Addressing "Black Powder Merchant" and "Merchant Forager" commendations / achievements

@maxiem0us3

The easy fix in my opinion would be to add both of these as on-demand quests for the Merchant Alliance that could be started from the quest table aboard your boat.
The Black Powder quest should give you a delivery quest with a random number between 2-8 kegs to be delivered on time.
The Merchant Forager quest should give you a delivery quest with a random supply crate (wood, fruit or cannonballs) to be delivered on time to a Merchant Alliance representative.

Another alternative could be to utilize the Quest board at the Outpost docks and add special Trading Company quests there such as for the Merchant Alliance.

@hammerpunch I wish that Rare could read this and consider changing it. So it is the same with 1000 skeleton captains commendation, when each and every single should count, not just in voyages and quests.

@maxiem0us3 You would think they would read their own forums :)

@hammerpunch i think they used to but they kept taking all the criticism too personally. so they hired someone to do all their social media but i think that person was instructed to disregard any criticisms. which most people coming to the forums are here to hopefully try and help make the game better via suggestions. the forums are dead right now so it would be very easy for them to keep up with.

its kinda like why insides was under nda. people have always criticized their programing (myself included) even though its very much a situation of "well if its that easy go make your own game" kinda thing right? i think more than the rough coding in this game is their llack of ability to internally test things. because they make the stuff. test that it works then move on. they dont put things through the paces, they dont do the things players would do. our mind sets are completely different. they design stuff to work a certain way so why would they try to use that thing in a way they never intended it to be used?

a good example of something insanely simple they could have caught. you never used to be able to give items to other players. this was a feature added in the first month or 2 of the game... well... it worked fine..... unless you tried to do it IN THE WATER.... which you know is MOST of this game! lol but why would 2 people be in the water side by side and 1 of them try to give another one a piece of fruit? so giving each other items in the water would make your character fly up into the air.

they make changes all the time without thinking about rebalancing. which is assuming they consider balancing in the first place. you would think they did because of healing and ammo limitations. but did they rebalance things when they added more than 1 type of fruit? no. when they nerfed weapon damage across the board did they rescale pve health? no. i think sharks still take 3 shots when they used to take 2. they did eventually rebalance mermaid statues and skeletons due to the scaling with crew size update with the quest table. but that took years to get and was needed much sooner.

not rebalancing commendations is insane. especially now. even finding a green message in a bottle is rare because of these stupid smuggle bottles. i would love to see the number of people who pick up those at this point. and how many even bother completing them if they do pick them up? i just ignore bottles now