Meg Despawns

Main cause in the last couple of seasons is they changed how other player's megs react to you. They won't stick around and they leave, super unfortunate for a few reasons but that's the way it is now

Once in a while a server is super laggy and it messes with megs, it'll get them to act weird/inconsistent

Main thing for any of the emergent pve spawns is start hittin' em with cannonballs quick and early, get that head start which keeps you in control of the situation, rather than kind of dilly dallying around with them. High pressure early and keep it consistent for pretty much any fight.

When you say "chased" it, that sounds to me like you wandered upon another's spawn which is why it didn't commit to your ship and eventually took off.

Soon as you hear it and decide to fight it, hit the anchor. I've had quite a few megs just swim off, haven't had one do that yet since I just started anchoring to come to an immediate halt

@entombedgnu6927

It's almost always because of proximity to an island or rocks, or other simultaneous events overlapping. It's sometimes easy to miss clipping the "hit box" of these environmental things when preoccupied with whether or not to engage.

@danbeardluff said in Meg Despawns:

@wolfmanbush said in Meg Despawns:

Main cause in the last couple of seasons is they changed how other player's megs react to you. They won't stick around and they leave, super unfortunate for a few reasons but that's the way it is now

Once in a while a server is super laggy and it messes with megs, it'll get them to act weird/inconsistent

Main thing for any of the emergent pve spawns is start hittin' em with cannonballs quick and early, get that head start which keeps you in control of the situation, rather than kind of dilly dallying around with them. High pressure early and keep it consistent for pretty much any fight.

When you say "chased" it, that sounds to me like you wandered upon another's spawn which is why it didn't commit to your ship and eventually took off.

Is that why? I've been getting so irritated by megs running off. I'm trying to get my chef commendations here!

yeah, when they worked on megs so they spawn in more areas that's when it started.

probably cost people some ghosts. If someone leaves the area or sinks their meg spawn will wander a bit and then leave.

Without focusing on a new ship it's very very difficult to kill one before it despawns. Possible but very unlikely, especially for brig/galleon megs.

@lleorb said in Meg Despawns:

If I lose a shrouded ghost I could become one of interpol's most wanted

Using other ships as a meg spawn resource used to be a big part of my hunting strat but with how they operate now I don't do it nearly as much because I don't wanna end up in that scenario.

I still sail shrine boats away from the shrine and use the boat to get another meg here and there and then return the ship to the shrine before they return lol but I can't rely on other situations anymore.

A ghost hunting tip

Don't burn bridges, you never know when you might need them to anchor for their meg lol

@necronikolai13 appreciate that tip. Thanks to this I was able to get my first meg today!