IDEA: purchase emissary license every month

  • xStormRoguex
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    As a one-time purchase, emissary license does not make any sense to me. I think it could make more sense, if it could be purchased every month in case I want to use an emissary flag.

    As a future development of this, we can have a few grades of licenses with different prices:

    • as an idea, license grades might unlock voyages.
    • another option is to set available maximum emissary flag grade (say the cheapest license could only allow to reach flag grade 2).
    • something else

    I believe this might be a bit of fun to have this license renewal mechanics. It also will allow to withdraw some gold from the game.

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  • D3ADST1CK
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    I don't think making it more tedious is an improvement.

  • BurnBacon
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    I say. If you sink and lose your flag. You must purchase another.

  • xStormRoguex
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    @d3adst1ck пишет в IDEA: purchase emissary license every month:

    I don't think making it more tedious is an improvement.

    There can't be nothing tedious about mechanic that does not exist lol.

    @burnbacon пишет в IDEA: purchase emissary license every month:

    I say. If you sink and lose your flag. You must purchase another.

    I am not actually getting what are you trying to say

  • D3ADST1CK
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    @cptn-blo0d said in IDEA: purchase emissary license every month:

    @d3adst1ck пишет в IDEA: purchase emissary license every month:

    I don't think making it more tedious is an improvement.

    There can't be nothing tedious about mechanic that does not exist lol.

    Having to repurchase the license every month is introducing tedium. It's not needed.

  • Guildar9194
    Master

    Nah. There's literally no good reasons to make emissary status a money sink.
    Plus adding tiers to have to buy to reach higher grades? Nah. Not a good idea in the slightest.

  • GoldsMen
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    Adding a realistic licensing system just sounds frustrating. Having to go into a menu to get the same license after a while just to do the same thing i could do before without paying wont really add anything special, just a bit of frustration. With this, if i step away from the game for a bit and return then that means i have to just do a bit more work to set sail with an emissary for no reason.

    Not to mention if some one buys their first license at the end of the month because they are new, and it resets, thats probably going to just be annoying for a new player, losing something that may have cost quite a bit of money cause you just got it at the wrong time.

  • Astralenigma
    Marauder

    After monthly bought subscription paying a ship tax or a ship recovery fee.
    Imagine having to pay gold each time you sunk and if you don't have enough gold you would get a rowboat and if you had no gold you would have to swim across the islands with loot to get enough to unlock ship use again, also if you didn't have enough gold to pay all your Captained ships they would be impounded.

    Now seriously, I already see too many ships not bothering with raising an emissary flag or even trying to gather loot this suggestion would just decrease the amount of emissary flags in the game and that's bad for 2 reasons it decreases the competition making it harder to reach the highest tier in the leaderboard, Reaper emissary would become even more of a PvE emissary since there would be no emissaries for them to hunt.
    Also, last I checked guild emissary flag is free mostly because sovereigns exist to receive and not give so they don't have a shop each feels like an oversight but despite them being a faction they're not a trading company with progression.

  • Shballs
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    I would literally hate this haha, and it would not be very welcoming to the already few new players SoT gets

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