I saw a tweet from SoT saying "hurry and get those commendations and titles before the new bilge rats event starts"
I tweeted asking for clarification on whether we can or cant earn these after the event ends but got no reply.
Surely this isnt right? I can currently work on commendations from previous events so why not this one? I don't think it's a good idea locking commendations behind time walls. I hate leaving things incomplete.
Nothing to earn when the bilge rats event finishes?
@scrubber89
It's right... Because this is about "Mercenary Quests" (and those are temporary) you'll not be able to complete the commendation once those aren't available anymore.The same goes with the delivery of GP barrels for all the factions... After this ends you'll only be able to sell it to the merchant as it happened before.
@scrubber89
Rare doesn't seem to care that thats what they promised. They just seem to think that everyone loves mercenary voyages.@blazedrake100 This is what Mike Chapman said in another thread (insider one, but his post doesn't contain anything that could break the NDA. @Deckhands if you think it's appropriate, remove this post)
I just want to clarify a few points on how we intend to release updates to players. In terms of these monthly updates with new Voyages and Commendations, our focus is to get into a predictable release cycle for players, however, this does not mean that every monthly update will be of the same scale of Black Powder Stashes, there be variation from month to month based on how long features have been in development, and there will of course be much larger months inclusive of completely new features and Tall Tales.
The focus of the next year is to get into this predictable rhythm where new features are made available periodically (like last year), but even if larger features aren't ready, there's still a release every month with the latest balance, quality of life improvements and smaller twists to engage players like Voyages and small, fun mechanics. When larger updates are ready, they will jump on the next monthly release.
Just wanted to state this as the Mercenary style Voyages are not intended to be a replacement for Bilge Rat Adventures, which typically took a lot longer to create and release, but rather a steady stream of things to do and an opportunity for us to put fun twists on mechanics. Anything we do of the scale of the old style Bilge Rat Adventures and larger, will be designed to stay in the game forever with no time limited elements. What we didn't want to do though is wait and go dark until a larger release.
After several discussions internally on the team, we believe this strikes the right balance of providing a stream of smaller updates, along with the freedom to release larger features when they're ready.
Yeah, I am not sure why they went this way. In the past, all commendations and doubloons would remain available from content updates.
Only the cosmetics would be removed, and it was understood.
Taking away this content makes no sense though.
Edit: based on Mike's post above or not, there's still no reason to take out the non-voyage, non-cosmetic related commendations.
i dont wanna do forts, for 40 mermaids gems that i need.and ye i feel cheated cause the whole time when i played constantly sot the commendation keep in the game after bilge rats events.i know it wasnt the reason for mercenary voyages, sot is still my favorite game but when i play in that time something else i dont do fort as pl 10 for mermaid gems .if the gems would stay it would be more fun to have time and explore islands for gems....so i dont care it will be my first event i miss,i have the cosmetics its enough;).people say its the lore, no its to force players playing sot.(thats how game as a service works)
@eggamer13
What Mike said is exactly how i wished they released content since Hungering Deep. Long stretches with nothin to do are a killer. Always wanted them to just give us the small mechanics as they finished.Still dont like the commendations leaving.
Guess i should have seen this commin with the whole games a service jargon.This is gonna drive the completionists insane.
@nwo-azcrack I'm not a huge fan either but this was also the case for the first 2 reaper runs, so it's not unprecedented.
@eggamer13
Still doesn't make sense to remove non event related comms though. Like the mermaid gem ones. Id be mildly annoyed still, but it would be understandable if they removed everything but the mermaid gems.Never did like the time gates on merc voyages (or the fact they cost doubloons... or the fact they keep insisting we do some of them several times over). But at least they usually never took long to complete.
But yeah, non-voyage comms should always be available. Mermaid gems and both types of gunpowder barrels already existed before this update. So people should still be able complete the comms, if at a slower rate. But if given the choice between ”slower” and ”never”, I'll take ”slower”.
My one favorite thing about the Anniversary update? No timers. No fear of missing out.
@kaloudz all mercenary comms have always been time limited and there have been many in the past. If you fail to finish any than the whole commendation that you missed will be removed. You won't see a locked commendation you cant ever unlock.
@starquest said in Nothing to earn when the bilge rats event finishes?:
@kaloudz all mercenary comms have always been time limited and there have been many in the past. If you fail to finish any than the whole commendation that you missed will be removed. You won't see a locked commendation you cant ever unlock.
I'm fine with this, although I'm going to be jelly when I see those pirates with those legendary titles
@marsmayflower said in Nothing to earn when the bilge rats event finishes?:
@starquest said in Nothing to earn when the bilge rats event finishes?:
@kaloudz all mercenary comms have always been time limited and there have been many in the past. If you fail to finish any than the whole commendation that you missed will be removed. You won't see a locked commendation you cant ever unlock.
I'm fine with this, although I'm going to be jelly when I see those pirates with those legendary titles
Yeah so pretty much just like missing out on a cosmetic though titles arent as cool. There's so many too.
@starquest hey there :)
Sorry that was perhaps my bad wording. I know the merc ones have always been timed, and I already have those, but I was referring to the ones like;
Hand 20 gems to gold, order, PL, and alliance. I have 40 to hand in, 20 to the alliance and 20 to the order. I was under the impression that once the 14th comes, I’ll no longer be able to hand gems to the order, thus cutting me off from that commendation.
@kaloudz yes that's true and if you dont finish it by the 14th then the commendation for it will disappear from your mercenary commendation menu.
@kaloudz on the 14th you will be able to hand in gems to every faction. Gunpowder will go back to only merchant I assume. The commendations will go away.
@starquest ahhhh!
I see! Thank you for that. I assumed (having never missed one to date) that I’d see a locked commendation. Being a sucker for completion, that would have drove me insane lol!
I’ll try and smash the gems tomorrow but damn, I’m struggling to find many :/
I really do hate the commendations this event, especially the mermaid gems as they are a pain and rely entirely on RNG to farm, whereas kegs you can reliably find in great quantity at every single fort and mercenary voyages and active forts are pretty much guaranteed to yield stronghold kegs.
I've got better things to do with my time than sail aimlessly around and "hoping" I find one or two gems while sailing.
I really don't like the mercenary voyages; they feel like a forced method for player interaction rather then just have it naturally occur. I didn't like doing the couple of reaper quests for chests and I've got no interest in doing a quest that full of loot that can quite literally explode into a complete waste of time from one well-placed shot.
@weedstar-deluxe said in Nothing to earn when the bilge rats event finishes?:
i dont wanna do forts, for 40 mermaids gems that i need.and ye i feel cheated cause the whole time when i played constantly sot the commendation keep in the game after bilge rats events.i know it wasnt the reason for mercenary voyages, sot is still my favorite game but when i play in that time something else i dont do fort as pl 10 for mermaid gems .if the gems would stay it would be more fun to have time and explore islands for gems....so i dont care it will be my first event i miss,i have the cosmetics its enough;).people say its the lore, no its to force players playing sot.(thats how game as a service works).
You can get easily 5-10 gems per hour of play just sailing between ship wrecks and past island scouting for gems. It’s so easy shipmate! How come you’re not going to make it? Have you only just started?
@karloss00 said in Nothing to earn when the bilge rats event finishes?:
I really don't like the mercenary voyages; they feel like a forced method for player interaction rather then just have it naturally occur. I didn't like doing the couple of reaper quests for chests and I've got no interest in doing a quest that full of loot that can quite literally explode into a complete waste of time from one well-placed shot.
I've loved this event for the simple fact that I can easily get some mega kegs and cause some serious havoc. Merchant benefactor is the only title I managed but I sunk a bunch of ships so it's all good.
Few questions.
- The ones i have left to get are 3 runs to the east with reaper flag, 3 runs to the west with reaper flag and complete an athenas mission. If me and 3 friends buy enough missions from Duke, can we use these beyind the time limit?
- If the unlockable commendations disappear, will the section be seen as complete? If so I wont mind this.
- When exactly does the event end?
@scrubber89
The Sea of Thieves Twitter"A reminder that we're sailing towards the end of Black Powder Stashes! The Dark Relics update will go live on August 14th so get moving if you haven't earned all the cosmetics, Commendations and Titles."
@uribedh said in Nothing to earn when the bilge rats event finishes?:
@scrubber89
The Sea of Thieves Twitter"A reminder that we're sailing towards the end of Black Powder Stashes! The Dark Relics update will go live on August 14th so get moving if you haven't earned all the cosmetics, Commendations and Titles."
I reckon I might be able to do it. It will be close though.
As it is a "Monthly update" i totally understand the quest/voyage you can buy to do "The east, west voyage, the devil one bla bla bla bla" its fine that theese no longer be playable, cuz its a monthly time-limited update, but I just dont understand why the "Gems commendations" arent available anymore... I mean, There's a tiny line that I can udnerstand that the MegaKeg cant be available... but the gems for example? They could just leave it there so we could earn more Doublons!
Btw it was a fun update! Let's see what Rare bring us in the upcoming one! Can't waait!
Yeeehaaaa!!
Spreaaaad the cuurse in the seaaas!@nukdar I took the update for granted. It wasn't until the last days of the content that I decided to take interest in the commendations.
in the past only the cosmetics (that where tied to certain buyable voyages like with this one aswell) got removed but all the other things stayed. (after the backlash from the skelly fleet fixed timer i believe it was).
Not sure if they keep this mindset going, been some time since we had the last bildge rat adventure.
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