Captain's Chests

@dragons4miles I touched slighty in that under the Gold hoarders section in my post a while back.
https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/85287/post-your-ideas-for-future-loot

@dragons4miles It's actually not a bad idea, it would implement that moment of excitement when you land a rare colored chest. I unfortunately don't think this would ever be implemented into the game because of the work that would need to go into it. This essentially would be like adding 3 new chest into the games while changing the way the old captains chest works now. Then people might get upset that castaway, marauders and etc don't have the same thing.

My only recommendation when looking for gold is to go pick up ashen Athenas voyages and just grind the order of souls (Guaranteed 4 skulls that are each over 1,000 gold) at every island you go to or you can do the treasure hunt's in them. Very quick way of getting gold or you can just complete forts and do it that way.

@dragons4miles that is a cool idea I definitely like it. They need to fix the price of chests in general honestly.

I did a regular athenas quest and turned in chest and got just a little over 6000 gold from it when those things usually give a good 10,000 gold. Legitly the weakest amount out of a chest of legends that I have ever seen.

@schwammlgott dang really? Well I guess I'm wrong then, but there was a few times I turned one in with some crews in the past that hit like a little over 9k as soon as they turned it in but I thought THAT was normal lol ah man, in so confused now.

Once a week ago too, I remember now, that was an awesome reward, it helped me get the athenas hull finally.

@schwammlgott same I dont know I dont think I've completed one there yet, but i will add for mother amount of times I've turned thise chests in the lowest I've seen before was at least 7.5k.

For some reason and idk why, but that was it and above, maybe I was just lucky idk, but I feel like all the chests should definitely get a more like accurate scale and tier group distinction between each skill we can tell how much they might be worth.

@dragons4miles the reason chests might feel underwhelming is due to the balancing involved.

On a x Mark's the spot maps the amount of chests one can get is significantly more than the maximum amount of skulls from an OOS. Now these voyages were designed to be similar in total gold earned at the same levels. As the overall price of the treasure is similar, but the amounts you find isn't the chests were given a slightly lower price to compensate for the difference in amount of treasure found.

The chest prices are fine and the gold already flows in pretty good if you want it. Also, the gold hoarders are cheap, as they know they are the only ones with the keys and they love to hoard the gold they don't like paying for the treasure.

@schwammlgott totes not sure mate they could have changed it again since then I got no clue

@schwammlgott well there you have it I guess I've just been luck lately besides the most recent one.

With the reaper runs at the moment, I'm glad that captain's chests don't get you much gold. You get around 20 chests, most of them captain and a few sorrow ones occationally. I already don't care about loot much, because I know gold is easy to come by (I have around 20,000 now and already not caring :P ), especially in the Devil's Roar.

That said, one ashen seafarer's chest got me as much as a regular captain's chest. That's a bit strange.