These chest look nice but seem to sell for around 200gold consistently.
Rare... you got to do something about this. Between the "grind" the monotony and now the soul crushing values on these items.......
Cmon man. I really feel like you should take 1 day away from development and have the Entire team just play this game for a day, and report back.
I got a message in a bottle yesterday for a 50 cannonball crate to galleons grave which I was already headed to for a merchants turn in- nice. Thought it’d be a good extra chunk of money/rep.
Nope.
259 gold and a sliver of rep smaller than the size of my active SoT friends list.
And I was out 50 cannonballs.
@leqwack said in Marauders chest the new Castaways:
I got a message in a bottle yesterday for a 50 cannonball crate to galleons grave which I was already headed to for a merchants turn in- nice. Thought it’d be a good extra chunk of money/rep.
Nope.
259 gold and a sliver of rep smaller than the size of my active SoT friends list.
And I was out 50 cannonballs.
Yup those crates are almost worthless and can sell for even less. It's not worth doing unless you have a voyage for it or you are logging out for the night. The items have more value sitting your your storage barrels.
I normally fill them up and leave them on tables in taverns for the next crew that logs on.
@xgodkevin said in Marauders chest the new Castaways:
this could be the devs way of buying time til more content is ready, especially legendary contact and beyond. Slows people down big time.
I mean most likely we wont see a content updated until the end of may and thats assuming it doesnt get delayed.
@rdizz They did do something. They nerfed the heck out of all of the loot, to the point that you rarely get over 1000 even for grogs and sorrows. Even villainous skulls are dropping below the 1000 line regularly for me now.
Makes me sad. Could have grinded my way to legend but decided to have fun as they suggested and now I get this rubbish.
Lucky for me I have a lot of fun and the coin is just a bonus. My partner and I will be playing for a long time to come.
@daveyjay1984 said in Marauders chest the new Castaways:
@rdizz They did do something. They nerfed the heck out of all of the loot, to the point that you rarely get over 1000 even for grogs and sorrows. Even villainous skulls are dropping below the 1000 line regularly for me now.
Makes me sad. Could have grinded my way to legend but decided to have fun as they suggested and now I get this rubbish.
Lucky for me I have a lot of fun and the coin is just a bonus. My partner and I will be playing for a long time to come.
How about the fact that the chest of sorrows isnt even worth picking up anymore. I got the laden with treasure achievement with one of these on board my sloop and it sold for 800. I should have just heaved it over board for the trouble it caused me and really gave it something to cry about.
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@coconut-monkey6 said in Marauders chest the new Castaways:
I wouldn't have minded a gold nerf if they boosted the XP gain a bit on the other end. This just feels like a kick in the gonads
1 step forward 2 steps back.
@rdizz I feel like we are agreeing but your message doesn't feel like an agreement. I'm not sure.
Either way I agree with you and think the above post that this is likely a ploy to reduce the number of legends being made and stretch the content they have a little further, may be on the money. Or off of it... Hahaha.
@daveyjay1984 said in Marauders chest the new Castaways:
@rdizz I feel like we are agreeing but your message doesn't feel like an agreement. I'm not sure.
Either way I agree with you and think the above post that this is likely a ploy to reduce the number of legends being made and stretch the content they have a little further, may be on the money. Or off of it... Hahaha.
It's an agreement lol.
I also love sot and I'm having fun but these chest values have got to change. In reality not so much the value but the range of the RNG value.
@coconut-monkey6 I often feel like gold and reputation (I still stand by this being a different mechanic to XP) are directly linked and so we've gotten a nerf on the Reputation as well.
@daveyjay1984 said in Marauders chest the new Castaways:
@coconut-monkey6 I often feel like gold and reputation (I still stand by this being a different mechanic to XP) are directly linked and so we've gotten a nerf on the Reputation as well.
Reputation gains are based on the value of the item turned in.
You need so much gold to level.
@fragmania13 There were some complaints during tests that the chests didn't pay enough to make it feel worthwhile to search for them, so they increased the reward and the price of items to match. Then after release they have slowly reduced the value of rewards for the chests. My theory, as stated above, is that they are trying to slow people's progression and ability to buy all items.
I'm lucky to have the items I want and the extra rewards are now savings until I eventually get to Legend and can buy some pretties.
Valid point, your right it's the price of items in the shops..
I agree there should some high end expensive items that are rare or unique but there should be plenty of low end cheap items for people to purchase as well, with some variety added on where you purchase them from so not every vendor is the same.
@daveyjay1984 said in Marauders chest the new Castaways:
@rdizz I feel like we are agreeing but your message doesn't feel like an agreement. I'm not sure.
Either way I agree with you and think the above post that this is likely a ploy to reduce the number of legends being made and stretch the content they have a little further, may be on the money. Or off of it... Hahaha.
I 100% agree with you, they are just making everything they can a MAJOR grind to cover their a***s from the lack of content (especially when legend is reached - where the game supposedly begins(just even more grinding and even less content)) and try to string everyone else along til they can fix their bare bones AAA alpha release they sold us. sorry I take that last sentence back, the game was better in alpha. Pathetic, deceitful, and PURE LAZY a*s way of doing things from a AAA company backed by Microsoft.
@noruas said in Marauders chest the new Castaways:
@daveyjay1984 said in Marauders chest the new Castaways:
@rdizz I feel like we are agreeing but your message doesn't feel like an agreement. I'm not sure.
Either way I agree with you and think the above post that this is likely a ploy to reduce the number of legends being made and stretch the content they have a little further, may be on the money. Or off of it... Hahaha.I 100% agree with you, they are just making everything they can a MAJOR grind to cover their a***s from the lack of content (especially when legend is reached - where the game supposedly begins(just even more grinding and even less content)) and try to string everyone else along til they can fix their bare bones AAA alpha release they sold us. sorry I take that last sentence back, the game was better in alpha. Pathetic, deceitful, and PURE LAZY a*s way of doing things from a AAA company backed by Microsoft.
You're kidding, right? Alpha didn't have nearly as much as the release. Plus we have our first major content update coming up very soon.
I agree it sucks that gold and rep have gotten harder to get, though I do think it's to discourage people from spending all of their time grinding to get to Pirate Legend. Partly because there's not much "endgame" content yet and partly because mindless grinding isn't the playstyle they intended.
@blam320 said in Marauders chest the new Castaways:
@noruas said in Marauders chest the new Castaways:
@daveyjay1984 said in Marauders chest the new Castaways:
@rdizz I feel like we are agreeing but your message doesn't feel like an agreement. I'm not sure.
Either way I agree with you and think the above post that this is likely a ploy to reduce the number of legends being made and stretch the content they have a little further, may be on the money. Or off of it... Hahaha.I 100% agree with you, they are just making everything they can a MAJOR grind to cover their a***s from the lack of content (especially when legend is reached - where the game supposedly begins(just even more grinding and even less content)) and try to string everyone else along til they can fix their bare bones AAA alpha release they sold us. sorry I take that last sentence back, the game was better in alpha. Pathetic, deceitful, and PURE LAZY a*s way of doing things from a AAA company backed by Microsoft.
You're kidding, right? Alpha didn't have nearly as much as the release. Plus we have our first major content update coming up very soon.
I agree it sucks that gold and rep have gotten harder to get, though I do think it's to discourage people from spending all of their time grinding to get to Pirate Legend. Partly because there's not much "endgame" content yet and partly because mindless grinding isn't the playstyle they intended.
Alpha had way more ship cosmetics. The only thing it didn't have was the merchant voyages or animals. But more cosmetics.
Regardless on how its SUPPOSED to be played they added a level/rep mechanic so people play with that in mind. It's there and its demoralizing at times.
@rdizz Guess its bad RNG for you mate. I would say i usually gets 350-450 for the Marauder!
Just unlucky.
@sorston said in Marauders chest the new Castaways:
@rdizz Guess its bad RNG for you mate. I would say i usually gets 350-450 for the Marauder!
Just unlucky.
IMO it's not unlucky, it's p**s poor lazy a*s programming.
@sorston said in Marauders chest the new Castaways:
@rdizz Guess its bad RNG for you mate. I would say i usually gets 350-450 for the Marauder!
Just unlucky.
Maybe I need to make a sacrifice to the RNG gods.
Shark bait cove comes to mind.
@noruas said in Marauders chest the new Castaways:
@sorston said in Marauders chest the new Castaways:
@rdizz Guess its bad RNG for you mate. I would say i usually gets 350-450 for the Marauder!
Just unlucky.
IMO it's not unlucky, it's p**s poor lazy a*s programming.
Maybe, maybe not.
Half of me likes the fact that I dont know the exact value of each chest. I feel like that would be worse. But the other half feels like the pure range of the values is downright off... and makes 0 sense most of the time.
How I feel it should be
Cast: 100-300
Sea: 300-400
Mar: 400-700
Cap: 700-1000
Cursed: 1000+
Why the hell are chickens worth so much?
Right now it feels like
Cursed chest 0-1500
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