Please add a prestige/rebirth system

@tek-lt

As much as I do miss the sound of the bar going up as I turn in loot to increase my rank to max, I don't see how this is helpful for an end game scenario. Even the COD's and Battlefields didn't mean much to me when they had this. In those games you lost everything and started fresh and newbie.....do you want that? Do you want all your progress wiped and have to start all over again with low level voyages, can't be an emissary till level 15 in each faction, re-buy all your status quo just to get better voyages, not be able to enter the Athena pirate hideout till level 50 in 3 factions, etc. That is what I see when some asks for such a thing and that is how it should be implemented. Keep you in that forever grind state.

I know this is a highly requested feature but I really want to express how much we actually NEED this feature.

I dont really think this is a highly requested thing at all. I think most of us do in fact not want a prestige/reset system.

When there is not much left to achieve the game starts getting stale and I hate that because I love the game and have even bought merch!

Many of us just sail around with friends and see what happens next. No goals really needed, unless you want to make some for yourself.

You have to give seasoned players a reason to return and stay around, I think my favorite requests are the ability to prestige the main companies once you have level 75 in all of them and also the character creation feature, allowing players to choose from the list of body features already available in the RNG pool, no need for sliders and whatever just let us select from the list of parts that already there, like head shape, nose, body, gender, etc.

Im sure they will raise the level cap to 100 at some point in the future. Probably as part of a bigger update. (whispers ... Captaincy update...)
Also the RNG wheel thing for choosing a pirate will keep pirates unique. If players could design their pirate completely, we would have mostly super thin, black clothed tucker lords everywhere. That would would make se seas look really boring. Also keeping limited things, LIMITED will add to the diversity on the seas.

Just my couple of cents on the matter,
Ghostfire

@tek-lt
After I finish everything new in an update, I go back to commendation hunting. Chances are you have plenty to complete! Instead of having prestige as an endless, useless grind, how about you not only get to 50 in Hunter's Call but also earn Legendary Hunter of the Sea of Thieves? Or get Triumphant Sea Dog after hitting level 50 in Arena? Those are good examples of grinds you can do after hitting max. I'd say that trying to fulfill commendations is a lot more fun than doing the most optimal voyage every time you want to play SoT. In this way, you can do variety things that might not just be doing voyages over and over again.

I hope we get more cap increases in the future, but I actually want to feel done at some point so that I can do other things. I don't think it would be right to hand us a infinite grind with diminishing rewards when there's so much more to experience. I play Sea of Thieves for fun and grind when it suits me.

I rather make a second pirate.

See I tried to approach the idea of a prestige system as a way to artificially extend the PvE goalpost for long-time veteran players. The idea was seen as solid, but it ultimately became a weak suggestion to remedy an issue I personally have with this game's, well, post-game.

The "number going up" mentality that the prestige system has to its reputation is a realistic side effect to this idea, but the way I see this idea is "reason to do the thing pirate hunters used to do before they started hunting".

Once you hit PL, maxed your trading companies, and cleared as many commendations as you could, there's not much you likely want to do afterwards other than... hunt pirates. Because these players are so mentally beaten up from the various PvP encounters where they had something to lose, they go and do the same thing back to the same players still on the grind. It's a vicious cycle that's never addressed because in reality no one cares.

I honestly want veteran players to have a reason to do voyages again, and the now-updating ledger rewards system was one way to do it, but I don't think it's enough and it's not long lasting like many other things in the game.

@inboundbomb I don't mean a reset, just a level reset and maybe gold reset or cost, then you earn a new title plus access to items that are locked to a certain prestige, this allows players who are maxed to have something to work for. But in all honesty just being able to prestige Athenas Fortune could be a good idea in some way, this gives pirate legends something to work for after level 20 of athenas fortune. I just feel like Rare will occasionally increase level caps to further rewards and progress but if we could prestige this would be perfectly fine.

@galactic-geek I think you are assuming I mean resetting everytime you prestige, and I am not saying that, plus if you don't want to prestige you wouldn't have to, but for those of us that does we could. It wouldn't be an endless loop of grinding, prestiging could simply reset company levels and give access to rewards and unlock new titles.

@greatfailure82 Well said. Prestiging is an option, not mandatory.

@schwammlgott Wow, you must really hate the idea. I am not sure why it bothers you so much since it wouldn't affect you in the slightest.

I really want to see a prestige system. I do. But, I don't want one for the sake of having one. I want it to be well thought out and uniquely rewarding without creating any imbalance on the seas.

I have a mostly complete proposal on this very topic that I will post eventually. It offers to reward the dedicated playerbase and encourage continued engagement in all aspects of the game.

@tek-lt said in Please add a prestige/rebirth system:

@inboundbomb I don't mean a reset, just a level reset and maybe gold reset or cost, then you earn a new title plus access to items that are locked to a certain prestige, this allows players who are maxed to have something to work for. But in all honesty just being able to prestige Athenas Fortune could be a good idea in some way, this gives pirate legends something to work for after level 20 of athenas fortune. I just feel like Rare will occasionally increase level caps to further rewards and progress but if we could prestige this would be perfectly fine.

Agreed. A reset is still a reset. Not saying you lose your gold or what you have purchased/earned cosmetically, just where you can't have the top tier level missions/Athena(lvl 50 in 3 factions) or emissary abilities till you are high enough rank to repurchase them. If it happens I may partake in such a manner but I still don't think it is good for end game material. Just lazy work to keep us busy. Like @galaticgeek said I want my pirate to live out his tale not re-live it and like you said it wouldn't be mandatory but we know it would be there.