Allow players to convert coins to ancient coins

  • Ultrasuprman
    Seafarer

    I know anything involving premium currencies is always a hot topic but what if we could say sell 1 million coins and get $1 (or equivalent) in ancient coins?

    I think by now most players have done everything the game has to offer so if we could convert coins it would give players something new to play for. Plus I feel 1 million coins is a fair number, a good voyage can be between 500k-1 million coins, if players play say 5 days a month and get 1 million coins each time, they would have enough for a weapons cosmetic. If you're really into the game it could also pay for the season renown.

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  • Strikeboy01
    Seafarer

    Controversial opinion but I am actually a big supporter of the pirate emporium. Personally haven’t spent a dime on it but I’m perfectly fine with it being in the game, because anything that keeps development going and the servers running is a big W imho. There are plenty of examples of game companies who care way too much about micro transactions and squeezing money out of people. Rare actually shows ethics when it comes to them making money.

    I’m afraid that people who play this game a ton would end up getting a ton of ancient coins because they have 200+ million coins that they don’t have anything to do with because they’ve already bought everything else.

    There’s already a way to get ancient coins without spending money(albeit you have to be crazy lucky)

  • WolfManbush
    Champion

    One thing that would be good about something like this,

    cheesing this game would get cleaned up real quickly, lol

  • abjectarity
    Commander
    Insider

    They already give you free coins. If you finish the free season track you get 250. If you purchase the pass and complete it you get an additional 750 coins, so if you buy it on day 1 and finish it you have enough for the next season and it can keep paying for itself from there, if you always finish it.

    They have ancient skeletons who spawn and give you anywhere from 100-800 coins. You’re not going to meet many if you tend to spend most of your time on the ship. I spend most of my time on land so I’ve had a lot over the years.

    Gold is something that’s very easy to come by and there are gold farms and exploits that allow you to make millions in minutes. If you’re allianced with someone you get 50% of what they sell. It would be way too easy for people to set up farms to grind $$$ worth of ancient coins on accounts and then sell the accounts for profit.

  • iTz Majman
    Legend
    Insider
    Founder

    There's Discords dedicated to playing in only alliances 24/7, you make crazy amount of gold with no risk. If they had the ability to turn it into premium currency, then that problem would become even worse.

  • BurnBacon
    Vanguard
    Insider

    sell 1 million coins and get $1 (or equivalent) in ancient coins?

    I can get 1 million gold coins without much trouble. And we earn free gold from seasons and tasks. So unlike AC

    Gold is easy and able to convert to actual cash? Yeah no. That a losing thing for rare

    There players sitting on billions of gold. If not more

  • CaptDirtyOar
    Ship Mate

    @ultrasuprman said in Allow players to convert coins to ancient coins:

    I know anything involving premium currencies is always a hot topic but what if we could say sell 1 million coins and get $1 (or equivalent) in ancient coins?

    The devs would probably lose too much money, funding that would help the game continue to grow, paying workers, servers, marketing etc, etc.

    The Pirate Emporium is not forced on players.

  • Th3 Tater
    Marauder

    I have 22ish M., I'm a small fish lol.
    I would not play more than usual to get one extra AC.

  • GoldsMen
    Captain
    Insider

    As some one with 916 ancient coins rn and a small pile of cosmetics from the emporium and used 2 face changes, i personally think the distribution of free ancient coin is insanely reasonable as is. Not a bad idea since gold is abundant any more, but not really needed or the right area to put a gold sink imo since it just puts real world value on gold.

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