Solo Spawn Rates

@ktingaling you jest sir, surely the second you are sucked up and cant get back to a damaged boat it would sink, also, the kraken grabbing your boat right at the stairs preventing you from bailing water as it puts more and more holes in your ship sinking you. Both situations you would have to be lucky not to have happen to you.
The other main thing is a prevention on spawning at the gate. Both times i had been in the game for barely 5 minutes and got spawned on. That has never happened to me with a full crew before although i have had bad timed spawns on that part.

I had figured that the spawn rates for Forts, Kraken, Megladons and Skeleton ships would go down after shrouded spoils had ended but I'm wrong.

I'm missing skeleton ship battles because of the constant fort spawns (Can't even linger for a bit or ship battles wil despawn for a fort).
While I have no problem with the Megladon or Kraken (I welcome them as I still need the Achievement) they still do seem to spawn way to often on a sloop (while on a Galleon I just can't run into the Kraken)
The ship battles that spawn on you bother me the most when solo'ing. It's the difficulty curve I can understand (with 2 players they go down real fast) but solo it's hard. I wouldn't mind the spawn rates of all these things to go down a notch now that the event has ended. Make it special again in stead of a constant stream of spawns.

That being said, It's still a multiplayer game and the sloop is a 1-2 player vessel so you can't make it so it doesnt spawn when solo, that would impact duo play too and believe me Sloop players literally begged rare to be included in Kraken spawns.

So in short: Yes let them spawn less (overall) but don't take away spawns for 1 player since that would also impact 2 players.

@hynieth that is why i make the assumption that the game knows or should know when only one person is on a crew on a ship. and if it can know then it should have an automatic block or expand the spawn rate to the point that they shouldn't spawn for hours.

Not knocking solo play, i played a lot of solo play back during the summer. It is one of the main ways to get good and hone your skills.

I worry for new players that don't have people to play with that want to try the game out solo, and how can they do that if half the time they cant even get to the next island to do a mission to learn the game if they get stopped by one of the emergent threats.

But then those who want to encounter the threats are left out again.
It's literally the solo players who begged rare to let them encounter the Kraken sometimes.

Now it's not sometimes anymore, it's often so yeah that's a bad. But bring it back to sometimes and it's ok.
If you get chased by a skeleton galleon sometimes that's ok. Run em into islands or just keep bailing/ repairing untill it leaves you alone. But run into it multiple times per session and it's just a time waster.
If you run into a Kraken that's also no problem, just steer your ship into a direction with favorable wind and make sure you hold your course while keeping the ship alive (don't go above deck too often or you'll get sucked up). But again annoying if you keep running into kraken all the time.
If you run into Megladons.. ugh they often don't even bother themselves so skip that.

@hynieth people need to read into posts more often. If kraken doesn't grab you or doesn't hit you running away is "EASY" if Kraken grabs you at the stairs, you cannot survive you might as well scuttle. You can only repair and there is no bailing.

Before it was not solo players that were complaining about no kraken. It was sloop players who were complaining about it. Sloops didn't get kraken spawns and sloop players wanted the opportunity to fight it.

when stuck below you cannot save the ship while solo. you cannot attack the tentacle enough and get it off the ship while also repairing wholes that it makes while grabbing the ship, if you are lucky to have full wind it doesn't matter anyways as you are still not moving. the sucking up thing is yes avoidable but then again if you run from getting sucked and then the tentacle prevents you from leaving the hold of the ship was it not the plan to get you stuck in the bottom of your ship to begin with. You can get lucky with timing if you have more than 1 person but there needs to be a specific way to get tentacles off your ship faster or at the very least get rid of the ability to grab you at the stairs, if it grabs you anywhere else, then yes a battle of attrition can be won by waiting out the tentacle letting go as you repair and bail.

I am a bit confused about the 'wrapping by the stairs' thing ... are you solo-ing on a Brigantine?

@dooby said in Solo Spawn Rates:

I am a bit confused about the 'wrapping by the stairs' thing ... are you solo-ing on a Brigantine?

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Nothing wrong with soloing on a brig. You'll have a hard time with Karen though.

I laughed so hard the first time the Kraken blocked me in the hold of a brig. Bucket full of water, not one window that wasn't painted shut. We had no chance to save the ship that time.

Side question: Did they change things so that Karen targets sloops now? I seem to remember it giving sloops a free pass unless they sailed into the ink when it was fighting a bigger ship.

@boxcar-squidy said in Solo Spawn Rates:

@dooby said in Solo Spawn Rates:

I am a bit confused about the 'wrapping by the stairs' thing ... are you solo-ing on a Brigantine?

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Nothing wrong with soloing on a brig. You'll have a hard time with Karen though.

I laughed so hard the first time the Kraken blocked me in the hold of a brig. Bucket full of water, not one window that wasn't painted shut. We had no chance to save the ship that time.

Side question: Did they change things so that Karen targets sloops now? I seem to remember it giving sloops a free pass unless they sailed into the ink when it was fighting a bigger ship.

Indeed nothing wrong with solo-ing on a brig, it's just I was assumign a Sloop and got confused how you could be stopped from bailing if Karen wraps the stairs... given all the windows.
and yes, she attacks Sloops too now ... I have got very familiar with rowboats recently :)

@galactic-geek Interesting.

I've not been attacked by one on a sloop yet. It does seem to like to say hello more often than I remember though.

All of the PVE threats are challenging solo though. Skellie ships with any of the balls that stunlock you. Meg with her knockback that so frequently launches you off your boat on a sloop.

I think, if I had anything I didn't want to lose on board I'd probably just do my best to do a Brave Sir Robin and make good my escape while shouting "nope, nope, nope, nope"

I like that they've added challenging PVE encounters. The randomness of them does mean that they are equally likely to attack players who do not want to be challenged at that level though.

Solo isn't for the faint of heart I guess.