Commendations regarding Vaults

  • HandSh0t
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    The Vaults update is really fun. I see a lot of people doing these quests. Being in a vault for 3.10 minutes (from when the door opens) and having to put loot onto your ship for several more minutes brings in a new addition to the gameplay. Having to watch for other ships not ambushing you or on the other side of the story... trying to ambush people doing vaults. I really like this.

    Though what I find strange is the amounts in commendations.
    There's 3 Gold Hoarder commendations:

    1. Get a vault key
    2. Open a Vault
    3. Deliver the Tributes chest

    Strange thing is you have to do 1 and 3 for 50 times to finish grade 5
    but you have to do 2 a 100 times?

    I really don't understand this 100 times. firstly... you aren't getting 50 keys yourself and stealing 50... and secondly... why a 100 times? Finishing this commendation is not a accomplishment, its a grind and grinds are stupid.

    There's several more commendations where you just have to grind your booty off to finish it. Like 50 times FotD, 30 small and big gifts and even giving away 30 small and big gifts. If you didn't play the update where they were introduced, you can't finish this at all, as you cannot do a gift stash quest any longer and you have to find them doing world events.

    Please RARE... Make fun achievements, no grindy ones.

    Notice: I really really enjoy playing SoT. I play with my GF and 2 irl friends all the time and we're pretty good at it. Having several hundreds of hours and started playing from day one (with some breaks in between) I can say this is the most fun and balanced game ever with no pay to win barnacle as a lot of multiplayer games seem to get these days.

    Another thing from my side to RARE: Please start looking into hacks that are sold online. I know a lot of things are done server side and not client side, but I'm getting the feeling theres more and more players using hacks as I start to run into them sometimes lately. Some people are just really really good and have perfect skill, but there's times where strange things happen... Just start looking into these hacks please and try to find a way to ban the players using them.

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  • testakleze
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    @handsh0t
    If you count the reaper's bones commendation, you need to turn in 100 chests in total.

  • HandSh0t
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    @testakleze said in Commendations regarding Vaults:

    @handsh0t
    If you count the reaper's bones commendation, you need to turn in 100 chests in total.

    I get that, but that's bullbarnarcle. It's a Gold Hoarders update, not Reaper's. The commendation for reapers also don't make sense. like you're ever going to steal 50 of those chests... no, you will be doing the vault quest yourself... which is not the point of Reaper's

  • KissOfKilll
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    @testakleze It's actually 20 Chests for Grade V not 50, so total is 70 chests (including Reaper's Bones and Gold Hoarder commendations).

  • testakleze
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    @kissofkilll
    Ah. I was misinformed. Thanks for that.

  • Little Squash
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    @handsh0t
    You don't need to steal the chests, you just have to turn them in to Reapers.

    Also, I have recently noticed Chests of Rage floating with barrels so they may be trying to put some of these older things back in the game so that they are more common. But gifts... Yikes... If you didn't do that during the actual event, good luck!

    Your best hope for gifts is if they do another event with them around Christmas.

  • HandSh0t
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    Look.. the point isn't really to argue a lot about this. It's just a humble request to think better about the grindy commendations. Doing things over and over again isn't really any fun. Though.... yesterday we caught all pondies to finish the 50/50/50/10/50.... That's a lot of pondies (LOL)

    @little-squash said in Commendations regarding Vaults:

    @handsh0t
    You don't need to steal the chests, you just have to turn them in to Reapers.

    Also, I have recently noticed Chests of Rage floating with barrels so they may be trying to put some of these older things back in the game so that they are more common. But gifts... Yikes... If you didn't do that during the actual event, good luck!

    Your best hope for gifts is if they do another event with them around Christmas.

    Oooohh... yeah I hope something like that will happen around Christmas :) I want to finish those commendations -.-... Right now I'm real close to finish all Gold Hoarder ones :-D

  • RealStyli
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    Unlike the gifts or , more specifically, the gift voyages, these are not limited time.

    The vaults are intended to be permanent voyages for the game, same as the Ghost Fleets for OoS. They're only grindy commendations if you turn them into a grind and try to get them done as fast as possible.

    As for the decrepency between the commendations, I think they expected a lot of players would fail some vaults or have the chest stolen afterwards.

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