I feel as though there needs to be a greater time frame for me to grab the loot in the water from the ship(s) I sink. 2-3 minutes then sink is more often than not too small a window to grab everything. Especially the skeleton key, loot should float for at least an hour. It should absolutely drift and scatter, but to despawn and derender after 5 minutes is very punishing. I watched 40 chests from 2 ships I sunk vanish into the abyss on my screen. I couldn't do a thing but watch..until Bruce and the boys chomped on my cheeks. It's hard to thieve the booty when it takes 2-3 mins sometimes to get turned, anchor, and find the loot.
PvP and loot at sea...lost at sea.
@diplexstatue44 said in PvP and loot at sea...lost at sea.:
I feel as though there needs to be a greater time frame for me to grab the loot in the water from the ship(s) I sink. 2-3 minutes then sink is more often than not too small a window to grab everything. Especially the skeleton key, loot should float for at least an hour. It should absolutely drift and scatter, but to despawn and derender after 5 minutes is very punishing. I watched 40 chests from 2 ships I sunk vanish into the abyss on my screen. I couldn't do a thing but watch..until Bruce and the boys chomped on my cheeks. It's hard to thieve the booty when it takes 2-3 mins sometimes to get turned, anchor, and find the loot.
if they start sinking, pick them up and drop them and they'll float back up. I agree the timers is too fast, but this is a decent workaround.
@poppasquids
I spent 30 mins the other day with around 25 pieces in the water. It was storming and the sharks were swarming, but i kept grabbin them and let em go so none would sink.@nwo-azcrack said in PvP and loot at sea...lost at sea.:
@poppasquids
I spent 30 mins the other day with around 25 pieces in the water. It was storming and the sharks were swarming, but i kept grabbin them and let em go so none would sink.I mean thats just a bad situation to be in period. I think the timer needs to be set to like 7-10 min. If it were to long it would give the ship that sunk the time to get back and reclaim their treasure, and then you've got a whole other can of worms. 7-10 is fair.
@poppasquids Yes of course, and it is a decent work around. But bananas only go so far when Bruce comes lol.
@DiplexStatue44 I didn't think the loot sank that quickly. My crew and I had an experience at a skull fort where we were sunk, lost all our loot, spawned on the other side of the map and sailed back to the fort to find it still floating in the water. We were able to start retrieving it right about the time it started to sink.
Once it starts sinking, you just have to let it get close to the bottom before you can grab it again (which I think is dumb). We ended up recovering 10-12 skulls / chests and only lost 1 to the depths. It was at least 10 minutes before it started sinking in that particular instance.
@daddy-sanctus i think it depends if the area where it is floating is loaded (players are in the vicinity). If they are then loot’s sink/despawn timers keep ticking, however if nobody is near the timers are frozen and only start again when you the loot goes into a players spgere of influence again.
@callmebackdraft Could be, but in my particular instance there was the galleon that sunk us still at the skull fort fighting. So I doubt the timers would have been frozen at all. They were just on the other side of the skull fort from where we sunk and dropped everything.
@daddy-sanctus hmm that is indeed strange, maybe the loot despawn timers are also fulky. RNG then. It would be cool if we voupd find something out about it in more detail.
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