Mr Kemosabe Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 As I understood, even BR battles were locked after 2 minutes - I was fighting a Prussian player Shield Method off Shroud Cay in his Surprise. He ran for 25 minutes chaining my sails until a La Req joined battle. La Requin was Russian from BF clan. Player name Mechanixkms. I heard his cannon fire at 1 hour and 5 minutes left on battle clock looked towards shroud and there he was. There were two lag spikes during battle as is common when players enter your battle as as is habit I checked tab and there were no players even though the 2 minute timer was long expired. Then all of a sudden, voila, enemy La Requin and RIP Purple Agile Surprise. It seems there is a glitch or a hack? Or possibly I don't understand advanced mechanics for entering battles well after they start, in which case I would like to know how to do this so I can get into many more fight instead of being locked out. Please let me know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hethwill Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Was it in Patrol Zone ? Patrol Zone battles stay open for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoothie Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 4 minutes ago, Hethwill said: Patrol Zone battles stay open for a long time. Could you be bit more precise? What is a long time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hethwill Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 3 minutes ago, Smoothie said: Could you be bit more precise? What is a long time? Think 20 minutes at least, maybe more. Will find the precise developers post regarding that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrubbyZebra Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 1 minute ago, Bryan Von Gyldenloeve said: from that thread: Quote Working as intended we increased the timer to 10 mins to allow bigger battles to generate. After 10 mins entry is only allowed for the weak side using usual OW ROE so if they truly entered at 1:05 left on the timer, then something is off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hethwill Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Okay, let @Ink check the logs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hethwill Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 Sure thing, thanks for looking. Sort of early busy Friday here at the office so wasn't really searching right away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liq Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Hethwill said: Was it in Patrol Zone ? Patrol Zone battles stay open for a long time. That port is shroud cay. Battle is south of it. There is only a PZ north of shroud cay and wayyy south at deadmans cay. So cannot be a PZ battle. The issue is most likely the enemy undercrewing - his rank is low (lower BR than a surps 120) - it will still show 120 in TAB in battle. But in the OW the "actual" BR depending on how much it is being undercrewed is displayed. Must have been undercrewing enough for it to open the battle (+13% BR difference) But even then, battles close after 20 min (i think?) no matter the BR for everyone. Are you sure he joined after 25 min? Edited February 7, 2020 by Liq 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ink Posted February 7, 2020 Share Posted February 7, 2020 The case is investigated, no bugs or hacks found. @Mr Kemosabe The Prussian Surprise that you attacked was under half crew only (Leutnant zur See rank provides 120 crew only). Actual battle rating of the Surprise was about 60 BR only, so Prussian Side was a weaker side and the battle remained open for the weaker side. After 12 minutes (time is checked by logs) from the start, a Russian player was able to join due to BR difference. The issue is only that full BRs are shown in combats (via Tab menu) regardless of actual crew on ships - it might be improved at later stages 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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