I feel like, with the delay of season 18, (provided that reaper forts will still be in the game until its release), diving to reaper forts should no longer be an option. The amount of times I have sailed 85% of the map to get to a reaper fort and either fought ships for hours or completed the whole thing, and watched the vault door lower down and left the game immediately upon seeing the loot, is insane. People are constantly diving to them to either try and get the small chance of getting a mega stash or because they are doing the commendations, and it is basically just wasting time for so many players who sail there for 30 mins because they want some cofs or other loot in general, but end up with the loot from someone else’s dived-to reaper fort who has just sailed away or left the game. If they want the mega stash to be a low chance then just increase the chance of getting a fort with 1 chest of fortune, cos mega stashes are definitely more common than those (from my experience anyway).
I feel like this change would also make sense considering reaper forts as a whole were meant to be removed after the end of season 17, so people should have expected to, and were intended to, have to do the commendations within a month anyway.
If the idea of keeping cofs in there for this long is bad (in case people just grind out loads of reaper forts to get their fortunes favour commendation maxed out) then change the loot up a bit, or make variants with other amounts of cofs.
I have literally spent cumulatively about 16+ hours doing forts that someone else dived to and then sailed away cos they saw what was in the vault through the dying glitch thing, or just sank and gave up or something.
I don’t really see how anyone could be very annoyed at this change bc reaper forts were meant to end soon anyway, and the reason they aren’t is because rare messed up again and took too long with season 18, so they may as well switch up the loot and remove the method people would use to grind out the new comms anyway. Also the least they could do considering the delays is make everyone’s lives that much easier by removing unnecessary hours spent completing/fighting over reaper forts only to get some shiny blue crates and a couple of trinkets.
