[Design Idea] Outpost Underwater - Poseidon Guard - Concept Dev. Update 2 - Please leave your feedback!

@ajm123 this new 'underwater faction' could be open, lets say from level 25 so that you always have the feeling of progressing on something more exclusive.

This would also motivate all those Athenea Players to keep playing.

I totally agree with you.

How would you gain rep?

Do you need to be a pirate legend to start gaining rep?

How do you get in?

I know this is just a bit of devil's advocate, but I'm trying to get you to think out the idea more.

For the first of my questions, what kind of items would you need to give the merfolk to gain reputation? Shells? Skulls? Treasure chest? Animals?

Would it be limited to only players who have achieved legend status or would anyone be able to do it? What about people who are already Pirate legends? Do they lose legend status until the max out their rep with the merfolk?

For the third you said that they could give clothing that allows you to swim deeper to reach the Outpost but what about before? would the merfolk give you a conch that you can blow near the water so they can escort you to the Outpost?

Do get me wrong I love this idea but it needs more thought, cover all the bases so to speak.

@crackpotink8417 I like it, but the only issue would be if max players were able to breath underwater longer. It would put them at a pvp advantage I think.

@arkane-wisdom let me try to answer all of them. Diving artifact has been deprecated thanks to your feedback and @thorshammer5051 one, as it would impact PvP.

• Rep would be earned by performing new faction missions: "The Sunken Guard" (e.g.)
  This commendations would include protecting mermaids from sharks, megs, kraken and new dangers while they travel from one point to another. These commendations would also include bringing potions and other 'mermaid artifacts' to a certain point before a certain amount of time is reached (e.x. potion would be turning from red to blue, once it is totally blue, commendation would be failed).

• No pirate legend status would be required, but level 25 would be needed. Once you reach level 25 on all the different three factions, you would have to talk with Bilge Rats, as they received a mysterious artifact. This rare item, would have to be given to a new character NPC (mermaid e.g.) that would be swimming around outposts.

• This rare artifact would be given to you as a reward as well. How would it work? It would send mermaids sounds and its frequency would help you guess where do you have to dive in the middle of the sea in order to find hidden outpost. Imagine this artifact performing a sound like the ones you hear on the new 'Sunken Curse' event.
  Once under water, only artifact owner and his/her crew would be able to enter this place.
  If you belong to other crew, mermaids (e.g.) or guards at the entrance would damage you (as new statues do) and you wouldn't make your way to the entrance.

• Once inside the Hidden Outpost (e.g. Poseidon Guard), two new factions would be unlocked:
  First one: faction with 10 levels, would include commendations described on bullet one.
  Second one: Poseidon Guard faction, unlocked after completing first one. This new faction would include commendations given by Poseidon himself. A new item would be rewarded (maybe, mysterious artifact would be improved) so that you can 'turn it into a mode' in which it helps you find the location of kraken, meg and other new threads that should be included. Poseidon commendations would involve fighting this legendary monsters.

• Finally, cosmetics rewarded would be more than a hat, jacket, tattoos, etc. Would also include: scales, tentacle hair, fish eye (instead of eye patch), fish leg (instead of wooden one), tentacle arm (instead of hook) as well as awesome cosmetics related to the undersea and mythological sea creatures.

Please let me know your thoughts, hope we make some noise and involve any rare employee to look at this as a seed for new developments (hope they would include us also as founder team for this kind ideas, events, etc.). If this idea works, would be great if after some time we would get some recognition for trying to help improve the game!