When you lost connection for a few seconds and reconnected it caused a timing glitch. The game is remembering you in both places in time, as this game pretty much operates in 'real time' mode, It had a hiccup and wasn't sure which one was the real you so it just kept both. It happened to me too and I came back on my ship riding my mount (which was really cool) and my other, identical pirate was still there standing at the wheel of my ship. Only the newest one responded to commands but for a while I had great fun taking screenshots of my new twin. My motionless doppelganger was rising and sinking to waves that were in a different time of my new 'real' pirate, so we both looked like we were riding invisible teeter tooters (showing my age here ) . I had great fun with it until I got off my ship and then my long lost twin became lost again. Yea its a glitch but a really fun one.

Chrissy Th'Blesser on Jul 9, 2013 wrote:

When you lost connection for a few seconds and reconnected it caused a timing glitch. The game is remembering you in both places in time, as this game pretty much operates in 'real time' mode, It had a hiccup and wasn't sure which one was the real you so it just kept both. It happened to me too and I came back on my ship riding my mount (which was really cool) and my other, identical pirate was still there standing at the wheel of my ship. Only the newest one responded to commands but for a while I had great fun taking screenshots of my new twin. My motionless doppelganger was rising and sinking to waves that were in a different time of my new 'real' pirate, so we both looked like we were riding invisible teeter tooters (showing my age here ) . I had great fun with it until I got off my ship and then my long lost twin became lost again. Yea its a glitch but a really fun one.

Thanks, now I know why this happened.

This glitch has happened to me too during the times that I had to go somewhere in the game fast .see you in the spiral