@bugaboo-bill @Hephytelion While yes, you are right to some degree, I have only complained about Skeleton Ships being 500 & having to sail 1,000 Nautical miles both of which being a key commendation as they are the locks to 2 of the coolest items added to Pirate Legends. I don't think people who haven't started trying to reach this goal know exactly how much 500 Skeleton ships is, or how long it takes to sail 1,000 nautical miles. I did the 30 Athena Voyages just fine. I thought that was a fair amount of Athena voyages. You could do 2 a day, be done in a little over 2 weeks. Fair. But 500 Skeleton Ships is something that can take months to do if you just "let it happen naturally" as some of you have said. Which is crazy when a similar reward, the Legendary Wheel, can be attained relatively quickly. I think 250 Skeleton Ships is more than enough to give someone the Cannon Skin. We are talking about all of this progress for one skin! Just one! Not a set! One! I am only complaining because like I've said before. 500 Skeleton Ships and sailing 1,000 nautical miles are both WAY too big of numbers to be deemed "fair" for one skin that you still have to buy!
I felt entitled to be given the basic Athena voyages off the bat, @CallMeBackdrafT , why? Because I was also A10 before the Commendations came out. There is no reason for me to do 30 more Athena's, turn in 500 more chests, 500 more skulls, sail x amount of miles, etc. I had done all that stuff already. It's not my fault Rare is bad at their job and didn't track our progress beforehand.
@Ruigtand-NL @x-Crowheart-x Thank you. Finally two people who have started trying to achieve this goal and realize that this goal is way too much effort for the reward. Like are you really the Legend of the game if you sink 500 Skeleton Ships? No. Rare came up with 500 to keep Pirate Legends occupied, while also locking each new cosmetic item they added behind different Commendations to force us to do them. Every other player gets all their sets when they get to 50 in said reputation. Level 50 with Gold hoarders? Hey! Now you have access to the entire Sovereign set! Everything! Weapons, equipment, ships parts, everything! No string attached! You're PLA10? No that's not good enough, go turn in 500 more chests, 500 more skulls, 500 more cargo on time in prime condition, sail 1,000 nautical miles while on an Athena's, complete 30 more Athena voyages, and sink 500 more Skeleton Ships...then you can have all the cool new stuff we added for you while everyone else gets to buy whatever they want the moment it's released! We have to do all of that for 9 items...nine! All of that effort for 9 items! Let that sink in.
What happened to Commendations being what gave you cool titles and your reputation being the factor in if you can buy an item? This is a massive double standard and it's only given to Legends, if the casual playerbase was told they needed to complete Gold hoarders Commendations in order to unlock their equipments and ship parts, there would be a riot! Commendations were meant as extreme long-term goals, that is why most Legends, even today, don't have all of the Gold Hoarders Commendations; they take a long time. If Casuals don't have any of their content locked behind extremely long Commendations then neither should Legends!
