Shrouded Ghost Spawn Rate

Had 3.3k hours played and never encountered one.
Granted almost half those hours where spent in Hourglass.

Shrouded ghost will lose its special appeal if everyone has a 1/10 chance of getting that meg spawn. (When the criteria is met or they have someone on the crew has has it).
10% seems like a very high percentage.

I imagine some patches they increase/decrease spawn rates in secret.

Also Theres someone in the community who did a deep dive and collected as much info about players who encountered the shrouded to see if there was a pattern that could be spotted in increasing your chances of getting it.

I forgot who they were, last time I heard about them, I think they wanted to release that video before quitting the game...

@ix-indi-xi I understand that but if the hungering one has a 85-90% spawn rate then also the Crested Queen has a 75% chance, while shadow maw has a 40% and ancient terror has a 25% chance and I JUST got my 50th ancient terror yesterday and I’m a day one player.

You have to work really hard to get that 10% catching all the fish takes two months at best, full commendation 3months and maxing out hunter’s call another month.
Your looking at a 4-5 month progression solely on just hunter’s call and then you gotta get 50 kills of EACH Megalodon that could take a year to get IF LUCKY. That 10% would be very hard and ever well earned for those that worked on it.
So I don’t believe it wouldn’t loose it rarity.

So that 10% would make it a good chance at get a shrouded ghost MAYBE once a year if you do your Megalodon spawn locations and taking out at least 3 everyday.

To get where I’m at I had to travel in the biggest spawn locations and at least take out 3-7 a day 5 days a week every month.

i encountered one in hourglass queue and ran to cancel but it was too late

@belphegor1384

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@ix-indi-xi said in Shrouded Ghost Spawn Rate:

10% seems like a very high percentage.

10% chance to spawn? Sure.
......but I think our OP was asking for a 10% multiplier applied to the current spawn rate.
10% multiplier on what is close to zero, is still close to zero.

@jerichocross666 said in Shrouded Ghost Spawn Rate:

BUT i actually taken out 4 shrouded ghosts.

You got 4? Phwoar! Dude I still haven't even seen one, neither has a single player from my guild (there's a lot of us).
Given Meg spawns are pretty low compared to some seasons from the past, I'd hazard a guess you might be stuck on 4 for quite some time....

@smuntface
Exactly my point. A 10% increase from its current rate of spawn would not be a detrimental change plus to get to the 10% you would have to at least work on that for Lucky and minimal of one year that would actually be pretty specially everything else in the game is pretty much easily obtained within a six month time.

@look-behind-you
But the decrease in rarity would not be very substantial for the fact that you would have to have 100% completion for accommodations of the hunters call which, very if you have with also all the megalodons obtained at legendary hunter title, which not very Much people in the community have obtained as well.
So the rarity of people even obtaining all of those criteria requirements on top of the rarity of the shrouded ghost being increased to 10% of its already spawn rate not to 10% itself, but increasing whatever it’s current percent and raising that by 10%.
For example, if it was like .005 with a 10% increase should be .05 so that is not a very big advantage.

I didn't read it as getting it to 1 in 10. But a 10% increase. So, let's, for the save of argument, say the spawnrate is 1 in 100. That's 10 in 1000. A 10% increase would make it 11 in 1000. Still incredibly rare.

As Look Behind Me said, that'd be less rare by definition. But if done right, would only be marginal, and would be an interesting incentive to work on those commendations. As a completion is, I've been slowly working on the last HC comms when I solo. But this would probably motivate me to finish them faster.

With that said, ultimately comms are a goal, and should not be a game changing mechanic. I like the idea, but I wouldn't want it to significantly change the spawn rate either. A very modest bump at best, if at all. Since I don't current spawn rate, I can't say if the numbers the OP proposes are a good idea or not. I just like the concept in theory.

@strangeness exactly that is exactly what I’m trying to put it out as.
Those commendations are hardly touched or considered out of the way for nothing. The hunters call doesn’t get anything for cosmetics at least for doing it. Give the people something that relates to it and up a spawn chance by a minuscule amount for the most rarest thing to give a people better chance to see.

@look-behind-you yeah, if it is that insignificant of a spawn and just giving it one less zero, sure that would be nice but at the same time since the hunters call and it’s mascot, Merrick has had his lower intertwined with a shot to ghost. It would seem pretty cool to have your chance become a little bit Increased while obtaining commendations that takes months to years getting. Basically it would be rewarding the lifers of the game or people that have invested into it.

@look-behind-you
Has anyone even gotten the 5/5 Shrouded commendation.
I knew of a couple that had 4/5 2 years ago.
And also seeing others now that are on their 4th Shrouded Meg.
Not sure if anyone ever gotten that 5/5 though.

I'd prefer no increase to spawn rate. Shrouded Ghost is the last remaining "myth", I'd like to keep it that way. A parallel to the white whale. A story, a legend. Not something like the box of secrets which everyone has seen now by natural occurrence or by the events. I'd rather it remain special.

oooooor, hear me out, increase the shrouded spawnrate during HG battles you are part of by 100%, so HG gets more players. genious.

I absolutely love this idea, I think the math needs some finetuning. I'd increase the absolute spawnrate of the SG up to 1% with the steps you listed. And just take that 1% out of the spawnrate of the Hungering one. That way someone with all meg related commendations completed has an actually reasonably chance to also get the SG. I personally killed 529 megs since captaincy. I think that sheer amount of megs should net someone at least 1 SG. Just so that the game isnt a completionists nightmare.

@ictus-xxi yeah, the 10% increase is referring to 10% increasing of its current level of spawn right. Not an overall 10% but I understand where you’re coming from and even one percent would be understandable compared to what it’s at right now. Even if the ancient terror is, even at 25% chance compared to its other variance even that one is hard to see often. I believe the game has been out long enough that something like that should have at least somewhat of increased bonus for completing a related faction and even increasing the mag bonds during events or something .

I wish they would just hide the commendations until you obtain them, or just remove the comms and grant the rewards anyways. Really undermines the "Myth" argument when any swabbie can open their pirate log and understand that it exists. Grant the figurehead and title when you kill it, nix the commendation.

@axiskronostm I feel understand your point. I believe the hunters call should have voyages that will tell you to go places to track fish instead of just look ant the commendation list and even special variants. Like track down fish in certain spot that also might have a curse on them.

@jerichocross666 It would be interesting if they took a bit of inspiration from The Hungering Deep, and Glitterbeard, and had some sort of mechanic to use multiple crews to organically increase the spawn rate... like do something that would "Drive" the Shrouded Ghost to a specific location, but it would require to do things at multiple islands around the map within a window that required multiple crews to work together to accomplish it.

To prevent this from being an "Alliance Server" exploit, maybe have the initial quest to initate it involve a Dive, and then you have to recruit other crews on the server you end up at.

The whole point behind the Shrouded Ghost is it’s rarity

Everyone always wants things in this game made easier and I don’t think this is the game for those people

Leave it as is.

You have killed 4! You have 3.5k hours and 4 shrouded ghosts. That's more than 1 Shrouded Ghost per thousand hours. I'm not mad or jealous :(

@jojo-buddy-v2 I have a method to getting megs to spawn more and IF I get my 5th shrouded ghost I’ll start to stream or made tip/trick videos on how to increase your Meg i encounters.

The Shrouded Ghost is like the Moby D*ck in this game, increasing the spawn rate would ruin the appeal.

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