Letter of recommendation for allegiance, please?

@dragotech123

never liked any of the letters of recommendation and also dont like the idea for these new factions

IF this gets implemented however it should at the very least have the same limitations as the current ones, being, max one letter per faction per month

lvl 100 would then mean 100 months (8.3 years)
lvl 1000 would be unfeasable.

I agree we should have letter of recommendations. I even think allowing us to buy 5 a month instead of one isn't unreasonable since the grind is so long. If someone never PvPed with this system at all and just bought lvls at 5 a month it would take over 16.5 years to buy your way to lvl 1000. I imagine SoT servers will be shutdown by the time we hit that mark. Unless we transition into a Sea of Thieves 2.

However I think doubloons need to be removed from the game the only reason they need a sink is because they are pointless. Gold has also lost a lot of its meaning. While trinkets from captaincy can eat up a lot of gold I think having the levels cost gold instead of doubloons would make more sense. Nothing in game should award doubloons. Doubloons should be a season only currency that you can use to buy old season cosmetics you missed out on. I know its kind of unheard of for time limited seasonal rewards to always be obtainable but while I choose to miss those seasons knowing how cool the rewards were. People treat the season rewards and fomo as some kinda of status symbol of "well i never quit playing the game" yea well you did very little to obtain these rewards. This isn't like hitting lvl 1000 with these new factions is a time commitment. Even if you purely bought levels as proposed is a huge time commitment. A lifetime in fact. Even with buying levels we would have to actually actively play this system if we hoped to even get to lvl 100 in any reasonable amount of time.

People disagreeing with us being able to buy levels are just being 100% irrational and not even listening to the math. There is no common sense argument you can make against not being able to buy 1 level a month. The biggest reason people would be against it is "The rewards are meant to be earned" or "It would kill the system" no... The system will die on its own because even playing properly the grind is intense. Buying 12 levels per year doesn't sound awful if you think about how fast people have hit 100 by just playing the mode.

I would argue allowing us to buy levels would actually be the best thing for this mode because it would take so long to buy your way to 100 that you are going to be pushed to play the mode to add to the levels you are buying. Like you grind 10-20 levels per month then you just get a little bonus level every month.

I totally agree with Magus104's numbers and disagree with BurnBacon's numbers. Even with 5 levels per month it would take a while to get the base curses, and the level 1000 would be out of question. 1 level per month is also a reasonably slow ammount, 8 years to reach level 100? well, somewhere I read that Sea of Thieves would have support for 10 years, and we already passed the first 4.
I'm quite sure 5 levels per month is a good balanced number. Natural PvP players would still earn the rewards before someone could get the curses with letters only. It would still be a better choice to go into battle and get the levels there, but the boosts from letters would be a nice addition.
I totally sure that even those who used letter of recommendations have earned their status of Pirate Legend. Earning Pirate Legend the normal way is still much more effective than relying only on letters. Besides, doubloons are earned, just like gold. Only ancient coins are bought with real money.

I think 5 levels per month per faction would be a good ammount.

@goldsmen dijo en Letter of recommendation for allegiance, please?:

Unlike pirate legend where getting to it actually unlocks playable content, the only thing you earn from this mode are cosmetics that are intended to be trophies. As i always say, a trophy is not a trophy if you bought it.

I disagree, entering new parts of the hideouts can be considered content for some players. There are commendations that require the curses, so there are challenges and activities after that. And these curses would take a long time to achieve if players use only letters to level up, I doubt anyone could just "buy" them because of the limitations of the letters, doing PvP would still be the main method to obtain them, just like gathering treasure is the main method to get Pirate Legend.

I really don't know if the curses are intended to be trophies or not, but I don't think a little boost would actually hurt the game.

I wouldn't really care if they added it, but buying 1 out of 100 levels seems twice as pointless as buying 1 out of 50 levels. The pace at which you'd advance by buying would be glacially slower compared to just doing the matches and the only real benefit would be when you get to 99 and don't want to wait a few more rounds.

@lordqulex Season 11? Why? Even if letters for allegiance were introduced today, with the limitation of monthly letters like every other letter it would still take a long time to reach level 100. Letters would be a small boost, not a replacement of the main method.
Even 5 levels per month make it a long grind, and people would still prefer to use the hourglass to level up faster. If 5 levels per month were permitted then someone who is only relying on them to get the curses would unlock them in almost 2 years.
Also, if you need to prove you got your legendary curse from Season 1 just tell the people how you got it. I'm quite sure everyone will believe it, you don't need to prove anything. You can even equip the title from season 1 to prove it if you want to show that your legendary curse was achieved during the first season.

they should get rid of the idea everyone believes someone is a high skilled player cause he sunk tons of hours in sea of thieves,pure business talk the true reason : we love it some players swallowed our bait n stick to our game ,dont play anything else just sea of thieves all day n take a look in our emporium cause ms need the numbers.rip to sea of thieves open sandboxadventure game just do tons of hours the same boring battle with long waiting times n just one mode

Well.... They have ignored all complaints of being sailed out of bounds makes you a leaver rather than getting a loss. Meanwhile they listened to the vocal minority who said its too easy to hit 1000 so they increased the reputation required to get to 1000. So safe to say that is their answer to this. We will never be able to buy levels. Similar to how we can't buy athena levels though athena rep is insanely easy to gain now so needing to buy levels is about as pointless as having the ability to buy levels would be.

That being said I do support the experience needed to hit 1000 increase. I still think we should be able to buy levels however because it's still an impossibility to level to 1000 off buying even if it was set to 5 lvls a month instead of 1. Regardless of how we choose to play its a long journey. But similar to the other trade companies (before the purchase limit) people would just level properly up to about 40 or so then buy the remaining slower levels. It's safe to say 99% of the player base wont ever see lvl 1000. Almost feel like 1000 needs a lot of cool rewards as it's the only thing currently in the game that holds any level of prestige. As much as people like to think their easily earned fomo cosmetics are some sort of status symbol rather than "I played the game before you did"