Thoughts on incentivizing burying your loot

@d3adst1ck Just saying it's a feature in the game that doesn't get used as it was probably intended.

It's very useful as is to hide things you might be in danger of losing but agree that people don't seem to pick up quests there much, despite people posting them. I once tried a session just doing board quests and it was kind of a grab bag - fun for being a bit outside of the norm but not especially rewarding in the end.

I myself once buried both a Reaper's Chest AND a Reaper's Bounty Chest next to each other on Crooked Masts during a crazy session with multiple Reapers appearing on the map after I picked them up (I was not one and just could not get to the hide out to turn in safely - never an opening). I buried intending to come back later for them myself but eventually ran out of play time.

Thankfully they did get dug up and found (I learned at the top of my next session) but only because I told someone attacking me randomly at the end of my available time to play that they would be much better off checking the board for the Crooked Masts map lol (with no more info than that). Almost every other time I've buried stuff I don't think was ever dug up. Incentivizing both sides of the equation a bit more would seem a good idea.

Now that they fixed floating loot and it actually sinks now why not generate quest board maps based on sunken loot to make them much more interesting than the current non-player made maps.

I let a veil voyage sink the other day because my ship sunk just after I managed to sink a duo sloop. That chest of legends and other treasure could be on a quest board map after a small delay of time.

If you want to make the quest board more interesting, you should make it so people can post any quest (that isn't part of a voyage) on that board.

I think more people would use the map board if they knew you could also get quests for the breath of the sea, wood crates, cannonball crates, etc. Those are the quest people are often looking for.

If people that aren't looking to do those are able to post those quests, the quest board would already be more interesting.

I don't need breath of the seas anymore, so i ignore the coral bottles. But if i knew that i could post them on the board, i would pick them up and post them. I think that would be a good addition.

@unstoppabledork said in Thoughts on incentivizing burying your loot:

Now that they fixed floating loot and it actually sinks now why not generate quest board maps based on sunken loot to make them much more interesting than the current non-player made maps.

I quite like this thought.

Burying your loot is not what needs to be incentivized.
It's posting things to the Quest Board that arguably needs to some attention. Surely it gets way less than 2% of player engagement these days

I was kinda implying it for the sake of quest board to be fair. You are right though. I'd say it's helpful to incentivize one to aid in incentivizing the other.

@zig-zag-ltu Two good points i think. Just 1 addition to your point 1, if it's a Breath of the Sea or Wood/Cannonball/Food Crate of Gunpowder quest, it should just say those quests on the display and not a value.

I would say give people who posted the map 30% of the loots value (the same amount as people on Safer Seas would get), since posting a map is safer then actually trying to sell the loot, so the same amount (30%) seems fair then.

I'm not sure if we should give a limit to the amount of maps, since they would always get less gold then they would get from posting a map, so it's not realy an exploit if it's already losing you money compared to handing it in yourself.

By the way: there are already limits on the amount of dig spots per map ;-)

@lu-tze-russ said in Thoughts on incentivizing burying your loot:

I often give the Quest Board a poke when I'm setting off from the outpost and pick some up if they're for islands where I'm going or close to.
I quite often bury treasures and post the maps myself too, in the hope that maybe I can give a nice surprise and boost to another crew.
Must admit, I think I've only ever taken one or two that were actually created by another crew, rather than the game generated ones.

I respect the hell outta you for all this. I think I'm gonna start trying to follow your example

@b4njax said in Thoughts on incentivizing burying your loot:

Wish there was more reason to do this.

There are many reasons but they are situational. Let's say I am headed somewhere on a mission and along the way I pick up a Reapers chest. If I carry it around my mission I was doing will likely get interrupted. But if I bury it and pick it up after my mission is done I reduce the risk for my mission.

I would like to see maps stay on your ship if you sink. The only way to get another ship's maps should be if you board them and steal them.

That way burying your loot protects it a little bit but also puts it up for grabs if you get outplayed. This would be useful when the naval is kind of a draw and someone just did an event or something.

I think quest board would get a lot more attention if there was some visible indication of it having a player-map on the board.

The other day I did every sea fort and buried all the chests on Devil's Ridge, then posted it and chilled at Q22 for a couple hours. Nobody ended up getting it.