JUST MY THOUGHTS ON LOOT DROPS FOR S17

  • FASxVision
    Ship Mate
    Insider

    This is just my opinion, and I rarely feel the need to chime in on here.

    I feel that the rate that the new smugglers loot is dropping/found is ridiculous. Every shipwreck, every skeleton ship, bottles are plentiful.

    The new season brings new commendations and excitement but those comms will be completed for most in the 1st week. All that will be left to do is use kegs on other players while we wait for Act 2.

    This game never was nor should be something to rush through..

    Reducing RNG or whatever it is you have set for this loot should maybe be reworked. Perhaps smugglers loot to be sprinkled in with what the normal loot load was for these things.

    Just my opinion

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  • PotatoSord
    Marauder
    Insider

    With the amount of loot spawning in each ship it feels like they meant to have the amounts be like 5x higher, or maybe they're preparing for the future. If they plan to do the thing they do often when a season ends, where they make that seasons content appear less often, then after S17 ends it MIGHT be reasonable counts, assuming they lower the drop rates significantly.

  • BurnBacon
    Vanguard
    Insider

    Dude. Hush!
    It’s always like this, it be nerf by week or so

    Let some of us get these out of the way xD
    Before they become “impossible loot spawn”

  • FASxVision
    Ship Mate
    Insider

    @burnbacon Snap, my bad 😆

  • FASxVision
    Ship Mate
    Insider

    @potatosord Im curious if them staggering the updates as "Acts" will play a factor into RNG as previous seasons end like you mentioned

  • Blazebeard2313
    Legend
    Insider

    If they drop the quantity now, the season will be even more dead. At least the quantity for now allows players to farm decent amount of gold both in safer and in high seas without having to rely on emissary flag. They will surely nerf it soon, but for now they need some kind of appeal for a not so welcomed season.

  • Magus104
    Captain
    Insider
    Founder

    @blazebeard2313 Flawed argument that being able to 100% the content faster will keep people engaged longer. This is likely just they increased the drop rate for testing on insiders and forgot to reset some of it. While they have been pretty lax on updating exploitative stuff in the past like this lately there seems to be some flawed drive to balancing things quicker and punished people who take advantage of stuff, which didn't used to be the case since they owned their mistakes and didn't think punishing players for an oversight on their part was the right thing to do. Being a pirate is all about taking advantage of opportunities.

    I predict at latest this will be fixed by next weekend. If not it's pretty much 100% that it will be for community weekend.

  • Blazebeard2313
    Legend
    Insider

    @magus104 yeah, this kind of earnings on top of community day bonus would be insane.

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