Boarding time glitches??

[dangerousden]

Last night we took our new member plundering for his quest for Spanish skelly ships. We got the first one and disabled, grappled it.

We decided to use grape shot to wear the skellies down first, and then I noticed we couldn't board. So we just killed off as many skellies as we could, and the ship just stayed there. I had to sail away from it to get it to sink.

So, we went after another and disabled and grappled it. it was then I noticed that the boarding clock was counting down from 5 seconds!!!!

We had no chance to soften them skellies up. We simply had to board and hack our way through the waves of respawns. We were all lvl 27+ but what a pain!

Has anyone else noticed this or was it just "one of those things"? We finished the quest with immediate boardings, and went out again, but we just sunk ships then to gain rep.

[Bilgepump]

I was going to post about this, too. It happened to me several times.

Disable, get grappled, but the timer ran out, and I couldn't board.

I had to log out to fix it.

[mlratto]

I went out with a crew last night. 1 guild member and 3 other guys who we crewed on the beach of cutthroat. I'm used to soloing so i always get a little nervous when i have a crew. stuff like jeez i hope they don't think i'm a lame captain or worse i hope i don't have to feel the shame of sinking. LOL

anyway, we were taking on the undeal pirate flagships and sure enough we're grappled and no button to click for boarding. so now i have my crew yelling at me to board and i didn't know what to do but tell them i couldn't.

so several guys jump ship and the same thing happened on the next flagship...very frustrating.

went ahead and ported at PDF and went back out and was able to board finally.

Looks like a new bug.

[sunnyskye]

I know there is a bug where if you shoot a flagship, grapple it, then sail away you become "invisible" to other ships, and you can shoot any ship except for another flagship without getting hit. My crew did this today and we sank lots of ships without getting hit once. We must have sunk more than 50. We were onh the ship for an hour.

[Angel]

OK they realy need to fix the respawn issues. You know how hard it is for lower levels to take on the blood scourge and take them down before respawning?!? Besides, its not right they get to yet if we die, we cant come back on the ship to help.