How to counter players sinking chests in the Red Sea.

@entspeak Excellent advice! Just watch yourself though, if they go in full sails, and repair as they go, it will be quite a ways out there. Be patient too. If the loot is in the lower deck(s) you need to wait for the ship to sink and despawn. Then wait for the loot to rise to the top. Can take a while. So just know you may be sitting for a bit. The "Red" is pretty rough too, so makes things tough to spot. Best done with a full crew, swimming that stuff back one piece at a time is quite a labor! Probably easier to just go do a voyage...just sayin'.

But, if your willing to wait out the sinking, swim the distance, and bring the stuff back one piece at a time, while the other crew respawns and heads your way...Good on ya'! You can do it!

@entspeak I know right! I mean why sit there and wait for the other crew to come back as you load the treasure...because now they have nothing to lose and you are on the attacked side of the fence! While part of your crew is swimming stuff back...totally makes better sense to just go do another voyage! Or...not..whatever floats your boat!

@entspeak Its like a "Fort-Lite" there you are recovering said loot...when the crew you just killed (or killed themselves rather) shows back up. Makes total sense to sit there and wait, for the ship to sink, the loot to float to the top, to swim one piece at a time back....anyhow, good tip @entspeak always love your posts, filled with gaming wisdom and well thought out strategies. Thanks again for sharing with the community.

@ve111a said in How to counter players sinking chests in the Red Sea.:

Lol I hate those childish cowards. I'll fight fire with fire and wait to collect next time.

So ... you wouldn't swim out and recover the loot...why not? Seems like a good tactic.

@ve111a Well...Best of luck to you. Have your crew watching for the sunk crew who is on their way back. Last thing you do while sinking in the Red...check where you were on the map!

@ve111a That my friend is an excellent question. I have no idea! I mean you are kind of scuttling, but being sunk by AI...I will have to experiment and find out. I do know this, it doesn't take long to get back to that point. I have done it twice, and both times the other crew was there either trying to find the loot, or deciding what to do next. Yet to see anyone swim out! You figure on a 4 man Galleon, at least one needs to be on watch, one needs to be swimming out, one needs to be on shark watch, leaving one for whatever. That is a handicapped galleon even if a sloop shows up! Add to that you may be swimming back with a Castaways chest LOL! So , yeah, its a gamble...worth it? Thats up to the guy swimming!

@entspeak said in How to counter players sinking chests in the Red Sea.:

@ve111a Don't mind @TouchDown1504 . He's trolling this thread because his view is this, "I will dump it in the Red Sea before I give it up to someone." That's a direct quote of his from another thread.

Didn't you invite me here? Didn't you say "a gift for you?" So, now I am "trolling"...what in here is trolling? I even upvoted the post, I think its good to get the information out so people don't assume they have to give up.

@entspeak Oh...So "Here a gift for you" means I started a new thread, please don't join in? I just want to be clear, because I can leave if you want. Not to mention you gave me the link...my bad if I assumed that meant..."Hey man, I'd like to have you in this conversation". I didn't realize it was you trying to rub my nose in s**t because you were salty how the last discussion went. Lighten up, it is just an internet forum.

without having seen it with your own eyes there is no certainty that they have loot, so it might be a huge waste of time. When playing solo i have taken people on wild goose chases when i just felt like sailing and not fighting.

All right folks I did the test myself and purposely sent my sloop (which is probably most of the scenarios involving this situation) to the red sea the furthest point I could, and it is true, you can't recover the treasure after a certain point, there is a barrier that teleports you back, if the treasure was sent to where the mermaid is instead of beyond the edge, than the treasure could still be recovered, though you would be going crazy on repairs, but I could maintain the ship afload by myself until the game decided that the ship needed to sink and placed a barrier to prevent me from reaching my ship again, as well as the loot.

Therefore it is not solved, we have an issue here, and this discussion is still ongoing.

this is funny to me, people that usually do this tatic failed to mention this glaring problem by pretending you could recover the loot, turns out you can literally make dropable items unreachable in the red sea.

@entspeak I am sorry...I thought I was part of the conversation and my opinions were valid. Just so everyone does know, my standing is really simple. Left with no other choice I am dumping my loot in the Red Sea. I do beleieve in..If I can't have it, you can't have it. I also steal other loot, and if someone heads to the red, I just let them go. Not worth the effort. That is the point of going to the Red.

I will bow out @entspeak because I can understand how pointing out the difficulty of recovering red sea loot pokes holes in your sloop (idea). Difficult yes...impossible ...no! I have faith you can do it. Have fun little buddy! Always enjoy our conversations.

Alright, but how do you counter them sailing all the way out to the despawn line? If they repair the ship and keep sailing in a straight line eventually the ship will despawn and the loot will be at the line.

Trying to get that loot would prove to be a little more tricky, yes?