Don't enter an event you can't complete in time before the date is up...

Don't leave the battle area.

I have never encountered a despawn if I follow these 2 rules...

Was Doing ancient isles in a sloop after a 2 hour fight and (1.30 getting resources prior) got to the last wave and went down with one ship skelly ship near to sinking.

Repawned at shark bait and went over straight away... both ships then Despawned!! Couldn’t get them to come back up in the area where they should ... some minutes later, in that same area, oh it reset!!! - thanks Rare!, time restrictive commendations and bugs make for a wonderful gaming experience!.

I don’t like writing this and I’ve been very protective of Rare and SoT in the past but enough is getting enough - I agree with above poster, why they need to dive and Despawn at all?! Keep them afloat in the specific regions time frame.

@skullmanbeard it’s not about that though man, as admirable as your statement is. We did nothing wrong and put a large amount of time into the game only for no progression due to a mistake in the game. It should not restart to the beginning for leaving the area... period. Doesn’t happen in a skull fort.. didn’t happen with the meg.. shouldn’t happen with the skelly ships..

@nabberwar yeah we left the zone but honestly maybe by a whisker... we shot the captain ship which was directly next to us as it despawned. Unbelievable. And the wave also despawned when we were sunk and returned to finish it.

If a skeleton fort doesn’t reset, why should skeleton ships reset? Just seems like a mistake by them.

Brother and I copped worse tonight, sunk captains ship of the Crew of the Cursed Helm only we ran out of wood so our ship sunk a minute after it did only to have it not count for as it sank the date ticked over to the 11th yup real great mechanics am glad in a sense i refuse to play this as frequently as others seem to for that reason it still looks and feels very early access.

You're lucky, ive wasted A LOT more than 5 hours on SoT.

The amount of time actually played vs. the amount of time waiting for the game to actually load, time spent gathering supplies to do the actual quests and events, time spent looking aimlessly for other ships to form alliances or get help completing tasks that require multiple crews, and simply standing on a deck with nothing to do.....is literally 10% to 90%

9/10ths of the game is either doing something tedious or doing something frustrating.

its a real shame because the CORE is great, the mechanics are great..

I don't understand why the loot has to sink so quickly. Are these servers so taxed that adding another couple ships/loot staying for long periods of time/random events bring them to their knees?

@mrmcdoll said in Skeleton ship captain despawn rage:

@nabberwar said in Skeleton ship captain despawn rage:

@sneakyjudas1ad
Sounds like you left its zone, not quite a glitch. I do understand its frustrating, but maybe keep a better eye on the map. I also need to better follow this advice.

It can also time out if the next battle's day is reached.
Super genius design huh?

I don't mind the timeframe, just offset server times. Therefore, I could at least dodge to another one if I run out of time. I think they did it as an effort to keep players focused on one Ship captain at the time. Better chance to get alliances.

@nabberwar said in Skeleton ship captain despawn rage:

@sneakyjudas1ad
Sounds like you left its zone, not quite a glitch. I do understand its frustrating, but maybe keep a better eye on the map. I also need to better follow this advice.

It can also time out if the next battle's day is reached.
Super genius design huh?

@sneakyjudas1ad
Sounds like you left its zone, not quite a glitch. I do understand its frustrating, but maybe keep a better eye on the map. I also need to better follow this advice.