Improvements to newer players' exploration experience

[CookieTank12345]

Basically it’s a useless dinner bell for Greatly Armored Atlantean brigs to come and backshot your brig while you spend 30 minutes around the edge of every Range 3+ island to find your boat?

[BlueFighter15]

The only use it has is if you want to do like a huge fight with everyone on the island at once, such as at Ravenna

[CookieTank12345]

That’s just “How to create Lagcane Odyssey experience“ but worded differently isn’t it

[Amuka]

Not that i can recall atm

mostly just for the ppl that just have everything as a single paragraph despite very easily being capable of having it being split into 3-5 different paragraphs

[mari]

@BiologLOL

Shifter of Fate can no longer initiate the attack onto any player ship, until they attack first. Players must be given an opportunity to engage in a boss fight, not be forced into it. NPC ships are incredibly persistent, until their AI will get them stuck between Frostmill’s glaciers. If you are confident in yourself - go shoot that flagship and challenge the Captain of the Jaw Pirates. If you are just minding your own business - sure, why would Jorund waste his time on some weaklings?

i dont think its necessary tbh, could be bcs my brig is fast but it doesnt seem like his is particularly fast? i can run away most of the time, so i feel like this might be overkill

[BiologLOL]

@mari

i can run away most of the time, so i feel like this might be overkill

You can run away, true, but what if the ship is camping the island you really need to solve a chart on?

[BiologLOL]

@BlueFighter15

The only use it has is if you want to do like a huge fight with everyone on the island at once, such as at Ravenna

Or tank for your party when fighting a dragon

[Amuka]

@BiologLOL

You can run away, true, but what if the ship is camping the island you really need to solve a chart on?

This + jorund stalking the stepstones, even near redwake once

[KVETrain]

Ah, what a beautiful day to go hunting for treasure charts, I hope a sudden storm doesn’t show up and spawn a tornado on my boat again-

A tornado spawns on my ship on the 4th location of a lost chart

Brother, I worked hard to get this far in the chart and you’re telling me this stupid tornado making me wait 30 minutes to progress to the 5th one?

In all seriousness, it’s ridiculous how these things can spawn right on your ship and prevent you from traveling anywhere. This happens in the dark sea all the time, too. I once almost had a dragon raiding run get landlocked because of one, cause an atlantean ship was right on our tail.

[BiologLOL]

@KVETrain

cause an atlantean ship was right on our tail

Uh, speaking of these. Atlantean ships received no changes, as their whole spawn system is dependent on a player, and they spawn already aggroed onto that player