Ghost Ship Rewards and Reaper's Bones Reputation

Basically, you found out that people were getting high returns from this event when selling to the Reapers Bones. So, you nerfed it.

How could you not have anticipated this? Again, this goes back to the same issue from the Emissary nerf before!

Rare, you designed the game. You made it possible to sell everything in the game to the Reapers Bones company. Of course people are going to look at their flags (Reapers netting the most because all items are affected).

"Digging into the setup of these rewards behind the scenes, we've identified an issue that was resulting in players earning more Reaper's Bones Reputation than intended for these Ghost Ship rewards. We have now corrected this and the change has been fully rolled out across our servers."

I dont think it was THAT much, I got about 3 Level from 3 Flameheart Raids and about 10 Voyages, it felt pretty fair...
I just dont know why we have to grind even harder now...
I mean yeah surely the Players shall have something to grind, but Reapers is SO hard to level, thats actually insane, many people say the same, and NO I am not a PvE/Alliance player who complains that you have to do PvP for Reapers Bones...

@iamcookie1312

Maybe read my post before trying to identify the problem (which you didn't). The problem is; how could they have not anticipated this?

Its following their gameplay loop that they created themselves. It was obvious from the beginning.

You're going to get 'high' returns on a level 5 flag on all items turning into this 1 company.

@s0nicbob Yeah, I saw this coming. My crew & I were actually discussing it. Thanks for at least leaving the gold on it alone.

@minercrafter240 they shouldnt stop that from happening

@dekeita

People are progressing because the event drops so much loot for the amount of time spent playing it.

The only real bottleneck for it is waiting for the event to spawn and getting the Reaper's flag to grade 5. Not every server is the same, some people will attack the reaper ships. Some servers can be dead.

You can sell every single storage crate that drops in addition to the loot piles dropped from all the lead ships and the Flameheart ship.

@fruitlust Uhh.. Think you're going to need to be more specific than that. But I'm a steam player, and the only issue I've had was the long load screen in the ghost fleet, which they mentioned they've addressed in the post you replied to.

Can you actually add a way to tune down the ghost loot. I love this game but every time I play the new event I have a headache please please please and thank you

@s0nicbob Oh come on, really?

My friend and I finally were able to do this, now it's nerfed. I hate being an adult, I always miss out on stuff like this. Well, good for the people who play all the time.

Thanks for nothing! :)

For everybody complaining, I think I will simplify. The game had a bug/error/etc that gave players more reapers reputation than they should be getting. Probably one line of code or something, maybe even one number somewhere that was too high. This was not intended, obviously, so they didn't "nerf" it, they fixed it.

Yay, another Reaper's Bones nerf ! EXACTLY what this game needed! (if you can't feel the irony here, you probably need get a new sense of humour).
Like, Rare come one. No one plays emissary, loots give absolutely no reaper's XP, there is no way of getting a good amount of reaper's XP, why do you keep nerfing it? You know what, it's official now.
THE REAPER'S BONES IS DEAD. And you, Rare, killed them. Good job.

@lord-szarvas I'd say it's fairly hard to balance in advance due to the low number of people playing on the Insider servers. This would be especially noticeable when leveling a PvP faction due to fewer people focusing on it in lower population servers.

You have made a commendation on hitting a player ship with Wraith cannonballs, that's fine. But there are two major gripes with this. Firstly, why on earth isn't this crew based? And Secondly why are they the fewest in the cannonball crate after defeating Flameheart.

@hivenpiece No one plays emissary because your a walking target. Personally I love and welcome any challengers that come at me. But you put a system in that requires you to eather grind or to sail around screaming at people to come at you and the people that get screwed over are the crews that run sloop. Just from last night my crew killed a gally 5 times and 6 different sloops and that was a dead server and every single one ran an emissary.

@methetron-mkii this is to slow the progression in which you can complete the accommodation so that you complete it over time rather then grind it all out and never come back, just a way of keeping it relevant.

@flexfitftw fair play, but it should be crew based though

@s0nicbob
What could be great is that at Rare you focus on doing the things the "right" way. Stop pushing new content to be easy hoarding / mass rep, because you know that with a single flaw, you will allow people to do far more than you expected.

Keep is a little harder at the beginning, adjust at first patch to increase. I'm back since month. Same story.

New Content -- Massive Balancing Issues -- Nerf -- Nerf : People have used/abused, ladders are ruined, commendations are done too fast etc... and you can't go back on those.

Happy to see that you fix and rebalance, just disapointed you always fail to start low and adjust.

thanks for adjusting it. Keep the good work Rare.

Long story short: They are buffing Reaper's Bones.
I like that.

@general-keys735 Incorrect, "we've identified an issue that was resulting in players earning MORE Reaper's Bones Reputation than intended.... Long story short, they're nerfing Reaper's again