why its pointless to use your pirate legend sails

Worth the risk making allies give them athena.. dont carry loot.. earn a lot of cash from allies and sometimes pirates waste there time but they earn nothing from it. Just dont carry loot if you fly reaper and neon sails to find people

@mr-outsid3r-2u

I haven't worn anything that identifies me as a legend for a while.

Sometimes if I'm having a PVP evening it's nice to put on the legend cosmetics for the ship. Only because that does seem to attract people who have a high opinion of their own skills. It's nice to test them. It'd be even nicer if they ever brought some loot for me to make it interesting, but they obviously don't think THAT highly of themselves that they'd put loot on the line to make it that little bit more intense.

Generally though, my attitude is why advertise that you are a Legend unless it will achieve something for you. You know you are, your crew probably knows you are. You can let anyone else know pretty easily if required to. Keeping your cards close to your chest gives you a tactical advantage. If they're expecting a sailor and get a pirate legend that will put them off guard. If they know what to expect then they'll plan accordingly.

I don't personally like the look of Legendary stuff anyway.
But if there's some pros to wearing the Legendary stuff I might consider it.

Btw, I'm almost a Pirate Legend.
(Like 2 levels left)

Yargh Har Har!

@ghostpaw said in why its pointless to use your pirate legend sails:

I get more PvP action with basic sails, hull, and a white flag than I do with the decked out PL ship

Same. - Many gets scared of the PL/ATHENA things on the ship.
It really depends on who were on the server basically.

@reapinglegion yeah exactly.

Once you get a feel for a server you usually get an idea of whether using full athenas is likely to get you chased down or have them running away from you.

Then, and only then, will I equip my Legendary cosmetics, for the ship, I'd still rather they had to guess who on the crew is PL (hint: it's everybody). I'll only put them on if they'll achieve what I want, whether that be people giving me a wide berth or people coming to me for a fight.

The Athenas flag can also be a good way of signalling to potential allies in DR, or spotting victims...

@sshteeve said in why its pointless to use your pirate legend sails:

@ghostpaw said in why its pointless to use your pirate legend sails:

I get more PvP action with basic sails, hull, and a white flag than I do with the decked out PL ship

Absolutely this!

Sadly there is still a portion of the player base who take great joy from ruining a new player's day, so they see a plain default ship = noob and as such will go out of their way to try and attack... It can be like a red rag to a bull sometimes!

To be honest the most common fully default set are crewed by full hardcore PvP crews than newer players.

Most people customize their ship to some extent unless they are rocking an initiation voyage, especially newer players love a nice looking ship.

I tend to check the voyage table to abort the onslaught if that is the case.

@MR-outsid3r-2U whether you want to profile yourself as a legend crew or not is up to you. I personally swap out what I use based on my mood and the only thing a legendary ship does is make people go all out on you as they assume that you can play and a good battle might happen or avoid you because they are newish to the game and fear us due to the fact that a lot of legends use it when out on the hunt.

I never feel bad for destroying or stealing from other legends as they are accustomed to the game and the dangers of the seas.

We sunk a galleon 4 times yesterday who was flying the reapers mark and with full loot on board and no skill. They were all sailors.

We didn't feel bad because they had the reapers mark up. Maybe your advice isn't all that good?

It also depends on the person. Me and my buddies can stand their own, we figure most people 'd be like nope let's not mess with that ship again and we'll be a sort of visible representation of the don't mess with me ship.
But if you're solo or are not confident I'd say don't use the Neon sails telling people there's a ton of treasure on board :-P

@cotu42 said in why its pointless to use your pirate legend sails:

@sshteeve said in why its pointless to use your pirate legend sails:

@ghostpaw said in why its pointless to use your pirate legend sails:

I never feel bad for destroying or stealing from other legends as they are accustomed to the game and the dangers of the seas.

If they have gotten all the way to Legend they should be used to getting robbed. If not, you are doing them a service by robbing them.

To be honest, unless it's a PVP crew using Legend cosmetics to put people on notice, I tend to not be impressed by the lack of tactical awareness flaunting your Legend status indicates. Worse still the players who try to intimidate you over comms because they are Legends (new Legends, all of them) they get the Launch Crew EoR to the dome.

@hynieth said in why its pointless to use your pirate legend sails:

We sunk a galleon 4 times yesterday who was flying the reapers mark and with full loot on board and no skill. They were all sailors.

We didn't feel bad because they had the reapers mark up. Maybe your advice isn't all that good?

The reapers is an invitation: I am up for a fight are you? Never feel bad to give answer to give that call.

It also depends on the person. Me and my buddies can stand their own, we figure most people 'd be like nope let's not mess with that ship again and we'll be a sort of visible representation of the don't mess with me ship.
But if you're solo or are not confident I'd say don't use the Neon sails telling people there's a ton of treasure on board :-P

When solo I sometimes really enjoy rocking my Athena 10 full Ghost set or the original set, just for giggles and being a show off.

Usually if you would manage to catch me there will be a full Athenas run of loot and/or a bunch of chests and skeleton captains treasure scattered around the anchor based on how long I have been on.

Though I haven't lost my treasure in a long time when solo, some do get a glimpse of it and I glow from different angles. Guess I am one of the reasons why people hunt legendary ships.

@hynieth I suspect some people have been opening up ships at the end of sessions and letting an open crew sail in their colours.

I've come across a few A10 ships with legitimate Sailors on board, well that or very good actors.

@goedecke-michel said in why its pointless to use your pirate legend sails:

@king-deka sagte in why its pointless to use your pirate legend sails:

No when I’m putting on my Legendary Ship Livery, PPl Running away from me, Piratelegend is an Rank with respect people are looking up to you and don’t want to fight with this kind of experienced Player!

LOL. PL is not a rank to be respected. It is a rank that demands competition. Similar to how the title "The Fastest Shooter in the Wild West" led to this having to be proven anew every day. There's a "legend" driving? Let's see what her abilities are. Attack!

It was RESPECTED some months after release when REAL good players was piratelegends, now everybody is it...most of the ones nowadays gets to athena 8-9 before reaching piratelegend and that's so uglyword up if you ask me.

@goedecke-michel said in why its pointless to use your pirate legend sails:

@reapinglegion sagte in why its pointless to use your pirate legend sails:

@goedecke-michel said in why its pointless to use your pirate legend sails:

@king-deka sagte in why its pointless to use your pirate legend sails:

No when I’m putting on my Legendary Ship Livery, PPl Running away from me, Piratelegend is an Rank with respect people are looking up to you and don’t want to fight with this kind of experienced Player!

LOL. PL is not a rank to be respected. It is a rank that demands competition. Similar to how the title "The Fastest Shooter in the Wild West" led to this having to be proven anew every day. There's a "legend" driving? Let's see what her abilities are. Attack!

It was RESPECTED some months after release when REAL good players was piratelegends, now everybody is it

After release, the first legend was a cheater, don't you know?

...most of the ones nowadays gets to athena 8-9 before reaching piratelegend and that's so uglyword up if you ask me.

Athena rank is something completely different than pirate legend status.

Except him, her or it then.

Athena is a sign on that you've did more than being a PL, shouldnt give rep to others than PL's, end of story.

@boxcar-squidy said in why its pointless to use your pirate legend sails:

@hynieth I suspect some people have been opening up ships at the end of sessions and letting an open crew sail in their colours.

I've come across a few A10 ships with legitimate Sailors on board, well that or very good actors.

I usually always open up the crew right before I cash in so others get a nice surprise and some quick loot.

@marsmayflower that's way nicer than my sailing into the red sea and saying: "the ship is all yours if ye can save her" anecdote. I think we'll go with your story for the marketing brochure.

@boxcar-squidy said in why its pointless to use your pirate legend sails:

@marsmayflower that's way nicer than my sailing into the red sea and saying: "the ship is all yours if ye can save her" anecdote. I think we'll go with your story for the marketing brochure.

I am guilty of throwing all my loot overboard just so some cutthroats wouldn't get it. Noone gets my loot unless I want them to!

@mr-outsid3r-2u If they're a pirate legend chances are they WANT to be raided. People get bored of just doing voyages and want player interaction that's why we have the reapers mark. People use it to show hey we're experienced players with a lot of loot try and take it if you can. It presents a challenge to both the people who want it and the legends trying to defend it.