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Pirate Apprentice
I remember in POTCO you could use powder keg, throw cold shot over it, and you would have a layer of ice get stuck there. This created a slowdown effect of ships for the rest of the game. It also did some damage to the ships, but it was mostly used for the slowdown effect. Was that meant to be intentional? POTCO never fixed it. I am sure they were aware of it. I'll admit, they were lax on a lot of glitch issues, but it never occurred to me that that was not intentional. Because of the crazy amount of lag that would make the ships skip, I always thought the ice glitch was necessary to get far in the game.
On Monday night, someone told me cannon defense was working, so I wanted to try it. A group of us were going to try to get in together, but only one us could get in at a time. I made it in by myself and decided to just go solo. I didn't think I'd get very far, but I wanted to try it anyway. I instantly thought to use ice glitch the way I remember it, thinking because the game is in beta or whatever and I'm probably super rusty, it was going to be very difficult to get through waves by myself. Except when I tried to do the ice glitch the way I remembered it, it didn't work. Instead, it turned out all I had to do was shoot cold shot, and the ice just stuck. This didn't slow the ships down, but it did a massive amount of damage, especially when the ice was stacked. I will admit, that was definitely an exploit. I barely had to do any work once I got enough ice down. I was going through waves without even having to pay attention to the screen. Once I got the revenant ram at like wave 98 or whatever, I quit the game, but I could have kept going on for who knows how long.
However, the very next morning, there was apparently an update and the ice glitch got fixed. I wanted to take advantage of this exploit on another pirate, so I started a cannon defense game early in the morning, and solo'd it. Except this time, the ice glitch didn't work. The ice was disappearing the way it should, but it still didn't slow them down. I figured, OK, fine, I'll do it the legal way. It's not like I'm not good at cannon defense, I can get pretty far by myself. I got up in there early in the morning and got to wave 99 by myself before I got disconnected. I would have kept going until I got revenant ram. I spent five hours sitting down, hungry, hands cramped, just trying to get the revenant ram. I didn't get the revenant ram I was looking for, but I got a lot of other cool rams. Now, bare in mind that fire storm didn't work the right way (it would only hit one ship), cold shot didn't work the right way (didn't slow them), and powder keg only worked about half the time (you would shoot it into the water and it wouldn't appear). I relied on my aim, using round shot all the way through. I earned every one of those rams that I got.
How can TLOPO staff justify taking away everyone's cannon rams away even though they may have been obtained in different and "legal" ways? Was the ice glitch the reason they did this? Or was there more than one factor that played a part?
On Monday night, someone told me cannon defense was working, so I wanted to try it. A group of us were going to try to get in together, but only one us could get in at a time. I made it in by myself and decided to just go solo. I didn't think I'd get very far, but I wanted to try it anyway. I instantly thought to use ice glitch the way I remember it, thinking because the game is in beta or whatever and I'm probably super rusty, it was going to be very difficult to get through waves by myself. Except when I tried to do the ice glitch the way I remembered it, it didn't work. Instead, it turned out all I had to do was shoot cold shot, and the ice just stuck. This didn't slow the ships down, but it did a massive amount of damage, especially when the ice was stacked. I will admit, that was definitely an exploit. I barely had to do any work once I got enough ice down. I was going through waves without even having to pay attention to the screen. Once I got the revenant ram at like wave 98 or whatever, I quit the game, but I could have kept going on for who knows how long.
However, the very next morning, there was apparently an update and the ice glitch got fixed. I wanted to take advantage of this exploit on another pirate, so I started a cannon defense game early in the morning, and solo'd it. Except this time, the ice glitch didn't work. The ice was disappearing the way it should, but it still didn't slow them down. I figured, OK, fine, I'll do it the legal way. It's not like I'm not good at cannon defense, I can get pretty far by myself. I got up in there early in the morning and got to wave 99 by myself before I got disconnected. I would have kept going until I got revenant ram. I spent five hours sitting down, hungry, hands cramped, just trying to get the revenant ram. I didn't get the revenant ram I was looking for, but I got a lot of other cool rams. Now, bare in mind that fire storm didn't work the right way (it would only hit one ship), cold shot didn't work the right way (didn't slow them), and powder keg only worked about half the time (you would shoot it into the water and it wouldn't appear). I relied on my aim, using round shot all the way through. I earned every one of those rams that I got.
How can TLOPO staff justify taking away everyone's cannon rams away even though they may have been obtained in different and "legal" ways? Was the ice glitch the reason they did this? Or was there more than one factor that played a part?
Spent an hour fishing to get mine. Got a cheap one today in ship loot-hope it stays in my inventory til i get a better one. Did any other weapons get taken away as well? I got that god awful ugly (but effective) three barrel pistol when I completed the quest and it is gone too?!