Tall Tales and repetition

@fedted998 Don't mean to be constantly negative, but such game design would have fit late 90s/early 2000s when there were ''10 games'' available. I would spend months stuck on a puzzle on Monkey Island and I enjoyed all of it. But in 2023 when you have hundreds if not thousands of games, making your game a 'chore' is not the best option in my opinion. Making people redo same activity 5times(don't take this statement literally, just talking about same tall tales with little variaton), creating a rather shallow and boring game mode like 'HG' (Casual perspective) is not ideal. Don't get me wrong, fighting on HG was fun at first, but with the XP gain it really felt like a chore to reach 100.

They have really improved their design creating the PotC tall tales. Was it them learning from their mistakes or Disneys demands, we won't know. And yeah those last two stand alone tall tales were good and like you said the Devils Roar one was ok, since you had 3 different paths, but still had to repeat it 3 times, at least the reward was awesome. I'm not redoing the Pendragon one in the wilds 3 times tho.

@fedted998 Yeah the supplies I feel was a bit of a filler when the game launched and there was not much to do. But in respects to game balancing, I really don't see a reason why a ship would start with 25 wood if you need at least 50 or 70 minimum, some players probably won't move until they have 100+. Removing the barrels all together would upset a lot of people for 'reasons'. Supplying every ship properly from the get go and using those memory resources on other things would benefit the game better.

If some 'sweat' ship start with 80 cannon balls and 4 chain shots, that does not mean that they won't gather 500 cannonballs and 40 chainshots and sink the noob complaining, it will just take them more time to do it, which is making the dedicated players session more boring instead of more fun. Also please spare the arguments how you are perfectly fine with the stock supplies, anyone of your skill level or better will just win the attrition battle. Obviously sinking is fine, but if the goal was to sink, why even set sail, just set the ship on fire at an outpost and reach the goal faster.

I don't know what's the ideal and perfect suggestion/solution, but imo Fun should prioritized over making everything a chore. The concept of fun is also not as simple, as creating long term repetitive content is not an easy task. Everyone was in awe when they first solved a riddle/X marks the spot for their first few sessions, now it's just same ol. I really can't recall watching the popular streamers doing any of that, its always pvp.