Why are gilded voyages no longer stackable? I've now lost my gilded Athena voyage

  • My friends and I bought our gilded Athena voyages last year but never needed them so kept them so we could get another set this year and stack them at once. Previously you could have multiple gilded voyages from previous years stacked.

    However upon buying my gilded Athena this year I've found it had replaced my one from last year leaving me with 1 as opposed to the 2 I should have. Please tell me this is a bug and not intended. If it was really intended, why on earth would you not tell the player base beforehand so we could use the voyage as opposed to losing it?

    The PvP buzz around gildeds is really the only reason I have left to play the game after the neglect towards PvP over the past year and not allowing people to stack gildeds with voyages from previous years has already killed the hype for me. Stealing regular gildeds is something we've been doing for 3 years now, was really just hoping for more stacks this year but guess that ship has sailed.

    edit: contacted support who replied saying my ticket had been put on hold while they investigate and will update in due course, seems as though it's a bug so fingers crossed those who lost them get them back. Will update the post when/if they update me any further.

    edit 2: according to the support twitter this is intended, nice of them to announce it hours after it released as opposed to beforehand, cant say I'm surprised seen as my expectations for Rare were already rock bottom so it is what it is. -1 gilded I guess lol

    edit 3: turns out it was a bug, got following update from support: 'Following the recent issue where newly purchased Gilded Voyages were overwriting previously owned Gilded Voyages, any affected players will receive a new Gilded Voyage in January'. Those in my position just wait and it'll be re-added in January thankfully.

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  • @maciver01 Definitely seems like a bug considering that the past years have allowed you to keep them. Your best bet is to hit up support and send in a request.

    https://support.seaofthieves.com/hc/en-gb/requests/new

  • @mferr11 Yeah have already submitted a ticket, fingers crossed its a bug because they should have really told us otherwise.

  • @maciver01 let us know what they say so I or anyone else don’t lose it.

  • @maciver01 Atleast you only lost a gilded athena. Unless the quest has been reworked they kinda suck for athena payout. I'd rather do a Thieves Haven run.

  • @captain-coel said in Why are gilded voyages no longer stackable? I've now lost my gilded Athena voyage:

    Atleast you only lost a gilded athena. Unless the quest has been reworked they kinda suck for athena payout. I'd rather do a Thieves Haven run.

    It's a minimum grade 4 voyage even with average rng, 3 athena chests at the end, and the voyage is condensed into less islands

    def still more efficient than even a Fof because of the 3 legend chests

    it's unfortunate to lose one but now that fof exists it's not as big of a loss as those are worth the gamble when specifically talking athena

  • @captain-coel said in Why are gilded voyages no longer stackable? I've now lost my gilded Athena voyage:

    @maciver01 Atleast you only lost a gilded athena. Unless the quest has been reworked they kinda suck for athena payout. I'd rather do a Thieves Haven run.

    Yea man, last time we got one it was the same 'ol.
    I thought last time that the captains would drop athena skulls and we would have to sig up athena loot but noooo.... gilded athena is more a regular voyage with three chests than a gilded athena if you ask me. 😂😂😂

  • @wolfmanbush They made it longer a bit, before it was only two islands and then the Athenas but now the bounty quests goes to different islands.

    It does gives more Athena loot though.

  • @faceyourdemon sagte in Why are gilded voyages no longer stackable? I've now lost my gilded Athena voyage:

    @wolfmanbush They made it longer a bit, before it was only two islands and then the Athenas but now the bounty quests goes to different islands.

    It does gives more Athena loot though.

    "More"...you mean, IT GIVES NOW athena loot, besides the 3 chests at the end...before we just had the chests

  • Ahoy maties just to add to this;

    We are investigating an issue around this year's Gilded Voyages and have currently disabled the ability to purchase one.
    Please keep an eye out for further updates later today.

  • @schwammlgott Last year we did it and wondered why did we worked for that?

    Haha

  • @musicmee sagte in Why are gilded voyages no longer stackable? I've now lost my gilded Athena voyage:

    Ahoy maties just to add to this;

    We are investigating an issue around this year's Gilded Voyages and have currently disabled the ability to purchase one.
    Please keep an eye out for further updates later today.

    😱

  • @musicmee said in Why are gilded voyages no longer stackable? I've now lost my gilded Athena voyage:

    Ahoy maties just to add to this;

    We are investigating an issue around this year's Gilded Voyages and have currently disabled the ability to purchase one.
    Please keep an eye out for further updates later today.

    This is in the discord event announcement, which makes it seem like this is on purpose:

    Acquiring a new Gilded Voyage during this year's Festival of Giving will remove any older Gilded Voyages you still have in your inventory. If you do still have a Gilded Voyage from a previous Event, we strongly advise completing it before picking up a new one.

    I wonder if they have reconsidered erasing your old ones, or if there is some other issue that is allowing people to purchase more than 1 this year?

  • I placed a ticket yesterday. It is a odd bug if it was one

  • I am glad I was able to find this thread eventually.

    I've had my Gilded Voyage of Legends since last year, sitting in my inventory so I can stack it with a second Gilded Voyage of Legends on a Gold and Glory weekend. However, when I speak with Larinna, the Gilded Voyage of Legends has an X through it, and I may not purchase it. I may, however, purchase one from the other trading companies.

    From what I've read in this thread, this seems intentional? I am forced to either complete my Gilded Voyage of Legends now, or get a new one from a different trading company, and then lose the one I currently have? Should I open a ticket? This is quite frustrating that I wouldn't be allowed to stack Gilded voyages from the same trading company. Why would that be not allowed?

  • @yotaninja said in Why are gilded voyages no longer stackable? I've now lost my gilded Athena voyage:

    I am glad I was able to find this thread eventually.

    I've had my Gilded Voyage of Legends since last year, sitting in my inventory so I can stack it with a second Gilded Voyage of Legends on a Gold and Glory weekend. However, when I speak with Larinna, the Gilded Voyage of Legends has an X through it, and I may not purchase it. I may, however, purchase one from the other trading companies.

    From what I've read in this thread, this seems intentional? I am forced to either complete my Gilded Voyage of Legends now, or get a new one from a different trading company, and then lose the one I currently have? Should I open a ticket? This is quite frustrating that I wouldn't be allowed to stack Gilded voyages from the same trading company. Why would that be not allowed?

    The SoT Support twitter may have some answers for you.

    Why didn't you just do one on a previous G&G weekend already ? If it won't get you to grade 5, just do bits of other Athena &c.

  • @lem0n-curry said in Why are gilded voyages no longer stackable? I've now lost my gilded Athena voyage:

    If it won't get you to grade 5, just do bits of other Athena &c.

    Off topic..but some data for anyone curious...

    One Gilded Athena will not get you to Grade 5. It will take about 3 chapters of a Thieves Haven run along with it to get to Grade 5. This was tested with mine and my buddy's Gilded Athena Voyages on consecutive days.

    A TH Run actually works out pretty well since after you finish chapter 3, you can head right over to Crook's Hollow to start the first leg of your Gilded. Adds about 20-30 minutes to your Gilded, but totally worth it to get Grade 5 bonus on 3x Athena's and then snag your Emissary quest if you have time.

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