There's 3 Rare things in the game, Shrouded Ghost, Box of Secrets, and Ancient Skeletons. Shrouded Ghost gets you a unique title that is highly sought after. Ancient Skeleton gets you some ancient coins, and Box of Secrets gets you 25k gold. More so than the rest, The Box of Secrets needs a buff, 25k gold isn't honestly that much considering how incredibly rare it is, and once you've sold it, that's it, you get nothing for having found it. I think The Box of Secrets should have a commendation attached to them similarly to the Shrouded Ghost. This meaning commendations that I would consider an overflow goal, as in something that doesn't really matter to the 'completion' of the game, but is there to reward players lucky enough to find it. Likewise Ancient skeletons, which are less rare than both of those, could also have a commendation or two attached. This would also be an overflow goal but would also help people realise they even exist as I'm sure a lot of people don't know about it.
Find and sell 1 Box of Wondrous Secrets - Keeper of Wondrous Secrets Title
Find and sell 3 Box of Wondrous Secrets - Protector of Wondrous Secrets Title
Steal 1 Box of Wondrous Secrets - Thief of Wondrous Secrets Title
(Grade 1) Defeat 1 Ancient Skeleton - Slayer of Ancient Bones Title
(Grade 2) Defeat 3 Ancient Skeletons
(Grade 3) Defeat 5 Ancient Skeletons - Destroyer of Ancient Bones Title
(Grade 4) Defeat 7 Ancient Skeletons
(Grade 5) Defeat 10 Ancient Skeletons - Banisher of Ancient Bones Title
I wouldn't want to encourage greifing in alliances to kill Ancient Skeletons that spawned on other crews, so I won't recommend one for that.
To address some of the issues I can see people suggesting;
''Box of Secrets/Ancient Skeletons are RNG, you shouldn't have to find so many of these to 100% Complete the game'' There's a couple of issues with this.
- There's definitely more people that have currently killed 1/5/10 Ancient Skeletons and Found 1/3 Stole 1 Box of Secrets than there are people who've found 1/5 Shrouded Ghosts.
- Most people currently do not include the Shrouded Ghost commendations in 100% Completion of the game, as such the same logic would apply to these.
''Don't make me go into the Roar''
- The Roar is a heavily under-utilised area of the map, that last saw content just over 1 year ago with the Introduction of the Heart of Fire tall tale. Helping players realise the Box of Secrets even exists, as well as incentivise people going hunting them; would boost the amount of people exploring the Roar, which is a good thing. If you don't want to go into the Roar, you don't have to, as its just a title that you don't need if you really don't want it.
''Stealing a Box of Secrets is ridiculous''
- I've seen videos of people having done it, that's not to say its at all an easy task, however the existence of the commendation may encourage more player interaction in the Roar, where if you see someone in the Roar, you have a better reason to go over and check out what they're doing in case they carry a box. I do realise that a majority of people who earn this title will most likely be from Alliance servers that farm the Roar for Boxes and Trade boxes with each other similarly to Legendary Thief, as such I do see there being good reason not to include this Stealing commendation, but I still think its worth noting.
It might actually be worth slightly boosting the spawnrate of Box of Secrets to go alongside this, as currently they're exceedingly rare and provide no value beyond a sum of gold and the sentimental value of any Screenshots you may get of it. As such boosting the spawnrate would not insult the players who have found it as its not like they have any current cosmetics such as titles that would then get devalued, which would be the case if you did something like increase the Shrouded Ghost spawn rate. Boosting the spawnrate would also encourage more people to venture into the Roar as they feel like they have a greater chance. You could also slightly alter the spawn location as the Box can currently spawn on Beaches as well as deep in the water off the coast of an island, which most likely means a LOT of boxes have never been found because crews didn't bother swimming around the entire island on the off chance there's a box. You'd probably want to make it so Boxes spawn on beaches but cannot spawn in the water, or at least not super deep down, make them still visible from the beach.
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