Athena's fortune commendations, 500 skeleton ship ????????

@nicochf Quantity over quality.

Considering all of the spoon feeding of pirates to reach Legendary status, I don't have a problem with this. Yes, it's a ton of ships, but that's fine.

@gatorwocky it take more time to finish those 500 ships than getting legend. ( u gotta be legend to make the achivement too... )

@nicochf said in Athena's fortune commendations, 500 skeleton ship ????????:

@gatorwocky it take more time to finish those 500 ships than getting legend. ( u gotta be legend to make the achivement too... )

I understand. I kind of like the idea that it will take a while. Perhaps a long while. Think of it this way; when you hit it, it will be legendary.

@gatorwocky in fact it will, but it's not like i will unlock 5to7 skin it will just unlock a pair a canons.... I see your point but it's still a game where a lot a casual players are here for "fun" and i think those 500 are not only kick out casual players but commited players.

Again, everything is spoon fed now. To have one achievement that is this difficult isn't an issue with me. Then again, I'm not one to flaunt cosmetics. I play because I enjoy the game, not because I need to show others what I've done. Regardless of the cosmetic reward, it still says you did it.

Cheers, mates! And good luck getting that 500th ship.

Casual players are not hardcore seekers of achievements by definition. As such they hardly will miss the legendary cannons. And those among other harder to come by cosmetics is something that can allow those truly legendary pirates to shine among others.

@esl-cruiser Word.

I'm creeping up on 200 killing them as I see them and I am okay with the reward at 500. If I choose to grind this, I don't forsee it being overly difficult.

To be a "Legend of the Sea of Thieves" one must accomplish a legendary task. 500 is enough to be impressive, but not so little that it's just neat. One emergent or roaming ship at a time will take forever. The ship battle is almost required to have any real progress towards this commendation. I started farming the ship battle on a solo sloop and now I'm up to 277. Each battle can earn you around 5 to 7 ships.

I realize even a single ship can be too much for a solo slooper. I still watch my ship go down from skeleton ships all the time. With the right strategy and a calm demeanor you can clear an entire ship battle, and take off with the captains loot. Even if it takes two or three new sloops before you finish.

As long as you can make it to the battle and start it, you have unlimited time to finish it. Every time a ship spawns, make sure you hit it with a cannonball. If you do, it guarantees you get credit for it. I realize it seems weird that I emphasize hitting it with one cannonball but with my strategy, that's usually the only cannonball I hit it with. Even if it's taken down by another ship, the volcano, or even sinking from ramming into any rocks or other skeleton ships, you will get credit for sinking it. As long as you leave the captain ship for last, you should be able to recover the loot.

I don't stock my ship beyond a rowboat. I ram the other ships and bucket water from mine to theirs. I need minimal cannonballs, minimal bananas, and if all goes well, no planks. If my ship sinks, I use the rowboat to finish bucketing water on the ships remaining. In this instance I may even collect the loot and leave it on the rowboat. Once I die or finish the ships on that wave, I'll mermaid to a new sloop, find a new rowboat and go back to spawn the next wave. When I sink the captain ship, I abandon my holey ship and take my rowboat, use it to collect the loot and take it back. The kraken, meg, and other skeleton ships will ignore you on a rowboat. It's not easy. You will sink often, and it is time consuming, but it can be done.

Another thing to note, any ship in an alliance with you will earn you progress when they sink ships. You could be on the other side of the world fighting skellys in a cave and you get credit for one you didn't even know about.

I personally don't actively go for this commendation, and I've got a bunch of Skalleons sunk towards the 500 just from playing the game.
If they make it easier, what's the point?

I'll get it when I get it...

Iv done mine n it was the most fun iv had it beats killing megs stick to ship clouds n u also can do the with less than 70 cannon balls (the whole 5 ships) some time u get 6

@testakleze

Another thing to note, any ship in an alliance with you will earn you progress when they sink ships. You could be on the other side of the world fighting skellys in a cave and you get credit for one you didn't even know about.

interesting thanks !

@nicochf said in Athena's fortune commendations, 500 skeleton ship ????????:

i think this is very excessive, it's way to much just lower it down please...
Basically it takes about 5-7 minute to kill one, i think 5x500 is a lot ot time . Now this is my opinion, what do you guys think about it ? ( i might just be a big lazy boy)

I wish people would stop complaining and having them nerf commendations. This game is meant to achieve them over time not goal to hit max on them then quit because no content. As someone who had 1k of alot of things before they nerfed it down do like 360 and 500 . I am quite dissapointed by this it feels like there is nothing to do or work towards anymore max lvl max commendations all we do now is two or three ships sailing around doing forts looking for shrouded. I liked that it was 1k miles sailed for the anchor . I'm for bring back the old numbers, back when a hull for the boat cost 149k, those were the days

Maybe just sink 500 ships. Not sure why it had to be only skeleton ships, true people may have boosted it, sure.
Just my pennies worth

Fleet hopping. I was around 200 ships when I met a crew of people wanting to knock them out and finished off the rest in about a week. It's not difficult, I think the hardest part was finding a cloud and making it in time to start the event.

You are doing it wrong if it takes you that long to do it. Need at least two people and some kegs. Ram into the Ghost Ship and have one person board with the keg. The person on your ship sails away and repairs. The person on the Ghost Ship takes the keg and lights the keg and drops it by the Barrel with the Bananas. Then you run downstairs to the jail cell and defend the hole in the wall until the ship sinks. Should have the ship sunk in less then a minute without firing a single cannon. You can try lighting the keg on the bottom deck to make more holes. But then you risk getting shot or stuck on the skeletons when the keg explodes. If you have more players you can double keg the ship and sink it in 20 seconds.

In my opinion, it only goes with the MATH.

For the commendation in Athena you need to sell a 100 of each Stronghold treasures.
So we have to complete or steal the treasures of at least 100 FORT EVENT.

For the ships, if we go with the MATH we got a 100 SHIP EVENT multiplied by the minimum number of ships appearing in thoses events and it's at least 5. So we get 500 ship to sink in total.
Plus we got the roaming Skeleton galleon and the ones appearing randomly to attack our vessel.

So in my opinion, it is FAIR to put it at 500 ship.

Get your game on and see you guys on the seas!

I played with a guy who got the canon.. its worth it :O im around 250..