So I guess that's it.

@galactic-geek said in So I guess that's it.:

You do know you can still earn the commendations after an event ends, right?

EDIT: Ohh, that 1... Isn't thst the 1 that's bugged? If you actually did it, you'll be fine. Rare's working on a fix and tracking it...

Yea, not incorrect information. But there's more to the situation overall. For example.. throughout that week the event was despawning the last ship(s) mid-fight, the timing of the events spawning don't always fall in line with playable hours for some - though that's been partly corrected, and so much more....

For example I FINALLY got online during the time frame the achievement connected to the crew I was looking for was spawned on the 14th... Actually I got on a few hours in advance and made a day of it. What went wrong?

I stocked up a ship and ran about looking for allies since I was in a sloop and at the time solo awaiting friends to join me since I had time... it took me three server hops before I ran into players that weren't PvPcentric... which is fine PvP is ok.... it just didn't help ME. When I finally did find another ship willing to help they were fresh players without a clue what was going on... but... I managed to get friends online so I figured at worst... i'd take us in our duo sloop and the new players could run interference.

The event spawned as normal and we fought... the fresh players on the other sloop sank pretty early but my pal and I remained strong.

We managed to get the event to the final ship... sailed for all of what.. 10 seconds past a border rock and the ship dove immediately. We hard turned.. but too late... event reset and now we're out of supplies for the most part.. So.. break time! we sailed to go get supplies as new ships spawned during event reset.. we left them behind.. they remained long enough for us to sail to plunder.. restock... sell what loot we had.. and make it back...

But the end ship? Nope...

So we started totally fresh because of dumb stuff.. restocked totally which took forever.. grabbed a ton of GPB and sailed up to get 'em just my pal and I.

By this time we tried several times to finish it up in our duo sloop. No allies.. just us... took forever to start the first run.. the second run was delayed by supply gathering... when we did manage to get to the end again...

BOOM day changed from night to day... and the event ended mid-fight...

So in the week of trying I've happily killed more than my fair share of ships.. committed to each of the events pretty much non-stop but that ONE segment eluded me for a week of constant attempts. Always for one reason or another. Servers crashing... not online at the right times... bugginess with the ships despawning mid-fight... having to attempt the event with rando's who don't know their heads from a hole in the ground... even if I manage a decent-ish rando crew..... having to sail forever to find allies or at the least stock up pretty much to full... juuuuuust in case we end up alone or can't manage to get supplies from the supply barrels that sink as soon as you look at them or from the ships themselves because of aimbot driven misfourtune.... and so on...

It's not like we have a week to commit to these events.. we have a few attempts what.. 2-3 windows of opportunity within the weeks. Simply getting online at these specific hours can be troublesome or impossible for many.

So yea.. the ONE battle that lasted until the 14th... it's lost for me forever...

I can get the rest.. sure ... np... But not that one, not ever again unless something changes or I manage to get credit for despawning ships that I had dead to rights but didn't actually sink... which won't happen I am sure.

Does it affect my character? No. Thankfully not. I don't need dubloons.. I don't lose out on a cosmetic...

But better application of these events is something I feel is indeed warranted.

Rare needs to stop trying to make us play kissy face and control when and where we will be on the seas at a given time and just let us play!

If we had the power to simply sail into an area ON OUR TIME and WHEN we wanted... players could attempt the events much more easily. We'd still have need to play in each week. But we wouldn't have to alter real world play hours to accommodate this sort of stupid desire to manipulate players behavior...

I get it devs rely on the most part for their ability to drive players in certain directions.. but there's a limit that sometimes becomes a bit unreasonable.

@admiral-rrrsole dude that sucks. I feel for you man. I hope they can fix your dilemma.

I missed sinking the Treacherous Bounty crew also and as upsetting as it is I'm pretty sure we can still earn the commendation after the event. Although I think it will be much harder cause after the event you will have to wait till they spawn in the world (much like a Skeleton Fort) and then hope it's in the zone you need and then hope its also the crew you need. I've started to look at it as a challenge, something worth chasing, and I will sink them one day. Also, toughen up! You are supposed to be a pirate, crying about it will only make the rest of us wish you would walk the plank.

We ran into similar issues with this event. I finally got fed up and said "forget it". I refuse to waste 3 hours grabbing supplies and running a few voyages, trying to avoid anyone who wants to PVP because I don't want to have to restock again then fight these ships for several in-game days only to have the final ship despawn.

The mermaid statue event is the only one that I actually took part in because of limited game time and I'd rather not waste it on events that rely heavily on getting two or three ships together. If I can't complete it on my own or with my friends, I see no point in bothering with it.

@dirty469 said in So I guess that's it.:

I missed sinking the Treacherous Bounty crew also and as upsetting as it is I'm pretty sure we can still earn the commendation after the event. Although I think it will be much harder cause after the event you will have to wait till they spawn in the world (much like a Skeleton Fort) and then hope it's in the zone you need and then hope its also the crew you need. I've started to look at it as a challenge, something worth chasing, and I will sink them one day.

Love this, very excellent point that I hadn't considered that I hope could be applied as you discuss. Even having missed this one crew... I'd totally be down with simply being assured they will appear again in the world and that I could overtake them. I doubt that's how the changes will go down.. but maybe... yea.. I would be down for that if it's the case.

Also, toughen up! You are supposed to be a pirate, crying about it will only make the rest of us wish you would walk the plank.

Overall, I am alike to many others on these forums.. I like to complain #sorrynotsorry but I never do it to simply disparage Rare or anything so stupid. I feel that a majority of my posts are built around simple opinions I have and aren't directly built simply to insult.. though perhaps more are than I might presume. That said.. regardless of my post history I do stand by my upset in this case. Rare has heard us and learned from the decisions, I just wish that a company with a what.. 33 year track record didn't need to "learn" such simple truths such as players not appreciating weird real world time slots applied to our gaming and simply enjoy logging in and being able to get things done.... even if there's some difficulty to the thing in question. But, I appreciate your sentiment as much as I stand up for my voice on this matter... your not wrong.. politeness and understanding do go a LONG way... even I forget that often.

Lastly, thanks for your feedback it charmed me to have an idea on how I might approach darkening this black smudge on my Bilge Rat adventures.. here's to hoping your not wrong in how this might be remedied!

These commendations are the most ignorable part of the game. I find it borderline disrespectful to us as the players of the game that this is the lame "content" we've been waiting for and promised. Each content drop is more and more disappointing and underwhelming. I never thought a group of video game developers would be so lacking of creativity.
I sail these Seas in search for R sails to grief the crew to the damned and back! But the game is too damn boring for even them to play.

@boomtownboss said in So I guess that's it.:

These commendations are the most ignorable part of the game. I find it borderline disrespectful to us as the players of the game that this is the lame "content" we've been waiting for and promised. Each content drop is more and more disappointing and underwhelming. I never thought a group of video game developers would be so lacking of creativity.
I sail these Seas in search for R sails to grief the crew to the damned and back! But the game is too damn boring for even them to play.

Simply put, that's your position and it's fair to have it - but overall... I disagree about bilge rat commendations.

Really, Hungering Deep itself was an upset for me.. but the Bilge Rat/Commendations associated with the game are something I .... as a completionist in part... find quite relevant.

So yea, underwhelming, and overall unimportant to gameplay itself... especially considering the lack of need for dubloons or effect on actual gameplay... yea your right there - they don't affect a darn thing. But to be honest it matters to me quite a bit.. I'm with you in alot of ways, Rare has had nothing but issues since launch with SoT and even the review sites have initially ripped them a new one in many forums. But that doesn't mean the things we do have shouldn't be appreciated. Or that players won't want for a full list of these commendations marked as completed.

Literally there's nothing in the game of value ... the cosmetics... the commendations... etc... nothing we do MATTERS in so many ways.. but thankfully that's not what the game is about. The game is simply a place for us to find our own sorts of interesting trouble. Be it via PvP... exploration/wandering around looking for bottled messages or shipwrecks as my Wife does... the slowly developing world/quests/lore....and ultimately a measure of how we might choose to interact with others in the game .... which IMO is what the game is all about.

Yea, the game really sometimes feels like a streamers paradise... but for some there's other attractions. For me.. it's about completing the commendations slowly and enjoying the camaraderie of my mates. For you it might be different. No one is wrong...

?So yea, I'm sort of with you.. I've certainly done my fair share of complaining in the past and will in the future I am sure! But overall what's "most" important really is a matter of opinion. And overall with there being so little that I can measure as development for my character.. something as silly and ignorable as these commendations actually means more to me than it might in another title altogether.

@blooddoll22 Sorry, I wasn't trying to take away from your value to the commendations. I must respect people having a different focus on the game than I. I also liked the idea that nothing really seemed to matter. Until I realized it doesn't seem to matter to the devs either.

@boomtownboss Your fine bud.. wasn't calling you out tbh. Just remarking as I rewatch the mixer event.

I am in the same type of situation. I only got one of the three done in the very first week but was able to complete every other thing since. I am out of luck since I could only get online during the first week due to real life issues and they had to be completed that week. Not sure with the update tonight if they will roll back to week 1 stuff since they had made the changes starting on week 2 with the staggered times. I'm not holding my breath, but hey, its only a game, but would be nice to be able to complete them anyways.

@admiral-rrrsole said in So I guess that's it.:

Salty tears adds to the sea level. Which means more to bail out of the hull. lol

Save 'em for the apparently soon to arrive plants we need to assure remain watered as we play delivery boy soon in FS!

@admiral-rrrsole said in So I guess that's it.:

@blooddoll22 Yeah cause we all want to be know as suppliers, trafficking expensive plants across the open seas.

Well call me Willy Nelson... or Johnny Cash and let's the the Ghost Riders on this storm then already!

Man the FS can't release soon enough to distract me from this upset.

I think it's ok to feel a little burnt out.

It's ok to play something else and come back to see what the next DLC brings.

Rare probably expected this.

Ol do it’s just my opinion and I respect yours, I understand you’re a completionist at heart my friend but SOT has a thriving community, for everyone saying this game is dead every week there are two more pirates who play this game on a regular basis, SOT is here to stay for probably (I would guess) another 2-3 years before they start working on a sequel. I have real life responsibilities that meant I couldn’t play for a whole week but i still got enough doubloons to get my ship all decked out in bone-crusher colours, the only time limited content in this campaign... do the missing commendations really mean that much in the grand scheme of things? You get to say you were one of the pirates in the early days that took part in the great skeleton wars, you wee THERE man...it’s our Vietnam, our Normandy. Don’t fall into the trap of digital numbers and just thrive on the experience you had with your crew and the shiny booty you have to show for it because I tell you what, your probably gonna have a few more gaps in your commendations over the next couple of years unless you plan on playing this game every single day for the next few years. Probably only viable if you work for Rare itself so just chill out man and focus on the main point of this game, FUN, it’s not a collectathon and in time there will be myriad customisation available.