DannyUK

That's not a bad idea, I might try this myself also. I've been cautious of people doing this from the very beginning, not sure how long it has been going on but I have never had it happen to me yet. I might take action now to at least try and prevent it. What kind of cannons do you reckon? I've not gone after any SOTD so I'm not sure how hard they are to take down with cannons or how many shots it takes.

I've said the same thing, I was sailing solo without NPC's in G6, everything was fine, I can handle a ship myself that is until my game crashes and I'm unable to log back in again for several minutes. Logs in to find myself up against SOTD, turns the sail and sails away, steering wheels smashes, my fault for not making replacement but i've encountered 6 spawn in front of me at any 1 time, ridiculous. Ghost's are rare, especially ghost ships, no idea why they want them to spawn like they do. Stop these stupid spawn rates, it spoils the game. If you want to have 20 spawn in 1 grid then choose a couple of grids to do so and not the majority of the grids. No need for it, should be 2-4 spawn in any grid at any 1 time.

Sorry I made a thread about this myself with screenshots, did not realise this thread was here, should have looked first. You may merge it if necessary

Playing on PVE servers, when putting NPC on sails they sit down on the side of the boat but sometimes they glitch under the boat. Also when you unseat them they can also jump into the air. I've also had a problem when taking bears onto boat with follow me command. I climb ladder onto boat and the bear will glitch into the back end and get stuck, this happens on several occasions. Sometimes they will get free other times i've had to destroy a panel.

No I haven't tried that but I will give it ago thanks. Yes that worked, thought it had something to do with the light itself but thanks again.

Thanks for the tips I did not know this. I've also seen people with coloured Buoys, i've tried putting dye in the inventory but nothing works, also tried a lantern in there with dye and that does not work. Is there something else I'm missing for coloured buoys?

I've noticed ships with red lights on decks, is this something you buy? Ive only just realised you can put the laterns on there but not seen other colours for decks.

Which is why i don't bother with claim flags. I have just as much fun on lawless and can have as much land as you want. Why would i ask someone for land only to build for them? Lets face it eventually they will own you and everything you built, no thanks.

Its single player now if you want it to be, just create a company and you're a 1 man band. If they lower ghost ships ill be happy

I'm not even interested in claim flags right now, been there and done that. I've settle for lawless, it's the only way to play right now as the system is broken. There should have been a server wipe when they changed the rules of the game because here how it goes. They release the game, allow any player to spam flags all over the place, 1 person can take a whole island. A week later a new player arrives, they go out sailing at sea to come across every island covered in red flags. They then announce we are changing the system, ok you say? Well I am pleased with this and so they should until you find out how they go about changing it. So they change it to allow original players to keep the land they have spammed flags on, give land to someone else in order for money back in taxes. (I still don't know if they can take land back once built on) so you tell me how the game is fair to everyone if they've allowed players to keep the land then change the goal posts? What they should have done was wipe the servers if there was a rule change around claims, not allow spammers keep their land. I'm not a fan of losing all my stuff with server wipes but I can see why they are needed. The game is not fair to everyone and it's a shame the devs went down this route.

They've wasted alot of area on the grids with just a couple of islands, plenty of room to play with on each server. I enjoy playing the game but it does get frustrating, if they just reduce those god damn ghost ships. I wish they would also protect your ship if your game crashes, why can't they just make the ship invisible until you log back in instead of leaving it there for the ghost ships to destroy? Can be very disheartening at time through no fault of my own.

Pathetic how other people have to hack to play the game. The Chinese are well known to hack, I feel sorry for any genuine Chinese players out there as they give them a bad name unfortunately. I personally don't think they will ban them, they seem to let them get on with it whether that's for their own fun to watch or just not bothered with that part of the game yet. Would be nice to have some sort of alarm when you're offline, so when someone breaks in in takes a screen shot or certain length of recording inside, I know I might sound far fetched with that idea but I dunno things have to change otherwise they will lose alot of players and leave the Chinese to dominate themselves.

Ghost ships spawn at a ridiculous rate, those ships are supposed to be rare. Sick and tired of 6 spawning in at once in front. I've lost a schooner to them recently when my game crashed, nothing i could do.

Yes I've learned that lesson although it would not have saved me a few days ago. Sailing alone on schooner at sea only for game to crash. Desperately try to log back on (took ages) to find myself up against ghost ship, was to late for me. NPC might have saved me getting away faster but did not have any.

Well if you want to move there i'll sure help you out with things, whatever you need to get up and running again. Plenty wood thatch and fibres. If you want exact coordinates just let me know but will help where i can.

Yes I agree with you although I do enjoy coming across human players that is the problem. I play solo but if I see another guy/girl in trouble I will tend to jump in and help, that's just me though. If they reduced the amount of ghost ships and toned down the damage/detection range on animals I will be very happy. I really hope they add NPC to repair ships whilst your sailing, this will help very much if you get caught by ghost ships.

I am currently on J8 now on the green islet island bottom right hand side on. We did have claim flags, 3 of them but playing solo there is no chance of getting a flag so I settled on Lawless. That is true but me being me I tend to trust to easy. I'm a nice guy who would help others out but usually it gets thrown back in my face, oh well can't change who I am haha.

Similar to me, had base built, loads of resources in boxes and everything. Because the owner was crying every 2 minutes because he can't play and got angry he decided to kick everyone in group and destroy flags. This was a 50 odd year old man and if he reads this he should be ashamed. I play kinda solo now, have friend on another island we help each other out.

The chinese are dominating the game, they've hacked because that's the only way they know how to play. The devs know about it, they've even seen the Steam forums but do nothing about it, tells you everything. The chinese have them in their pockets.

Be very careful not to be complacent. I was the same until last night, went on a metal resource run (solo) everything was good until I was sailing back and game crashed. Quickly tried to log back on took me 2 minutes to log back in to find my schooner against side of ghost ship. By time i tried to sail away my steering wheel smashed and was to late, sunk. Sailing solo is not problem, the amount of ghost ships and game crashes are.

I'd hate to sail for hours to reach the destination and find out it's changed to half way across the map

Really? I did not know that. I have taming skill but never tried the bear. Thanks for the tip, might give that a try also.

Well that makes me feel abit better at least hearing that it can be done. I thought the treasure chests would be to difficult but maybe I will give it a try and collect a large amount to pay for NPC. I will look out for low level treasure maps then but I doubt I will take another scooner out unless someone is with me because if your game crashes (like for me) then you're left sailing into the abyss. It wasn't so much sailing it alone but the fact so many ghost ships spawn around you at 1 time, I think i've counted like 5 or 6 spawn in front of me, that is ridiculous really. I thought NPC would do repairs whilst sailing also, that's a shame that they don't but maybe implemented at a later date I hope. I never thought of taking extra planks and steering wheel with me but you live and learn I guess, won't make that mistake again.

And how do you know this exactly? All i've read is about resetting. If you have information from the source i'll be happy to hear it. From what I gather is you reach 100 unless you reach the fountain of youth (wherever that is) to go back to 20 with all your stats. They have said this is not working right now.

I agree, I'm all for testing the game and knew it was early access but implementing the age thing was all wrong. They should have given people the time to just test the game without resetting your character back to 0. Sometimes I think the developers work back to front.