Golden Sands will be rebuilt. The trade routes prove it. We have one commodity we cannot buy, and one commodity we cannot sell, because of Golden Sands. If Rare didn't want it rebuilt, they would have changed how trade routes work to ignore Golden Sands.
There is no point to doing this adventure as a Reaper, you'll just feel cheated when you lose.
@mrat13 the trade routes got hurt due to the FH occupying golden sands and it would make sense it would not just get fixed, since each outpost can only have 1 item in high demand.
it would have been an easy fix by Rare to do it technically but lore wise it made sense not to do so.
who knows what happens in either of the cases, if it is rebuilt will it look the exact same as before or will it be layed out differently.
also if it would be destroyed nothing is stated what will happen to the inhabitants, they could take over a different island and turn it into a outpost, how interesting would it be if they took over a sea fort for instance.
while i do like having 2 outposts in each region (apart from DR) the shear amount of posibilities that can happen after the reapers destroy GS makes me want to choose that path
@callmebackdraft @mrat13
We already know the new outpost. Lagoon of Whispers. It's almost the exact same place, and a dock was built there a year ago for no reason. We know how long Rare thinks ahead on content, what if they made the dock in anticipation that something would happen to Golden Sands? It just seems right.
I don't want to lose Golden Sands, But I think we will get an outpost back there if it is lost.
@grumpyw01f said in The current adventure only has one outcome:
@callmebackdraft @mrat13
We already know the new outpost. Lagoon of Whispers. It's almost the exact same place, and a dock was built there a year ago for no reason. We know how long Rare thinks ahead on content, what if they made the dock in anticipation that something would happen to Golden Sands? It just seems right.
I don't want to lose Golden Sands, But I think we will get an outpost back if it is lost.
Pretty sure this is what will happen. There is already an NPC there, other NPCs (Duke) have moved there in the past. It doesn't have any World Events tied to it or anything else that would prevent an outpost.
It's going to be Lagoon of Whispers and Golden Sands will just be empty.
@mrat13 sagte in The current adventure only has one outcome:
Golden Sands will be rebuilt. The trade routes prove it. We have one commodity we cannot buy, and one commodity we cannot sell, because of Golden Sands. If Rare didn't want it rebuilt, they would have changed how trade routes work to ignore Golden Sands.
There is no point to doing this adventure as a Reaper, you'll just feel cheated when you lose.
I'm pretty sure, if Golden Sands will be destroyed, we get another outpost opened somewhere else...
@mrat13 There's no point in doing the adventure other than unlocking the cosmetics. Taking "sides" is pointless since you get multiple votes. The decision making part is a poorly designed system that serves no purpose to the players but to create a false sense of motivation to do X or Y. It's a neat idea on paper but pointless in practice.
@tommy Yea, you kind of get the feeling that this whole event was already thought out and isn't the choice it's made out to be. The sheer vagueness of how things are counted, what's counted, and the mechanism to get it to count was never clearly explained. As I, and many others understood, you had to keep starting/repeating and completing the adventure for it to count. Upon asking, it seems once you have completed one, or both, sides. You simply need to either destroy rowboats on an island where they are found for Merrick (which, if true, is easily done by shooting off to passing islands, lighting the fuse, and mermaiding back to the next), and Reaper's only need to pick-up/row an emergent rowboat and detonate it on golden sands with the only theoretical caveat being you cannot cross the island threshold with the rowboat still attached, you must row it in. And that's the thing, we don't know. Players are making their own rules and Rare isn't giving all of the information needed if this was truly a player decided outcome.
There is mention of being able to turn in food and wood crates, but there is still no mention of if they need to be full for merrick, or can they be empty like the reaper will accept?
All that being said, I don't think it matters what either side does. This was already decided ages ago.
@mrat13 said in The current adventure only has one outcome:
Golden Sands will be rebuilt. The trade routes prove it. We have one commodity we cannot buy, and one commodity we cannot sell, because of Golden Sands. If Rare didn't want it rebuilt, they would have changed how trade routes work to ignore Golden Sands.
There is no point to doing this adventure as a Reaper, you'll just feel cheated when you lose.
@grumpyw01f said in The current adventure only has one outcome:
@callmebackdraft @mrat13
We already know the new outpost. Lagoon of Whispers. It's almost the exact same place, and a dock was built there a year ago for no reason. We know how long Rare thinks ahead on content, what if they made the dock in anticipation that something would happen to Golden Sands? It just seems right.
I don't want to lose Golden Sands, But I think we will get an outpost back if it is lost.
Lagoon of Whispers is a bit small though for GH, OoS/shop, MA, Tavern, shipwright and three other shops - and no place to escape Larinna asking for a favour.
@lem0n-curry
That sounds like an ideal punishment for losing Golden Sands. All the vendors might have to sell out of smaller structures, like tents (the Gold Hoarder will be fine with it lol). They might cut down the trees to have enough space. The biggest problem I can see with Golden Sands would be fitting the Castaway's camp. But they might extend the sand bar out a bit like they did with Galleon's Grave.
All in all Lagoon of Whispers is the best location for a new outpost.
@grumpyw01f They could also have a lot of the buildings on a large pier to give it some more uniqueness from the rest of the outposts
