The Reaper faction annoys me

Last night, no. Same with this morning, except after the brig. Went back to Sanctuary, slapped it on, went for that T5 sloop. Who ran. Wasn't a total waste, spotted a Gold Hoarder emissary nearby, so went for them. Wasn't very thrilling, nobody was onboard, so an easy sink. I figure I may have jinxed myself with this post, and the next three weeks will be nothing but PvP focused Reapers.

Also, I can't directly reply to you, because the forum says the first part of your name is 'illegal.'

@ghost-of-rhyza regrettably there are many False Reapers on the seas atm but I have made it my personal mission to hunt them all down.

I could just brag about all the stuff I stole but I know no-one cares so just rest assured there are true reapers representing the faction well.

There is no guide to playing a faction. You choose how you want to play. And as someone pointed, some are just grinding the faction for the rep and loot bonus.

Also, you shy away from galleons but chase sloops? Picky, I go for the galleon they give you a fight if you are so entitled for one. :)

You get people doing skull forts for reapers rep. That in my opinion should not be allowed and they should be forced to pvp.

@burnbacon As I said, I'm pretty new to PvP in general. Since I solo sloop, I'm trying to gauge what I can and can't do atm. I figure galleons are out of my league for now, at least with my skill, or lack thereof. I usually see two man brigs, which, being two people, seems to be my comfort zone.

@dzivi said in The Reaper faction annoys me:

You get people doing skull forts for reapers rep. That in my opinion should not be allowed and they should be forced to pvp.

I'll do that to get to level 5 then i start hunting ships :P

@Ghost-of-Rhyza - I've noticed this as well, I wanted to up my PVP skill a little so thought why not have some fun and hunt the Reapers on the map, however I'd say close to 70% of the Reapers I have approached have attempted to avoid battle.

As Hombre said (unable to post his name) Is probably right when he says most are probably just farming loot rather then wanting to PVP.

In any case it's made me far less cautious when seeing Reapers. (Which will probably backfire on me one day lol)

If you aren't running an emissary flag, they should avoid you. There is no incentive to fight flagless ships.

That being said, everyone is different. I try to make a point if not hunting flagless ships and even defending them from other reapers. This of course is thrown out the window if they attack first

@tre-oni you dont get rank for killing or sinking non emissaries. You do get rank for their loot but its easier to guarantee loot on a grade 2+ ship.

Notice my choice of the word hunt. I dont hunt other ships if they dont have a flag, as in im not wasting my time chasing them.

If you focus your efforts you can hit grade 5 twice in an hour. Once in 30-45 off of random loot and unlucky ships and the second time by marking all emissaries and then selling your flag and raising a new one so you can more discreetly hunt the marked ships.)

All I play is reaper now, pvp all day.

Don't worry matie you run into me I won't run away lol.. surely most would fight that are flying the reapers bones or maybe it s like the old days people getting around with the reapers up and running 🤣

@dzivi said in The Reaper faction annoys me:

You get people doing skull forts for reapers rep. That in my opinion should not be allowed and they should be forced to pvp.

The problem with that is that a lot of the time the servers are very quiet so Reapers might not be able to find other ships to sink and they need to be level 5 to be able to see other ships on the map.

Potentially a Reaper could be sailing around the map for over an hour just trying to find a ship to sink and even if they do there is no guarantee that they can catch and sink them.

There really does need to be some PvE way of getting Reaper rep otherwise the faction becomes a terrible and in some cases literally impossible grind when the servers are quiet, which is not an infrequent occurrence for a lot of players.

@chris5626 said in The Reaper faction annoys me:

The problem with that is that a lot of the time the servers are very quiet so Reapers might not be able to find other ships to sink and they need to be level 5 to be able to see other ships on the map.

Potentially a Reaper could be sailing around the map for over an hour just trying to find a ship to sink and even if they do there is no guarantee that they can catch and sink them.

There really does need to be some PvE way of getting Reaper rep otherwise the faction becomes a terrible and in some cases literally impossible grind when the servers are quiet, which is not an infrequent occurrence for a lot of players.

@purr2344 said in The Reaper faction annoys me:

@chris5626 so in this case make it where loot gives credit toward upgrading flag rank BUT NOT rep for the faction this way stolen loot gives rep kills gives rep pvp gives rep but not pve and u can pve to increase to lvl 5 for the bonus as u said

Well that would help ensure Reapers could get to emissary level 5 however it does nothing to change the fact that there might not be enough human targets available.

As it is at the moment you simply can't guarantee there will be sufficient numbers of other players on at all times to ensure there will be enough targets for players to gain 75 levels entirely through PvP.

What I would suggest in order to address the originally raised issue would be to re-balance how the Reaper faction xp is earned to better promote the attacking of other players but not relying solely on it, if done right that would incentivise more aggression from Reapers but wouldn't unfairly penalise those that play in regions or at times when the servers are quiet.