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Old 02-26-2008, 07:19 PM
Jungson Jungson is offline
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 4
Jungson is scurvy dog
HOrribly bad luck with plundering has me going insane.

About a week ago I was saving up for a war galleon by sinking high level ships(lv25+ at the time). All was going good. But at one point in my earnings, suspiciously right around the point I got the treasure sense skill to speed things up, I noticed that the cargo I was getting was suddenly a bit poor for what I was sinking compared to how it had been for the first 10000 gold or so. Sink a level 28 war sloop....1crate and one treasure chest, contents not too good of quality; sink a lv 22 galleon.... 2 crates, each with 5 gold; get really lucky and sink a lv 27 storm reaper...one cargo crate, 7 gold.
I thought that maybe I was just being a bit too over analytical about it all because I was in a hurry and Id never sank so many high level ships at once to really notice that not all ships give good rewards, so I continued, and kept upgrading treasure sense to perhaps get rid of the problem...and it got progressively worse. I now have my war galleon and lv 5 treasure sense, and I'm slowly losing my mind from being ripped off this much and for this long. Im at least able to get royal chests again, but like the other types the quality is always very low for the chest. Royals are almost always emeralds (90 gold), treasure chests are usually 25 with the occasional 50, and crates are always below the 10's. And this is still all from sinking ships that I know should give out better than this. (lv30+ now)
Has anybody ever encountered this before? And if so is there any way to stop it besides starting a new pirate? I've filed a few bug reports about it, still no word back, I guess I'm just getting impatient. Any help or advice would be appreciated.

P.S. the photos I have attached gives you a glimpse into my high seas nightmare, they were taken when i had treasure sense at about lv 3. In them my old galleon had just managed to (very painstakingly) sink a lv 30 man o war, only to receive the petty rewards shown. enjoy!
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