So, I don't know if this is a recent occurrence (I believe I remember in the first month Captain's Chests giving you around 800-900G each,) but recently, I've been finding that most of the Captain's Chests that I've found have only had between 600 and 700 Gold per chest. It's an extremely rare occurrence that I'll find a Captain's Chest will contain even above 800G, and I actually cannot recall a time in recent memory when I found a Captain's Chest that contained 1,000G. This makes the Gold Hoarder's missions absolutely worthless.
I had a friend group that accumulated two Captain's Chests, a Marauder's Chest, 2 Seafarer's Chests, and 3 Castaway Chests over the course of an hour or two, and it resulted in just over 2,000G in profit because both the Captain's Chests contained less than 700G each. The Marauder's Chest actually contained more Gold than one of the Captain's Chests, which is unacceptable.
We then did a one hour long Order of Souls Missions that found us around 3K -4K of loot, and we even did just one Merchant's Mission that only required two animals to be captured that gave us more than that Gold Hoarder's mission did, and the Merchant's Quest took less than half an hour!
I wouldn't be upset about this if it was a once-in-a-blue-moon occurrence. But it's not. It's a consistent theme that makes doing Gold Hoarder missions not worth the time or money it takes to buy the missions in the first place.
UPDATE: Just turned in a Grog Chest. It was worth 750G. What is even the point of the Gold Hoarder's Missions anymore?
