Ghost Ships spawn rate?!

[Cookies 2.0]

Even with the 60% spawn rate reduction ghost ships are a major problem in the game right now... you can swerve in between them but at some point you will run into ghostships you CANT manoeuvre past with wind limitations and they dont need wind and move much faster than you. It also breaks immersion that there would be thousands of ghost ships on the seas. I always seem to have a minimum of 2, usually around 4-5 at any given time on the sea.

Ghost ships hurt the progression of people that need it the most, it punishes the vast majority and only rewards the few who already have ships capable of surviving them or defeating them

The game isn't ready for ghost ships, you need to redesign them properly before you implement them into live. While im sure alot of people appreciate that you've been working diligently especially over the christmas period to add more broken content is counter productive and you're just going to frustrate people into giving up on playing. We've grinded out 3 sloops in order to overcome the resource barriers only to lose them all to ghost ships that ignore wind and 2 shot you.

Ghost ships should be something that players at 'end game' should actively seek and not just undock 100m offshore to start farming one after the other.

Nice idea, poor execution.

Keep up the good work though with everything else.

[Green]

100% agree

[Green]

just grinded out a schooner to leave shore and fetch materials to build cannons when we got swarmed by 6 ships who destroyed everything in minutes

[EyeXombie]

Yup Ghost ships are ruining the game right now. I had one sloop parked out front my base. Then some ugly piece of ♥♥♥♥ that looks like it came out of Startrek shows up and sinks it for no reason. I wasn't even on the ship. So I decided to build another ship and try it again after the update tonight. Didn't make it even a mile before a Ghost ship shows up destroys me in a matter 2 seconds while I just sail hopelessly. Can't do a damn thing to stop it. It manuvered through a storm like it wasn't even there and shot me with heat seeking canonballs. lol.. I figured they would have fixed it by now but nope. So looks like I won't be making any more ships. Too much of a grind for them to just blow up like their made of paper.

[Birdmann]

yeah this is why i quit. spent hours building a sloop and destoryed in 5 minutes. No point anymore. i've been through 2 sloops and a schooner. just not worth grinding if you never know what patch they wil;l implement will break the game

[System_Zero]

GHost ships should be rare, like you should ♥♥♥♥ your pants when seeing one, not get annoyed. Yes they're there to add tension between long trips but they should be treated like mini events and not have to put up with them like being chased by 4 crocs and 2 giant snakes.

[EyeXombie]

Originally posted by System_Zero:

GHost ships should be rare, like you should ♥♥♥♥ your pants when seeing one, not get annoyed. Yes they're there to add tension between long trips but they should be treated like mini events and not have to put up with them like being chased by 4 crocs and 2 giant snakes.

Yeah and you should be able to out run them if you want. They should be slow tanks. I think I'm just gonna work on my base for now. No reason to even build a ship unless it's a raft of course. The ghost ships just ignore rafts. lmao. So stupid.. There are so many other things that need fixes and balancing. Ghost ships could have came later.

[System_Zero]

They should of put them later and not tell anyone. Keep their rates low so that people are not 100% sure of what they saw. They when they go to a Free Port, they tell everyone there and everyone will be like "WTF you're crazy"... you know. Like real sailors.

[Atreau]

Ghost ships are like Alpha spawns, they are everywhere and are just used as a time sink. (They kill you and delay what ever it was you were doing). Nothing more.

[Highnachtsmann]

Ghostships are to much on the map!! it come to the island and destrroy all Sloops and all rafts from me and my tribe -.- you want to go to another server and meet 6 ghost ships its RLY TO MUCH !

[Cookies 2.0]

The main reason why deploying ghostships was a bad idea is that it kills off interest. In the current day and age, you have a finite amount of time to capture an audience before something else comes up and everyone jumps to that.

In a game which is almost RELIANT on the social aspect you need to keep the audience interested. The devs have not really been paying attention to where the players are at and rushing to drop 'cool things'.

Adding ghostships a few weeks down the line or even next year to maintain interest would have been a better idea. Game just released on early access, why rush to add content when you already have so much content that needs fixing/fine tuning.

Like myself and so many people have mentioned, ghost ships should be a rare occurence and something that players near end game have to actively seek out by sailing around the open seas. The only 2 logical reasons I can see for deploying ghostships in this state would be to stress test the server's performance (which could be done off the LIVE servers). Reason number 2 would be that decision makers have no clue what they're doing.

Please please...don't kill, potentially, the best game I will ever play before it has a chance to become it.

[RaySpace]

I am a solo player at present. I finally finished a sloop. A simple unarmed sloop. I have sailed all over the middle map in a raft and never saw a ghost ship. I sail my sloop out of dock. head for the edge of the map section I am in and before I get there, there are 6 army of the damned ships sailing around in such a way that I cannot avoid them. I am sailing a sloop solo. No guns. on a PVE server and suddenly I am surrounded by magic ships, faster than me, armed to the teeth, and utterly disinterested in allowing me to just sail on. I spent two days building the ship. and less than 7 minutes to have it sunk. Thanks but I will wait till you figure out some balance.