Easy fix for Riddle quests

But riddle quests are already so easy. The longest I've had was a 4 clue quest (which usually are similar looking landmarks from quest to quest regardless)

While playing with randoms I have not noticed people skipping them, or ignoring them.

I don't agree with guaranteed captains chest either, as at any faction lvl you can get exquisite or barnacle loot.

However the quest are lacking what the standard map quests have, multiple chests. Maybe if a map for the same island was given after the first is found, or at each of the clues given there is a chest.

Just my 2c

They should just get rid of castaway chest, or make it as rare as cursed or 1000 grog chest, then everyone will be happy

Ive got two problems with riddle quests:

1. They aren't really riddles. At least... they arent riddles any 8 year old can't immediately solve. You basically need to only read three words from every riddle: the direction, the marker ID (what you're looking for), and what to do at the marker. You never have to figure out what that marker ID is because it just tells you.
2. They are written like a child would make a scavenger hunt. Putting all of the scavenger hunt items on a single page, so you could just read the last one and skip all the others.

Why do subsequent riddle lines appear magically after solving the previous line? Just give me one riddle that leads to uncovering the next riddle... Make me play a song at a magic rock that then shifts aside and reveals a slip of paper with the next riddle.

Additional note... I think only the person who paid for the quest from the NPC and put it on the captain's table should get the map or riddle. That way, there would be a purpose (beside hilarity) to showing your crew the map/riddle. Obviously still allow any crew member to uncover the additional riddle lines and allow everyone to get gold rewards.

Can't find a buried chest from an ole riddle quest? I believe I be findin' a solution to yer problem with riddle quests, get a higher IQ ye bufoon, it makes findin them chest a wee bit easier

@capnswayzjones

I made a thread about this previously, I suggest that the number of steps in the riddle correspond to the potential chest type.

2 = castaway or seafarer
3 = seafarer or marauder
4 = marauder or captain

The 4 parters with the vague final step (not direction + # of steps) = captain or grog.

That way they function similar to the other quests where you get an inkling about loot potential, like you can see the number of bosses on skelly quests or the number of X's on the other gold hoarder maps, or the animal types from the merchant.

@capnswayzjones Your right, I've never had a single riddle quest not work for me (having much more issues with the order of souls skeletons).

That being said, I've never gotten a castaways chest from completing ones either. Its the luck of the draw, and as you level up your luck increases with more opportunities to try it.

I never skip a voyage, even the "c****y" ones, and if that excludes me from being apart the "best pirates" then so be it. But know that it is not a waste of time, it is an adventure. The loot is just an additive to sweeten the deal- and the riddle a challenge to heighten the immersion. Though you may treat this game like a time based loot game, it will always remain a shared world adventure game

@mrbrocksego

I disagree, the game is about whatever you want it to be about, if you get your kicks that way cool, but if some people enjoy grinding out the quests that's fine too.

I don't see how making the riddle rewards a bit more apparent upon getting the maps (as they are for every other quest type)would negatively impact anyone's experience.

It's a matter of scaling the reward to difficulty for the feeling of player gratification/accomplishment, RNG is fine but the reward should match difficulty/effort/time-to-complete.

The harder the task the greater the reward, longer riddle=better chest, same with skeletons should be applied, harder mobs = better skull.

It can end up feeling really frustrating and unfair/unlucky when the game RNG's difficulty and RNG's reward separately.

@capnswayzjones Congratulations on your faction levels.

Frankly I'm 25/37/15 and have more than enough experience traveling to all of the islands numerous times. Usually going from corner to corner. So please, spare me the "you're new to the game" attitude.

Having bad luck with chests (or any loot for that matter) is disappointing yes- demanding a rare chest because of it? Petty.

I typically refrain from the gold hoarders quests, because there is little challenge within them (with the exemption of riddles). That being said, I have never had a castaway chest from them- not because I "haven't been playing near enough". I simply require more stimulus to truly enjoy SOT than- Travel to island B, and dig up treasure X. Continually. Riddles add so much more depth than a map with marked X's ever could.

The premise of any game is to enjoy the experience that you make for yourself. If you choose to spend all of your time playing grinding gold hoarders missions, using SOT purely as a "time based loot game", then I can see the frustration timely quests for a castaways chest.

But I'll advise instead, that you'd be wasting your time.

The SOT experience largely depends on other aspects such as puzzles, adventuring, and other shenanigans that simply grinding for gold/pirate status cannot offer.

Which is the point I think you are missing.

Nothing currently will give you an advantage over the next scurvy dog. So playing solely for loot is a momentous waste of time (weather the chest you get from a riddle is a captains or castaways), when you could have been having a one-of-a-kind experience instead.

It's the adventure you make it to be.