Traps despawn time

  • Astralenigma
    Ship Mate

    I don't know but the current despawn time for traps seem to be kinda small, from what I can tell it's around 10 mins on a ship.
    Has anyone else tried them yet?

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  • BurnBacon
    Vanguard
    Insider

    I can tell it's around 10 mins on a ship

    And that is too small?
    What about buried traps?

  • Europa4033
    Master
    Insider

    @astralenigma said in Traps despawn time:

    I don't know but the current despawn time for traps seem to be kinda small, from what I can tell it's around 10 mins on a ship.
    Has anyone else tried them yet?

    From rumors I've read, the times seem to vary from several minutes to over half an hour.

  • HiradC
    Commander
    Insider

    @astralenigma I've had some despawn after seconds. Not sure it's intentional outside of once further traps are placed and there's a limit

  • Astralenigma
    Ship Mate

    @burnbacon
    Haven't tried it just felt too small because that was the time for me to set it up explore the island I was in quickly and then reach the next island.
    When there's a commendation tied to have someone set off a trap rigged with a red flare on your ship it would seem it was designed to warn you when your ship got invaded while you were on the island.
    If I'm going to be using traps as a boarder alert system I'm going to need a lot more traps.
    But yeah trap despawn time seems inconsistent too.

  • Ligar Zero 7628
    Rogue
    Insider

    Placed a trap on my gally went over to my alliance sloop to help set off the trap and by the time I’d gotten back it was gone so it’s less than 10 mins

  • MisereNZ
    Master
    Insider

    I had traps despawn on the BB after 10 to 30min. I thought it was from the skellies set them off at first but now its clear that this is the reason. I see no reason why they should despawm at all. Maybe 10 min aftet you leave the server and not come back.

  • Dokkur Firewing
    Sailor

    Honestly. The way traps are now, they are utterly pointless. I put two traps down on my ship. And by the time I had loaded them with a blunderbombs they de-spawned. They literally were down for only 30 seconds. And both de-spawned at the same time.

  • Astralenigma
    Ship Mate

    @ligar-zero-7628 said in Traps despawn time:

    Placed a trap on my gally went over to my alliance sloop to help set off the trap and by the time I’d gotten back it was gone so it’s less than 10 mins

    I recorded it and between the frame I set the trap and the last frame I saw it, it took 10 mins. At the eleventh minute the trap wasn't there anymore.
    That was a test where I hadn't set any more traps.
    Maybe there's a bug with the despawn timer it's the first time they spawn something that is created by the player that requires a despawn timer.

  • KlutchxKay
    Legend
    Insider

    A mod in the discord told me it’s a known issue and unintentional. Seems that the traps being limited to 2 per player and may be despawning random traps when new ones are thrown anywhere in the world, causing variable despawn times.

  • Veronik5682
    Seafarer
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    @klutchxkay
    That could make sense.
    I had traps I placed in the same area when I had my own timer suspicions.
    Some traps would last a long time, others would literally despawn in seconds.

    Either its randomised.
    Or bugged.
    Either way I just use traps for the bug usage, never served me any decent way in actual PvP sadly.

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