I have a concern with Season 13 and diving, I'd like your input as well.

Imo, this doesn't really help those casual players as much as it annoys the Reapers.

With your proposal, casual players are still at risk of being invaded shortly after they checked the map. Just not from a Reaper who recently dove.

For that Reaper, not all dives are fruitful (if no emissaries to sink). So if they dive to a server via a standard Gold Hoarder dig map, and find no emis, now they're bored for however long until they can search again.

I remember being on the fence about another suggestion, as it was made way before the current diving system. But given how easy it is now, I think a better solution would be to notify the server with a FoF-like horn or some type of sound to indicate that a G5 Reaper has just entered.

This should only happen for a G5 Reaper, and only one that hops in. One that levels up organically on a server should be easier to track, and I don't think they should experience the same de-buff of being announced to the server once they can finally see everyone else.

Because it's not all casuals at risk here. It's the ones with emis. And emis are not even at much of a risk if the hopping Reaper can't see them on the map.

@d3adst1ck said:

Remove the emissary map visibility and replace the grade 5 Reaper ability with something else.

Stealth?

What if at G5, Reapers have the ability to hide their own map visibility at will, with some reasonable restrictions and cooldown in between uses? They wouldn't be able to see other emis, but they'd be able to sneak up on others a lot more effectively. A "silent Reaper" without the exploits.

I disagree with some of the other suggestions here. G5 guilds should be marked for risk-reward reasons. The BB is a World Event and absolutely should be marked, Reaper emi level and all.

People hopping for the BB arent going to be G5 reapers. They will be empty/blank ships. People seriously trying to find it arent going to raise an Emmi as it replaces theirs as soon as they take the BB

suggest significantly increasing the cooldown time for higher grade Reapers before they can dive again

What about non reaper ships…..

Well as of right now, people who just want to chill and relax or whatever(as if safer seas doesn't exist) are having the time of their lives right now. Every PvP enjoyer is hopping for Burning Blade events which means everyone else is free to do whatever they want. People who used to hop for FoFs or FotDs are completely ignoring them to find Burning Blades. Diving changes nothing, most people join a server and leave if there isn't a BB event. Sure some will try to keep their emissary and supplies but they're looking for the event, not players. For people not wanting to PvP, its never been better for them. I'm sure this will die down at some point and the casual playerbase will return to normal but right now, most people want that event and nothing else.

@rikjaxx I feel the complete opposite. I think every emissary at grade 5 should show up on the map. The point of emissary is risk vs. reward. You shouldn't get all the reward with no risk. If you don't want the risk, don't run emissary and you will barely ever get attacked. And there is no reason for the most sought after PVP world event to be completely invisible on the map, that's crazy. That's why FoF keys show up on the map, it's high reward which means high risk. Just driving around aimlessly for hours hoping to find a ship sounds so boring. It's a PVP game and if you don't want PVP, there's a mode for that.