ledger rewards

Where do people even draw the line?

It's a tier system. Top tier is top tier. Who cares what someone else had hit to qualify for top tier vs what you feel you put in to hit top tier.

It's stupid and arbitrary to take top tier and make an even smaller bracket for no reason. Why even have the tiers at all at thst point.. everyone's always going to feel like they should get more vs someone else also at that tier

I see nothing wrong with something like a glowing flag for the corresponding faction, or at the very least a title, if a player gets in the top 10,000 or 10% of the ledger.

Basically something that doesn't require too many resources on the development side of things, and something that isn't a big loss if people don't get it, yet it's something that is still enticing enough for people to work for.

Sure some people use dubious methods to get into the top position, however getting to the top 10,000 doesn't require that much effort.
I spent about 2-3 days (5-8 hour play sessions) doing Merchant Emissary runs, and got to the top 1000, while people were constantly hunting me.
Had to no-life it a bit to get to the top 1000 with Athena, still, it's doable without Alliance Servers and as a solo player.

With all that in mind, a top tier of 10% with a small reward to show off, isn't asking for that much.
Doesn't even have to be for this season, it could be done on the next.

EDIT:
If the rewards do not change monthly, then having a small reward for the top 1000 would make more sense than the top 10000.
It's a carrot on a stick for players who like getting those kinds of rewards.

@needsmokes
Yeah, I think the rewards everybody wants should be easier to get (because it's cosmetics, not RPG gear), however there needs to be something for 'players to keep working towards' kind of thing.
Seeing as you have not played for a few weeks and you're still in the top tier with all companies, there obviously needs to be something that drives people a little more.

Maybe even just a faction themed tattoo with the month/rank achieved if the player were to get to the top 10,000 or 1,000 or whatever arbitrary number seems fine.
That way there is a reward that is difficult to get and changes monthly, but only slightly.
Same tattoo, different numbers kind of thing.

Because Hombre, fulfillment in many peoples' lives are only met that way. Starting a task and seeing it through yields a sense of accomplishment. When a game is the only place they can do this, as in their life they don't have autonomy or ability, they yearn for that same feeling of making a difference.

@needsmokes I think you can quick math! Is 440000 Players many for you? This is the amount of players who are in the gold hoarder ledger! Me as example never played as an Gold Hoarder Emissary, so im not in the ledger, like many many other that playing first other emissaries! Count in the people who not played an single emissary voyage, the people who only pvp like before the people who only sailing and roaming around etc. So I think over 2 million people played this game since April 22nd!

Why are people so eager for our games to make us work?

I don't wanna work. That's why I'm playing games!

Then don't* work, play.
Some people though view work and playing as the same thing.
To each their own kinda thing.

That's why the reward should be small, but cool enough to work for.

Also I can't quote you because your name is apparently a restricted word.
There is something very wrong with the profanity filter around here.

*EDIT
'Dont' was autocorrected to 'do'
Made no sense.

@needsmokes said in ledger rewards:

@ultimate-powa

The fact I'm still in the top tier on all factions should be very worrying.
There can't be too many people actually playing this game. I only did a couple of quests for each faction, and merchant and Oos I think I only leveled up to 5 once on both and did the bonus thingy at the end. That's it!
I genuinely put very little effort in, and was part of no alliances.

There are people playing though.
The issue is people would rather not be seen on the map by the Reaper, so they do the flag once, get hunted, then don't bother again.
Most people never even get to Grade V, let alone do it multiple times.
The other day, I was showing a buddy of mine the ropes (Hasn't played since launch), and we were just grade 2 in Order of Souls, and some Galleon just started b-lining right to us at pre-render distance.
So we turned in the flag, then he b-lined it to the other outpost with an Emissary Sloop, which they took down their flag, then the Galleon scuttled and server hopped.
The PvP is worse than when Skullforts were first introduced.

Also there is only 4 tiers per ledger, which consists of the top 25%, the top 50%, and the bottom 50%, and the bottom 25%.
If they made it so that the player had to do the Emissary Quest once to qualify for the ledger, then I'm sure you'd be in the bottom 50%, rather than the top 25%.

@schwammlgott said in ledger rewards:

@needsmokes said in ledger rewards:

@ultimate-powa

The fact I'm still in the top tier on all factions should be very worrying.
There can't be too many people actually playing this game. I only did a couple of quests for each faction, and merchant and Oos I think I only leveled up to 5 once on both and did the bonus thingy at the end. That's it!
I genuinely put very little effort in, and was part of no alliances.

You must have done OoS more then just once to get to high tier...
I'd guess, when you go up to rank V included the emissary voyage about 4 or 5 times you are safe for the high tier reward and don't need to do more until it expires

I have gotten Order of Souls to Grade V only twice, and never have done the Emissary Mission (may have done an island on the way to the Skullfleet), and I'm in the top tier.