Can an alliance member dig your chest up?

Unless it has been changed, no you cant. Though tbh i think the whole servers worth of voyages should be available to steal in this way. If i sneak aboard an enemy ship, somehow spy them looking at their map, then escape and somehow make it to the island first, and remember the spot, and i cant dig it up? I thought rare wanted us to create our own stories rather than be constrained by voyages within our own crew..

Edit: learn something new every day and i support that change so good on ya rare. Wonder if non allied crews can too.

@poslio said in Can an alliance member dig your chest up?:

Someone in our alliance tapped a chest on Snake Island once......everyone on our crew got the pop-up message, even though we were nowhere near Snake Island.

The thing is, it couldn't have been intentional on their part - it was a pure accident.

I have dug up chests for people that weren't even in my alliance.....

I found someone struggling with an X map on Crook's Hollow once
They showed me their map, and I went and dug it up....

This is why one should be careful looking at maps whilst they are on the Ferry......

Hope that answers your question...

Well this must be an update because i usually get everything but the hardest chests on the biggest islands on the first dig, and this was definitely not a thing even like 3 months ago, or whenever alliances came out
And i tried digging up the other crews treasure but it used to be that you could only make your own crews chests spawn otherwise the other crews had to start the dig for their map. Glad they changed this.

would be cool if we can see every chest the alliance crew digg up,would make the alliance thing more risky

@nofears-fun they should increase the amount of spots that chests can appear in, and make the system stop doubling them up, and never give riddles that would have the same outcome to multiple crews.

@schwammlgott thats what i thought too but tbh havnt played for more than a few minutes for the last couple months, when did you test that?

@personalc0ffee said in Can an alliance member dig your chest up?:

@a-cranky-eskimo said in Can an alliance member dig your chest up?:

Unless it has been changed, no you cant. Though tbh i think the whole servers worth of voyages should be available to steal in this way. If i sneak aboard an enemy ship, somehow spy them looking at their map, then escape and somehow make it to the island first, and remember the spot, and i cant dig it up? I thought rare wanted us to create our own stories rather than be constrained by voyages within our own crew..

Edit: learn something new every day and i support that change so good on ya rare. Wonder if non allied crews can too.

Alliance members can dig up your chests, then can even accidentally find them without having ever seen your map.

No, non ally crews can not find the chests as they are not loaded for their crew

While I think that idea is certainly interesting and I"m not entirely against stealing other's voyages, there is one thing to consider for such a mechanic; protection from griefing.

How do you protect people from griefing with a mechanic where you can steal voyages or make copies of their maps?

This is imo something rare shouldnt do as much as they have been, which is to have taken the question you just posed too seriously across the board for a pirate game about stealing loot from each other. Simply playing the game the way it is intended is “griefing” to some.

I see your point though as it should be a question that is asked, when adding content or making changes like this, but i think making it so that you have to take the time to look at enemy players map, with a short window on death that would allow you to check one map, or simply allowing it the same as it is for alliances except the chest acts as a reapers mark for a couple minutes, and athena chests cant be found this way (as that part of this while amazing for the finder is pretty lame to the voyager to lose an athena after possible hours without even encountering the other crew, simply because a spot effectively duplicates it for the other crew because they are in the same dig spot) are possible solutions. Rather than not add anything because they are afraid of it being abused by certain players they should add a reputation system that also affects server placement, or any other solution to this casual vs hardcore gamer dilemna, rather than hamstring the whole game for both parties as they seem to have been doing on some level. Joes last dev update brought back some of my hope and faith that this game can get better and better but they will need to make some hard decisions in whatever direction they go.

@thetwistedtaste said in Can an alliance member dig your chest up?:

@personalc0ffee said in Can an alliance member dig your chest up?:

No, non ally crews can not find the chests as they are not loaded for their crew

Not entirely true. We weren’t in an alliance with the guy who’s Athena we tapped - but he was in the area though. We were all amazed, even him, it was even possible. By the time he docked, and we dug it up, he let us keep it #TopLad

That was nice of him but could play out very differently lol.

Either athenas should be locked to the crew and allied crews, or they need to make the number of possible dig spots on islands a lot bigger, and make it so that once a spot is taken the system takes account of this and dosnt spawn other players voyages with that as a dig location.

I still want being able to dig up unknown chests to be a thing, but as it is i could probably just go island to island digging at the like 20 spots each has and steal everyones chests, just because i (used to) play this game entirely to much. And hope to enjoy it that much again in the future.