Ahoy, everyone!
Yesterday, my friends and I were utterly disgusted by what happened to us. We were robbed, big time, but not by what you could characterize as a fair part of the game. I get robbed my loot all the time...and it's fine...it's part of the game! I usually really do not mind as I also do it sometimes hehehe... but listen to this...
We had just finished completing a fort. We were three on a Galleon (open crew) as one of our mates left earlier. When we were carrying the loot, a guy named Alex-something joins our crew.
''Ahoy, Alex!'' we cried. ''Good time to be joining us''.
Alex didn't talk on voice chat but answered in the regular chat. He helped us carry the loot to our ship. On our guards, we looked around as we carried the 20k gold booty to the nearest outpost... when we arrive...one of our mates cried ''GUYS THE LOOT IS GONE!'' ''What???'' we replied.
Alex wrote down in the chat: ''Didn't you see the sloop behind us? He was my friend. Enjoy your spoils.'' Up in the crow's nest, he blows himself up with the bone barrel and we all die.
So what happened? Here's our hypothesis. Alex spends hours joining and leaving crews until he finds one that has spoils on it. Once he finds his prey, he has another friend on a vc (twitch, skype, discord, etc) and gives the location of his ''crewmates'' to his friend...you then know the rest. His friend goes behind the ship and Alex throws overboard the loot. What is weird is that no one saw any other ship and the sloop got here very fast. Alex had only been in the crew for 3 min before we left...
Anyways, am I the only one to think that this is abusing the game's mechanics? To think that this is utter cheating? What's for sure is that there are good pirates and bad ones...these guys are the worst of the worst. I'd like the dev team to take this into consideration, as this could become quite a problem. Overall, I'm not playing in open crew anymore that's for sure...and if a guy named Alex-something joins your crew...watch him ;)