I realize this is going to put me at sword-point real quick, but I've grown tired, more than tired, of the blatant reaper favoritism we've been getting for the last few years (two reaper-specific updates and everything). That all world events give a mixture of loot between all (non-hunter, non-athena) trading companies is bad enough, but now they're mixing in items that can only be turned in to the reaper in world events? And the only item that can still give you doubloons outside of the weekender (which also had a hard cap on doubloons earnable without going reaper yourself) is the reaper chest?
No wonder there were enormous doubloon caches, it's easy to rack them up as a reaper, and with an emissary bonus to boot.
And on top of that, it makes the reaper vs athena stash in hourglass rather lopsided. A reaper can always grab whatever they want from an athena's rep and sell it, with emissary bonus, but the same isn't true the other way around. And yeah, that was part and parcel of things like having your map location broadcast, and not having any missions as a faction, but that latter bit isn't true anymore.
It's high time either the reapers got cut down to size, or everyone else gets boosted. It's all well and good to have a pirate faction that primarily hunts other players, but it's annoying when the very fabric of the game seems stacked in their favor to the point where it's the path of least resistance.
