sinking while still ON a flag ship

[swashbuckler II]

ok I was with max plundering collusus.
After bout our 20th one
We sank while on collusus.
Our game crashed and we had to relog lol
We sank but when we hit water we swam.
After bout 5 sec the water dissapeared. well everything did.
This as well happened to max. so funny.

Has this ever happened to you?

[SangrelX]

yea its a bug -- its cuz ur boarding it to close to its spawn point

thats my educated guess - if u board it right in the right spot around where it spawns u will sink with the ship right as u kill the last navy soldier

- try letting it sail out a good bit and then boarding it see if it helps
again just my guess as to why it does that

[swashbuckler II]

ah thats it
ok thanks we did kill it like 3 seconds after it respawned

[Maximvs]

The Latest Dolls Pirate Cartoon shows just exactly what happens

PiratEToonS Page 3

We must of laughed for 10 minutes... good times

[Edward Edgemenace]

I've had that when my ship was sunk by a random other boat, while I was aboard a flag ship. The direction you float in space is from rolling the mouse while you are on cannon (or wheel) right as you sink - aiming vs. camera (for right mouse) gets wickedly confused.

You picture doesn't make it clear - is your ship below you, or is jail below?

[Maximvs]

Actually - nothing was below me...

When we first sunk we were underwater (standard glitch) but sideways... sinking...

Then everything went pitch black for about 30 seconds (I'm assuming it was trying to send me to Jail - but since I was on our shio again it really wasn't a failed boarding... so...)

The I was in the sky (heaven as they call it here LOL ) and though the camer angels didn't work well - I did manage to get it to go sidways for the shot (it was just black underneath me )

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by Maximvs

... so...

The I was in the sky (heaven as they call it here LOL ) and though the camera angels didn't work well - I did manage to get it to go sideways for the shot (it was just black underneath me )

If you zoom all the way in, looking perfectly down (which you might not be able to do in that particular glitch, depending on how you rotated) you'll see a TINY jail in the middle of the black down there. Which is to say, unfortunately this HAS happened to me too.

[Dr. Zeppers]

Apparently someone flipped the on/off switch for the black hole that sucks you into the jail cell. I believe its back on now and operating normally.

[Chris]

Lol i guess the other pirates were following the code "If a man falls behind gets left behind" lol

[wmah]

I just had this happen yesterday during the double gold where I was falling and falling and doing some neat tricks while doing that. I took out my other pirate to see what happened and the ship was gone too. My only option was to close the game on that computer and restart it. And yes I know I was on the right server as my other pirate was on the crew but I left it there at Padres cause it gets hard to run two at times. And after that I ran into the other problem same flag ship where the last soldier was inside the ship out of reach. What do I do there to get it?

[Edward Edgemenace]

I had this happen to me day before yesterday. Boarding a flagship, three seconds after boarding, about the time hitting the first navy dude, the flagship just sunk. No other enemy boats were nearby or on compass...ship health had been about 70%.

I found my pirate doing the superman, just as Max had described, with no jail below. (Gah! After going through all that above, I SEARCHED for it.) Completely wrong z-axis controls, like my mouse was shifted 90 degrees or something. No ship and no jail...just stuck. When I closed pirates.exe, it had consumed about two times the available computer memory (neat trick, with the paging file turned off/disabled!) Sailing, in general, seems more memory-leaky than ever these days. It may have just been too much, for the scene change. And since I had crew, on my boat, I think it crashed everyone in my random crew, with me.

It would be nice if they had scene-change garbage collection (similar to OPTIONS, Geometry, Memory Conservation = aggressive.) But then they would have to bring back the one-hour sea voyage timer/limit. That would add an interesting twist to SvS!


To get a soldier that is "out of reach" first zoom compass all the way in. Press the "=" key (or keypad "+".) Find the enemy red dot and get as close to it as you can. Then use throwing daggers or cutlass sweep, same as you would for the flying sergeant on Padres del Fuego.

[Mr.LoveLocket]

Happened to me when i had millions of lag. It went a black screen

[Nautical Nattie]

lol! this happened to me, me and my friend had boarded the Colossus over and over, and then somehow instead of going back onto my ship at the end, the whole thing just sank and we both went under water. My friend spat out her drink laughing and woke up her little sister. I think it is when you board it close it's spawning point, because we were.

[Dr. Zeppers]

This happened to us frequently the other day, we were close to the spawn point, maybe that was it. But we've hit it plenty of other times right there with no problems (ManOWar by KH)