Dear Rare, with all of the updates, please keep a fresh reaper's voyage system going! I think these are really good and fun to complete!
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Keep The Reapers System Going
@AceBead40319154 Ahoy matey!
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I think the reaper voyages have well overstayed their welcome at this point to be honest.
Yeah, I'd have to agree. Very repetitive and predictable... even though there are two more regions they could do, I'm not sure if we need 'em. They are sorta glorified daily quests, which I don't feel fits the Adventure mode well.
@lethality1 I think the great thing about them is they are not very predictable, lol. Run 3 in a row with the flag and keep the loot and let me know what happened. It is good stuff and gives a reason to be on edge a little bit. It invites some interesting players on the hunt at times.
@tre-oni I am guessing a lot of tenured players feel this way but I would think for semi new players this is a lot of fun. I have been playing for a year and have done this with randoms the last 3 nights. been really interesting and it puts a lot of ships in that specific region. I look forward to having other regions and honestly, I just like finding chests so it gives me a goal to work toward as I am a PL10. I kind of hope they do something similar with skeletons :)
I'm not a huge fan of these voyages as they are. If you're on a galleon & have a rowboat you can smash them out pretty fast so I just try'n get them out the way as quick as possible. I feel the GH is getting to much attention from events, time to show the MA some love!
How about a blue reapers flag!
You have high value MA cargo that has to be delivered to multiple locations. These locations could be random unlike the set islands at the moment. Like other cargo they'll have a note with a delivery location so anyone can cash them in.Example:
Blue Reapers flag must remain up at all times.
Collect 20 cargo from Outpost A
Deliver 5 cargo to Outpost B
Deliver 5 cargo to Outpost C
Deliver 5 cargo to Island A
Deliver 5 cargo to Island BYou'll be able to plan you're own route with those wishing to steal the cargo having to guess the location & possibly setup up an ambush. Would also lead to ship battles at sea rather than around a set island.
@tartansnake I like this
I also think multi-island MA voyages one after another, almost like creating trade routes in the game. At your first Outpost get a list with 3 locations and the items they're in need of.
The Wilds is in short supply of plants - bring 5 plants from the Plunder to Galleon's.
The Shores of Plenty is in short supply of rum - collect 5 from Galleon's and bring them to Sanctuary.
Ancient Isles is short of cloth - collect 5 from Sanctuary and bring them to Plunder.Or add an in game economy where items are worth more in different regions and allow us to buy from one and deliver to another for true trade routes.
I find them a little grindy five times over. But my main problem is that a friend of mine, who has a small gaming window at the end of the week, wants the cosmetics... and it seems to me that Reaper Voyages has been all we've been doing when we get together these days.
The current month-long window leading up to the Anniversary Update is generous, so we can do one Reaper and something else. But normally we're trying to cram in five Reapers in two Friday-night gaming sessions and we barely have time for anything else unless I want to turn it into an all-nighter.
To be honest, the voyage kind of undermines itself... It's so grindy, repetitive and joyless that if someone does looks like they're going to bother you whilst you're at it, as Joe Neat intended, that you'd sooner quit and try and find a quiet server so you could just get it done!
What's worse is that I find I resent the Reaper cosmetics now I went to all that bother to get them. However, I'm still expecting a figurehead, cannons, wheel and capstan in future Reaper Voyages yet to be! So I'm expecting to need to do them anyway.
They need to make them more interesting - like the Mercenary Voyages, with a variety of locations and loot. And less grindy - I'd say three times over is enough.
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