The all new Prestige System!

  • Hello everyone, I would like to present my little concept for an all new prestige system. There are many veterans among us. Most of us already hit the level cap on every faction a long time ago. When the level cap got raised from 20 to 30 of Athena’s Fortune, I had once again a goal to reach, so I thought to myself, why stop there? I would like to propose a prestige system.

    So how would it work? Firstly, you need to hit max level at a faction. You’ll then get the option to purchase from any faction representative the prestige level up. I would suggest capping the amount of times you can go into prestige up to 5 times.

    What will be different from before, I hear you ask! Well, you start over at level one again, though it would be increasingly harder to progress with each prestige level.
    I also would add a little star around the level emblem for each prestige level.

    But what do I get, why on godforsaken Brink should I start over? Well, like Ramsey told us before: “It's not about the gold, it's about the cosmetics!” Whatever the case may be, we all want cosmetics. So for each new prestige level we reach, we can unlock “new” cosmetics. I don’t want to propose that Rare creates all new cosmetics, that would be a bit outlandish. I would instead suggest that we can upgrade our old ones we already unlocked previously. And I don’t mean anything crazy, just add a star per level.

    Are cosmetics the only thing we get? No, there are also some new titles you can unlock.
    My name idea would be the title“mythic”. If you manage to get prestige 5 and max level you’ll for example unlock the “Mythical Hunter” for the Hunter's call. If you manage to collect all mythic titles for all 6 factions, well firstly calm down buddy, your family wants to see you as well once in a while. But you’ll also unlock the grand and fabled title of “Mythical Pirate”. We got a new goal to grind towards.

    I hit mythical in a faction, what do I do now? Well, the grind doesn’t stop anymore! After you hit max level, you can go above and beyond. Your level will still increase, though you’ll only unlock a bit of money or doubloons every 5 levels, just similar to how it is in the season pass. Still, big number goes bigger ;)

    What about the money though? Well, the price should and could be quite high. Why? We have a tone of that useless metal anyway. At least the veterans among us. What about newer players who also want to reach these new goals? Honestly, I fully expect that if someone reaches the level cap, he would be able to gather a larger amount of gold. We need some more ways to put our money anyway.
    I would say, around 1mil gold * the prestige level you're about to purchase is a fair price.
    It would be 15mil in total per faction, so 90mil all together. Though this number might seem quite big, you don’t pay it in one go, you’ll have enough time to raise that money between the level up’s.
    Also, maybe the upgrades for the items you’ll unlock could follow the same rule. So it would be original price * level of prestige you're in.

    In my mind, this shouldn’t be a standalone update. This should be a nice treat for us “endgame” players, which comes alongside another new and exciting feature Rare has surely planned in the future. So I wouldn’t make it any more than that, so that it doesn't get too complicated, too out of the ordinary or anything like that.

    So what do you think? Anything you don’t like and would change? Or maybe add? Any questions? Or any Ideas for some nice and little cosmetic changes? Then don’t be shy and comment below :)

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  • I don't think a prestige system fits with Sea of Thieves. For one thing, it would basically create a max cap for all current trading companies with no possibility of increasing in a future update when something new drops, because players would have already prestiged. I also have big doubts that they'd be able to keep up with prestige cosmetics and rewards considering the extremely slow pace they already get released for existing commendations and to the outpost stores. Finally, and I guess less importantly, it doesn't really fit with the game lore where you become a more experienced pirate, have adventures and create unique stories, only to reset and start again?

    Prestige systems don't provide anything new, they just trick treadmill junkies into continuing the grind.

  • @funnyqchen sorry, didn't read as I have a question after the headline...Isn't the whole captaincy-milestone thing a prestige system already?

  • There are many veterans among us. Most of us already hit the level cap on every faction a long time ago.

    Im a vet and play almost everyday for 5 hours, and still havn't finished Athena or Reaper faction.
    Why? Because I knew if I rushed, leave me with little to do....
    besides all the endless achievements and commendations they keep adding or changing. :P

    I would like to propose a prestige system.

    So how would it work? Firstly, you need to hit max level at a faction.

    So this only works for the small % of players who actually maxed the factions out. Very small I might add.

    BUT! the idea sounds solid enough. Basically resetting your chosen Faction and have its Exp gain reduced so you have to do extra work to level up. But...who really wants to do this all over again?
    Looking at Captain release and the "achievements" Nobody wants to fish again when they already max it out, so what makes this any different?

    We got a new goal to grind towards.

    See above.

  • @schwammlgott Well, I think unlike the milestone system, the prestige system doesn't just throw out our past accomplishments, rather builds on them.

  • @funnyqchen sagte in The all new Prestige System!:

    @schwammlgott Well, I think unlike the milestone system, the prestige system doesn't just throw out our past accomplishments, rather builds on them.

    As it started from zero with captaincy, do you really think, we would see the whole numbers of all we did, or just the 50 crates delivered/250 voyages bought etc.
    That wouldn't change anything...actually captaincy did, at least for me...it's really motivating getting all those trinkets...

  • @funnyqchen
    Yeas completely agree.
    My one dream is to hit 3,000,000,000 on hunters call ;)

  • Before we got Captaincy with all the Milestones I would’ve considered this as long there was cosmetic and something worth grinding for like new voyages but now I feel this isn’t really needed thanks to Milestones filling that hole which some people strangely just want see the number go up with or without any rewards.

    BUT I am expecting we would get one last level cap increase from 75 to 100 for the GH, OOS, MA, RB and Athena from 30 to 40 and eventually Athena getting their final level cap of rank 50 along with all trading companies cosmetics and new voyages locked behind at higher levels

  • Actually got implemented, you should be proud of yourself.

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