I hate privateering...

[Kretzge]

Ok tell me if this dosent anger you , i was sailing my little spanish galleon (old i have war galleon now) and ssuddenly i was getting hit by thunder and there were no enemy ships even near me! i tried look =ing around and spinning the little wheel on the mouse to zoom out but nothing! then when i had basically zero hull left a war galleon appears next to me out of nowhere and sinks me..... any idea if this was a glitch or something ?

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by Kretzge

Ok tell me if this dosent anger you , i was sailing my little spanish galleon (old i have war galleon now) and ssuddenly i was getting hit by thunder and there were no enemy ships even near me! i tried look =ing around and spinning the little wheel on the mouse to zoom out but nothing! then when i had basically zero hull left a war galleon appears next to me out of nowhere and sinks me..... any idea if this was a glitch or something ?

I've never heard of it with a French ship invisible before, but see it every day with Spanish ships invisible on screen (rotating camera view with mouse-button two, right?) and invisible on-compass.

It is not a bug - it is a cheater's glitch. I've only seen the same cheaters using it, that is. You can hit those ships with broadsides as much as you like; they take no damage and the health meter never appears (even though it is supposed to, as soon as they first attack you) unless you find their ship's name sailing along over where their ship SHOULD be, then hit them with ramming speed. Hitting them with ramming speed makes them visible almost half the time. Once you do that, you can start grape-shot to stun them, stun them, stun them, stun them, kill them. Once their captain is dead their infinite repair and invulnerability USUALLY stops. At that point, you can begin to have a "normal" sea battle with them.

Ain't it nice that Disney encourages the cheaters by never fixing glitches?

Addendum:

That's Disney-style family values for ya. Censored this very message, that had an innocuous bowdlerization. Maybe young kids know how to read asterisks? Nice family values, indeed. Encourage cheating, reward cheating, teach cheating - why, you'd think they as a company would have and actual philosophical stance in the issue. And evidently they do - they just demonstrated that stance again.

[Nautical Nattie]

That's harsh, i've seen an invisible french ship before because i saw a huge shadow of where the ship should be, and i saw the name of the ship. At that point i just go the heck away from it lol.

[Dr. Zeppers]

The glitch/bug is not a french/spanish thing at all. Its a person thing.

It is possible that some people may actually have mistakenly happened into it, and didnt try to 'glitch'.
But apparently some people having figured it out, do it on purpose, and have been doing so on BOTH sides.

We can only hope with continued complaints that they will fix it.

[Kretzge]

wow but believe me i was pretty mad

[Black Ice]

If your not good at the game cheat? Anyway i now just change servers if i go after a ship and cant damage it. Its not hard to tell.....ice

[Poison elf]

I have to agree about Disney doing anything. From the non answered mails that pretty much speaks for itself. Its to bad they don't get in the game and have some of these cheats, abuse, done to them when they are trying to enjoy game playing.

I haven't tried the ramming on a ghost ship, might have to try that. I usually head to port and dock, and come back in, and they are visible again.

Is always so much fun fighting two ships and find a third one parked behind ya blasting on ya, that doesn't show in radar. I span the entire screen even more than I use to cause of this, at least you can see a ghosts name.

With the cheats I saw in pvp, I wouldn't recommend anyone hold their breathe for something to be fixed, at least soon. With no responses to bugs and such over months I don't send them in anymore, I don't feal I should waste my time writing something that is completely ignored. Good luck if you want to give it a shot.

[Sassy]

I've taken screen shots of invisible ships.. when they sail they leave a trail, but other than that, nothing, no compass, no name.. IDK.. i dont privateer anymore.. and will not til someone fixes something..

[MacIronhawk]

Probably a glitch but you don't need to hate privateering for that.
But yeah privateering is fun if you have a War ship or a light sloop.
Just fight a light sloop and you'll know what I mean....

[Tuefenhandel]

Trying to sink a light sloop can be about the same as trying to swat a fly with a dumb-bell (sp?)

If you hit it, it's a goner. But, you might have a coronary trying to do it!

[Ironhawk]

To fix the invisible glitch try take helm and get off then take helm
again repeat until we can see them. If doesn't work try this at cannon.

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by Ironhawk

To fix the invisible glitch try take helm and get off then take helm
again repeat until we can see them. If doesn't work try this at cannon.

That's not a big help if you are on an "A" server where Spanish spies will often steal the wheel in that one intervening second. Don't know how they are even getting on board - probably the walking glitch. Also not a big help if you are fighting glitched-out enemies and have to use the repair-while-sailing glitch.

And frankly, it is useless. If a boat is able to sneak up on you invisibly, there really is no point in THEN seeing them on compass...especially when you lose several seconds to switch modes twice, invalidating any broadsides you fired at them.

The "surprise attack while invisible" was initially possibly just a software error, but is now being used with enough consistency to ensure that it is an intentional cheat. Much like the on-demand 15-30 second lockups (if you encounter a pirate named Dead Aim in SvS, you almost certainly have experienced it.)

You'd think the programmers had no concept of game theory at all, when they designed everything to be so unbalanced. All of ship-vs.-ship seems destined to be as pathetic (or worse) as pirate-vs.-pirate. The concept of repairs-at-sea would have been useful for the main game, but exactly the sort of nonsense that has no place in SvS. A hull, instead of having 126,000 points now effectively has 1,260,000 or much, much more, on a typical run? Sorry, that is just stupid.

Playing against your friend instead of the computer, is supposed to be mostly an even match. It is more exciting and challenging because your friend (unlike the computer) is unpredictable. But for both PvP and SvS, the key to winning relies not in your cunning or experience; only on the cheats you know.

It is small wonder that more and more people are dissatisfied with privateering. Enormous potential for excitement - completely undermined by intentional cheats.