Everything else about the weekend was fun. I thought the fireworks were great. The checklist wasn't too bad and I had a funny interaction lying to someone about trading doubloon chest so he can play music at Flameheart. The fishing event was fun too.
However, the doubloons and obtaining them are a big miss. People quickly learned that you might as well hunt people down to trade with them instead of actually trying to "steal" them. I had nobody interrupt me during me doing all 6 of my smuggler voyages. I stalked around the area and had two friends also on different servers / regions. Nobody was doing them. I figured this was a region and console only servers issue, no worries.
Then I start seeing the youtube videos and the LFGs. People asking to trade in alliance servers. People getting on alts so their main can steal the doubloon chest. I saw a streamer lock down a swabbie's boat and tell them to do the doubloon mission and they can keep their treasure as a "trade."
Then not to mention, if the crew that gets their chest stolen leaves, ragequits, etc. the chest literally disappears. The shipwreck with the other chest in it? Can't access it now because sirens stop spawning.
Like I feel I should have just cheesed it instead of doing the voyages that were given to me.
So my recommendations:
Let people do as many voyages as they want of both quests or increase the number and/or doubloon values. Yes, some people will just grind out the entire event and buy everything. But people are also going to just cheese it like they did this weekend but now people who actually did the content as intended are at a disadvantage and have to wait until next month.
If people are actually doing the quest throughout the weekend then it makes more organic opportunities for stealing instead of the alliance servers, alt hopping, trading chests that happened.
