Fifty Skelly Captains tried, and fifty Skelly Captains died!
Brilliant stuff tonight lads. Herculean effort in the face of extreme adversity from all involved.
Given up my spot to Seaman Gremill now I'm over the line and sporting my new swag.
God speed Team Oarsome! There's grog at the tavern awaiting your arrival, and tall tails to be told.
That battle is a bugger. Sleeping cannon balls can fuck off, but it also has a pretty odd reset zone for the ships. Could do with a visual indicator of the battleground as we were right next to two ships only for them to reset before we could sink them. Stick some purple smoke in a ring around it or something, make it obvious.
I'll be back on tomorrow, hopefully it doesn't end before I get my commendations.
That was great fun last night - my first Skellie ships sunk - but it’s frustrating being limited to fighting within a spawn area that’s both small and underdefined. Loved it when we were all wondering whether or not the Skellie ship was sinking, only to have the Meg leap out of the water in the distance and finish it off.
I think it's a bug tbh. Been a couple of occasions where ships have either just disappeared or despawned the second you leave the area, but that's not meant to happen.
Conversely I've had multiple battles I've returned to up to fifteen minutes later and the Skelly ship is still there waiting for me, so yeah, probably a bug of some sort. Bloody annoying, but there it is.
Anyhoo, I fear this event might end this afternoon if there is the usual Tuesday patch, but if it doesn't, then I'm definitely available to help people get across the 50 line tonight.
Right, looks like i now own this. I've played all of 5 minutes of it about a week after it came out, not touched it since. Any party i can jump into tonight to 'learn the ropes'?
Goober, we were all coming and going a bit last night.
Bit of a baptism of cannon fire for HBJ, but his real life Seaman skills came into their own and the lad did the crew proud.
Our lone ship against two kelly galleons and a Meg didn’t stand much of a chance, especially when constantly carpeted by those cursed balls. Aaaarrrsoles!
Still a massive amount of silly fun.
retroking1981: Fuck this place I'm off to the pub.
I'd not fancy learning the ropes mid Skelly battle. I'd be up for a more sedate cruise when Cursed Sails ends.
We were similarly twatted by the skellies and their sleepy bollocks. Didn't help that no one else on the server was interested in joining the fight, one more ship would have seen us do it.
What time can you get on tonight HawBaw? I fancy a sail but before the match tonight, so from 5 to 8. Can't do the Skelly battle because of the time limits so I'll be chasing chickens or summat.
Just had a cheeky afternoon session there (fuck my work) and did a Skellie Fort for the first time with an alliance load of friendly Americans. 10k for half an hours work!
Also sunk 2 Skellie ship solo then got overwhelmed by a combo of cannon fire and gushy shark. Alliances have made a huge difference to the solo experience on this.