I have had several solo sloop battles where people are just putting down the shores of gold TT save sailing out to the red sea and then activating the allegiance battle hour glass, this is really frustrating because I have just waisted time getting supplies for nothing. I can't even get close enough to this one without despawning back to my ship to get the players name so they are anonymous and I can't report them. Its these exploits that will ruin people's experience of the game.
Disable shores of Gold TT with battle allegiance
After the "Alliance 4v1 exploit" the "let's just kill the enemy vessel on spawn exploit" we need more creative sweaties on Insider to catch all of these before live.
PS: Just saw this is a duplicate of https://www.seaofthieves.com/community/forums/topic/154054/new-red-sea-exploit/1
PPS: As a suggestion to whoever reads this, get a tale 9 checkpoint I would say just in case.@astralenigma said in Disable shores of Gold TT with battle allegiance:
After the "Alliance 4v1 exploit" the "let's just kill the enemy vessel on spawn exploit" we need more creative sweaties on Insider to catch all of these before live.
PS: Just saw this is a duplicate of https://www.seaofthieves.com/community/forums/topic/154054/new-red-sea-exploit/1
PPS: As a suggestion to whoever reads this, get a tale 9 checkpoint I would say just in case.Unfortunately, the sweaties probably discovered this on Insiders (or from Insiders) and explicitly didn't report it so that they could use it in Retail.
Also, having the checkpoint handy will not help if you invade someone doing this exploit. You cannot place a TT down while you have the hourglass active.
These exploiters are placing the TT down, going to SoG, cancelling the TT, and then activating the hourglass. Because you're still in the SoG when you cancel it, you'll still have the shroudbreaker so that you can safely get out of the SoG and the shroudbreaker will disappear when you leave the SoG...these exploiters are just never leaving.
@sweetsandman pretty sure the reason you cant start shores of gold while in in allegiance is because of insiders suggesting it would be an issue. The problem is there are ways to work around the game trying to prevent you from using the TT. Sadly I think the quickest and easiest solution is they are going to disable the checkpoint system and wipe everyones checkpoints until they can come up with a better fix
@magus104 said in Disable shores of Gold TT with battle allegiance:
@sweetsandman pretty sure the reason you cant start shores of gold while in in allegiance is because of insiders suggesting it would be an issue. The problem is there are ways to work around the game trying to prevent you from using the TT. Sadly I think the quickest and easiest solution is they are going to disable the checkpoint system and wipe everyones checkpoints until they can come up with a better fix
I don't know how you came to the conclusion that they would wipe player data. All they need to do is prevent hourglass action while the Shroudbreaker is still present on the ship.
@d3adst1ck its purely speculation but similar to fixing the LoTV shipwreck issue it was quicker and easier for them to disable the shipwrecks then work on the fix. So I figured perhaps they would do the same here. With silence from the devs with all the issues going on this update all we can do is speculate. But if what I proposed does happen. Then I told you so? If not... They ok I guessed wrong? Not a big deal either way just means we would have to unlock the checkpoints again after they fix it. They could just disable shores of gold altogether for the time being I guess as well.
@magus104 By that school of thought it's quicker for them to just disable Tale 9 or Hourglass than checkpoints.
PS: My suggestion of the tale 9 checkpoint was throw it on the table in case you spawn on the Shores of Gold.Unless something else broke, you can't do it solo. It's a glitch type thing probably working similarly to multi purchasing supplies at the shipwright, or the insta-Reaper trick. If you try to activate the hourglass while the tale is down it says no. Same if you try to put the tale down if the hourglass is active.
yes i was totally going to do this specifically with the despawn wall
it will also stop you from activating the hourglass if you sail to Tribute Peak and cancel the tale.I would recommend getting the clip and send the last few names on your recently played with list to report a player.
I have tested this before but haven't done so recently.
You cannot drop the Shores of Gold tall tale while the hourglass is active. You also cannot active the Hourglass while the Shores of Gold tall tale is active...
HOWEVER, you CAN put down Shores of Gold tall tale down first, sail into the shroud, and then remove the tall tail while in the shroud. This creates a glitch of a player's ship being able to sail safely within the shroud even though the Tall Tale is no longer active. This glitch should go away the moment the ship sails back outside of the shroud.
The problem with this is that it might be possible to vote on the hourglass and activate a ship battle while in the shroud/red sea area. 'Enemy faction' player ships should not be able to spawn in the Red Sea near the player, but they might spawn in regular waters just outside the red sea while players are still sailing in the shroud with the Shores of Gold tall tale glitch active. This would create a very small battle area for the other player where it would be safe for them to sail.
I had tried to test this before and no ship had spawned against my ship. I had thought that meant that it was not possible for ship battles to be start while either ship was within or near the border of the red sea. Will need to sail into the Shores of Gold red sea to try to test it again.
When I sailed all the way to tribute Peak it would not let me vote up the hourglass. It stated I was too close to the Shroud lol.
@pithyrumble Did you deactivate/remove the tall tale -while still in the red sea- of Tribute's Peak?
I have previously found that when the tall tale is removed, and my ship was still within the shroud of the Shores of Gold, the Shroudbreaker effect remains active even though the tall tale and shroudbreaker object is no longer there. This leaves room for the possibility of the hourglass to be activated while still within the shroud.
Edit: Or are you saying you were not able to activate the hourglass, even without any Tall Tale active, simply because you were close to the red sea?
I have a theory but I don't want to spread the technique 😏 one of the regulars knows and sent details to support about how to do it. I don't actually know.
Def report them, i saw on reddit people mentioned if you sail out to them while bucketing your ship will respawn at a random island and the arena area won't apply anymore so you can go morrows activate the tall tale and go after them ( or just chill and waste their time too, possibly they're using macros etc while idle though, sad peeps)
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