Treasure sense and other people shooting your targets
 

Does it affect your treasuresense ability or chance to get better loot if someone shoots at the ship you are engaging?

Lately I've had people following me around when I'm sailing and they shoot at things once I engage them. I usually go home with treasure chests and royals in my galleon but lately since people have been doing this I've been getting mostly crates and I wonder if they are related.

I like the help sometimes when I take on a phantom, or high level boats. I see boats that take one shot and then wait until I sink her and take some of the loot, but it is just a game. I just wished they would take some of the damage too.

I have been sinking alot these days, have you? lol

i guess since now they cant steal land rep as much..the leechers have moved more to the seas.

Donno about the 'gulls' taking some of the loot - but I did notice that when I use my War Gal I get more Chests and Crates and when I use my War Frig I get more RC's...

It's almost like the game knows I'm trying to stuff more in - so it gives less :) Possible it has to do with the firepower of the ship (more Broadsides on a Gal I think - causing more damage per shot = less treasure)...

Where's Angel at? :D Shes good at getting those 1200 Drops - maybe her science has an answer...

lol i know it makes me fustrated when ppl steal rep (I.E. High lvls Shooting Lvl 9s when i'm trying to get some good REP) But now the seas??? I wish you could sink 'em.

I have my treasure sence maxed out and if I'm taking out the big baddies between PDF and Outcast... I'm bringing in close to 1000 per drop while haveing a four person crue. Don't know how much the treasure sence helps... but I'm not complaining! :12_1_138:

I have never attacked another players 'target' trying to steal reps or cargo. I have however done so trying to fulfill quest requirements. If I see a marauder I need on the horizon, and I high tail it there, to find another ship attacking it (seems to show the enemy ships way before it shows the pirate/player ships). Then I will usually take only one or two shots because I want a 'kill' not reps or cargo, just trying to get credit for my quest.

Only other situation I come across regarding this is, I often sail off of PDF, and have watched ships shooting a navy ship for example, I engage a nearby EITC ship, and before sinking thiers, they start shooting at mine.. well i usually take a shot at thiers too... I mean its only fair..

Zeppers lvl40
http://pirates.teamofx.us

That's me too. The only thing that reallly chaps my..... hide ..... is when I am soloing and away from the helm using cannon and some ..... moron ..... pulls in front of my firing solution so as to purposefully take away my ability to shoot the target. At that point, I will sail up close enough to click on the player and whisper to him/her and ask why. Once I have some conversation, I hit the report function.

I think i'm going to start doing that Racket, I'm tired of the rude behavior when it comes to ships, it leaves me dreading to have to head to sea for a quest.

I don't know if it's just me, but I really don't expect nearly as much from people sailing as I do on land. There aren't tons of ships around, and sailing's slow, so it's not like you can just take two seconds and run to another one if the one nearest to you has already been tagged by another ship.

That said, it's still not good, so I stick to quiet servers in an attempt to avoid it. I've had a bit of trouble even on those (same deal - I'll park and use a cannon and have someone sail right up next to me and block my fire, also, the kids [I assume they're kids] who just sit there in their little light sloop and shoot at me over and over and over and over...).

LOL thanks Maxximvs.......As for treasure sence, Ive heard rumors on that as well. The last cannoneer to shoot the ship, it goes by them, or the capt if they used broadsides? Once again, not sure but it did seem like we got better loot when we have alot of higher lvl pirates with max treasure as crew mates. Also if you have 2 ships goin after the same ship (ie. Juggs), one ship may get royals, the other would get crates....tested personally.

Once in a while you get the Royal Explosion and it seems like every ship you sink has royals on it. Thats what we call "Stocking the server". I can do a test on it against the colossous later. Same server, same ship, using all 3 war ships. I will post up my findings later today with screen caps of each loot haul.

OK as promised......

War Sloop:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...21_13-33-9.jpg
Loot:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...1_13-53-22.jpg

War Galleon:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...1_13-55-50.jpg
Loot:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...1_14-15-13.jpg

War Frigate:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...1_14-18-19.jpg
Loot:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...1_14-30-36.jpg

Now keep in mind that this was all on the exact same server hittin the Colossous flag, using Lightning to take the colossous down each time, and Grapeshot on the capt. The only variation was the ship I used.

Wow maybe buying my warsloop wasn't a waste
:D

I'm not saying I've never shot a target someone else was shooting at, but I can explain. I'm usually leaving Padres and end up running into bad guys coming after the "longballers" that sit close to Padres. With the ability of baddies to shift targets now, I take no chances and broadside any ship that gets in range and looks like it might engage.

I'm not trying to steal kills, its just self defence.

Theres a difference between self defense and shadowing someone. Your situation is perfectly OK with me....if u shadow me, then be prepared to fight for urself.