Ideas to defend against people who chase you.

The most obvious was is if you don't really have that much stuff on board, just sail your ship off the map and never left them get anything of yours. But this is something wrong with the game. Sociopaths LOVE to force people to ruin their nights. They will then use this against good people by chasing them just to get them to run off the map.

@stem589 said in Ideas to defend against people who chase you.:

@edemardil

Just scuttle and/or change servers.

If your idea of 'winning' is the most coin/hr, the chase is a waste....... just like in WoW how players would gain more reward/hr losing fast instead of winning slow.

If your idea of 'winning' is the most kills/hr, the scuttle option doesn't work for you.

I get that. It's just that when you spent the gold to buy the mission, have a goal in your mind for the night (like I did) and get everything together and only have 2 hours to play, its annoying to have to be chased around with nothing but empty chicken crates on board.

But in this game you don't get anything for killing people. Especially if they have nothing on board. But people still do it. These guys wanted to kill us for no reason. They didn't even take anything after sinking us. We sold everything. I don't even PvP in this game so I'm not worried about fighting or killing. I let people kill me all the time trying to be friendly to them. I don't care about that. It's not about the money even. It's about the most valuable of riches: time.

drop a powder keg behind you and wave goodbye

find a storm drive into it turn a few times.

Waves are so high they cant see you well. Storms make for an easy getaway.

@jdge439 said in Ideas to defend against people who chase you.:

This is why I say we need Frontal Cannons.

Its simply too easy to run.

I went and made a sandwhich , and our buddy took a shower while running once.

And when we were both back, we turned and fought and one. But the point we were making was, we dont have to try to run away forever.

We did have about 8 k worth or more. but running forever is not how you play the game.

Pirates would fire weapon s through sails and all to try and slow ships down.

The runners can hop off and try and mess with the chaser with out risk.
Chasers take one risk at all as is, (turning to hop they get that shot that lands a crew man on the boat and miss) and they lose them for good

Please read the OP, this is not about how to change the game, it's about how to deal with the current situation with what we have. I appreciate your input though. Thanks.

What if I'm not a pirate? What if I like doing Merchant missions and stealing pigs from Islands and treasure from shipwrecks? I'm steal a thief. Doesn't meant I HAVE to PvP. I avoid it because I don't like the combat system in this game. The other night some outpost campers tried to rob me. I just jumped while they shot at me, back and forth, several times selling all my stuff. The PvP is weak. I'd rather hit shipwrecks and every island selling kegs and free chests for gold.

@cyphronite said in Ideas to defend against people who chase you.:

drop a powder keg behind you and wave goodbye

The problem for me with this is 1. I never end up hitting them. 2. This shows that I want to engage and I do not want to. I want them to go the hell away. lol

@shofficer said in Ideas to defend against people who chase you.:

If you're being chased you have every advantage. You can dictate where and when the fights happen, you can drive-by turn-in, you can attempt to board the chaser. It's almost impossible to win as an aggressor against someone that is running.

As for OP, if you choose to just run for hours and take the I hope they get bored approach, that's on you. @Edemardil

Cant do drive bys when they leave people on the Islands. Last night every outpost I went to (3) had someone waiting. When you HAVE to turn in Merchant missions on that Island, you're screwed.

I know it's on me. It has worked and hasn't worked. I've never been caught yet, but it's still annoying. Thakns for the input.

@barnacle-blake said in Ideas to defend against people who chase you.:

find a storm drive into it turn a few times.

Waves are so high they cant see you well. Storms make for an easy getaway.

Good one! This seems to work also. Last night though, they literally fought off the Kraken in the middle of the chase and still kept coming haha.

@shofficer said in Ideas to defend against people who chase you.:

@edemardil said in Ideas to defend against people who chase you.:

It's happened to a lot of us. It ALWAYS happens to me when I have taken a sleeping pill and say "I'm going to do a quick missions before bed." Last night was 2 hours...they make it impossible to turn your chickens in.
This thread is for discussion on how to defeat these annoying, immature, chasers and strategies to turn a 2 hour chase into a much shorter one.

It's amazing to me that you spent 2 hours staying up past your bedtime running away from a fight to save a chicken.

I don't have a bed time, but sleeping meds sure do make me unhappy to be chased. I am just as amazed, trust me. lol

@jdge439 said in Ideas to defend against people who chase you.:

@edemardil the storm are easy, go around them. The waves do not appear unless you are that close to them.. right? so you just go around the storm so you can see what direction they turn in. meanwhile, they cant see you. so chances are even greater they turn towards you.
Easy Peazy...

TURN AND FIGHT
I never run from a fight unless its to prove that I can make a sandwhich whilst doing so.. and I did. so easy to run

See my earlier comment about fighting. If not: I hate fighting unless I have to and when I have a friend who sucks at the game on board with me, I'm basically flying solo and what will I do against a crew that just beat the Kraken in front of me? I'm not the best at PvP in this game but I can sail the ship through two trees 1 meter apart with a monkey hanging in the branches.

"Why fight when you can run?"

You can always just give up. Think about it, they do it to either grief you or because you have something of value. So give up and they will most likely stop.

You can also drop gunpowder during a chase and you can also set your ship straight, jump off and board them if they are following you directly, make sure to drop anchor.

@jdge439
If a ship goes into a storm and busts a few sharp turns. You can easily lose people.

@jdge439 said in Ideas to defend against people who chase you.:

@edemardil because you may have to run for 2 hours? and is your time precious?
Or do you not appreciate yourself that much?

the deal is, the guys chasing you dont know what you have, but you seem to think that whatever you have is worth running for. So they want it more.

but your time should be worth fighting for.....

@jdge439 said in Ideas to defend against people who chase you.:

@edemardil because you may have to run for 2 hours? and is your time precious?
Or do you not appreciate yourself that much?

the deal is, the guys chasing you dont know what you have, but you seem to think that whatever you have is worth running for. So they want it more.

but your time should be worth fighting for.....

Thats a decent point. But in that case, im sending the ship off the map. Then no one gets it.

@jdge439 Never noticed/heard this before.

Ill take take a closer look next storm im by but seems far fetched.

Since some storms are huge and a sloop can go right in and turn hard to opposite edge that other guys are circling on. Ill Give it a try though and see how it works.

@defunctwhale said in Ideas to defend against people who chase you.:

@edemardil honestly if I'm solo, I try not to carry too much loot at once. My strategy for chases is if I've noticed someone's chasing me I head for the nearest Outpost in the opposite direction and only focus on turning in the valuable stuff.

Im high rep in Merchants. My mission was 5 chickens and I found three crates and a skull on the first Island I checked. They were at the out post I needed to go to. We ended up getting the last two chickens for e mission while they killed the Kraken and they chased us again. We did eventually get enough space between to turn everything in except two chickens they killed with canons. Im not a newb, Im just not great at fighting in this game. Thus is also a post for anyone having the trouble. Im not alone and there are some genuine strategies to losing a pursuer. Good points though. It sucks to sacrifice but sometimes you gotta do it.

@d4u2s0t said in Ideas to defend against people who chase you.:

I play solo when my friends are not around, because I don't like relying on randoms. I have never been chased by a galleon, ever. When I am solo, I simply adjust to make sure I take a few extra seconds to really look around before I do something. You can see ships far enough away that they realistically can not catch you, the hard part is just to see them in time.

Im fine solo. I get chased often. Solo this stuff diesnt happen, it when im playing with a friend who isnt very good at the game. But sometimes you come around an Island and a ship is there. Sometimes you are upwind and a Galleon three islands away can catch up fast.

@jdge439 said in Ideas to defend against people who chase you.:

@flowerofcarnage which again, states that your time and what you have is not worth fighting for.

I tried it last night and the followed us until I said, ok lets try to go back. We were taking ship damage. They just turned right back toward us.

@arch-fable said in Ideas to defend against people who chase you.:

The chasers are not necessarily immature if they are able to utilise reasoning perfectly and happen to utilise the environment to their advantage as well.

Those who are immature, however, there's very little you can do.

What I find most useful is to just reason with your crew about what to do, evaluate the value of the on board loot again in relation to your current goals and then make choices to avoid wasting time, if efficiency is the most important thing to you. Just remember:

One's food is another's poison.

In two hours, I can make 20k. It benefits no one to chase someone for two hours for 2k worth of chickens.
If you chase someone for more than 20 minutes and arent making any ground on them, youre immature. Go hit a shipwreck and make up the mney that way. The issue is that people are sociopaths and games like this give them an opening to act on their urges. It takes a special kind of person to think that trying to rob someone who can just sail off the map is more productive than, doing a mission instead.