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Happening to me as well. Either fatal error crash, or I have 255 ping for 5-10 minutes before it goes down. What's odd is my wife has no problem with this. We'll swap computers, load into a new zone together, and only my profile had the issue. So it's a problem with my account; not my hardware or internet connection.

Same issue

Having same issue Validate files did nothing

I gather all maps I see. When I have a couple good journeynan level maps, I'll plan a trip to hit those, and I'll grab any lower level maps I have for on the way. If the actual spot is hard to get to (on top of a cliff, inside someone's base) just ditch the map and move on; especially if it's lower quality. I use a speed schooner (lrg and sm speed sail) with a diving attachment to hit any shipwrecks along the way. Bring a bear or two... Bears and grenades make short work of AotD. Usually, if I can't get to a treasure with my bear, I'll skip it unless it's a really high quality map. Spears have higher spike dmg than bows; so I bring a bunch in case I have to fight Warriors of the Damned so I can take them out before they regen their health. Knowledge of the Damned and strong arm are a heavy skill investment, but it'll increase your bow and spear damage by 90% if you max them both.

For the record, yes you can. And the reason why I wanted to was to get gold for an island (PVE) from shipwrecks as fast as possible. Thanks!

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They added ship decay in the last patch. My guess is they put the decimal in the wrong place and they're disappearing way faster than they should be. Silly devs.

I've done a lot of maps and it wasn't always like this. Hopefully it gets patched.

Headshots are impossible and only shots directly to the chest count for warriors of the damned. Anyone else seeing this? Can't finish this treasure map because I can't kill the warriors before they regen their health without headshot multiplier

Ran into same problem, and arrows don't register head shots either. You have to hit then square in the chest, or all your shots will go through them. I couldn't kill then before they regen their health because I couldn't land headshots.

If you're near the East most part of the map, there's a trading post based out of O4 that gets a lot of traffic. Castaways & Cutthroats run it on the NE island, Kerroview. Discord link: https://discord.gg/Zbx6tUW

True "For all we know..." Key phrase though. Bethesda banned players and it ended up as headlines. Players then knew they'd get banned for accessing exploits. Ban these fools and make it public. And I'd argue that having to buy the game again and start all over is a pretty significant consequence. If they're just bored as mentioned above, then good. Now they're forced to move on because they're not willing to buy the game again, and they'll go torture players in some other game.

It's a shame that the same companys and the same handful of players are running amok chasing away a player base trying to enjoy the game as intended, and nothing is being done in the moment. I understand Jat stated they're trying to prioritize fixing the exploits instead of the time it takes to chase griefers, but their efforts to patch the exploits are taking way too long and are clearly not working (yet) Send Polly to ban these fools, wipe their progress, and make it public so at least there's a fear of some sort of consequences. This is a situation of opportunity. Currently there's no risk to griefing, they know nothings going to happen, it's easy to do, and there's a huge reward of looted mats. Please, do something devs!

Damn... That's awful. That'd be enough to make me rage quit.

I swapped toggle to sprint to left shift and hold to sprint to right shift. That probably messed up my key bindings. I use right shift plus A or D to turn my sails. I tried left shift to get crew back on cannons but it didn't work. How does one whistle all to passive? All 28 of my crew leaped off my ship to dance with a seagull in the ocean. Hilarious to watch, pita to get them all back on my ship.

I traded for a horse and it's doing the same thing. I can't even give it back as I can't hold down the declaim on the radial menu long enough before he blinks away again.

I couldn't get right shift to sit them again

Bump I posted a bug report a couple weeks ago. Here's the link for upvote:

Aggro a SotD and hide behind the ship. Problem solved.

Why bother writing a code of conduct... Clearly nothing will happen. Do it right back to them. Block with rafts and sloops, pull SotD, foundation their resources if they left claims on neutral. Only way we got the Chinese griefers off our server was to grief them back. Tickets with screenshots did nothing.

Try Twitter. Dolly I believe is their community manager. This is bullshit.

There is In the alliance section of the company tab.

The game Pirates of the Burning Sea had (has? Not sure if it's still around) an interesting system for PVE/PVP. If a faction besieged a port, a PVP circle would pop around the port and the two factions could choose to fight over control of the port. You could just sail around the circle of you wanted to avoid PVP, and it had interesting effects on trade. I have no idea how GS could pull something like that off, but I would definitely need interested in a PVP zone on a PVE server.

Farm on weekends, and transport, trade, and build during the week. Transporting mats, especially metal, takes me a lot longer than actually harvesting them. When you're making trades of over 10k metal, you're not worrying about 2x weekends.

I came uncomfortably close to SotD in my Brig this morning, and it turned off (I easily could have hit it with the med cannon I was on). I was headed to pick up crew; so I'm glad I didn't have to fight it by myself. I was at about 25% weight. I'd say if you're not able to fight back, be VERY careful how much weight you have on board.