Now Boarding, Party of One....

[Davy]

Maxed treasure sense is sadly bugged. I maxed mine a long time ago. You have to stay on the helm while you sink a ship to apply your treasure sense or else the last shot's treasure sense applies to the ship. For flagships, if you want to apply your treasure sense, you have to use a Sloop ship and grab the helm before the ship sinks.

[Pirate Rose]

Originally Posted by Davy

Maxed treasure sense is sadly bugged. I maxed mine a long time ago. You have to stay on the helm while you sink a ship to apply your treasure sense or else the last shot's treasure sense applies to the ship. For flagships, if you want to apply your treasure sense, you have to use a Sloop ship and grab the helm before the ship sinks.

That's interesting because yesterday I was plundering warlord with a crew and received 0 royals with maxed treasure sense. I was at the helm the whole time.

I don't know where your information about having to use a Sloop for flagships come from. But that hasn't been my experience. I've sunk flag ships, even a little Panther with a WG, and received royals. Sometimes getting 2 royals.

I think it's very random.

[Steely Jim]

I've also boarded some ships I shouldn't have. The first ship I boarded was an EITC Sentinel that was one of 2 that kept respawning off Driftwood one day; I found a few EITC Thugs aboard (2 level-11 and 1 level-3). I forget exactly what notoriety I was at, but I believe it was 14 or 15 annd the Sentinel was of the level-12 variety. Encouraged by early success with a Sentinel, and being at that time all Sailing with almost no Cannon or any other real skill, my next target was a Navy Bulwark, then a Navy Greyhound.

Those all went well, but I hadn't yet learned to soften my target before boarding...that was a lesson I finally learned when I boarded my 4th target, a level-17 EITC Ironwall. I found a level-22 Hired Gun aboard with some other crew; I'm not exactly sure what happened after that, but I woke up in jail thinking to myself that I should try to take out the guys I see holding onto the helm before I swing over to another ship.

Both times that I got the "Board" option popped right up, I had taken a line that brought me alongside the other ship by barely grazing them. I didn't even check the time with the Navy Panther, but I didn't see any "phantom" grappling lines this most recent time with the Kingfisher.

On the subject of Treasure Sense, I only have 1 point in it; I don't regret that point, but I doubt I 'd take another. Personally, I see its use primarily as a selling feature for captains, in an environment where good crew is difficult to come by, but highly sought after.

I thought I would do more of my Cannon training serving aboard other vessels, even after solo Sailing to 17, but as it turns out I never found any crews that had any real plan. I just found a bunch of shoot "anything that moves" operations; to me, it seems like the purpose of taking a crew out should be to hit specific types of targets. I kept winding up serving on crews that would wind up plundering Ferrets and Bulwarks, so I ended up just buying myself a frigate that I could anchor off PDF (Playground Del Fuego) and shoot Ogres to my hearts content.