General•pirate location glitch

  • I noticed that sometimes, the pirate blimps will sync out. This tends to happen after a Pirate re-spawns, but it has happened at least once with no apparent reason.

    What I mean by sync out:

    Let's say, I am approaching a pirate I have targeted. The distance is going down on the radar. But when the radar still shows 20-25, I see the pirate right on top of me. Or, radar shows 0-5 and I see the pirate to the north-east, about 15 off.

    It is still possible to fight, using the radar to adjust your trajectory and fighting blind. In fact, I would suggest adding that in harder levels: a smoke screen or some such, hiding part of the screen or making it harder to see :D

    Of course, the radar would need to be especially reliable, if that feature was to be added in.

  • One case in which this has happened to me is if I close the browser while in a game, and get back in. The pirate avatars were synced out, and moved even slower then they usually do.

    I tested if it was the radar or the pirate that was off by targeting a cannon tower. Radar showed 0 when I was on top of the tower but 29 when I was on top of the pirate.

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    Other bug: If you hit the edge of the map, the letter controls won't work. You have to double click on the map to move away. You can then use the letter controls again. It's because of getting stuck that way that I closed the game and got a massive sync out of 29..

  • Yea, I've experienced out-of-sync pirates too. Although I can usually pinpoint their location by using the range-meter as a "detector"

  • Much less sync out after the update, almost nil infact, though I encountered one 'misplaced' pirate. Happened when he respawned on me, seems that he appears before being functional. Took a few seconds for him to start moving, by which time he was synced out by about 5.

    No more getting stuck to edges, yay :)

    But, I seems to have another problem, probably related to pirate's respawn.

    The 'Next NPC' and 'Closest NPC' buttons probably need checked, they both work and fail at times. Seems to me that they try to target pirates that I've killed and have yet to respawn. Sometimes 'Closest' won't work until after I've used 'Next', sometimes it's the other way around. Clicking them a few times get them started, but yeah, I do think they are trying to target dead pirates.

  • "One case in which this has happened to me is if I close the browser while in a game, and get back in. The pirate avatars were synced out, and moved even slower then they usually do."

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    "I died, and used the refresh button." (Note: this is during the 2 accounts mess posted in Blimp Selection thread.)

    When I got back in, the mini map was frozen and my cannonball number was not showing.

    The type was conquer, I was still getting points and the game ended in a natural way, with a screen showing my winnings and a button to bring me to lobby.

    The pirates were not lagging, but the control panel and the mini map were not cooperating.

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