Hey guys,
i have some bad feedback to report.
Just a few moments ago i was hiding on a fotd and after the guys finished it, i sunk them and took all the loot in a rowboat and was rowing to thieves haven and i hid the rowboat with all the loot at the back of the island behind a rock. I took a mermaid to get my ship. When i arrived thieves haven, the rowboat was gone! but there was never a ship near the island... i was searching the coast and then a brig rolled up on me, i sunk them and they had loot and a rowboat. I took the loot and sold everythink at the outpost. When i sailed back to thieves haven the rowboat of the brig was gone! It seems that the island resets and removes all rowboats, even when there is a ton of loot in them...
I was hiding like 2 hours on that fort so all my loot i was working for, was just deleted by the game... you really have to fix that please.
I dont have a problem when i loose all my loot i got for hours when its in a fair fight but loose everything just because the game resets a island is really really bad...
Lost my stolen fotd loot because rowboat was removed..
Rowboats can stay in the water for a long time in my experience, hours even. Is it possible you slammed the rowboat into a rock when you parked it and took a mermaid without checking if it had survived the crash?
Possible that rowboats despawns faster with the new changes they made to trinkets and what not but I have no clue.
It has long been a risk to leave a rowboat, sometimes they despawn and sometimes they don't. The loot itself stays sometimes and sometimes it doesn't.
Even if it doesn't look like anyone was around that doesn't necessarily mean a boat didn't find it in the time it took to return.
I sail randomly all over the map without an objective that would be clear to other players. It's pretty easy/common to miss a sloop in quite a few conditions and situations. Always possible that someone just finds stuff and quietly takes off. With how diving and merging act in the game someone could have just spawned right next to it, lol.
I always put the few valuable pieces on land and in the bushes or behind something, then it'll stay a long time as long as I don't get merged. You'll never really be in a situation where a rowboat isn't a risk.
@wolfmanbush the thing is, that nobody could see me in the rowboat and the ship at the fort dc'd after they lost. It was at the back of thieves haven and i spawned not too far away. Two rowboats disappered after no one was on the island :/
and @iTz-Majman no i havent hit anything, i parked the rowboat hidden but in a small distance of everything that could hit it.. in the past i have done such plays almost every day and the rowboat never ever disappeared :/
I might be, they really changed something.. for performance improvment for example but they need to change it back or else a lot of loot will disappear :/I'd like to chime in that something is def wrong with the rowboats.
2 things I've noticed:
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Safer Seas session: had loot on my rowboat, attached to the back of the ship. Before ending my session I went to the nearest outpost to sell all of my loot, from the deck included. All loot from the rowboat was gone, rowboat wasn't even damaged. I didn't notice it before because there was no need to check my rowboat in SS.
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Standing on rowboat when un-attaching it from the ship can bug it. It looks like it's shaking in the water, and you cannot use it at all, even though it doesn't sink. Doesn't happen always, but very often. Workaround - when attaching/un-attaching, never stand on the boat, and it'll never bug out.
Rare indeed generally needs to check stuff regarding rowboats... a lot of stuff ain't working correctly.
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@r3vanns yeah the rowboat bugs have been there since the beginning... would be nice if they would fix it. Often i cant get in a rowboat but my mates can... or sometimes the rowboat is repaired but you cant row it anymore but use the cannon / harpoon and sit in it...
Rowboats seem to hang around for long time in my experience. What i have had happen is on pc servers cheaters teleport all the loot away (had it disappear from my deck and a stashed rowboat nearby with all the kegs went). This was fair time ago so not sure if still within cheater capacity, I tend to stick to console servers.
I never trust rowboats. If i leave them in open water and come back later to retrieve they very often disappear. If I leave rowboat at an island it often stays for long period but not guaranteed and thats kind of a big deal because if we are to use rowboats for pirate stuff we should be able to have reasonable certainty they will remain when we go to retrieve.
its funny because ive run into rowboats that have sat on servers for hours yet if there is loot on board the server gets super excited to delete them when no ones around. like within 5 minutes. i dunno if theres something crazy with the rowboats with loot on them or if the game treats the whole rowboat like treasure floating in the ocean and sinks the whole thing if not touched withing the float window. its kinda crazy though. but i guess if rowboats are seemingly permanent fixtures in the world if the loot saved to them that would create lag for each abandoned rowboat with loot.
I do know that loot despawns after a certain amount of time without interaction. When we're stealing stacked FotDs, one thing we try to be aware of is leaving someone on the FotD after we've sunk everyone, until we can interact with the loot. I've always thought the timer was 2 hours, but I've never seen any documentation. For example, we sunk a crew at a stacked FotD and were unable to leave someone there after the sink. When we got back to the fort, there were maybe 4 stacks of loot on the barrel. The crew we sank told us it should have been 9.
I can't tell from your post, but maybe you were away from the loot for too long?
@r3vanns said in Lost my stolen fotd loot because rowboat was removed..:
I'd like to chime in that something is def wrong with the rowboats.
2 things I've noticed:
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Safer Seas session: had loot on my rowboat, attached to the back of the ship. Before ending my session I went to the nearest outpost to sell all of my loot, from the deck included. All loot from the rowboat was gone, rowboat wasn't even damaged. I didn't notice it before because there was no need to check my rowboat in SS.
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Standing on rowboat when un-attaching it from the ship can bug it. It looks like it's shaking in the water, and you cannot use it at all, even though it doesn't sink. Doesn't happen always, but very often. Workaround - when attaching/un-attaching, never stand on the boat, and it'll never bug out.
Rare indeed generally needs to check stuff regarding rowboats... a lot of stuff ain't working correctly.
Rowboats eating your loot has been a bug for probably a few years at this point. It's always a good idea to just move all loot to the ship if possible to avoid having loot disappear because it was left in the rowboat.
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Rowboats eating your loot has been a bug for probably a few years at this point. It's always a good idea to just move all loot to the ship if possible to avoid having loot disappear because it was left in the rowboat.
Well, looks like I didn't stalk forums enough, since this is something I've found on my own, the hard way. Also, many people just generally rarely use rowboats, so it's naturally harder for them to run into something like this.
That's why I shared. Who knows how many people are unaware the same way I was.
Still doesn't change the fact it's kinda lame Rare still didn't fix it, after all those years you're mentioning.
