[Concluded] Ravage, Tidal Wave Tweak

[Maha]

These are now activated.

A correction to functionality as I was insufficiently aware. Tidal Wave did not select randomly among top 10 deserted ship holders. It always selected from the top deserted ship holder (a random ship).

This functionality has been maintained. This means that as long as Sea Bottom is the largest ship owner, all Tidal waves hit Sea Bottom. When this will stop, all Tidal waves will hit the new largest ship owner.

before salvaging was introduced (yes, i am playing this game that long!) i build howkers to get to the 500 ship reward. i'd calculated that it would still bring me a profit while otherwise the 500 ship mission would be outside my reach. in the weeks before salvaging was introduced i noticed that i was a) on the top 10 ship owner list and b) i became a frequent target for tidal waves.

so i am a bit confused, did i have the largest ship out of fleet collection or was TW randomly targeting the top collectors?

[William one eye]

Maha - if you consider most of the players on the leader board run those ships for profit, It would make sense that most are captained and in a fleet. The average player that is going for 500 ships mission may not even have 200 captains yet. So 300 + ships out of fleet would put them as the largest owner of deserted ships.

Shipwreck hunting, has the potential to bring in a larger number of ships than most can afford to crew and has changed the appearance of the ships Leaderboard a bit.

[Captain Jack]

Well, I was with this impression as well. Perhaps I am again with wrong impression. I will check again and let you know of exact functionality. Some randomness is needed in my opinion.

[Admiral Nelson]

Perhaps if the target player has more then 50 ships out of a fleet he then can be targeted by Tidal Wave? ( As the minimum, of course )

If he has over 200 ships out of fleet == Medium target of TW

If he has over 300 ships out of fleet == High chance of TW

It should be based upon, number of fleets outside of a fleet first -- Then little or no crew.

[Captain Jack]

Well, it was random, my mistake. Was never updated - it was like this from day 1.
New version is as promised in the forthcoming updates: top 5 deserted ship owners instead of top 10 (including sea bottom, excluding newcomers).