Tall Tale respawn option.

@angrycoconut16 good idea! But I find the items are more crucial to the tall tale, keeping your progress while migrating to a new server would be amazing and the ability to respawn with already achieved tall tale items upon your ship respawning you'd find your stolen skeleton chest which has no value other than preventing your completion spawned back in your captains quarters and you'd be spawned the usual PVP sink distance away or altnerately join a new session entirely.

Unfortunately I just had my tall fail right before the last turn in. My ship sank as a skeleton spawned when I was collecting the last piece on plunder valley. It was the cannon on the beach. Anyway, I took the chest out with the piece before it sank and put them on the beach. I spawned at Mermaid's hideway and got back pretty quick. Soon as I'm about to stop at PV, I get the tall failed notification. It wasn't even 3 mins since I was gone. So I'm PO'd. Also, the minuscule 3,000 gold for all that time spent on these, esp. if you're doing them solo, it's a waste of time. I like the stories but the potential failure, plus the glitches, low payout, doesn't make me want to continue doing them.

@callmebackdraft said in Tall Tale respawn option.:

@john-doyle-new i know the payout is not high, but if you truly follow the quest line you will also learn that it isn’t about gold or a high payout.

I'm a pl10 with 4m+ every cosmetic available, and a really good insight into SoT.

This post was made for @LadyMonkey17 because whole heartly I agree with her in the sense of Tall Tale items being somewhat obsolete and another method for griefing.

Reading the replies I guess I am the only one against this idea?
Where's the sense of danger in that? This game is about the excitement of never knowing what dangers are just around the corner, both being environmental and other players.

Leaving your ship open for attacks is part of the game and losing it and your loot, be it treasure or your key Tall Tales items, is part of the game.

I believe this is where the game's uniqueness and excitement are thrived upon and should not be changed.

@lt-swag-johnson I'm with you here as well. There already is a checkpoint, it's right after you finish that chapter of the voyage.

In regards to the 3k for finishing each one - I feel like this is fine, a bonus really, as these tales are simply lore based and you can find plenty of treasure on the shores or in a side quest along the way. Most of the game is about getting treasure, this is about the story.

Thinking this through, I'd have to say "no" on the item respawning. While it would truly stink to lose a key item and have to restart the quest, these are not time-limited stories. There's no rush to complete them; they're meant to take some time. And if the items can't be lost, then they lose their sense of value and significance in the game. We're talking about rare, one-of-a-kind artifacts of great power. We should protect them at all costs. The fact they can be pilfered and lost gives the story impetus. Without that sense of urgency, the story loses something.

Agreed. I also wish you had the option to server-hop while keeping your progress. That way, if there's one crew who keeps hunting you, you can switch servers and continue your tale.

Again this was simply an idea based off of what I heard from Lady Monkey, and RARE may or may not listen regardless however there is a chance they'll use this forum selectively even if it's for the server migration I hope it comes to fruition.

I did have an idea where say if you lost your ship due to some cause and along with it the quest items, that perhaps a merfolk could surface with said items and would flag you down by your respawned ship. After all, given the lore behind them and their relationship with the Pirate Lord, it would make some sense that he would ask of them to provide some help where needed.

@sargent-sully I love that idea, really would be a sight to behold.

@sargent-sully This wouldnt make sence at all..

@lysergicaa Did you ever look into the lore for the game? The Pirate Lord had previously allied with them to deal with the krakens and even was the one to have the shackles created that held the Old Mother. It wouldn't be surprising that the Merfolk would feel obligated to owe him favors for that and given that we are operating as an agent of his (in a manner of speaking) he could try to provide help through said favors. Could also just have one of those Athena strangers show up with it instead before disappearing. Lord knows they have some kind of voodoo tricks up their sleeves.

Had a crew mate’s game crash while he was on the way to turn in the crown and it despawned when he disconnected

@starlord013 don't necro threads, it's bad juju.

@Deckhands

you can tell rare thought of this, as people have said they could have been inventory items but they are not for one, for two, on the shores of gold I got my ship sunk by someone who simply came to sink me and then left, I decided to continue the quest and then just hide the gold hoarders skull and hopefully come back for it, once I was done the quest my ship had respawned on the island, I was relieved. they obviously figured out what could or could not go wrong, and looks like the option to lose it all was considered and allowed

I agree. The commendations should act as a checkpoint. Today I was working on tall tale six and I had been doing it for four hours. I was on the vault isle when I realized that I had forgotten the totem. I returned to find people destroying my ship. I fled and they chased me for 40mins but since I was a solo sloop and they were a duo I couldn't lose them. A meg came and attacked me and that in combination with the sloop sunk me. I was extremely upset that the hours I had put in were for nothing. This system is terrible and takes away from all the work that was put in the tall tales. I wish to see this changed.