- Players can craft Boarding Rope at '''75 Tailoring Skill'''
- Requires 15 Leather to craft
- The Ship Tillermen will announce when a ship has had its '''Sails or Guns reduced below 33%''' and boarding is now possible
Boarding a Ship
- Double-click Boarding Rope, select who will attempt to board the enemy ship and then target the ship to board
- Players may make boarding attempts on ships every 15 seconds
- Ship-to-ship boarding maximum range is 4 spaces
- Chance to board an enemy ship begins at 0% and scales up to 100% as either it's Sails or Guns approach 0% remaining (uses the lower value of Sails or Guns to determine boarding chance)
- A ship's boarding chance bonus from ship stats and bonuses from upgrades increases the base boarding chance (i.e. a ship with a 25% boarding chance bonus and a normal boarding chance of 50% would have an effective 62.5% chance for boarding success)
- When a boarding attempt is made, all members of the ship are notified and the system message displays the effective boarding success chance of the attempt
What Happens After Boarding a Ship?
- On a successful boarding action, whichever shipmembers you selected from the boarding gump will jump over to the enemy vessel and begin to fight in close quarters
- Ship Crewmembers cannot be directly controlled in combat, and will choose their own combatants in battle, in most cases selecting whomever is closest to them
Enemy crew that are killed will typically have doubloons on their corpses. '''Players are highly encouraged to try to board enemy ships, kill the crew, and loot these doubloons.''' A player who sinks an enemy ship with its crew on board will miss out on collecting these doubloons as well as any items in that ship's hold.