Now Boarding, Party of One....

[thefadedrose]

Yes, I know what you mean in regards to breaking up the monotony. I used to be a land lubber too and that is all I wanted to do and I hated the thought of sailing. Then Chris Redcutter showed me how to do it solo and now that is all I want to do. Sadly enough my weapon levels seem low in comparison to my sailing and notoriety levels. I should be working off finishing the Greer Quest but I can't seem to take out 8 Level 12+ skeletons in Murky Hollow by myself so I become disgusted and go sailing instead. I am not afraid of what I find on board once I grapple a flagship but I am afraid of the firebrand and thunderbolt cannons so I try hard to stay behind them and out of the way of those cannons but those War Sloops have a great turning angle compared to the frigate I sail. Lol, one time about 4:30 a.m. I woke up suddenly due to the fact I was dreaming of one of those firebrand cannons shooting at me! Sailing solo is great for me but I have had a few crew at times and I don't think they like the way I sail. I can't see what they are trying to take out with the cannons and I am focusing on something else. I had one "friend" (supposedly) that always wanted to steer my ship and I thought what the heck I will be able to level up my cannon skills so I would let him and we did great for the first 2 or 3 times then he started taking on bigger ships than I like to handle and to me I was having to pay for everytime we sunk and I didn't like that. The last time I was taking on two ships at once (I love to sail between two and take them out with my broadsides! Lol) and he demanded with explanation points which to me is screaming at me that I let him steer. Well, you know what? I am the captain of this ship and I am really busy at that point so I don't have time to step away. He apparently got mad and went offline. Once I got to a quiet place I "de-friended" him off my friend list. I don't know what level he was (which I wish Disney would list the levels on the friend list) but you don't demand something right in the middle of battle. I did one time with a full cargo (the galleon) and was heading to port as fast as I could (I had a lot of damage) and was sunk because the green circle didn't appear for him. Which I have had happened to me several times but all you have to do is step back a few inches and approach it again and then it appears. But anyways needless to say we were sunk! My crew weren't very happy with him and told me from now on I was the captain and no one else. Has anyone else had the problem with right in the middle of sailing all of a sudden your sails go down (like you had hit the Escape button to go man the cannons and board) and you have to step back and go up again to the wheel for the green circle appear? It has happened the last couple of nights and once I was right in the middle of battle. I was not a very happy camper. All in all sailing solo is great for me that is but my cannon levels are low so there at times I wish I had crew (with a good captain that won't sink my ship) or I could crew up at times with others because I really, really want the firebrand and thunderbolt skills. I see I am rambling now....so sorry. Kani

[Steely Jim]

Uh oh, disabled ships just keeping on sailing? Just out of curiosity did you experiment with taking out all the sail points before finishing off the hull points? It probably wouldn't have mattered anyway, since the green circles aren't appearing.

I'm still hoping my golf game isn't going to fall through due to 1.5 days of rain, especially since one of the regulars planned to jilt the wife, kids, and extended family to get back into town early enough to play. If it ends up being too wet to play today, then I'll have to experiment with it, to see if that bug is affecting me currently too.

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For me, I took to Sailing right off; then, I realized I was level-16 Sailing and didn't have anything else over 5 (including my level-3 Cannon). I had a pretty fixed plan for how I wanted to distribute my points at level-17 Sailing (where I still am), so after that I had to go back and start working up my land-weapons. Funny enough, the realization that I needed to start improving other skills in a hurry really hit me when I got killed by a level-22 Hired-gun, while solo boarding an EITC Ironwall.


Over the last 2 weeks or so, I have been experiencing the bug where I suddenly disengage from the helm or cannon for no apparent reason. So far, it has gotten me killed, but it has happened at some inopportune times.

You'll soon get the hang of solo Cannon-eering. I've only ever been on 2 crews where I sailed under someone else, so almost all my level-14 Cannon is from solo action.

Eventually, I plan to use my guild as a part-time guild/permanent crew sort of thing. I do think a crew should mutually agree about what types of ships they want to target, but once underway I think the captain should direct the action of the entire crew or assign officers to oversee specific actions...this is solely about preserving the chain of command to maximize the efficiency of operations.

I haven't decided exactly how I want to build it yet, so it's just me. I'm not really inclined to join hierarchical organizations unless I'm at the top of the hierarchy, so I'm not very inclined to seek out and/or join anyone else's guild either. So, that's sort of on the back burner for me.