Welp it looks like crashes are the only source of this error.
simply exiting out of the game can cause it too. Just lost another pirate to this glitch simply by hitting the X
I'm well well aware this glitch is be working on but i just wanna say its got serious potential to do terrible damage this game's community. More and more players are getting higher and higher lvls in the game and basically losing all that progress is enough to make someone quit. I've already had one of my lvl 50 friends lose that pirate and he hasn't played since. Potentially, we could really start losing people because of the crazy uncertainty of this glitch. It could happen to the next time you log off, a month from now, or never. But its frequency is what the issue is. For people who crash on the game alot the chances of this happening to them skyrockets. Potentially, this easily can become a deterrent to play the game because you'll never know when you're gonna lose your pirate resulting in a loss of players. For me now knowing how frequent this is, I just don't want to take the risk of losing my lvl 44 pirate. That's too many hours to just throw away. I know its sounds like fear mongering but I had to get this off my mind and i think it needs to be said and when you take it at face value its bad.
I was wondering if this thread could be locked since pretty everything to say on the matter has run its course. There's really nothing new to state so i don't see the point of leaving it open. Since more people are going to run into this glitch they can always just search up 35% crash and this should show up and find out what they need to know.
Thanks!