No need to get upset or jealous about pixels mate.
I doubt we are the only ones, so...
Watch the actual guess for gold topic and guess zero for your theory.
https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/97180/guess-for-gold-competition-how-many-shrouded-ghost-megs-killed/
@snikefriend sagte in The Shrouded Ghost why this game is not meant for completionists:
@bugaboo-bill This topic has absolutely no value. Even if the correct answer is 100, total player count for that day should also be provided. If 6.000.000 players were playing and 5 megs were killed, that's practically zero chance to face the meg.
afaik it's a 0.1% chance to have a shroued ghost spawn.
Thats little to nothing, but not nothing.
You need to be super lucky i know, but it is not completely impossible and with that beeing the case it is super exclusive.
Why remove that?
Isn't that one of the things a lot of people want to have when it comes down to the "meaning" of something?
Ya i know it doesnt mean you are passionate or a hardcore gamer, it only means you were super lucky.
But i doesn't take anything away if you have not killed it, you miss nothing except you are a completionist, but what the OP already said is not the right game for you as this achievement is based on luck and nothing else.
As SoT is a game as a service the whole completionist thing is anyway a little bit questionable.
There are so many things that can prevent you from completing it 100% that this aproach is more of a self punishment rather than playing a game and having fun.
I think its good that there are things you can only get by luck.
I'd like to have much more ultra rare stuff hidden in the world.
And i do not say that because i already have found it like i also already found the mysterious box of wonders - and that beeing a casual gamer who maybe plays 20hours a week - but because it's cool to have something rare around that makes you happy and excited if you find it.
Although i'm already a Hunter of the Shrouded Ghost the next time i'll see him will be exciting again, because i know it's ultra rare.
I'm not complaining that the Shrouded Ghost is hard to find, like, VERY hard.
I'm complaining that exist a commendation that requires you to kill fifty times that meg. Yes yes you read that right... kill FIFTY times the Shrouded Ghost.
Like, come on? Is there anyone in the whole game who got it?
Who had the idea to put this commendation in the game anyway?
@callmebackdraft Ok thanks, so the wiki is wrong. I took the info from there since I've never killed it even once. Now I've seen they have balanced this commendation to 5 kill four month ago.
But 5 times is still very very hard, has anyone in the game killed the Shrouded Ghost 5 times so far?
@bugaboo-bill It creates an uncompleted set of commendation slots that kills the mood for this game. The concept of luck being needed to complete something thats part of the game is terrible I would rather it be a unique scenario that you have to accomplish that makes the shark difficult to fight rather than it being this rare.
It kills the mood for completionists maybe so you are fully right with your title.
I agree this game is not for completionists, it's for players who play for fun and dont cry because they until had no luck completing an achievement.
@triheadedmonkey said in The Shrouded Ghost why this game is not meant for completionists:
I have never seen Pirates of the Caribbean but unfortunately, others have and assure me it is real! 😂
I am more likely to see the Shrouded Ghost than any of the PotC films!
You haven't seen any of the PotC films at all!?
BLASPHEMY!
YOU MUST REPENT!
To atone, and be forgiven, you must watch all 5 movies back-to-back, immediately.
@bugaboo-bill I am just pointing out Rare has yet again made a bad choice in the way they made the shrouded ghost. Rng features in games are bad and unfair to dedicated players. A brand new noob shouldnt have a shrouded ghost when more capable people who played everyday since day one hasnt gotten it. They Should have locked it behind distance sailed or something the people who spend day after day after day looking to be able to finish all the challeneges cant because of the rng system that Rare implemented to keep people from enjoying the game.
@bugaboo-bill challenges are there to be completable but if the community cant encounter shark they cant complete the challenge which I am denied dubloons, titles, and commendation checkmarks because of this aspect of the game.
Which is part of Rares horrible sense of balancing they think 1000 cqptains chest is to hard for the community to complete but think people can find and kill a shark with a .1% chance to spawn. But the shrouded ghosts makes so much sense next to an Athenas challenge of turning in 50 fish. Rare really know thier community so well if they had to make these commendations as easy as they did and not expect these complaints over something that people dont even get the chance to do.
My two doubloons worth;
Shrouded Ghost should have been less rare than it is, but mega mega tough. I want to wear titles that show off my skill, not my luck.
As it stands, I would have much preferred that the ghost was not tied to a commendation, but instead to an exclusive cosmetic.
I get that it’s rare and that the game needs things like this, but rare to the point that I’ve been playing weekly, sometimes daily since it was introduced, and have yet to encounter it, is just too much.
I understand your thoughts and concerns and to sone degree i agree, but i'm a little bit split about it also.
It's only bad if you cant let go.
So i understand that aproach, but i dont share it.
The time before i got it it was nearly to not important at all.
It's like: it happens when it happens.
Like it's done when it's done.
But i'm also no completionist or didnt work off anything or searched hardly anything. I still do not care for legendary commendations, cannot tell you how many miles i sailed with an Athena on the Table for example and as i'm not interested in the titles or the cosmetics i can refuse to care about that.
But when something pops up i'm for sure also a happy player who gets rewarded for playing g the game.
I just let all happen by the way and do not focus very much on something.
I for sure focus on actual events a little, but general i just play the game.
@galactic-geek
Only the first 3 matter. He can watch the others, but the original trilogy is all that's needed for penance imo
@galactic-geek said in The Shrouded Ghost why this game is not meant for completionists:
@triheadedmonkey said in The Shrouded Ghost why this game is not meant for completionists:
I have never seen Pirates of the Caribbean but unfortunately, others have and assure me it is real! 😂
I am more likely to see the Shrouded Ghost than any of the PotC films!
You haven't seen any of the PotC films at all!?
BLASPHEMY!
YOU MUST REPENT!
To atone, and be forgiven, you must watch all 5 movies back-to-back, immediately.
🤔 I'll make a deal....I will watch all 5, back to back IF I get 5 Shrouded Ghosts back to back 😁
@galactic-geek said in The Shrouded Ghost why this game is not meant for completionists:
@triheadedmonkey said in The Shrouded Ghost why this game is not meant for completionists:
I have never seen Pirates of the Caribbean but unfortunately, others have and assure me it is real! 😂
I am more likely to see the Shrouded Ghost than any of the PotC films!
You haven't seen any of the PotC films at all!?
BLASPHEMY!
YOU MUST REPENT!
To atone, and be forgiven, you must watch all 5 movies back-to-back, immediately.
In all honestly - just the first 3. The 4th was Meh and the 5th was a stretch. JD's acting in the 5th was too over the top. He was trying too hard.
@iisrgntwolfii said in The Shrouded Ghost why this game is not meant for completionists:
@galactic-geek said in The Shrouded Ghost why this game is not meant for completionists:
@triheadedmonkey said in The Shrouded Ghost why this game is not meant for completionists:
I have never seen Pirates of the Caribbean but unfortunately, others have and assure me it is real! 😂
I am more likely to see the Shrouded Ghost than any of the PotC films!
You haven't seen any of the PotC films at all!?
BLASPHEMY!
YOU MUST REPENT!
To atone, and be forgiven, you must watch all 5 movies back-to-back, immediately.In all honestly - just the first 3. The 4th was Meh and the 5th was a stretch. JD's acting in the 5th was too over the top. He was trying too hard.
While I can certainly agree that 4 and 5 were the weakest of the penta-set, I personally liked all of them. And to think, even though they had 5 films, they too have yet to see a shrouded ghost.
just to say
11 Shrouded Ghots got defeated in 24h
