Outpost reputation

  • Viniminen
    Seafarer

    I had a idea for Bulletin boards... imagine if all outposts had reputation. If you bury loot on islands and make a treasure map, you get reputation on based how good the loot was. The reputation is also based on what emissary loot it belongs to.

    If you bury Athena loot, you get Athena reputation, if you bury Gold Hoarders, you get gold hoarders reputation.

    Well what does this reputation mean? It means you can get discount for emissary items in THAT outpost. Not in other outposts if you haven't increased the reputation there.

    This would make the bulletin boards active.

    People will get reputation from it and others will get loot from it by digging the treasure maps.

    If someone buries Reaper Loot, they get reputation at the Reapers island.

    Edit:
    This discount could also be time limited during season. So next season need to increase reputation again to get those discounts.

    Discounts could go with like 5% 10% 15% and maybe up to 20%.

    Reputation also could be measured by quantity and quality same way as selling loot. Since the "code" already exists, I would assume it could be used for this also(?).

    This also would add possibility to have "Special loot at different outposts", so you want to increase the reputation there to be able to buy this item. It could be a ship set, one outpost sells you hull, other one sails, other one anchor etc.

    This would also open doors towards other activities and possibilities.

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  • Strikeboy01
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    @viniminen
    This is a cool idea to actually get people to use the bulletin board. I only ever use it to get commendations for it. I know that there are people who use the bulletin board but it’s only worthless items. The reputation system you propose might get people to bury more valuable stuff like red mermaid gems or athena loot.

  • GoldsMen
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    You are supposed to already get the rep of treasure you post to the board, the issue is people dont post their maps since they get the same amount of rep as if they turned it in them self just without the gold..... IF some one digs it up, and no one does them since the maps you post are tied to the server you were in and when that server resets the maps are wiped and use default board maps which are horrible.

  • Viniminen
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    @goldsmen

    Which is why in this also could be used "Dive" option, I mean all the codes are already there, so should be fairly possible to implent!

    Also would get more people wanna do them with discounts to items too and this is not a game breaking feature and most likely will open possibilities for future things also!

  • GoldsMen
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    @viniminen said in Outpost reputation:

    @goldsmen

    Which is why in this also could be used "Dive" option, I mean all the codes are already there, so should be fairly possible to implent!

    Also would get more people wanna do them with discounts to items too and this is not a game breaking feature and most likely will open possibilities for future things also!

    I dont think rare will make diving to these places so easy since for what ever reason they are opposed to being able to travel to specific locations with dives even though they kind of already did.

    The big issue isnt really the getting to the map part as much as it is the getting people to post them since they offer less reward assuming some one even takes it, and no one does them since they are constantly in a wiped state.

    If rare changes it so it offers a massive boost to rep then it could be very worth while, but even then they still would need to set them to be stored on their own server that distributes them among the various servers people play on so they arnt locked to the server they are posted on. Until rare does at least that last part, sadly i dont think theres many changes that can be implemented that will get anyone to even glance at the board.

    I do hope they can save it since at the moment its just yet another headline feature that has been abandoned in a bad state that rare seems to refuse to go back to and fix it or upgrade it in some way that people want.

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