So I'm closing in on lvl 25 right now as a solo player and I'm hoping those powder kegs give fat amounts of gold. But as of right now, I think its ridiculous that snakes of any type are worth less than any chicken. Not only is it tedious carrying them (play music, run, drop, play music, run, drop, etc), but on a sloop it almost hurts putting them anywhere. So for these penalties I'd hope even the most basic red stripped snake would at least be worth more than a red chicken or spotted pig. But nope, they're worth around the same 200-300 gold. Why? What was the point of even going to level 15 to unlock snakes if they're going to be worth the same thing. Even a "Golden Snake," is worth less than a golden pig and chicken.
And lets not forget the fact that at level 20 for 80 gold per voyage you could still get c****y level 5 voyages like, "1 White Feathered Chicken, 1 Red Speckled Chicken." I'd gladly transport 5 snakes, even if they're all c****y red and blue ones, so long as they paid out more than the c****y chickens and pigs. And I don't want to do the whole, stockpile cages, fill them with animals, and turn in what a voyage asks for. It takes me around 30 minutes to do one voyage and I take a bunch of breaks; leaving the game after a voyage then coming back some time later. Not to mention if I get attacked with all those cages, cannons can kill my animals, whether I'm able to escape or not.
Even with the possible update of making trade voyages a side thing while you can do gold or skull voyages, the gold scaling is still bad given the amount of time and work you have to put in to complete a high level one.
