Now Boarding, Party of One....

[thefadedrose]

Thank you for all the input but suddenly when I logged on tonight and enabled a war sloop the grappling lines were suddenly there and I was able to board. I guess it was just a bug. No, not a ghost ship but the phantom ships that roam around the outskirts like Padres, Cuba, etc. But anyway for now everything is fine and I had fun swinging across. Although, I did get a little excited and swung across too soon and ran into (4) Level 11 soldiers and ended up in jail but oh, I had fun! LOL! Also, I had read somewhere on the boards about stowaways and suddenly tonight I had one! Someone with a sloop came in between and my frigate that I was broadsiding and just as the frigate went down I saw the name "Ricardo" on the little sloop and he suddenly jumped on my ship! I went about my business of sailing and he suddenly disappeared! How weird! To also answer another one of your questions that yes, I do attack the ships I want to board with the "flags" over them. Tonight was the first night that I got brave enough to try a War Sloop but I thought what the heck all he can do is sink my ship and throw me in jail so I tried it and succeeded the first time with a little help of other ships around me by keeping the sloops from firing at me and I had slight damage but I took everyone out with the cannons but one soldier and he was only a Level 4 so he was no problem. But as I said earlier then the second time I tried the War Sloop I got a little excited but oh, well! Thanks again for all the suggestions/ideas! I gotta go I feel the need to plunder! AARRG! Kani

[Steely Jim]

I guess we don't really have a category name for them like we do for Navy or EITC, but by ghost ship I did mean Phantoms, Revenants, Storm Reapers, and Black Harbingers.

So far, I've not encountered cursed crew aboard Navy or EITC ships. One of the things that initially drove me to solo board ships was the desire to find a cursed crew; I've started to think I misunderstood and Disney just meant that there were ghost ships sailing alongside living ships.

Kani, I'm glad to hear you got the boarding option back. I'd be gutted if I couldn't board ships; since mid-21 Notoriety, I've actually been mostly land-based trying to catch up my other weapons (upper-26 now), so I go boarding just to break up the monotony.

I put off trying War Sloops for a long while too, mostly out of the uncertainty of what I'd find aboard. I suppose that hesitation really was silly, since I've gotten myself killed several times after I had an idea of what to expect anyway. That was one of the reasons I wanted to start this thread though; I know there are a lot of other solo sailors, but I wasn't sure how many were even trying to board any flagships at all. I enjoy it so much that I also wanted to share what I was finding on the other ships, so that people who might have been curious would have enough of an idea about what to expect to try it for themselves.