@schneebaer17905 said in Remove Letters of Recommendation:
@xultanis-dragon said in Remove Letters of Recommendation:
As the title suggests. There is no reason to have the letters of recommendation. Rep is horribly easy to get now. It was a horrible idea from the start and did nothing but let people skip the hard part of the grind in the game.
There is no reason to still have it in the game with the emissary flags and everything else.
I see no benefit from removing them apart from "I ground everything, I never bought it, so no one else should be able to". As their impact is negligible, and they help a bit to progress even when people were not able to play enough, I am for keeping them in the game.
They already limited their function and besides from your argument-free post, you flat out lie by saying that people skip with these letters the "hard part" of the grind; they cannot due to limitations set in place for exactly this reason.
They limit their function now. I stated that at the start it did nothing but let players skip the grind part of the game and now that we have emissary flags there is honestly no reason to keep the recommendations in the game.
At the start when they released and for along time thats all they were used for. To get passed the last 5 levels of each faction or even 10 levels on 1 faction.
If the impact is negligible then there is no reason to keep it in the game. Its useless as there is no grind for reputation anymore.
Same thing with Hunters call or Sea Dogs, just by completing the commendation's you are going to get the levels and you will max out before you even complete the commendations anyways, so again, there is no reason for the letters.
It has nothing to do with what others consider fair or not fair, its just not needed as the original reason for its implementation is gone.
It used to take hundreds of hours of game time to reach pirate legend. You can reach pirate legend in 3 days now. Reputation is not a grind anymore so there is no reason to have it.
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@Dekeita
Sorry to disturb you in your fixation, but: no.
There is more to it, and that is why people also do other stuff, and I am not interested in how you get off, peeps like you get a cannonball to the face and there they go. Still, I like to attack others from time to time because we can do it and why not when were at it, also it is essential to the game, but this fixation of yours is just as nonsensical as forbidding PvP.
And please, do not pretend we are debating philosophical questions here, and stop putting up straw man issues since neither Alliances nor the letters have anything close to an impact you are pretending here. Again, it is cool that you have such obsessions, but keep them in your head and away from other people.
He is not strawmaning, hes right. Alliance servers pull players out of rotation that would other wise be playing with other players. Players are still playing with other players but the game focus was suppose to be a shared world. Having players remove themselves from that world is impacting the world by limiting the type of players they could be experiencing.
Same thing with the letters, by letting players skip essential game time, they are losing out on time played that would have helped them learn more about the game. They could have been better players.
Before the introduction to letters everyone agreed that you really didn't understand the games frustration until grinding the last 5 levels of Merchant alliance. Having to keep those animals safe, not losing the crates from sinking.
Its all part of the experience but players were using the letters to skip it. Which means now they avoided a crucial learning curve of the game and will probably never learn it, which means they will instead have a better understanding of the game but will instead complain about it.
Its happening now as we speak "I'm Pirate Legend Athena 20, so I know what I'm talking about, this is why this game is horrible and these are all the changes that need to be done" check the players stats and he has less than 3m meters sailed.
The game progress is horizontal and with that horizontal progress comes the experience learned from that progression. By removing the progression you remove the period of learning.
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@weststormborn said in Remove Letters of Recommendation:
@xultanis-dragon tbh, I use them for hunter's call and Sea Dogs.
That is their purpose and over time you progress a bit faster; I like to buy them now and then, just to get a bit closer to the max level in Hunter's Call, but there are so many commendations to get, after reaching level 50 there is much left to be done.
There are gems everywhere, you can fish or turn in fish that you gather. Are you planning on completing the commendations one day? If you are then why bother buying the levels? By completing the commendations you'll reach level 50 anyways. So again, the letters aren't needed.