@eam-samaraka

So you want to say I am hacking in other games? oO

Don't get me wrong, I hate cheater, hacker and bug/glitch user too.
You can't compare using hacks and log out/in till you find a skelly cloud.
But I dont see the point why it should be bugusing to farm the skelly clouds. You still have to clear the fortress and bring the booty to an outpost thus you can be interrupted by other players.
What are they doing then? Log in and out till they find an empty world were no one can interrupt them?
I wish them all fun of the world in the loading screen.

Well Rare already did something against them, yesterday evening they closed the servers for players which logged out :P

Greetings
Cpt. Fen

@fengrimm777 fortress reward or not, its a broken exploit and if we keep ignoring things like that just so people who like their food brought to the cradle, then we may should ignore future cheaters too, i mean you didnt sink while they speeded off with speedhacks, or lost any treasure as you sunk because of they aimbots.

the arguments are good and fine but my tought still stands, exploits are exploits and they should be punished.

those people who say its an okay thing todo are usually those people hacking in other games.

@psy0pss I think it took us only 15 minutes on the first Fort we went to because someone else had already killed some of the skeleton waves that spawn.

It did take us a bit longer on the next ones, but not a lot longer. Depends a bit on the skeletons that spawn and if you can round them up properly to blow them up with cannons or gunpowder barrels.

Overall it's a much faster way to get gold than actually doing the quests.

@eam-samaraka sagte in Farming the skull cloud...:

Hard work is what we put in, and those things simply ruin hardwork by making it worth nothing.

Hi everyone, why is your hard work nothing worth?
You still got your rewards from the fortresses. Am I right?

I don't see the point why this should be bug or glitch abusing.
If you like to farm goaldhoarder voyages do it!
If you like to do merchant guild voyages only, do it!
If you like to do skelett fortresses, do it!

[sarcasm]Maybe they should remove gold from the game, so there cant be a fastest method to farm it.[/sarcasm]

Greetings
Cpt. Fen

PS: no I don't farm fortresses.

Seeing things like this in the Sea of Thieves Discord:

So yeah... grinding / farming the fort is definitely becoming a thing.

since these things can be traced really easely via logs, im pretty sure banhammer will be struck, otherwise i will loose even more faith in this game. I took 7 skullclouds with my friend as 2 on our own, we defeated more then 7 galleons and 4-5 sloops on our own to win them everytime, if this exploit ruins my archievment because people just use tricks to make them simply not worth much im getting very angry. Hard work is what we put in, and those things simply ruin hardwork by making it worth nothing.

As soon as the general population figure out it pays well, the competition will even it out. It's not an exploit, but if you do forts uncontested or alone, it pays really well.

Since it seems to be part of the games mechanic and as has been said anything that is part of the games mechanic is considered fair play, another words if the game allows you to do it then so be it.

15 minutes?! holy cow, I must be doing something wrong. It took the 4 of us an hour last night to finish one and we used every cannon ball etc.

We took on a fort as a 4 man galleon and it took ua nearly 40 minutes with constant response until I blew up a cannon skeleton who seemed glitches. Had to blow him away with a gunpowder barrel!
For us it was worth it, but there's always the risk of your entire haul being pillaged as you try and get it to the ship or to the outpost!

I stayed on ship cruising whilst my crew mates jumped overboard with the loot.

With the forts in thr game there is less reason to do any voyages, you get way more gold and especially reputation by grinding the forts. Keep the amount of gold but remove the rep you get from turning in things that isn't part of a voyage.

@ghroznak jea i think this the goldfarming-meta. but after 3 or 4 runs it gets boring. exploring digging sailing and so on makes a lot of more fun. but the reward for that is so f****ing low

Does this constant switching have effect on servers? Just a question.

@shofficer Last one we did we each got around 15,000 Gold for about 15 minutes of shooting skeletons with cannons, sniper rifles and using the explosive barrels all over the fort itself.

It's low effort for respectable payout. Especially when you can keep doing this 'ad nauseam' by simply logging off and starting again in a new session. You even get your cannonballs replenished with the new ship you get as you log into new session.

I can't say if this is right or wrong.

But I felt it would be prudent to bring this to attention though, both to hear what others think as well as making RARE aware of it in case this is something that needs to be tweaked.

The Forts are great if people go there and fight eachother, but it's just so much easier to just start a new session and find an empty Fort ripe for the taking.

Not so much an exploit as it is revelation that some think the game is simply about the gold. I enjoy variety in gameplay. If you have 20 hours to waste in a day farming forts, go for it. I enjoy snagging them on the side and running missions, sinking ships and exploring reefs and wrecks.

Last fort I hit we had a heck of a galleon duel and sank the enemy twice before they gave up.

Play your way folks.

@captain-surgee

The reward probably isn't high enough if no one else on the server cares about it.

@shofficer dunno how it is now since I wasn't able to get in since launch, but in beta I never met any player resistance there. Even soloed one fort...wasn't easy but doable.

@captain-surgee

The risk inherent to carrying a huge payload out of a location with a server-wide beacon

Ah HA! found the culprits to the server issue problem. :P

Thought I'd finally get to play, and ran into a server issue. Go figure, everyone wants to play, but a bottleneck at the player sorting portion of the game should have been addressed before launch and made larger since it's the slowest part of queuing players.

We just did it twice in a row without relog. it just spawns so often...
and as 4 man crew with 5 small boats on the same server there was no risk to do it. 6 crews per server is just too little.

But everything is too easy to archieve. we just played for one hour and fighted the sea monster once and did the skullraid twice. thats kinda awkward.

btw i didnt get paid for the second charge because of "releaseday problems"

(sorry for my english skills)

And posting it here for all to see... hmm...

There is no end game. Play how you want. Doesn't affect your abilities when coming into contact with enemy players so I don't care what anyone does to get gold

@shofficer what risk?

@shofficer The payout is great. The timer is also good. It seems to take 3-4 hours for them to spawn. What isn't fine is rematching over and over to keep refreshing them. But there's no real solutions that I can think of. How would a loot timer work when crews can mix and match?