Hello! I used to play on Atlantic and going back and forth on some tokuno islands I used to find a lot of merchant ships. like 50-50 with pirate ships. Since I started playing on Catskills I already farmed my orc ship, and for 5 days I havent found a single merchant ship. Lots of lighthouses and pirate ships but the merchant ships seem to vanished. Any fellow pirate feeling the same?
its like a champ spawn
merchants (wave 1)
pirates (wave 2)
plunderbeacons (wave 3)
you have to get rid of the pirate ships and plunderbeacons
for them to start spawning again
That sounds interesting, I always avoid the Merchant ships but I can tell the bored crew that it is like a champ spawn so they will stay awake while we look for beacons.
But I am... Im not skipping anything... I kill beacons and I scuttle pirate ships .. (just not killing the captain because it takes too long) but I have always done that way
you must kill everything before they respawn.
I have guild mates who will only go for specific ones
and I keep telling them you have to clear everything
my husband will do pirates and merchant ships until he gets burnt out.
so I have spent lot of time doing them with him.
I like to go after the merchant and pirate ships
while others like to do the plunderbeacons.
it could be that there are others doing them before you get on
and/or they despawn before you are in the area
Your theory looks like what happens in the seas.
Go hunting and just find the dang Merchants or Orc ships. Decide to start killing them. Beacons appear and when they do, you can get two close to each other.
So, I am a believer!
Still its super odd since Im killing the beacons so if thats the last tier, merchant ships should spawn... on ATL id get 50-50 pirate ships and merchant ships and Id never kill the pirate captain... now I cant find a single one...