Voyage Completion Bonus (+ additional benefits)

  • PauIDavis

    Add a voyage completion bonus. If you complete every step of a voyage you get some bonus based on the level of the voyage. This fixes the problem with people skipping inefficient voyage steps because the payoff is too low, or intentionally not upgrading their faction tier to stay with lower level voyages. On top of this, I would like to see a system where if your ship is sunk, any voyage in progress is cancelled so that you lose the opportunity for the voyage completion bonus. This adds some cost to losing, or having to scuttle, your ship. Instead of a direct gold cost and having to deal with the problems that arise from that (not enough gold etc.) the cost is transferred from a direct cost to an opportunity cost, which is a much more clean solution to not having any death penalty.

    Furthermore, in a pvp scenario, if you were able to sink another ship you should have the opportunity to inherit their voyage in progress. So if they have completed a number of steps you will already be close to getting a completion bonus. It would be fun to just leave port with no voyage in progress with the intention of picking them up from other ships. (very "piratey")

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  • R3B3lSpy
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    Please we need this, completing a voyage does not mean anything now, an additional bonus would be fantastic.

  • TheMorphik
    Seafarer
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    Perhaps even a multiplier bonus for gold turn in.

  • PauIDavis

    @themorphik Yes, I like the idea of pressing your luck and trying to turn in a bigger haul. It could be implemented as a stacking buff for every item turned in that lasts for 5-10 minutes that increases your rep and gold gains by 1%. People would turn in all their lower tier items first to stack up the buff before turning in the more valuable ones. That might add even more risk to being parked at port with the good stuff on board. I like it, but it probably goes in a different suggestion thread :)

  • Eph1zul

    Yes, lets punish people by canceling their voyages. It's not bad enough they have actual loot to lose as opposed to the PvP crowd who loses nothing...

  • PauIDavis

    @eph1zul Maybe that is too harsh, I like the idea, but can see why some people wouldn't;, but even if you don't lose your voyage for losing your ship, I still want to see a substantial completion bonus.

  • Eph1zul

    @pauidavis I don't disagree on a completion bonus. But when you want to punish the player who actualy has something to lose. Much better would be if you are able to defend your treasure by sinking a ship while it's on board it gives you x% more gold.

  • PunkJr
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    This is a pretty sound idea. I like that it's not exactly a "death tax," but losing your bonus upon losing your ship keeps the system as it is currently.

    I also LOVE the idea of being able to take over someone else's voyage if you sink them, but how would that work if you're currently on a voyage? Would you have the option to cancel your own & lose any current bonuses you had?

    If you were only playing for a little while, would you scan the seas for ships to sink in order to capture their booty & their voyage?

  • PunkJr
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    @eph1zul said in Voyage Completion Bonus (+ additional benefits):

    Yes, lets punish people by canceling their voyages. It's not bad enough they have actual loot to lose as opposed to the PvP crowd who loses nothing...

    Ooh, I posted my reply above without thinking about this part...

  • bella persona
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    @r3b3lspy more money and more exp if you complete the voyage. If you sell your loot before to complete the voyage you get less.

  • Tedakin
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    One of my biggest gripes. NOTHING for voyage completion. I rarely finish voyages. I'll do a couple of the maps then do something else.

  • R3B3lSpy
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    @bella-persona Yes this should be a good update.

  • ExponentBow6832
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    Yea this is a very good idea, give more of a motive to finish a voyage. Sometimes I will start a voyage and the locations will be on the other end of the map, and if i don't feel like sailing that far or i dont have much time, i will just start another voyage. Making it so that going that extra mile brings better rewards would be a really good feature to add

  • jimmcq
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    There is another thread discussing this here: https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/49685/please-add-a-substantial-reputation-reward-for-voyage-completion

    I agree that there should be a reputation bonus for completing voyages, but disagree with everything you said about said about sinking ships.

    It should be there to help people who have their ship sunk mid voyage, not penalize them. Even if someone steals their treasure, the rep bonus for completing the voyage (occurs when the last chest is dug up) makes sure that all the time they spent wasn't for nothing.

  • Sun4k0
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    Problem will be solved once you reach pirate legend and start farming athena rep, because you have to complete everything for legendary chests.

  • PauIDavis

    @sun4k0
    The problem with that is that Pirate Legend is going to be attained by less than 1% of the player base. They need something for the more casual players and this would help with that.

  • R3B3lSpy
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    @pauidavis It would be a good idea if they can call Bungie for advice on how to cater to casual players, they are highly successful with Destiny 2.

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