PSA: Don't leave your loot on the island even, even during Captain battles because if you merge; you lose it. Put them in the rowboat instead, they go with you.

hmmm im wondering if this is what happened on a outpost me was at .... when me loged in the other day for some solo sloop there was like 5 golden skulls on a rock at santuary outpost free money

@personalc0ffee said in PSA: Don't leave your loot on the island even, even during Captain battles because if you merge; you lose it. Put them in the rowboat instead, they go with you.:

Now, I've never personally dealt with this but lesson learned the hard way today, I suppose. All loot goes directly to the ship or to the rowboat. I will not be leaving it on the island until we get it all, as I have seen most crews do.

This is a horrid idea, due to the server merging.

RIP 3 Ashen Villainous skulls during our active Captain Battle.

If we'd have had them in the rowboat, they would have went with the merge.

@Genuine-Heather I know you've been slighted by merges before. This ever happen to you? I know you've been locked out the fort vault before and also lost loot from skelly ships but what about during an active Captain battle?

Do you mean like OoS voyage captain battles? Yeah, there's nothing stopping a merge in that case. But I thought they'd fixed it so your loot wouldn't vanish if it was within X radius. Sounds like they missed something there. The fact is server migration is extremely buggy and you never really know what will happen. I haven't had as much bad luck with them lately, so I know they have made improvements. Seems like they still have some work to do, though. And I still hate getting migrated on basic principle.

@personalc0ffee said in PSA: Don't leave your loot on the island even, even during Captain battles because if you merge; you lose it. Put them in the rowboat instead, they go with you.:

@genuine-heather said in PSA: Don't leave your loot on the island even, even during Captain battles because if you merge; you lose it. Put them in the rowboat instead, they go with you.:

@personalc0ffee said in PSA: Don't leave your loot on the island even, even during Captain battles because if you merge; you lose it. Put them in the rowboat instead, they go with you.:

Now, I've never personally dealt with this but lesson learned the hard way today, I suppose. All loot goes directly to the ship or to the rowboat. I will not be leaving it on the island until we get it all, as I have seen most crews do.

This is a horrid idea, due to the server merging.

RIP 3 Ashen Villainous skulls during our active Captain Battle.

If we'd have had them in the rowboat, they would have went with the merge.

@Genuine-Heather I know you've been slighted by merges before. This ever happen to you? I know you've been locked out the fort vault before and also lost loot from skelly ships but what about during an active Captain battle?

Do you mean like OoS voyage captain battles? Yeah, there's nothing stopping a merge in that case. But I thought they'd fixed it so your loot wouldn't vanish if it was within X radius. Sounds like they missed something there. The fact is server migration is extremely buggy and you never really know what will happen. I haven't had as much bad luck with them lately, so I know they have made improvements. Seems like they still have some work to do, though. And I still hate getting migrated on basic principle.

We were doing an Ashen Athena and that was our last island before the legend chest. We lost the last half, sold the first, from the merge.

We soldiered on but man I was not happy. Skellies died, I"ll tell you what.

Perhaps we were not close enough to the island or were too far from the skelly battle or something. We we parked on West side of Ruby and cannoned over to the East cliff area. That little bit just before that cannon can hit by the rock on the West side.

RIP 3 Ashen Villain skulls.

Ugh. Yet more evidence that server migration is evil.

@genuine-heather said in PSA: Don't leave your loot on the island even, even during Captain battles because if you merge; you lose it. Put them in the rowboat instead, they go with you.:

@personalc0ffee said in PSA: Don't leave your loot on the island even, even during Captain battles because if you merge; you lose it. Put them in the rowboat instead, they go with you.:

@genuine-heather said in PSA: Don't leave your loot on the island even, even during Captain battles because if you merge; you lose it. Put them in the rowboat instead, they go with you.:

@personalc0ffee said in PSA: Don't leave your loot on the island even, even during Captain battles because if you merge; you lose it. Put them in the rowboat instead, they go with you.:

Now, I've never personally dealt with this but lesson learned the hard way today, I suppose. All loot goes directly to the ship or to the rowboat. I will not be leaving it on the island until we get it all, as I have seen most crews do.

This is a horrid idea, due to the server merging.

RIP 3 Ashen Villainous skulls during our active Captain Battle.

If we'd have had them in the rowboat, they would have went with the merge.

@Genuine-Heather I know you've been slighted by merges before. This ever happen to you? I know you've been locked out the fort vault before and also lost loot from skelly ships but what about during an active Captain battle?

Do you mean like OoS voyage captain battles? Yeah, there's nothing stopping a merge in that case. But I thought they'd fixed it so your loot wouldn't vanish if it was within X radius. Sounds like they missed something there. The fact is server migration is extremely buggy and you never really know what will happen. I haven't had as much bad luck with them lately, so I know they have made improvements. Seems like they still have some work to do, though. And I still hate getting migrated on basic principle.

We were doing an Ashen Athena and that was our last island before the legend chest. We lost the last half, sold the first, from the merge.

We soldiered on but man I was not happy. Skellies died, I"ll tell you what.

Perhaps we were not close enough to the island or were too far from the skelly battle or something. We we parked on West side of Ruby and cannoned over to the East cliff area. That little bit just before that cannon can hit by the rock on the West side.

RIP 3 Ashen Villain skulls.

Ugh. Yet more evidence that server migration is evil.

plot twist captin flame heart and skele wanda are the 1s with the server merge buttion

@personalc0ffee said in PSA: Don't leave your loot on the island even, even during Captain battles because if you merge; you lose it. Put them in the rowboat instead, they go with you.:

@monkeybee11 said in PSA: Don't leave your loot on the island even, even during Captain battles because if you merge; you lose it. Put them in the rowboat instead, they go with you.:

@genuine-heather said in PSA: Don't leave your loot on the island even, even during Captain battles because if you merge; you lose it. Put them in the rowboat instead, they go with you.:

@personalc0ffee said in PSA: Don't leave your loot on the island even, even during Captain battles because if you merge; you lose it. Put them in the rowboat instead, they go with you.:

@genuine-heather said in PSA: Don't leave your loot on the island even, even during Captain battles because if you merge; you lose it. Put them in the rowboat instead, they go with you.:

@personalc0ffee said in PSA: Don't leave your loot on the island even, even during Captain battles because if you merge; you lose it. Put them in the rowboat instead, they go with you.:

Now, I've never personally dealt with this but lesson learned the hard way today, I suppose. All loot goes directly to the ship or to the rowboat. I will not be leaving it on the island until we get it all, as I have seen most crews do.

This is a horrid idea, due to the server merging.

RIP 3 Ashen Villainous skulls during our active Captain Battle.

If we'd have had them in the rowboat, they would have went with the merge.

@Genuine-Heather I know you've been slighted by merges before. This ever happen to you? I know you've been locked out the fort vault before and also lost loot from skelly ships but what about during an active Captain battle?

Do you mean like OoS voyage captain battles? Yeah, there's nothing stopping a merge in that case. But I thought they'd fixed it so your loot wouldn't vanish if it was within X radius. Sounds like they missed something there. The fact is server migration is extremely buggy and you never really know what will happen. I haven't had as much bad luck with them lately, so I know they have made improvements. Seems like they still have some work to do, though. And I still hate getting migrated on basic principle.

We were doing an Ashen Athena and that was our last island before the legend chest. We lost the last half, sold the first, from the merge.

We soldiered on but man I was not happy. Skellies died, I"ll tell you what.

Perhaps we were not close enough to the island or were too far from the skelly battle or something. We we parked on West side of Ruby and cannoned over to the East cliff area. That little bit just before that cannon can hit by the rock on the West side.

RIP 3 Ashen Villain skulls.

Ugh. Yet more evidence that server migration is evil.

plot twist captin flame heart and skele wanda are the 1s with the server merge buttion

No "wanda" it happens at the most inopportune time!

u missed it but fixed ;)

I think many of us have been wrong by the dreaded server merge. It is the most foul beast on the sea. I would prefer to be left alone even though my ship and crew were all alone.

monkey has never attcherly seen or been in a server merge so luckily ive not lost anything to it

Not really lost anything of major value during a server merge, thankfully. Although we did once have around 40 gunpowder kegs set up at an outpost for a bit of "fireworks" to end the night, all set up at optimal distance for a domino effect ending on the ship, and a server merge vanished half of them, so that was a bit annoying.

I used to have an issue where (on PC) after a server merge often I couldn't interact with anything and had to leave the game and rejoin my friends - but that seems to have been fixed recently (maybe).

happened to us as well... And we were just swimming towards a mermaid statue and it just disappeared!

@realstyli said in PSA: Don't leave your loot on the island even, even during Captain battles because if you merge; you lose it. Put them in the rowboat instead, they go with you.:

I used to have an issue where (on PC) after a server merge often I couldn't interact with anything and had to leave the game and rejoin my friends - but that seems to have been fixed recently (maybe).

I call this ghosting. Somehow your “physical” body is stuck somewhere, yet you’re still moving around invisible. You can’t interact with anything and nobody else can see you. All they see is your “physical” avatar walking in place somewhere. This usually resolves itself in a few minutes, if you wait it out.

Oh and it still happens sometimes.

@personalc0ffee just out of curiosity, was your anchor down when they occurred?

@personalc0ffee wasn’t trying to lite a fire under you. Just asking a simple question. Yes, no , and even an I don’t remember would have been just fine. Either way, moral of the story is embrace the rowboat I guess.

Teamed up last night to form a galleon crew. We did several gilded voyages. The foul beast raised its ugly head several times. We were careful and did not lose anything. Each time our ship raised up off the sea and started slowing turning as the bow raised up into the air. After the ship settled back down we could not moved for a couple minutes.

I still say stop the merging. It just interrupts playing and too much can go wrong. It appears to be worse since fixes were said to have been put into place. Just let everyone sail. We are not encountering enough ships to make it worth it. Can merge back to back and see no ships at all. When you do it is usually one or two at the most.

There were two ships in many hours that did try to steal our gilded spoils. We successfully merged them and their ship with the sea. The only time a merge is a good thing.

@PersonalC0ffee

Merging did not work properly when there were more ships. Works worse now with less players and ships. At this point should be focusing on letting what players want to play the game do so. Without all the bugs and issues trying to keep ships together as it does not matter enough as it’s intended purpose does not present any value most of the time.

No we did not merge when actively engaging with a ship. I was speaking in terms of sinking them as in “merged them with the sea”. Like I said two other ships in hours of playing and hours apart. I would be bothered if we were denied the chance to sink them.

A lot of players talk about sailing without risk on side of the argument or the other. Been that way for months the majority of the time. Risk is not from players, it is the merging. So, no merging does not work on many levels.

Saw more merges than things we should have seen. Hardly any players. No megs. No Karen. No fog. Skeleton ships bugged out a lot. Forts are popping at a good rate. Wish they had been that way more when it would have mattered more.