Pirate Raids are Too Rare Now

[Hornete]

11 minutes ago, Just-guy said:

It doesn't? Then what does it do?

It increases the chance for a raid to happen, 2x for the More option, and x5 for the Tons option. Which I mean, would accomplish the same sorta thing as a frequency change I would imagine.

[Cloakingsumo198]

2 minutes ago, Hornete said:

It increases the chance for a raid to happen, 2x for the More option, and x5 for the Tons option. Which I mean, would accomplish the same sorta thing as a frequency change I would imagine.

So at tons does that just make them a guarantee spawn when the timer ticks down?

[Hornete]

18 minutes ago, Cloakingsumo198 said:

So at tons does that just make them a guarantee spawn when the timer ticks down?

Guranteed in the inner ring, 50% chance in the outer and middle rings.

[Frosty_Mentos]

Funny enough I got couple of monkey raids but one of them during crab king fight and other I kinda failed to manage to get them myself. Still sailing around passively just for the raids is annoying cause I never get them when doing that xd.

[GelatinousCube]

On console I really wanted the polly Rogers hat which I didn't get from my first buried treasure from the first raid I finally got so I turned raids up to more in world settings and decided to just clear seastacks near moon quay island until I got another.

After maybe one day of clearing sea stacks I then got 3 raids all within minutes of each other the second appearing almost instantly after the first. It was actually pretty brutal and to avoid the Wonkey curse on the third raid (I briefly visited moon quay after the second raid because it was so close) I used panflute (with two monkeys on board my ship...) and just high tailed it back to the nearest shore. 

After that experience and getting the pirate flag and polly Rogers blueprint from the second treasure I turned them back down to default.

Really seems like the entire raid nerf that everyone is complaining about can be very easily fixed with the world settings.. you want them more frequent just turn them to more on console and if you are on pc and really want them to be super brutal put them on lots. Entire issue that is so hot right now solved just like that. It would be nice to have a setting to increase their radius (I personally would probably never use it) for those who want that too but honestly doesn't seem like the massive issue people are making it out to be unless I just got super unlucky. 

On 7/12/2022 at 11:50 PM, Mike23Ua said:

It’s simple, the pirate boats flying the yellow banana flag would only spawn near moon quay island, so if you saw Banana flags you’d know your close to finding the island- meanwhile the other flag would just be stray pirates found anywhere on the oceans.

Definitely a neat idea however the powder monkeys aren't native to the constant and are from whatever world or dimension is on the other side of that portal so stray pirates not from moon quay don't make much sense. Unless I guess they are from moon quay but have gone rogue/abandoned their queen..