Ship Battles and Cowardice

[Edward Edgemenace]

Good post Arioch, I agree with your general conclusion about sinking, but there are several problems with what you say.

A solo captain on a war sloop that doesn't sink almost immediately is a glitcher. Invincible pirate + invincible ship + shoot cannon while sailing + shoot one of each ammo with each moust click + blinking (teleporting the ship by pausing game) + simultaneous open fire/take cover, are the solo captain's only means of survival. Now that it takes 9 seconds to go from the helm to firing a cannon, it is a bit more obvious.

The SvS quests given, several times indicate the importance of returning to your base island, not any island of your choice. Yet the glitch remains that no penalty is enforced for such cheating.

With no automatic ejection from the game after 5 ot 10 sinkings in a row, war galleons are allowed to just keep donating salvage (presumably from someone's second computer.)

The game POTCO is oriented towards group efforts, crew/public enhance that notion. But without a WALK THE PLANK feature, saboteurs rule the day.

[Arioch]

Actually A war sloop can be used in SVS successfully without sinking solo without glitching I know as I do it everyday for months. Any one who sails regularly on Abassa or Andaba has seen my ship Shadow Demon sail for hours on end with high bounty whilst being chased by anyone and everyone trying to sink me and all with no crew onboard from start to finish.

I don't glitch, do not have unlimited ammo etc. and most surprisingly to some I do not man the cannons to sink ships I do it all with broadsides alone.

My skills and sailing techniques are optimized for hit and run tactics. Having a very very fast PC with overclocked ram and video card and optimized settings makes for zero lag in the game.

The more people on the ship is more network lag as all pc's on board need to sync up when you have a solo pirate on a fast ship in svs he has a very large advantage.

In svs I can dodge enemy broadside fire and fury at mid range with ease.

People tend to be very mad at me and my ship because usually any time loot comes aboard my ship it is no longer in play as my ship has to sink for it to be redistributed and it usually takes a concentrated effort involving a long chase and many ships to run me to ground and even then I resort to porting rather then sinking as I tend to HIDE my loot.

With that being said the above is not bragging or a stretch of the truth as anyone who does SVS recognizes the ship and my name and they also know I sail almost always solo when at the helm of my ship and I do rack up large bounty and I am extremely hard to sink and when it comes to running I am ranked among the best as a very hard ship to run down.

I successfully run from light sloops with gunners while driving a war sloop and all with out using glitches or hacks. what people don't realize is that certain combinations of skills overlap each other and give different results and video card settings in and out of the game mean EVERYTHING.

PC speed, video cards and network adapters and settings mean EVERYTHING in SVS and the main reason I sail solo is as soon as one person is aboard the ship it's almost like someone dropped an anchor all the speed advantage goes poof.

Not from glitching mind you simply put the ship (all ships) runs at the speed of the slowest PC in the crew.

[Arioch]

Now with that being said those light sloops that have high scores sailing solo for long periods of time and even sinking from time to time and firing ammo that never ever runs out?

Those little cheats are glitching no doubt about it as ammo only last so long

there is no way a solo light sloop firing fury or lightning can get large score for hours without more ammo.

Even if they board a ship that is someone else's in order to resupply it is still cheating.