Rowboat Despawns with loot

I pulled up to cannon cove and there was a rowboat on the beach. After a little bit, it slid into the ocean by itself. Nothing weird, I see that a lot. Before I left the island, it had disappeared. Maybe rowboats had their despawn time lowered and if they aren't interacted with for so long, they disappear. Maybe having a player nearby would help keep it alive. Since I died a lot, the island would be empty frequently.

@mr-dragon-raaar had something similar today but I left a wood crate on a rowboat at plunder. Ship went to another fort to takeover. Finished fort came back to plunder 30 mins later to find only the wood crate. I think it’s the whole float time for the loot is why the loot vanished, but it seems rowboats if not watched over for long enough disappear. Makes sense or else we could have a bunch of rowboats out at sea.

@nunoazuldimeter

1. How do u know no one took it? did one of u guard it constantly? Im a pirate who tends to swim out 1 or even 2 islands to surprise my enemy. They have NO clue where the kraken i came from. I like my 5+ min swims.

2. Even if rowboat despawns and such. I would put items on the beach. If anything happens u have a LOT more time before it despawns.

@NunoAzuldimeter

Wether they ran into it i dont know. I do get the feeling "docking" a rowboat (read leaving it on the beach) doesnt really dock. It tends to drift back out into the ocean.

Than there might be that possibilty that it despawns. Instead of drifting around.

@nunoazuldimeter said in Rowboat Despawns with loot:

It all happened in Old Boot Fort

Old Boot Fort is haunted.

Seriously, at present this is the Bermuda Triangle of SoT.

@nunoazuldimeter said in Rowboat Despawns with loot:

@khompewtur really?! Why? Ahahaha now I'm curious 😁

I have had 3 physics breaking experiences at Old Boot in past month:

1st: Chased by Brigantine to Old Boot, climb into gun tower. Brigantine off shore, instantly vanished. As I sit in tower looking at empty oceans for next 10 mins, skellies in other tower are firing at "invisible target".

2nd: Clashing with other crews already there, my sloop is sinking along the west wall when I die. when I get off the Ferry, I am underground inside Old Boot looking up through the "floor" of the locked treasure room, I watch a crew of pirates above me complete the skull fort. they can hear me and are freaked out the entire time trying to find me.

3rd: Approaching Old Boot we see a brigantine on it, but during our approach it instantly vanishes. We thought perhaps scuttled, or quit. As we get within range the fort is clear, I hop in a cannon to take out the towers. As I'm flying through the air, suddenly the brigantine materializes in front of my eyes.

All three of these were at the Western wall/gun tower.

However it happened, this is one of many problems that fly in the face of the "sandbox adventure" game concept. This is also one of the reasons I absolutely hate server migration. Rare often touts "creating your own adventure" as a one of the fundamental selling points of the game. Yet certain flawed mechanics--like disappearing rowboats and game-stopping server migrations, etc.--tend to ruin the most interesting and engaging stories. Certain things should persist in the world for truly immersive adventures. That means if you leave a rowboat full of treasure carefully hidden in some rocks, it should be there when you return (unless stolen, of course).

I've had so many little frustrations like this, it discourages me from even trying anything creative or interesting, especially involving rowboats. What's the point?

That said, it's still possible to have some epic adventures. But you have to treat the environment with the same distrust as you treat other pirates. If you leave anything anywhere, you can't depend upon it being there when you return.

@nunoazuldimeter said in Rowboat Despawns with loot:

@khompewtur wow!!!
It really seems Bermuda Triangle material. 👽👾👻☠
Did you report all those events to devs through the support page? That definitely something they should look into.

Yes. And since the "being trapped under Old Boot" one lasted so long, I was able to document it with video & screenshots.

In a side note, last night I joined this CRAZZZYY wild crew on some insane PvPvE action.

2 Skull galleons literally both wedge ramming our brigantine at the same time, with 1 alliance galleon, 1 skelly sloop, 1 enemy brig, and 1 enemy galleon adding fire, all scrapping in the north see between Old Faithful & Marauders Arch. (add a white Meg to the mix, that wasn't biting).

I feel like last nights gaming session was soo chaotic it was designed by Katniss & Plutarch Heavensbee. it was crazy, I have no idea how the ship did not sink but we went through 90 planks in 30 high-octane minutes, and died probably a dozen times as these 7 ships cluster bombed.

the whole sequence started though at edge of red sea where a Meg glitched and got stuck with its jaws wide open, riding alongside the brig for several minutes. got video of that as well. SoT is cray!!!

@Khompewtur if the Meg was really white, then you found the shrouded ghost. Crazy to begin with that story but to have the ghost and not know it is even crazier!