Pirate ships are scarce too. where have they gone?
google was not helpfull....
google was not helpfull....
well on ATL i went at all the usual spots and have seen none. Unless there's a weird bug making them invisible only to me...You can also find a lot of them on the seas of Tokuno
merchant ship, pirate ships and plunder beacons all share the same spawn. Meaning if ur hunting plunder beacons and all ur findind are pirates there maybe too many pirates spawned a plunder beacon cant spawn. Kill a few pirates and u may get a beacon to pop. If u cant find merchant might have the same problem too many pirates active u may need to kill a few or do a beacon to get some merchants to pop up.well on ATL i went at all the usual spots and have seen none. Unless there's a weird bug making them invisible only to me...
Answer is go to another facet : they spawn in Tokuno , tram and FelAn Corp here because its 2 years later and the same is happening to me ...
farmed 2 Hooks Shield and seen 0 merchant ships...
read all google had to say, nothing fixes whats happening
I have discovered the exact same thing. There will be no ships around but they will start spawning when the program sees activity in the area. Like Jibbed said, just go back the way you came after a few minutes and you will most likely find some ships to attack.I regularly find none when I go ship hunting but what I find works most of the time is do a small run searching then loop back on myself and go back to where I started. It is like they don’t spawn until someone has been in the area to trigger the spawn and then I find 4+ ships spawning where I began
I am not using rowboat and my thrower kills orcs just fine with no damage to ship. I put ship where your rowboat is and move it when corner orc is killed.When you see a lighthouse, be sure to park your ship far enough away to not take damage from the tower's cannons. Use a rowboat to move in as close as possible at the one of the four corners of the tower. Pets can battle from there and some can even get off the rowboat to fight on the tower orcs themself. Be watchful of the Monsters that spawn on the water around the tower as well. Here I am taking out a tower yesterday, she is a 120 SW/Archer/mage.
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I carefully clear one side then the other doing this. Once both side are clear, I move in with my ship to hit the tower with my bow cannon
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Since all the ores are dead the tower's cannons will not attack my ship and the only attacks are from the tower on my character.
one little slip with your mouse controls and your ship takes damage, I made the mistake of letting guild mates use my ship while I was off line only to see it so badly damage from a tower battle that it took almost 20 min's to limp into land for a full repair, even the emergency repairs could not help it. Now the person that did it, did not fess up, so I did not change the security, but when it happen a 2nd time I was really pissed and delete everyone level to passenger. When that happen I was able to get the name of the person that had done it. That person is still listed as passengerI am not using rowboat and my thrower kills orcs just fine with no damage to ship. I put ship where your rowboat is and move it when corner orc is killed.
I plan to give thrower SW for reaper form and additional 16%SSI but too lazy to do so )