this bilge rat weekend just another example of how poorly thought our Rares plans are
gold items are supposed to award emissary grade. all old doubloon items have now been changed to gold... yay more useless gold. however they still dont give emissary grade despite now just being useless treasures when emissary grade is all that matters
-reaper chests being the only way outside the weekend for old players to obtain doubloons is awful. 10 doubloons per isn't enough. as all other doubloon items were converted reaper chests should be worth at least 25 now base.
-The shipwreck voyage for the weekender requires more effort than just grabbing a smugglers box and bringing it from point A to B. While it does give a cosmetic reward... how do we know its one we dont have? it being stated as "random" is nonsense.
-the difficulty to gain doubloons now makes buying levels unobtainable ant not practical. buying levels is more for new players anyway but if you aren't going to add hourglass levels then having the price of levels increased now to punish new players meanwhile those same new players need all those cosmetics from the black market as they missed all that fomo
-the huge benefit newer players might still have, assuming the rewards weren't removed, a lot of commendations pay out doubloons while OG players are more likely to have 100% as many commendations as they felt possible.
farming to even get one of dukes 1500 doubloon items felt awful and gross. especially when most of us could have afforded it before the pointless deletion. and while OG players have all cosmetics on offer other than the new expensive ones when the limited. the fact that the first challenge i did claimed it gave me 65 doubloons but it literally gave me 0... that just adds to the frustrating of this whole situation consider you deleted the currency we now need so desperately. only being able to obtain 600 doubloons via the voyage so if you are playing with crew mates it ruins the experience for everyone because you would have potentially 2400 doubloons on offer if the whole crew could do their voyages. so you have also created a single player event and are literally punished people who play with others? on top of that in order to acquire more doubloons we would have to steal this cargo yet with a limit of 3 voyages and how badly optiamized match making is in this game most people probably blew through their 3 asap and went uncontested and now theres no reason to do the voyage again since its just gold..... so the event was a HUGE flop..
-as all doubloon items have now been turned into literal hot garbage. the box of wonderous secrets which is supposed to be the rarest and most valuable item in the game, even at its high value is just useless gold. changing that to be worth 200 doubloons or more due to its rarity now that all other items dont award anything any more.
-at this rate you might as well sell doubloons packs because the way of obtaining them now has gone from vasual collecting alongside the other loot to now being tedious and not fun. how do you keep missing the mark?
i already decided to call it a day on this game when the doubloon reset was announced. but i figured i would give the developers the benefit of the doubt and give the weekender a chance. but as per usual, buggy, poorly tested.
so yea basically this is just my feedback on this whole disastrous situation.
