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I must have ran aground or not noticed a flood/damage from being in the heavy storm I guess.
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No, having the chest anywhere connected to the ship makes it start filling up with water. You can have it on your back hanging from the side ladder and you will start to fill up. Just pick up Sorrows for the emissary boost and then dump that garbage back in the trash wherever you found it.
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Jan 10, 2021 17:48
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Sorry, I meant no, the trick doesn't work.life_source posted:No, having the chest anywhere connected to the ship makes it start filling up with water. You can have it on your back hanging from the side ladder and you will start to fill up. Basically this. Let it weep on the beach.
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Jan 10, 2021 18:24
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There is one trick that works with the chest of sorrow. If someone is holding it and gets on the ladder and gets as low as possible without falling off, it won't fill up the ship. This of course becomes a big problem if playing solo, as you can't control the ship. If playing solo, and i want to get a chest of sorrow, I usually bee-line for the nearest outpost, and if it starts crying, you just keep bailing until it stops. You can stay ahead of it. But yeah, most of the time it's not worth it. They should be worth more gold.
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Jan 10, 2021 18:56
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Chests of sorrow won't fill the ship if they're on a rowboat that's harpooning the ship (not directly attached, that one will fill up), but that's an inherently unstable attachment. So carrying more than one per ship is a bad idea.
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Jan 10, 2021 19:02
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I've tried using the chest of sorrow on a skeleton galleon. It works, but did not fill up the ship fast enough to be worth the trouble.
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Jan 10, 2021 20:57
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My stupid newbie moment was carrying the first one I ever found on my ship. It started crying and I discovered what it does. I was bailing and generally okay but then a skeleton sloop showed up and I died VERY fast. I was solo. This second experience has taught me all I need to know...
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Jan 10, 2021 22:35
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My crew will head for an outpost ASAP if we have any mega-kegs (Stronghold or Ancient Black Powder, whatever) or a Chest of Sorrow. Those are the only things that will make us immediately head for a port.
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Jan 11, 2021 00:00
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Earlier today a member of my crew persuaded us to abandon a sorrow chest at the start of what turned out to be a very long voyage finishing with a 20-minute galleon chase whilst we were full of treasure and desperately trying to hit an outpost to finish up the session. I’m really glad we listened to him!
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Jan 11, 2021 00:11
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If you could hold a chest and climb into a cannon and be shot out of it that would be a hilarious way to board and drop one onto an enemy ship.
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Jan 11, 2021 00:56
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using the chest of sorry as a pvp utility is always very funny even if they somehow get their anchor up, it's rare enough that newer players will either refuse to throw it overboard or not realize what's happening until its too late
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Jan 11, 2021 13:29
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fallingdownjoe posted:Earlier today a member of my crew persuaded us to abandon a sorrow chest at the start of what turned out to be a very long voyage finishing with a 20-minute galleon chase whilst we were full of treasure and desperately trying to hit an outpost to finish up the session. I’m really glad we listened to him!  During that chase I kinda wished we'd hung onto it just to sneak it aboard the other galleon when I got on board to drop their anchor. Or that we hadn't left all those kegs behind, because they kept following directly behind us and were in perfect place for us to drop some off the back of the boat... edit: we are good at pirates 
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Jan 11, 2021 13:58
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Master Twig posted:But yeah, most of the time it's not worth it. They should be worth more gold. They already are! At first they were like 800-1000 gold, but so many just ignored the crying chests, the rewards was tripled. I'm my experience, the only people who really want to keep those things are people who want the title for selling 100 of them, which is "Hoarder of Treasured Tears". 
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Jan 12, 2021 10:21
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Merijn posted:They already are! At first they were like 800-1000 gold, but so many just ignored the crying chests, the rewards was tripled. This is the only title that could persuade me to take off Dashing Daredevil
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Jan 12, 2021 12:29
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 lol i did a doubletake when i saw this sleeping birb
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It's a banana joke? 
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Jan 12, 2021 14:38
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Merijn posted:They already are! At first they were like 800-1000 gold, but so many just ignored the crying chests, the rewards was tripled. not bad
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Jan 14, 2021 12:46
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Jan 15, 2021 13:45
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Can other people see your mermaid?
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Jan 16, 2021 14:59
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Yes, but the glowing smoke shows only for you. They can use your mermaid as well but it tales them back to their ship. Its a dead giveaway for boarders if you're chasing someone.
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Jan 16, 2021 16:15
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the mermaid puts ppl on high alert but once you touch your feet to their deck it will despawn it's one of the most annoying parts of trying to sneak onto boats and it makes getting onto an experienced crew's ship very difficult
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Jan 16, 2021 16:56
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Thief posted:the mermaid puts ppl on high alert but once you touch your feet to their deck it will despawn Yeah it sucks but I don't know what a better system would be.
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Jan 16, 2021 22:22
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A tool that summons a mermaid (with a cooldown) could be better but might give too large of an advantage.
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Jan 16, 2021 22:46
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They semi recently reduced the spawn time of the mermaid, iirc. You used to have a little more time to be sneaky, but it was pretty annoying if you weren't in pvp.
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Glory to Italia!
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Jan 17, 2021 02:38
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With rank 5 Reaper, can you see the location of emissary flags that have been taken from sunken ships, or only those ones currently attached to active emissary ships?
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Jan 17, 2021 03:14
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PantsOptional posted:With rank 5 Reaper, can you see the location of emissary flags that have been taken from sunken ships, or only those ones currently attached to active emissary ships? Just ones attached to ships. Basically, any ship that has an emissary flag up will appear as a shadow on the map.
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Jan 17, 2021 03:15
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BlackIronHeart posted:My crew will head for an outpost ASAP if we have any mega-kegs (Stronghold or Ancient Black Powder, whatever) or a Chest of Sorrow. Those are the only things that will make us immediately head for a port. I don't think there has ever been a time when my crew would go to a outpost to sell a mega-keg because they would always find some poor ship to detonate it on immediately.
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Jan 17, 2021 04:09
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thank them for playing the game correctly lol whenever ppl freak out over keg placement anywhere outside of range of an active volcano stockpiling them into a sloop ftw especially when someone is chasing you
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So there's basically nothing you can do if someone boards you with a lit mega keg, right? My cousin and I were chasing a galleon that just finished Fort of the Damned and both stood on the opposite end of the brig from the boarder and still got blasted off and weren't able to mermaid back in time to do anything about it.
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Jan 18, 2021 04:38
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hello I played the beta of this and it was fun but there wasn't gently caress all to do now I am desperate for escapism and wondering how much has been added edit: never mind I read back a couple pages and got my answer. Thank you for your time
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kynikos posted:So there's basically nothing you can do if someone boards you with a lit mega keg, right? My cousin and I were chasing a galleon that just finished Fort of the Damned and both stood on the opposite end of the brig from the boarder and still got blasted off and weren't able to mermaid back in time to do anything about it. well, if you're REAL good and fast you can potentially kill the boarder by shooting him where the keg isn't and then picking up and defusing the mega but usually if someone gets on board with a mega you're boned. it puts like a million holes in the ship and usually kills/knocks off some of the crew, so even if the boarder dies you won't be able to bail/repair in time
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kynikos posted:So there's basically nothing you can do if someone boards you with a lit mega keg, right? My cousin and I were chasing a galleon that just finished Fort of the Damned and both stood on the opposite end of the brig from the boarder and still got blasted off and weren't able to mermaid back in time to do anything about it. Not once they’re on your ship, no. Since you were chasing a fort haul a good strategy would have been to grab a sniper rifle and take a few shots at the crow’s nest. Kegs usually get stored up there and once you’ve detonated it crippling and sinking the ship is a lot easier. While you’re chasing someone it’s also a very good idea to have someone watching the ship ahead of you, so that if somebody does drop off the back with a mega keg you can snipe it in the water before they reach your ladder.
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Coq au Nandos posted:Not once they’re on your ship, no. We sniped one from the water but guess they had three more kegs to work with. I have no idea where they had them on their ship as we dropped their masts and lit them up on a few passes. Oh well, I already stole and sold their Athena chest so we were just being greedy trying to get the rest.
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My friends and I just started playing this last night, and we have been enjoying that old MMO feel of creating your own fun. While on a tall tale mission, we spotted another ship in combat with a ghost ship. Seizing the moment, we beelined for them as fast as we could and, being entirely inexperienced in handling a galleon, ran directly into them at full speed, wind at our back. Just before the moment of impact, I shouted into the megaphone, "We're here to help!" and one of them replied, "What the gently caress!? Where did they come from??" We reveled in our victory as both ships slipped beneath the waves. GOTY.
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The proper thing to do with a mega keg is board the enemy ship with it unlit and just make it a hostage situation. Either you give me your loot or we all die. I realize this won't always work against a competent group of people.
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My normal crew and I have been avoiding kegs like the plague after some bad experiences - I feel like I’m learning that we need to just hide them on the ship somewhere and go for it. There’s definitely been some experiences where it would have been useful to drop a keg behind us to hit a chasing boat!
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Last night we were running an Athena voyage and one of the islands we needed to hit up had a sloop at it. We approached quickly, but had no ill intent towards the sloop. The sloop dropped sails and started sailing away. As they sailed, we noticed things being dropped in the water and thought it might be kegs. But no. It was treasure. We harpooned a couple pieces, but let them flee. We figured they were trying to dump treasure to make us not chase them. We stopped at the island and started our mission, but they turned back around and came back towards the island. They started shooting at us. So we fought back and sank them rather quickly. It was not much of a fight. They could have made friends with us and been nice, but no. They had to not trust us.
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Where can you hide a keg in your hold that won’t blow up easily? I realize most keep it in the crow’s best but is There a different location? On a Galleon I could see the captains quarters but wtf do you need a keg for in a galleon?
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