Legend of the Veil - Despawning / Canceling voyage

It is like any other Voyage, if you take them out before they have acquired the Loot you're likely not getting the Loot. Yes, this Voyage makes a beacon, but that doesn't mean that you don't still have to apply some thought to the steal. You just know for a fact from anywhere on the server that someone is trying to do it and that there is a good potential to steal some Athena Loot if you play your cards right.

But you still have to play your cards right.

Already complained about it here.

@lleorb said in Legend of the Veil - Despawning / Canceling voyage:

Leaving or canceling the journey for another crew not to get loot besides being childish is also not fair.

Calling it "not fair" that you can't acquire the loot from a voyage that isn't yours, is slightly childish no?

You want my rewards for a voyage I completed 99% of because you sunk me while I’m busy fighting forts and ships?

Nope. Should wait until AFTER I’ve completed it and then when I’m tired from the fight. Strike me down.
Roughly it’s a player issue and not a game problem. Think before you do something silly :/

@ssolutionss said in Legend of the Veil - Despawning / Canceling voyage:

Oh and nothing in yours until its turned in.

Exactly! So why are you complaining about not getting the loot from the voyage?? It's not yours. I'm confused as you've just argued against your own complaint.

You're not represeting Amber Heard by any chance are you?

@ssolutionss said in Legend of the Veil - Despawning / Canceling voyage:

I would like the opportunity to turn in the loot and give the opportunity for that loot to be stolen from me either by the same crew or another.

Umm..there IS that opportunity. You just have to be a little more strategic about it than a world event.

This is a voyage. This is not a world event. You know how voyages work. Use your knowledge of the game and knowledge of the voyage to plan your attack.

Something I've done with the OOS Ghost ship voyages is to just play dumb and participate in attacking the ghost ships while ignoring the crew that's actually doing it...then attack them when it's all done.

You can also just...ya know...wait for them to finish and then pounce once it's done. There's large islands to hide behind for every single vortex location and have a great vantage point from.

@ssolutionss you said

"If anything there should be a timer before the event despawns giving other crews a 5 to 10 min window to complete it themselves."

So yes, you want the ability to have the loot be available, even if the voyage is cancelled. Yet later in the thread, you replied and say the loot is not yours.

This is a voyage. The person that bought the voyage owns it. They can complete it, cancel it, or leave it in their inventory. Just like every other voyage.

To me, it appears some people are just upset that they can't get an easy Athena steal.

@lleorb

Fair enough. We'll just have to disagree there.

I'm actually glad that Rare did it this way. Too much of the PvP in this game is just brawn over brain.

As someone that loves PvP in SOT, but also loves strategy, I wish there were more things like this in the game. Things that require patience, deception, trickery.

Stealing this voyage is easy...it just requires a slightly different approach than the typical go-in-hot approach that most PvPers are accustomed to.

This is the absolute easiest Athena steal that there has EVER BEEN. How are crews having struggles with this?

You can easily row boat to the main fort once the secondary ones are down. As soon as the last bits are destroyed, you grab the athena and row away. 99% of the time the other crew won't even be aware they lost it until they come to grab the loot.

If this becomes un-cancelable, they need to make the loot pile world event sized if we are gonna keep comparing the mechanics of it to a world event.