Make this a quest instead of just being an RNG bottle quest.
Make it where you sail to an island and that fruit crate may or may not is needing specific types of fruit. (that way it is somewhat more of a challenge) and then you return it.
As it stands, the collection of crates is nearly impossible to complete because 9/10 bottles are now smuggler bottles and the one non smuggler bottle I get is 99% not going to be a deliver a crate.
@burnbacon said in Deliver Fruit Crates, Wood Crates, etc.:
Why are we fixated on old stuff when we got new stuff atm?
Sure. It’s annoying but, what part of the game isn’t?
Its been "annoying" since season 11, so for the last 1,5 years and now its even harder.
Annoying is an understatement btw.
A grind that took weeks now takes years and that has to change.
If you dont grind it you won't finish it ever.
Either that or give more ways to earn it. E.g. get it from one of the (merchant) NPCs on islands or mysterious journals. Or at least have 1-3 of them as a guaranteed bottle quest inside the captain's cabin of a merchant's Lost shipment voyage (so you can grind it, but you still gotta work to get one)
@drbensei said in Deliver Fruit Crates, Wood Crates, etc.:
Either that or give more ways to earn it. E.g. get it from one of the (merchant) NPCs on islands or mysterious journals. Or at least have 1-3 of them as a guaranteed bottle quest inside the captain's cabin of a merchant's Lost shipment voyage (so you can grind it, but you still gotta work to get one)
I'm not in favour of making it a voyage, a chance for getting one or two at the end of a Lost Shipment or even as an Emissary quest would be great or just a bigger chance as one of the quests you get from a message in a bottle, to offset the removal of them in barrels.
I just got one floating in Barrels'o'plenty - so they've not dissappeared completely, lets hope Rare ups the chance when the Smuggler ones are not the main bottles to find anymore next Season.
@drbensei said in Deliver Fruit Crates, Wood Crates, etc.:
Either that or give more ways to earn it. E.g. get it from one of the (merchant) NPCs on islands or mysterious journals. Or at least have 1-3 of them as a guaranteed bottle quest inside the captain's cabin of a merchant's Lost shipment voyage (so you can grind it, but you still gotta work to get one)
This is a great idea.
@burnbacon What do you mean fixated on old stuff? You can't complete the merchants commendations without completing those voyages and those voyages are not found on the captain's table anymore. I've been playing this game for 2 years. I didn't focus a ton on merchants until after they took away the ability to purchase those voyages. Then they became a part of green bottles. Now they decided to basically get rid of 98% of the green bottles and they're all Smuggler's voyages so yeah, people are annoyed! I'm one of them! Especially since when the green bottles were more actively around only like 7% of them were those merchant voyages that we are all looking for!
I'm almost done with my merchant comms but these ones are a super grind and they're very hard to find especially now that every nautical mile there's another bunch of flotsam barrels with another Smuggler's bottle in it that happens to glow the same color from a distance as the green bottles that we are always searching for.
When we used to have larger medley voyages back when we could purchase voyages they were apart of the long Merchant medleys. I really don't know why they can't be a part of the emissary voyage, or just put them with the medley! It really drives me bananas looking for these things and I have been crashing out this season because every bottle is a smuggler's bottle and they are the same color from a distance as the green bottles.
We don't need two radials full of smugglers deliveries.
@poetniknowit said in Deliver Fruit Crates, Wood Crates, etc.:
Every time I see a bottle I'm crashing out because they glow the same color and they are always smugglers bottles. I'm always on the hunt for the merchant ones and now they're just basically non-existent.
They are very sparse, but their spawrate is supposed to increase again next Season.
@poetniknowit said in Deliver Fruit Crates, Wood Crates, etc.:
@burnbacon What do you mean fixated on old stuff? You can't complete the merchants commendations without completing those voyages and those voyages are not found on the captain's table anymore. I've been playing this game for 2 years. I didn't focus a ton on merchants until after they took away the ability to purchase those voyages. Then they became a part of green bottles. ( ... )
The crate voyages were never part of the voyages you could buy, they have been always be part of the voyages found in bottles and barrels (which they removed since they introduced the new voyage system).
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@lem0n-curry Right before Voyages became a part of the Captain's table they definitely were in barrels for a little while but that was brief. Before THAT, when I started like over 2 years ago, they were a part of some sort of voyage. I was working on a video about why merchants is so hard to complete awhile back,and I think they were a part of the longer medley type merchant voyages.
@lem0n-curry correcting myself because I went back to look. The keg deliveries used to be a part of the animal deliveries. We used to get a list of like 15 plus animals and if you were lucky a gunpowder barrel was part of that.
Perhaps the other crates is what I was thinking of but I do recall those other deliveries were plentiful.
@poetniknowit said in Deliver Fruit Crates, Wood Crates, etc.:
@lem0n-curry Right before Voyages became a part of the Captain's table they definitely were in barrels for a little while but that was brief. Before THAT, when I started like over 2 years ago, they were a part of some sort of voyage. I was working on a video about why merchants is so hard to complete awhile back,and I think they were a part of the longer medley type merchant voyages.
I think you are misremembering; the crate voyages were in barrels, books and bottles (on beaches, in shipwrecks, loot of a skeleton ship, and amongst barrels'o'plenty). Keg deliveries had a chance to be part of animal delivery quests (or were found in the same way as crate voyages).
The medley from the Captain Voyages was cargo, animals and a lost shipment voyage. Perhaps you (or a crewmate) also picked up a random voyage and thought it was part of the medley.
@poetniknowit said in Deliver Fruit Crates, Wood Crates, etc.:
@lem0n-curry correcting myself because I went back to look. The keg deliveries used to be a part of the animal deliveries. We used to get a list of like 15 plus animals and if you were lucky a gunpowder barrel was part of that.
Perhaps the other crates is what I was thinking of but I do recall those other deliveries were plentiful.
Aye - see my post above 😁.
They were plentiful -if you went and searched for them(*); I dove to plenty a shipwreck, sword-launched myself to anything shiny on beaches and browsed through all the barrels on an outpost where I spawned - and on the one(s) I had to make a delivery to. It mostly was a trip from Golden Sands to Sanctuary and back, but it was two (or more) crates for 1000+ gold each; easy gold at the start of a session.
(*) Many people complained about having to deal with those random voyages they (or crewmates) picked up while getting supplies from the barrels - hence the hide voyage mechanic on the quest wheel.
@potatosord said in Deliver Fruit Crates, Wood Crates, etc.:
The one for kegs is the worst. I just wanna get my 100 kegs delivered.
I forgot about this. It is all the crate deliveries. Make it more common for all of the crate missions.
Pretty please make obtaining crate/keg deliveries more reliable. Be it a voyage, or noticeable bump to the RNG for bottles/journals. Finding just one now is how I imagine finding the shrouded ghost feels...
and yes change the glow on either the regular bottle quests, or the smuggler's bottles. They should be easily identifiable.
This is my 2nd time doing this grind (PS5) and it's easily the worst part of 100% nowadays, which baffles me. If you aren't doing the "fastest method", which is just dive/server hopping, it's impossible. Nothing immersive about this at all. Please make it make sense.
Yeah adding these quests as an on-demand voyage is a no brainer.
No reason why the activities of a Merchant should be left to RNG bottle quests.
On demand voyage that gave you a delivery for all types in one go would be ideal.
In the last week or so I have seen a slight increase in the number of normal bottle quests with these quests included - but still not acceptable.
@zapredelniykot said in Deliver Fruit Crates, Wood Crates, etc.:
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@lem0n-curry
Yep they were.....clearly a newbie so I can see how you wouldn't know this. But you are wrong.
@the-fospet said in Deliver Fruit Crates, Wood Crates, etc.:
@lem0n-curry
Yep they were.....clearly a newbie so I can see how you wouldn't know this. But you are wrong.
Not sure to which post your are responding, so don't know what "they" refers to. I do have an inkling, but the poster I was arguing with even said "correcting myself because I went back to look".
I'm far from being a newbie, did a lot of merchant voyages in the early days and a lot of crate deliveries from voyages I got in shipwrecks, barrels, books and bottles.
@the-fospet said in Deliver Fruit Crates, Wood Crates, etc.:
@lem0n-curry
Yep they were.....clearly a newbie so I can see how you wouldn't know this. But you are wrong.
Going to have to disagree with you on this, in that @Lem0n-Curry isn't wrong at all. As a matter of fact, I remember grinding those merchant commendations, where I'd just keep logging in to different outposts looking for tattered parchments to find the keg/cannonball crate deliveries. You may not know this since you've only got 708 days at sea (according to the info here, compared to Lemon's 2,566), but there used to be torn pages in barrels you could find that you'd accept. Back in the day, I was frustrated with not finding the one I needed, and was able to complete it by accepting animal deliveries, where I finally turned in my last cannonball crate.
Days at Sea refers to number of days a person visited the forum, not the time spend in game (though in my case it's still a lot 😊).
@lem0n-curry said in Deliver Fruit Crates, Wood Crates, etc.:
Days at Sea refers to number of days a person visited the forum, not the time spend in game (though in my case it's still a lot 😊).
Then that's two for two you're correct about :D
@lem0n-curry A newbie is anyone playing since PS5 launch or captains update...however this does not relate in anyway to a players skill etc, however it would cloud their knowledge of the full history of the game......I thought it was your good self, but I maybe mistaken, but the claim that the fruit, wood and kegs were not part of the purchasable merchant quests is wrong. As a day one player, you could most definitely purchase them.
A Wood create delivery was by the far the most rare to find.
There is a fab Youtube video explaining the changes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xif-iHOiye8
It is odd that Rare have chosen to make the game boringly easy to achieve Legend etc, yet for achieving some of the grinds, like the OP's complaint, its much harder......go figure!
@the-fospet said in Deliver Fruit Crates, Wood Crates, etc.:
@lem0n-curry A newbie is anyone playing since PS5 launch or captains update...however this does not relate in anyway to a players skill etc, however it would cloud their knowledge of the full history of the game......I thought it was your good self, but I maybe mistaken, but the claim that the fruit, wood and kegs were not part of the purchasable merchant quests is wrong. As a day one player, you could most definitely purchase them.
Not a day one player, but playing long enough to have the Launch Crew Eye of Reach 😎.
A Wood create delivery was by the far the most rare to find.
There is a fab Youtube video explaining the changes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xif-iHOiye8
Or he misremembered as well. The video is created long after the introduction of cargo runs (video is 2 years old, cargo runs was October 2018) which he claims replaced them
He also mixes up the frequency of the skull stash voyage and Thieves Haven runs; claiming the latter was 1/month.
Found a thread 7 years old when the banana crate was still at 1000 turn ins, probably predates the cargo
https://www.seaofthieves.com/community/forums/topic/44699/mod-edited-to-lower-the-unrealistic-commendation-achievement-requirements?page=1
People mentioning them are stating they're only found in Messages in Bottles, no-one mentioned them being part of voyages you can buy.
Other topics are:
People asking for crates you can buy, why if you had a chance to get them for the price of a voyage ?
People complained about the crates on the picture of the MA but not having a buyable voyage for it.
Is it perhaps possible these voyages were only in the alpha ?
It is odd that Rare have chosen to make the game boringly easy to achieve Legend etc, yet for achieving some of the grinds, like the OP's complaint, its much harder......go figure!
Not as hard as killing 900 boars for the last milestone reward 😁
People complained about the random voyages as they would clutter the voyage wheel if one of the crew couldn't resist picking them up.
People looking for voyages and if not found, change server probably didn't help either.
@lem0n-curry said in Deliver Fruit Crates, Wood Crates, etc.:
Not as hard as killing 900 boars for the last milestone reward 😁
Luckily that milestone doesn't have a reward.
Anyway, i hope Drew keeps his word and the madness of merchant crates, kegs ends soon.
@dermasterbob said in Deliver Fruit Crates, Wood Crates, etc.:
@lem0n-curry said in Deliver Fruit Crates, Wood Crates, etc.:
Not as hard as killing 900 boars for the last milestone reward 😁
Luckily that milestone doesn't have a reward.
Anyway, i hope Drew keeps his word and the madness of merchant crates, kegs ends soon.
Ooooh, on the one hand disappointing, on the other hand - live, boars, live !!
Thanks for that info (I just got to milestone 2).
