I blew holes in another players ship!

[Cement]

You're right. I watched it closely and you hear the rumble and see debris and maybe holes in the sails. You also see parts of the ship light up red in the damage indicator but then go away. No actual damage is done. It is, however, very annoying!

--Cement

[Samantha Wildhound]

i know some light sloop was firing at me the other day, and i was bored so fired back for a good 5 minutes, and i had his ship on fire, and looking like a ship does when its critically damaged (smoke and fire trails that would not go away and werent caused by firebrands) so yeah that was interesting..he got mad and ported after.

[l3lackPenguins]

it started to happen after the Pearl Battle Boss update thing...........

[Sarah]

It's fun at first, but when you're trying to get some leveling done, it becomes really annoying. All the ship rocking and smoke and fire can be really distracting. So if you're shooting at someone for fun, and they say cut it out, please, cut it out.

[AdmiralSavvy]

Same thing happened to me! I was shooting a guy's War Galleon with lightning, it made holes, showed up as a target, but no damage! LOL

[Carnage]

I sank my friend once. It was funny it tried to manuver.

[thefadedrose]

The same thing happened to me yesterday. I had just set sail and was trying to finish a quest so I could level up. And as I was sailing away someone started shooting a cannon at me so I turned my frigate around because sometimes a War Sloop sails around Port Royal or Tortuga. But no, it was a sloop and I think a galleon who continually shot at me. Ticked me off so I parked my frigate right between theirs and went from cannon to cannon blowing holes in their ships which to the eye their ships were on fire, lot of smoke, and you could see the ocean in the holes I left. I know the name of their ships and I could see between the smoke, one was a level 9 and the other a level 10. Level 10 got a little ticked off when I got a good bead with the cannon on him directly. But oh, well they started it. But I left after I got bored but here I was sailing with smoke trailing behind me all the way to Driftwood! By the time I got back I noticed a lot of the other ships had disappeared because they were shooting at everybody that came into range. It was just very annoying. Kani

[ricocasekthecars]

I've done this several times- there's always some newb shooting at me while docked, I always give them a spoonful of flaming cannon balls to get them to cool it. When I shoot at them, their ship's health meter will show up just like enemy ships do, but no damage is taken. The funny thing is though that the ship WILL catch fire and smoke. As long as you continue with your ship, it will burn and smoke even though there isn't any damage.

[Swordblade]

Lol it happens all the time if you have a war galleon or war frigate. I had my war galleon at port at port royal eariler today and a light sloop started shooting at me because he thought my ship was so big it had to be an enemey ship. He freaked out and ran away when I fired a thunderbolt at him though.

[seaxouri]

The hull and sail damage bars do not go down from friendly fire, however the picture of the ship showing yellow/red damage areas to hull DO show up. I have to wonder if there is not a bug in the game where friendly fire does no damage, but weakens the hull parts. I had my entire hull in red from friendly fire and I had my Galleon sunk by one round of a ship that I normally crush. Its impossible to quantify though, because no numbers are shown.