Clearing the air

@weedstar-deluxe

It would appear so. Every ship seems to have some percent chance of encountering the kraken out in the open water. One thing that may "increase" your chance is being around other ships while out sailing in that deep water simply because each vessel has that chance. It doesn't multiply your personal chance of encountering it, just puts more tickets in the lottery if that makes sense.

@Just-DPack
Thank you for doing the Pirate Lord's work. I frequently explain these same points to people I meet in open and closed crews. Reminds me of the misinformation surrounding Destiny's "Spirit Bloom chest" from the Vault of Glass raid. For anyone not familiar, a rumor spread that if you opened this materials chest it would remove the entire raid team's chance of receiving super rare "exotic" weapons from a chest just down the path. No matter how many times this was disproven people still believed it, and still do, 4+ years later.

You can shoot a skellie in the head and make him drop his barrel... so there's that.

@golgari-hexmage said in Clearing the air:

Reminds me of the misinformation surrounding Destiny's "Spirit Bloom chest" from the Vault of Glass raid. For anyone not familiar, a rumor spread that if you opened this materials chest it would remove the entire raid team's chance of receiving super rare "exotic" weapons from a chest just down the path. No matter how many times this was disproven people still believed it, and still do, 4+ years later.

I fell for it every time

@marsmayflower said in Clearing the air:

You can shoot a skellie in the head and make him drop his barrel... so there's that.

This is a fair point, but I think OP was referring to bonus headshot damage. Depending on voyage level or the skeleton's current HP, instances where this happens can understandably be misleading at first. Repeat encounters over time and using different tiers of voyages soon make it clear that it's more of an exception than a rule though.

@marsmayflower said

I fell for it every time

Yeah, that was a weird rumor, and the secrecy around the raid only fueled its power. At least we can look back and laugh now though.

Ah but my piratey garb and moustache goatee thing does increase my charisma on the seas while not wearing a shirt and flying the Athena flag! Lol

@just-dpack said in Clearing the air:

Now that the Kraken's back, it seems the common misconceptions surrounding it have returned as well So I'm here to debunk them, as well as other falsehoods that keep popping up.

• Nothing will increase the spawn rate of Krakens. Not Athena's chests, not fort loot and/or keys, not "deep stacks", nothing.
• Personally, I haven't heard claims of this working on Megs or Roamers yet, but I'm throwing them in here, too. Just in case.
• Red flashes on skull/ship clouds is nothing more than a lighting effect from the sun coming up, or about to set. There is no indication of progress to be gleaned from the clouds.
• Music doesn't stop the Chest of Sorrows from crying.
• Grog doesn't help you steer better in a storm.
• Low health, broken legs, and/or bells do not increase the spawn rate of sharks.
• None of the tool & weapon skins offer any benefits over the others whatsoever. X compass doesn't work better in a storm. Y bucket doesn't hold more water. Z spyglass doesn't see farther.
• There is no such thing as a "headshot" in this game. Technically, you CAN shoot someone in the head, it just doesn't do any extra damage, or indicate that you've done so in any way.

Most of these are Raindances. The only reason people believe in Raindances, is because they dance until it rains (or because they just happen to start dancing when it was about to rain anyways).

Yeah..... And you look funny. So there's me raining on your parade!

@just-dpack Sarcasm..... you rain on everyone's superstitions, and I call you out sarcastically as looking funny..... It's a joke son, pragmatic as you are, you missed that part.

@just-dpack The only one I am not so sure about would be the cloud. I have always believed, and seem to confirm that the red flashing simply means there is a boat sailing in the area of the cloud. Not even in the "zone", just close enough for the ships to start flashing red. Same as with a skull fort. I have played with this some and found that the range of this flashing is much farther out than it takes to start hearing the music. The skelly ship flags seem to have an even greater range than the skull forts.

Or maybe I am wrong, but I have seen the red flashes during the day, night, sunset and sunrise. And the only constant that I have found, is someone is either sailing towards, or within range of the ships/skull fort. You are correct, it is not an indicator of progression, as you don't even need to be sailing at the cloud, simply passing through to your next island, but still trip the red light.

The next one I am not so sure on, and that is the white flashing lights. The lights flash rapidly white, I believe this happens when you start to hear the music and are in the zone. Though I need more testing to prove this. As for the red lights, the distance is quite far, several islands away. I could of course be wrong about this. But with some limited testing it seems to be true.

@golgari-hexmage said in Clearing the air:

@marsmayflower said in Clearing the air:

You can shoot a skellie in the head and make him drop his barrel... so there's that.

This is a fair point, but I think OP was referring to bonus headshot damage. Depending on voyage level or the skeleton's current HP, instances where this happens can understandably be misleading at first. Repeat encounters over time and using different tiers of voyages soon make it clear that it's more of an exception than a rule though.

They also drop the barrels if you shoot them in the foot, or even the back. That's at least been my experience the few times I haven't missed and hit the barrel and blown up half my crew #notasniper

@SprungNickel427 Can you blame me? It wasn't a very obvious joke. You just burst in, & said I look funny. There's no such thing as "tone of text", so your sarcasm didn't convey at all. I sincerely mistook you for just another troll making rude comments.

It really doesn't make any sense, either. Until I read your explanation just now, I had no idea where my looks, or parades even factored into it. You gotta set up your punchlines before you deliver them, man. If you just pull them out of thin air like that, you're going to find them going over a LOT of people's heads. Jokes aren't funny when you have to explain them. That's like... rule #1.

It's a joke son, but I guess you're too Short and it went right over your head!