to derail your thread, so I won't comment in here anymore, since I'm not sure what to think of this.
@blatantwalk4260 said in Is using a key on lost gold fort cheating?:
@blindnev 5 people reported him including his own crew for griefing them out of loot
Then it wasn't for selling the key. He was griefing his own crew. I guess it wasn't his first time griefing others, so he probably got enough reports to get himself suspended.
@sir-lotus you arent derailing anything sympathy is pointless I just find the whole thing funny till the key was used that way that doesnt strike me as appropriate
@blatantwalk4260 the most, I think it can be seen as unsporting behaviour.
Trolling, or toxic, maybe... but not cheating.@nunoazuldimeter hmm i can see that to be honest. I understand why people dont like tbe concept of the key best 2.5 hours of my life lol
@blatantwalk4260 said in Is using a key on lost gold fort cheating?:
@blindnev that was actually a bug that you could be banned for by selling it. One of the people i play with learned that the hard way and he has to play on an alternate account now
I think you misread the post, You could sell the item to an NPC at one time.
Selling it for real money would be silly but I'm sure some folks have tried. But you could trade it for a couple chests or something in game and it wouldn't be a ban.
@m1sterpunch no he sold it to the npc everyone reported him and he was banned. His own crew made griefing reports on him and was reported by two others thats the extent of my knowledge on it but it was over him selling the key instead of using it at the fort and for the love of me i cant share the gamertag with rules and all
@blatantwalk4260 So, they had the key and you were essentially "blocking the doorway" or perhaps better put: Held the fort hostage wanting to ransom the part of the loot you asked for.
But instead of caving in they flooded you with messages and used the key on another fort and called it a day?
If that's on point, then same answer.
Aside from the toxic messages which are reportable if they were unwholesome enough it's still fair play. I've even had this happen to me where I cleared a fort on my sloop and a Galleon appeared to snake it from under me. I hid the key and luck ended in a situation where it was uncovered on a nearby island (Loooooong story) so we lost some of the loot. But even if I would have used it on another fort, lost it in the red sea, or whatever...
It would have been fair play.
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