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Eventually this will happen to a steamer and it'll be patched in 10 minutes with a roll back so they get their ships back.

The best way to get the devs attention would be if a steamer lost all their ships to this. (Do any streamers play on PVE? Hint hint... )

Unless this was recently patched, the Ships Only setting does not work, and the NPC's will waste all your ammo on sea bass. I submitted a bug report. Please find it and upvote it.

Kiting a giga was and still is a thing in PVE Ark; so I don't see this going away anytime soon. TBH I wouldn't even mind if they fixed the "ships only" bug so we could actually defend ourselves when we're offline.

Was in the middle demolishing foundations to move our barn, patch hit, and when I logged back in I couldn't demo anything anymore. Other players on O4 confirmed they can't either.

I'm parked on there northern side of the Vonwin Island in O7 Where abouts is the FoY?

To be fair, it's an easy fix to stop SotD from being used as grief cannons. And I'd be pissed enough to perhaps overreact a bit while trying to vent on the forums. I accidentally aggro'd a fire elemental and fell off a cliff into the armada of ships camped at Golden Age ruins. I panicked as I thought I was going to accidentally sink the ships I was stuck on, but the fire balls hitting the ships were doing no damage. That tells me, the land mobs will only damaged what they are directly aggro'd on and won't damage player structures that are simply in the way. If the same was applied to SotD, it would end this bullshit griefing tactic.

I've wasted more then enough arrows on their glitchy ass hit boxes when it should have been a headshot. They were reasonable until a free patches ago, and now they're worse then ever.

I've read you can still overload yourself and use a grappling hook to weight bomb ships still... Not that I condone griefing, but if they're clearly afk that might work. Either that, or you can kite a SotD and have a swimmer aggro it and hide on the other side of the ship. They'll hit the ship trying to shoot the swimmer.

Me too. Lost a bank, half my base, 2 schooners, 2 medium shipyards, and a sloop. I built a cannon tower with medium cannons and NPC's on land, but there was no setting (including ships only) I could use to stop them from wasting all the cannon balls on sea bass and turtles. I posted in bug reports. If you search, I'm sure it'll come up and you can up vote it. Hopefully the devs are aware. I wouldn't even mind all that much of asshats want to kite SotD into my base of I could at least set up defenses.

Cobra's were fine, but now they're phasing through our stone wall perimeter and almost through the stone wall to our barn. Almost lost all our tames to bullshit. They definitely need to get tweeted again.

They were fine for awhile, but Cobra's are clipping straight through walls again. They don't even go over; they just phrase through them.

I have my cannons set on "ships only" and I tried every behavior setting off the NPC's. Didn't matter and every time I assign them to a cannon they start unloading in the nearest critter. Keep in mind they're in a tower on land; so maybe it's working as intended on a ship but not on land. I posted it as a bug report. I can't think of any other reason. Good to know. I'm on PVE though; so I'm just trying to defend against the ships of the dammed my unfriendly neighbors keep pulling to harbor.

Huh... With so many complaints about offline raiding, I'm surprised this isn't a more popular topic.

I built a gun tower on my land claim with NPC's on cannons for offline base defense because griefers love to pull SotD into my harbor every night. I set the cannons to "ships only" but they unload on fish swimming by as soon as I put cannons in the ammo box. I've tried every behavior setting from passive to aggressive and nothing changes. Turrets worked fine in Ark. It's frustrating I have no way to defend myself after I log off even with crew on cannons. I assume that had to be a bug...

I built a gun tower on land for offline base defense, and placed cannons with NPC's on them. I set my cannons on ships only, but as soon as put ammo on the ammo box, they unload on the nearest fish swimming by. Since the cannons are in my tower, and I can't place a lieutenant stand, I'm not sure what else to do. Is it not possible to set up cannons with NPC's for offline base defense? That doesn't seem correct in a game like this...

I built a gun tower in my harbor and put NPC's in the cannons, and they shoot at fish even though I set the cannons to ships only. Griefers keep pulling SotD to my base (PVE) so I was hoping this would work good offline protection. Anyone figure out if you can use NPC's on cannons to defend your land base?

My Chinese neighbors have been doing this everyday for about a week now. My Pirate game turned into a tower defense game. I have to admire their persistence though. I have to imagine it's at least slightly time consuming to pull a SotD to shore and keep it attacking structures. They're only managing to damage my stone gates which I easily fix with a fraction of what they're putting into my bank. Still can't keep any ships near my base though; so that's pretty annoying. Delete all ladders and only use the emergency one on the back. Just make sure you retract it when you're not around.

No, not that type of fantasy

A4 southern portion of large island has an absurd amount in the mountains. Crystal to

I don't care what anyone says, I like my schooner with one med weight sail and one med speed because it looks neat! (And this is why I play PVE)

Grappling hooks and climbing picks help get over most walls players put up.

To clarify what I'm getting from this post: If I build in a neutral claim area, the structures are owned by my company only, and no one else can build in a radius of my structures. If the owner of the claim area switched it from neutral to company only, I'll still own the structures, but I'll have a 3 day decay timer regardless if I'm online or not. Then the owner of the claim can demolish all my shit. Is that accurate?

If you would have logged off in that claim, they wouldn't be able to take it. If it's PVE, you could have checked the upkeep timer and claimed it yourself if you could.

Bump They're clearly violating the code of conduct. These accounts need to be banned.