Talk:Pirate Chest/@comment-77.251.199.102-20110707130630/@comment-4102115-20110710141310

No that's not quite true. You can roll back through the history for the revisions. It was originally written along the lines of "it seems that the chest will disappear after about 5 hours if not collected and reappears about 12 hours later". It was written stating that exact data was not collected and that was the current best-guess. As wiki's go, as data was collated, that original editor updated his findings as he took closer note of exact timings. The first update was that when he openned the chest, he noted the time. When he saw it reappear he noted it was exactly 5 hours later. He noticed that no matter what time it was collected, it next reappeared exactly 5 hours later. He then noted that if he went to sleep and then woke up and it wasn't there, it next reappeared 12 hours after the last time he saw it appear. So he estimated a time that it must have stayed there and then "sunk" uncollected for it to next reappear. At this point the only exact data was the time it stayed floating before sinking. The only way to do this is to time it appearing (and we can predict exactly when that would happen), and then sit and watch it and not collect it and watch it actually sink. He did that. He timed it at exactly 2 hours. I also did that. I verified his 2 hours. And then after sinking, it reappeared exactly 5 hours later. So all the guessing and speculating from the data gathered was summarised into verified timings. There is NO penalty. It ALWAYS appears exactly 5 hours after it last disappears - whether it disappears because you collect it or it disappears after 2 hours sinking. The 12 hours time comes from - if you see it at 10:00pm and collect it at 10:00pm, it will then reappear 3:00am and stay there until 5:00am. If you are asleep and miss it, it sinks at 5:00am. It then reappears exactly 5 hours later at 10:00am. ie. exactly 12 hours after YOU last saw it. But it was the same 5 hours after it last disappeared. Just because you didn;t see it didn't mean it didn't appear and it didn't mean there was any penalty. So no - nothing as removed. Users did not have different findings. Rough estimates were simply updated to exact findings. Just like CMONYALL suggested through accumulated evidence - that it would appear most definately that a piastre could be had at any level, lets update the wiki to that effect. In the future we would just see the update, and we would not say that someone removed the maybe 1 piastre on a certain level because other players had different findings" - no, we'd just say the data was simplified accurately. Simple eh?