Suggestion: Voyage Length Options

@kommodoreyenser Yeah, I thought about that too initially and it's a valid thought. I ultimately figured it wouldn't mean too much in the grand scheme of things as there's already a bunch of ways to cheese a few of the long-term achievements.

I as approaching it from a "what do I have time to do" perspective and if you are gunning for those commendations, it sucks when you have to abandon something mid-way because it ended up being longer than you would have liked.

Not really sure how it could be implemented in a way that wouldn't be spamable.

@thetwistedtaste said in Suggestion: Voyage Length Options:

@kommodoreyenser said in Suggestion: Voyage Length Options:

cheesing the “complete 250 voyages” commendation by only choosing 1 chest, 1 animal, or 1 skeleton captain bounty voyages.

That’s the first thing I thought of too, but if you really wanted to cheese the voyages, playing with a low level / new player and getting them to vote voyages down is how many people have already cheesed that commendation / achievement.

I don’t see much of an issue though. I dislike multiple chapter voyages myself and would also like to at least see “Chapter 1 of 4” in the title banner so I know what time commitment I need.

I mean it isn't really much different from cheesing the "buy X voyages" commendation by just buying and deleting voyages. I think the Quality of Life of the ability to tailor your voyage time to how long you want to play outweighs cheesing a meaningless commendation.

I always thought that with 3 available voyages, they could be short-medium-long.

Short - 1 chapter
Medium - 2-3/4 chapters
Long - 4/5+ chapters

@thetwistedtaste said in Suggestion: Voyage Length Options:

@kommodoreyenser said in Suggestion: Voyage Length Options:

would also like to at least see “Chapter 1 of 4” in the title banner so I know what time commitment I need.

Always wondered why it didn't and wish it does. Wondering whether you had the time to finish only fir another chapter to appear.

I have always wanted to see something like this implemented, if I am on a schedule and have limited time, I will opt to play something else even though I want to jump into a SoT session.

I think it would also be nice as a springboard for longer sessions. I am always looking for skeleton captains and message in a bottle quests and short sweet voyages will at least give you a starting point for an open ended adventure without filling the quest radial with things you may or may not get to.

@sweetsandman Yeah, there's no way that I could envision it that wouldn't allow for cheesing and it may not be possible, lots of things can be cheesed but the quality of life is nice. You are correct, you don't have to finish the voyage, but it is nice to complete them as it does help with rep and such and the final map is often where the best loot is (not always the case). Currently it's just so random as to how long it will be. Even at max level you never really know how long the voyage will be and it'd just be nice to know, as mentioned either for planning purposes or as a good starting point for a session pending how you play.