Commendation Assistant (for your loot)

Sounds interesting, personally, I'd like to see a "commendation tracker" where you can pick up to 8 commendations to track progress on, which gives you a new page of "quests" that show your progress of those commendations, which remain in your inventory per session.

The problem is that a lot of commendations are long term goals.

Seeing that I need to sell another 400 marauders chests doesn't really help anything. As well as that, many items appear in multiple commendations, e.g. sell castaways to GH and sell GH Chests to RB.

Technically the needed/not needed thing could cover all of them, but then you have no idea which one for.

I would rather have the rep taplb brough back and the stupid seasons thing out elsewhere. The commendations are about 1000 tabs deep now.

Also make it so when I exit the menu, re-ooening the rep tab returns me to the commendations I was looking at.

While I can appreciate wanting to make commendation hunting more braindead, I feel part of the challenge of the game is to set and know your own priorities.

Additionally, poor open crews that don't communicate would have even more people just leaving loot behind because they see a "not needed" prompt and can't be bothered to check with their crewmates.

Even as a completionist, I can't support this idea.

@sweetsandman that's a shame...

Not a bad idea but needs some tweaks

You'd probably find a vast majority of items would be considered needed because there's a vast quantity of commendations that apply to each loot.

For example, Lets say I'm picking up a Captains Chest

Earn 150,000 Gold with the Gold Hoarders
Sell 360 Captains Chests to the Gold Hoarders
Sell 600 Gold Hoarder Treasure while Gold Hoarders Emissary
Sell 320 Gold Hoarder Treasure While Grade 5 Gold Hoarders Emissary
Sell 480 Gold Hoarder Treasure to the Reapers Bones
Sell 600 of any Treading Company items while Reapers Bones Emissary
Sell 320 of any Trading Company items while Grade 5 Reapers Bones Emissary

All of those are commendations affected by selling a Captains chest and a such would affect the 'needed' or 'not needed' value on a chest. You'd find almost everything you sell in the early to mid game would be considered needed in one way or another.

A better way to implement a Commendations assistant would be to press a certain button while holding a chest and it would bring up a menu showing every possible commendation this chest could affect, this would therefore help you identify what to do with it. Ie if you have a Captains Chest and it says needed, it might only be needed for Reapers and not for Gold Hoarders, so simply saying needed would not help you know what to do with it unless you dig into your commendations page and find out what it is, which eliminates the entire point.

Commendation tracker would be nice.

@stoutodin809 how might one go about doing this lad?