Hourglass is at its core, a good idea. it lets people enter into on-demand combat with other ship for gold and glory. but it suffers from one major issue, nobody is doing it anymore, meaning that those of us who started late are having an imposssible time trying to get our curses unlocked. there should be weekly rewards for hourglass, say, 10 wins in a week gets you the lowest reward, 20 the next, and 30 the top tier. This would bring players who already grinded their curse back into the queue and give crews like mine actual fair opponents. the current situation is wading through a pool of sweatlords annihilating me to find that one opponent I can actually defeat. this would keep hourglass relevant for a larger pool of players.
Weekly rewards for hourglass
@smokeburn-xc I think this is an amazing idea. Hourglass has gotten stale and is full of sweats. there are people who enjoy pvp but don't do hourglass because it's saturated with sweaty players. I think this would bring a good amount of us normals back into hourglass.
@smokeburn-xc a bonus for the 1st win per day has been an idea that’s floated around too for a while and I like that one just as much as yours. People should be encouraged to play, and if a little bonus means you do 1 match a day, then so be it. At least it’ll drive in the people who can only play a short time, or don’t want to do the long grind. This mode is severely lacking in players, and it needs ways to get people into it. I just hope Rare have their own version or ideas how to drive a crowd towards Hourglass other than cosmetics.
Daily deeds that reward fair amount pf allegiance is what I think the best solution. (Hit mast with X chainshots, fire X cannonballs, fire a determined curseball, sword duel, kill an enemy with a determined weapon, and so on). It will speed up the grind and probably used by opposing crews to bond during the fight to exchange deeds, basically a good thing for both pvpers and pveers.
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