The fact that doubloons used to be able to buy many levels at once, and now cannot buy more than one level per trading company per month is incredibly unfair. Players who had many doubloons when they could be used to buy all the way up to level 50 in one hour got those levels unfairly, and it's incredibly irritating to me knowing that players just like me got to pirate legend so much quicker simply because they played at a certain time. I understand that doubloons were kind of overpowered, but for players like me who don't care about limited time cosmetics and only care about progression in the game, it's irritating. I think doubloons should be able to buy more than one level per month, or maybe have a higher cost for buying levels. Now doubloons feel kind of useless. It's unfair, that's all.
Doubloons for buying levels
There was a long point during the game when you couldn't buy levels. Players got to pirate legend grinding and grinding hard. Loot was harder to get and didn't give nearly as much rep.
Quests didnt give you captains chest either. I remeber doing level 47 GH or 45 OoS quests and constantly getting castaway chests and foul bounty skulls.
You have it sooooooooooooo easy now that you really have no place to complain. Just enjoy the game and the adventure.
@redegg87 this has been changed because before doubloons where a finite resource you could only get them from commendations.
Now however i earn 1000’s a month
You call this unfair how is it fair that people get to buy their levels now when this wasnt a thing when the “OG’s” grinded their way to pirate legend....
To give you some facts to the matter:
I became pirate legend in the first week of the hungering deep update, in those times we had:
- gold hoarder voyages
- merchant animal voyages
- OoS voyages
- no doubloons
- no letters of recommendation
- faction commendations with insanely high requirements (yes they have been rebalanced months later)
- no high value merchant loot in forts
- no high value loot in The devils roar
- no megalodons, especially none that gave any loot
- no krakens that gave loot
- no skelly fleets
- no roaming skelly ships
- no athena commendations making the path to athena 10 easier
- no athena chests in a fort
- no cargo runs
So now the changed doubloons from a finite resource to an infinite one.
I currently am holding on to give or take 6000 doubloons, this would mean i could power level 4 factions from 0 to 50 (1500 doubloons per faction) that would basicly nullify the complete game and thus they changed it to this which is a good thing.
Even though it means nothing whatsoever i pride myself in never buying a single lever for any faction and i refuse to do it anyway simply because it was not available when the game first came out.
And with all the changes that came to the game it also means that loot is INSANELY easy to come by now:
- events giving top tier loot on a monthly basis
- skelly ships
- kraken loot
- megalodon loot
- devils roar loot
- top tier loot in forts
- random loot floating in the sea
- almost every island has loot strewn all over their beaches
- random captains
Etc etc etc
@redegg87 oh lol i was almost going to agree because i thought you were saying the opposite, that its increadibly unfair that players are able to buy lvls when there are people like me who leveled up naturally. i disagree with being able to buy any levels, its just cheese. and i mean whats progression if you can just buy it.
I think twice a month but like you said maybe every 5 levels it cost more so say level 0-5 is x amount then 45-50 is the most. That would be fair. I got pirate legend in first 3 months the game was out it doesn't effect me either way cuz pirate legend is honestly just the beginning there is way more that needs to be unlocked that you can't buy.
@monkeyshishan I can see where you're coming from. My main complaint is that the players who were able to buy so many levels at once had it the easiest. Surely you understand why this is unfair?
@callmebackdraft My issue is that players who bought their way all the way up to pirate legend got to pirate legend so easily. Surely it upsets you more that those players were able to buy their way to level 50 than players only being able to buy one level per month.
@tedgie2574 That's exactly my issue. I realize I came across as wanting to be able to buy more levels per month, but that's not what I really meant. I am upset that players were able to buy many levels all at once and get to pirate legend easily as you said.
@redegg87 What do you want them to do though? Somehow know who bought levels and take away all their levels and stuff? They cant really do anything at this point to stop it. And if you say its unfair then why do you want them to re-add it?
@redegg87 please cry less and grind more. PL should be earned, not given away like some sack lunch at your local food bank
Pirate legend is pretty meaningless outside of access to the hideout and legendary voyages which aren't different from other voyages.
It's at least something to spend doubloons on as we have collected enough without much to spend on. New players like the idea of working for pirate legends. I don't mind it anymore. I think the original intention was to help players reach pirate legend by the 1st year update so they all could receive the new legendary skins. Add in the gilded voyages, and promotion was quick for some.Find an achievement you like and work towards that. Can't purchase achievements, yet.
I can see why it's unfair but frankly buying your levels doesnt do anything for you. There is no reason to rush being pirate legend as there is no added benefit. Being pirate legend used to be the gateway to get athenas which was hard to come by back then. Players didnt share the Athena quest with players outside their crew. Now you can find Athena grinds all over the place.
The absolute worst thing that came from buying levels is the horrible skill level of players nowadays. You get players boasting that they are pirate legend but they have no idea how to sail a ship. They think its just raising sails and dropping anchors. Their cannon ball shots are so off the mark you stop wondering where all the cannon balls you had collected disappeared to as you watch a fake legend trying to be a Bad-A** while missing all his shots.
The skill level of every pirate legend during OG era was high. You see a pirate legend and you wondered how they survived the bloodiest most unforgiving time of the game to get there.
Dont sacrifice your chances to really learn the game just to rush something you don't need to rush. If you are worried about arena dont be. Level 50 doesnt give you anything special and even then the devs have discussed rep outside arena.
Take your time, really learn how to play the game. If you are always turning in loot then youll get it eventually and youll think back at this moment when you do and say to yourself "wow how could i have been such a noob".
Doubloons was extremely rare before, you could ONLY get them from commendations/events and not from chests/items.
Which gave you the choice to buy limited items or use them on gold/rep but that's not the case anymore since doubloons is just like gold right now, it's everywhere so having the ability to buy as many levels as you want wouldn't work at all.
You can't complain about stuff being unfair when you weren't even playing the game at that point in time.
@redegg87 it doesnt really upset me, it just baffled me.
When they introduced LoR it started a slight dumbing down of the road to PL which was already starting to get easier.
Then they introduced reapers chests and all these events with top tier loot and i was like: “alright this has to mean they are actually working on PL specific content”But no, we are months and months later now and all us PL’s have gotten is some cosmetics.
Dont get me wrong, i love most of the additions the game has gotten in terms of the events, regions, tall tales and all that... it is just really baffling to me that where it originally took months of grinding to get to PL it can now be done within a week or two (yes even without LoR’s) and after all that time of PL’s begging and pleading for PL specific content nothing of the sorts has arrived yet.
A couple of months ago there was a dev Q&A on these here forums and one of the things the devs said was that they understandably needed to focus on general content first but that the time had now arrived that they started work on PL specific content and they would soon share more about it.
Well guess what its now a couple of months later and still complete radio silence about that. They just added a dumbing down of the road to athena 10 because now you just have to do a couple of FoTD without even being pl or needing a pl in your crew and you will get athena rep.
@redegg87 The only this that's wrong is the cd. 1 month is too much, I think 1 week could be the best option also because it can give the chance to decide if in that week is better to level up or to buy the level. But 1 month it means the game forces you to play and level up without buying it because sincerely the best option is to buy levels when you close to 45 and not before and pirates can ez make 1 level in 1 month
Exactly its not fair now. They screwed it by introducing the buying rep lvl. And now they changed it but they shouldnt cause people abused it and lvl to 50 easy. Why am I now obliged to grind to 50? Its not fair cause others didnt had to grind to 50, it should at least be 1 lvl per week. They already screwed it in the first place.
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