I do understand the risk / reward for Safer seas vs HS reduction in gold and rep, but why is Safer seas getting 30% for eating different fruits for a daily deed? (amongst other daily deeds) High seas gets 100% and there is no risk eating fruit no matter which mode your in.
Reduced gold for daily deeds?
@hiradc Probably not. They probably just put a boolean check before the gold payout logic:
if(saferSeas) gold *= 0.3
It's a one line change if the architecture is solid. This is probably a side-effect more than intention.
If the devs are going to need to evaluate every gold reward in Safer Seas to decide whether you should get the full value or not, the maintenance on that is going to be astronomical and it probably wouldn’t be worth maintaining safer seas.
I can’t really figure out why people are concerned with income in Safer Seas. It’s a mode that lets you experience the game without the threat of PvP. That’s it. It’s not there for gold making or getting any kind of reward. In fact, it should be perfectly ok if you get 0% gold. Playing the game itself is the point. You get to see content the way you want.
If people keep demanding more and more changes to SS that take away time from HS, it’s probably not going to be worth maintaining.
I agree, safer seas was made with the intention of having newer players understand the main principles of high seas, more of an advance tutorial and story campaign mode for those willing to complete all the commendations. In my eyes if they changes safer seas to be more like high seas reward wise then it would take away the whole point of having high seas in the first place and the game won’t be the same
@grisch1801 said in Reduced gold for daily deeds?:
If the devs are going to need to evaluate every gold reward in Safer Seas to decide whether you should get the full value or not, the maintenance on that is going to be astronomical and it probably wouldn’t be worth maintaining safer seas.
There are some exceptions, like the Renown track gold/doubloons are full value if I remember correctly. This could be due to renown rewards and treasure rewards being handled differently but I would think that Daily Deeds should be applied in the same way as renown.
@phantaxus said in Reduced gold for daily deeds?:
There is nothing stopping you switching to High Seas to complete an easy daily deed and then going back. Just in case there was any confusion that playing on High Seas locked you into that mode.
It's the principle. The fact is in HS, you get 3000 gold for killing a meg, but SS only gives you 900 gold, the risk is the same but not reward whether you kill the meg in HS or SS.
@gipperseadog said in Reduced gold for daily deeds?:
@phantaxus said in Reduced gold for daily deeds?:
There is nothing stopping you switching to High Seas to complete an easy daily deed and then going back. Just in case there was any confusion that playing on High Seas locked you into that mode.
It's the principle. The fact is in HS, you get 3000 gold for killing a meg, but SS only gives you 900 gold, the risk is the same but not reward whether you kill the meg in HS or SS.
The risk is not the same. I’ve been engaged by other players multiple times while fighting a meg. It’s significantly more risky and WAY harder to survive if you do get engaged by both.
@gipperseadog it is probably exactly as LordQulex explains above, one line of code that changes the value of any awarded gold. Safer Seas needs to run with next to no developers maintaining it. So for this reason there are probably a few lines of code to change High Seas to Safer Seas.
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