So, are you planning to do something about the impossibility to dive to fort raids or not? I didn't see any announcment about this issue. Right now the only option for a player is to stick on a server for hours and go to every fort that spawns, which is hyper constested every single time, which makes you waste your limited time for gaming to fight the entire server or sail to it ALWAYS at the opposite side of the map, and as soon as you arrive the event is cleared. I don't mind the athena chests since I am already maxed, I just wanted to unlock the TIME LIMITED moustache. In the end, the kids and unemployed people always win, since they can afford to play for several hours. At least fix the issue with the queue for fort raids. Right now the event is unplayable for a lot of people.
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Right now the only option for a player is to stick on a server for hours and go to every fort that spawns, which is hyper constested every single time
Yup, seems to be about right, and how this event was meant to be.
At least fix the issue with the queue for fort raids. Right now the event is unplayable for a lot of people.
So you want to start a raid, and later be contested...which would still result in "Time Wasted" and might be sunk and still lose out on the Moustache....(frankly isnt worth the troubles)
@burnbacon I prefer to be the one already at the fort for this event, so I want the dive mechanic to work. I can't sit all day playing.
@blazebeard2313
think it was more of passive aggressive post than insulting..
But i see where @HiradC was going@blazebeard2313 fair enough my bad on the opening progress, it will likely also die down after a couple of days once sweatier crews already have theirs.
When you start mentioning unemployed people you just come off as bitter and resentful.@wolfmanbush said in Mega Stash Event:
Shoulda just gave away the mustache for playing.
15 ashen athenas for rando forts is beyond ridiculous incentive by itself.
Yeah, 5 opened forts to get a mustache is peak FOMO bait. Especially given the usual technical issues that always pop up when there's an event going on.
Rare just looked at the complaints for previous events ("not enough loot/incentive", "no cosmetic reward") and overcorrected, as usual.
@kaoteek said in Mega Stash Event:
@wolfmanbush said in Mega Stash Event:
Shoulda just gave away the mustache for playing.
15 ashen athenas for rando forts is beyond ridiculous incentive by itself.
Yeah, 5 opened forts to get a mustache is peak FOMO bait. Especially given the usual technical issues that always pop up when there's an event going on.
Rare just looked at the complaints for previous events ("not enough loot/incentive", "no cosmetic reward") and overcorrected, as usual.
Reward is so extreme/excessive in the last year for events as far as gold/treasure goes that it looks more like full on number padding rather than over-correction to me.
I dunno what goes on behind the scenes but there is a point where it sure looks pretty bad and obvious. Personally I think signs of that were obvious at the end of '24, but 15 packs of ashen legends is just comical at this point. If it's not intentional stat padding it's just full on tanking the athena economy of participation for the next year, for very short term gain.
4 ashen legends would have the same interest and would do significantly less long term damage than 15.
It would also likely break the game less. We all know what treasure stacking does in this game. Having the fomo farmers go out there and stack a bajillion chests for a week isn't helping anything on the performance end. As we can already see by how the event is performing.
100% you get progress from being in the vicinity when it opens, just like the fotd completions. I got my 5 last night, and we only opened 2.
I do think the 15 ashen athena vault is a bit comical. But, I have to admit last night was some of the most fun I've had on the seas in a long time. Every fort contested by multiple ships, sometimes the entire server. Lots of fights, tucks, island defenses, etc. Can't wait for tonight. I'd love for Rare to start implementing more short term/high reward events like this in the future.
@wolfmanbush back when I started playing the game, doing 5 CoL steals was a big goal for a lot of players. It was a lot less common to be PL back then, and therefore finding people doing CoL spawning PvE stuff was a lot rarer. This brought people to hunt down Athena emissaries and lie in wait at FotDs for hours. Now that same commendation can be completed 3 times over with one Skele Fort steal. Absolutely ridiculous. I have to laugh when people try to tell me that cosmetics tell a story or mean anything anymore.
@sammyr0cks said in Mega Stash Event:
100% you get progress from being in the vicinity when it opens, just like the fotd completions. I got my 5 last night, and we only opened 2.
I do think the 15 ashen athena vault is a bit comical. But, I have to admit last night was some of the most fun I've had on the seas in a long time. Every fort contested by multiple ships, sometimes the entire server. Lots of fights, tucks, island defenses, etc. Can't wait for tonight. I'd love for Rare to start implementing more short term/high reward events like this in the future.
There is no denying that this very much works in the very short term. But giving people 5 shrouded ghosts in an event would work in the short term too, what works for a day or a week is something extremely counter-productive and destructive long term.
They said next season is gonna be reaper themed and pvp voyages. That's going to be a season in between HG and BB as far as organic interest. Very very likely going to be low participation, high cheesing, high spite, generally unfun for many. What makes a season like that less uninteresting is organic participation outside of the season content.
Flooding athena rep in ridiculous amounts is only taking away from next season's participation and well beyond that.
Very exciting for a night of fights and steals, but it comes at a cost when it's so excessive.
Compare their events a year+ ago to the events in the last 6 months. They've gone way over the top with it. And they will have to continue to go over board because people get used to what they have, they will always have to match or increase what they do. They have the game stuck in excessive reward mode. If they ever try to balance it, the cuts will have to be extreme and people will be outraged. This is not a good spot to be in, long term.
We went from 7 tribute chests on a packed sea fort to 15 ashen legends for a random fort. A yearly gilded season to gilded flooding and luck voyage flooding (including sacrificing the box of secrets for it) . This is not good.
If they are gonna flood something they should flood HG. People in a content drought. People that could use big bonuses. Not adventure play that is already full of overindulgence.
Yeah - I think it was unfair to place the cosmetic on a personal target basis as given the spiciness of the event(which is a good thing) it is completely out of reach for most solos for example to hold onto a fort.
I just tucked on other forts to achieve it - with no expectation to contest any Mega Stash.
Raid voyages to skelly forts should have been disabled for the event.
Server hop using the Gold Hoarder 2 chest dig to find an active one.
@wolfmanbush said in Mega Stash Event:
15 ashen athenas for rando forts is beyond ridiculous incentive by itself.
Every fort I go to gets contested, fought over, half the loot sinks and PVPers win more gold.
Whomever adds more reward to the game is a Hero in my book because most people just want to add more risk without reward
@stallion1947 hiya - if this still hasn't come through for you, try raising a support request with our team directly and they can have a closer look for you.
@blazebeard2313 Yes, this is true as well, but I have checked and we're aware that for some users, it's not coming through which is why I've suggested the ticket, but of course, welcome to wait the usual 72 hours before doing so. :)
