A Warning on Public Ships

[J.T.]

I was on a public ship last night and received a warning from a pirate that was on board. I don't know much about it myself, but thought I'd tell you all just to put the word out.

Apparently, there's a group of pirates going around in some sort of PvP glitch where they leave the PvP areas and are able to fight anywhere. However, this isn't your usual PvP glitch. I was told that when they do this, they appear as the PvP zombies. The thing is, apparently they can attack anyone, inside or outside of the glitch, and are boarding public ships. When there, they attack the people on board, ko'ing them. Once they remove the people from the ship, they take the ship, sink some ships with it, port it, and steal the cargo.

The guy who told me about this said it's happened to him multiple times already, and 4 hours of plundering was wasted. While there, another person on board told us that it happened to a friend of his. Another friend has since told me that it has happened to him. I don't know exactly how they're doing this glitch, and I've yet to see them myself.


I was told the names of 1 of the pirates, as well as their guild, as captured in a screenshot by the one who informed me of this. Of course, I won't say it on here. The people have been reported a few times, so something may change soon.


So everyone, have good luck, and be safe/cautious out there on your public ships for the time being.

[Platinum Pirate]

A friend reported seeing one of those PvP glitchers on PDF as soon as she logged in. She called him a creature at first because of the red lettering and zombie-like body. Others present saw it too and that player ran into the mountain.

I thought it was just a fluke because she logged in after Captain Jorden and myself experienced a weird bug at sea. It happened to everybody who was playing at the time as it turned out. The game basically told us we were pirate friends with our pirate friends again. Meaning it listed all 56 of mine, one right after the other. So I thought it had something to do with some sort of server reset or whatever. The game really needed it.

However, looks like what you described, JT, was already at work at the time my friend witness this 'creature'. It is highly disturbing to see that these players are taking that feature of the game (i.e., PvP) to do something this heinous. There's no need for this. Yet they do. In my honest opinion, POTCO should disband that guild and perma-ban all those who use this glitch. And remove them from the leaderboard as well. Just make an example of them so others won't even entertain the thought of just 'trying it out' for laughs.

[Davy_Mcwrecker]

@Plat - Forget PermaBanning them. PermaIPBan/TerminateAccount. <----- Worst ban you can get.

[Platinum Pirate]

lol Davy I'm all for that. If they paid by credit card, fine them $1000 for starters too! Then make it go up every time they protest about it like the judge would in court.

[FightingExecutioner]

I'll take heed of this warning and ONLY open my ship to friends, crew, and Guildmates. But, if it happens the crew I am in has an Undead Player in it, my ships are closing for crew and Public/Crew will remain closed until Disney can patch it up.

[Captain Del]

Question: In the event this occurs, are the shipmates aboard the ship able to fight back, or is it kept to a one-way battle?

[Cannonfury]

Originally Posted by Captain Del

Question: In the event this occurs, are the shipmates aboard the ship able to fight back, or is it kept to a one-way battle?

Ship mates on board can fight back.

[Captain Del]

Interesting.

I always encourage pirates who want to sail on public to grab a few of their friends before hand and create a "central crew" so that way the captain is not left alone in having to deal with an entire ship of unpredictable and often unruly pirates. Having a few guildmates or close friends to help run the ship while you focus on captaining can really make the difference between having a ship fall in to disorder or not.

Of course, the rise of this glitch brings that to an entirely different level. I would advise all pirates who want to sail on public ships from now on to make sure they have at least a few loyal and hopefully high-leveled friends on in their crew before they open the ship; this at least establishes a base crew that will be willing to fight to defend the ship in the event of an "attack."

A good strategy to follow in an event of one of these attacks is to try and distract/stun the attacker long enough so that the captain will have enough time to find out what is going on and hopefully make way for port. If the attacker does make it to the helm, make sure that the entire crew understands the ship needs to make it back to port as quickly as possible, encouraging others to grab the wheel and drive if the wheel is open. This will at least limit the attacker to one spot (the helm, to limit the movement of the ship) which should make him easy pickings for a group of pirates with their broadswords swinging away.

So, remember:

1. Sail in groups with at least a few battle-ready friends aboard your ship.
2. Keep the captain and the rest of the crew informed in the event of an attack.
3. Stun the attacker and distract him long enough to sail the ship to the nearest port. (Killing him works as well, though that may not guarantee that he will not come bacl.)
4. Work together to make sure the ship survives.
5. Remain calm, and remain loyal to your crew.

[Tiberius Fireskull]

That is very frightful, in multiple ways. I truly makes the game a lot less safe, and makes the public feature on ships very risky to use. The old PvP glitch just caused lag to others, but nobody could really abuse others with it (other than lag). This is completely different. Perhaps it would be a good idea to even pick up most of your crew before going out to sea, so that you don't have to risk opening to public for too long, if at all.

It truly saddens me that there are players that would do something like this. Hopefully this bug is fixed ASAP, with all the players IP-banned from all Disney Games and terminating all Disney accounts... and fining them doesn't sound like a bad idea, but it unfortunately isn't too realistic.

I have a question myself: Does anyone know if these pirates stay undead after dying? Are they carted off to jail, or do they resurrect where they stand, or what?

We can only hope this issue is resolved soon.

[Platinum Pirate]

I don't think they can die, go to jail, and then be restored to human form when they get out. The game will see them in PvP mode until they log out.

What Del offers is a good step. However, I would prefer to just board with friends only. There's been enough bad experience when boarding public ships to have me stay away period. Also, however one may choose to plunder, one thing is for sure: TAKE SCREENSHOTS.

This glitch is a bug and those screenshots must be submitted with your bug reports. Take as many as you can and select the best ones. If you're fortunate to click on the pirate or the pirate's name, report that pirate at once as "Rude or mean behavior". Click F7 also and send them feedback that a PvP glitcher name 'such-n-such' has boarded the ship at 'whatever' ocean. And yes go to the site and fill out that game form too. Just do them all and POTCO will deduce some solution much quicker starting, of course, by banning the 'Creature'.

I know some of those 'Creatures' might be reading these posts and laughing it up among themselves. Expect that. Just be proactive about this and turn the tables on them lightning fast. Frankly, there's one punishment worth handing to them that we should encourage POTCO to do. POTCO should reset their pirate to Incomplete 1, wipe out every thing in their Inventory, and notify all their friends/ guildmates about it.

Perhaps, feeling the shame from their fellow peers will finally teach them a lesson: Stick to the Code. If that doesn't, just losing those wonderful toys they enjoyed playing with will. Next time they do it, POTCO should axe the account and take legal action. Maybe the parents, spouse, or whomever lives with the Creature will get on their case too. Then we will have the last laugh together.

[Rannulf]

I sail open public 90% of the time. I have yet to encounter this. If I do the "attackers" will have a rude awakening. I will put him / her / them to the sword myself or scuttle me ship.

My ultimate solution to an unruly crew or crewmen is that I scuttle the ship. I have done so a few times. I announce in crew chat for all hands to abandon ship. I then park and allow my ship to be sunk.

Last time I did this the unruly pirate tp'd off when the ship was about to go down. The crew tp'd back we repaired and finished the material run.

Disney just needs to give us the boot from ship feature, like in svs. With this simple exception to stop abuse: When booted from a public ship the offender marooned gets his / her cut of the plunder if the ship ported at that time.

Then fix boarding privileges and this problem goes away.

[Captain Jason]

This sounds like a major problem. Del is definitely right though, especially about having a big crew. If you have 10+ higher level pirates, then it will be very hard for the glitchers to take it over.

It really makes you wonder why they would do this though. It would be much easier, faster, and beneficial to everyone if they just joined the ship and helped the crew. It shows how they're just doing it for the sake of glitching... There's really no point.

[Cannonfury]

A friend told me how its done and Ill tell you. It involves the "programs name which i cant post". The "program"is a tool used to inject codes to make your pirate big, small, zombie form, fly, change colors...etc(most of it is client side only, ONLY the person using it can see it). Well, what these guys do is..They whisper a friend, who is on a ship
then they go to pvp....inject a code that makes them HUMAN in pvp then they tp to the friend, once on the ship they use the zombie code, then they attack


In each of these instances they have had spies in cahoots that get on a ship.They MUST have someone to tp to, they cant just board a public ship from land.
It cannot be fixed by disney like regular pvp glitch...

[Davy_Mcwrecker]

Dang it, whats with all the hackers? POTCO will most likely end up as the new VMK....

[Captain Gas]

Originally Posted by Davy_Mcwrecker

Dang it, whats with all the hackers? POTCO will most likely end up as the new VMK....

Unfortunately, that has come to what the generation thinks is "funny" these days. It's probably not even just POTCO. As long as hackers/modders know what to do, they might be able to hack any game. Now, they should think "How fun is this really? Trying to make people feel sorrow?" It saddens me that a majority of the population of POTCO is becoming what we see today. Now, only a few majority of the players today are actually mature enough to handle not glitching OR hacking.
Just my two cents.