Merchant Alliance Commendation

@capt-mert06

Some tips here : https://www.seaofthieves.com/community/forums/topic/177207/merchant-forager-and-black-powder-merchant-achievements-basically-impossible-to-get/22

In short: try finding the books that give the quests as it seems to have a higber chance of getting one you want than the bottles do.

very difficult and time-consuming tasks in my opinion.

as we should have difficult and time consuming tasks. idk why players are against this.

@burnbacon sagte in Merchant Alliance Commendation:

very difficult and time-consuming tasks in my opinion.

as we should have difficult and time consuming tasks. idk why players are against this.

That would be because they are way harder to get now, especially the kegs.
The time spent on this is at least 10 times higher.
If they bring back kegs in the animal voyages, so we can get 8 per voyage (as it used to be) then it would be fine.

@burnbacon said in Merchant Alliance Commendation:

very difficult and time-consuming tasks in my opinion.

as we should have difficult and time consuming tasks. idk why players are against this.

This game is chock-full of time consuming tasks. Seemingly endless commendations that ask you to do the same thing hundreds of times.

If anything, this game needs more content that is not tedious and repetitive to the point of actually hating the content by the time you've completed the commendation.

@lem0n-curry said in Merchant Alliance Commendation:

@capt-mert06

Some tips here : https://www.seaofthieves.com/community/forums/topic/177207/merchant-forager-and-black-powder-merchant-achievements-basically-impossible-to-get/22

In short: try finding the books that give the quests as it seems to have a higber chance of getting one you want than the bottles do.

While that is one way to get them, it's still painfully slow progression rooted completely in RNG.

Cannonball/Wood/Fruit Crates and Gunpowder Barrels should absolutely be added as a component of the other Merchant voyages.

@sweetsandman said in Merchant Alliance Commendation:

@lem0n-curry said in Merchant Alliance Commendation:

@capt-mert06

Some tips here : https://www.seaofthieves.com/community/forums/topic/177207/merchant-forager-and-black-powder-merchant-achievements-basically-impossible-to-get/22

In short: try finding the books that give the quests as it seems to have a higber chance of getting one you want than the bottles do.

While that is one way to get them, it's still painfully slow progression rooted completely in RNG.

It has always been rooted in RNG, and IMHO that shouldn't change.

Cannonball/Wood/Fruit Crates and Gunpowder Barrels should absolutely be added as a component of the other Merchant voyages.

They should increase the chance of coming across them in bottles, perhaps add a chance to get them as MA Emmissary voyages, reintroduce maps in barrels (perhaps on Sea posts only).

@lem0n-curry said in Merchant Alliance Commendation:

It has always been rooted in RNG, and IMHO that shouldn't change.

Not to this extent. They used to appear on Fauna voyages pretty consistently before the re-work.

Cannonball/Wood/Fruit Crates and Gunpowder Barrels should absolutely be added as a component of the other Merchant voyages.

They should increase the chance of coming across them in bottles, perhaps add a chance to get them as MA Emmissary voyages, reintroduce maps in barrels (perhaps on Sea posts only).

Maps back in barrels would be neat.

Adding them as a function of the MA Emissary Quest is a neat idea. It would encourage more Emissary play, that's for sure. They'd have to add a couple of them to each Emissary Quest (maybe one of each?), though, or they'd just seem like a sad afterthought 😂