Come on guys - Loot

Im not sure what voyages you did but the payout for simple voyages was very worth while on a gold hoarder stack! I had about 200k or so just from a single stack, which is over double what i would usually get over the same time spent on a stack before.

You know the shiny treasure chests and and stuff is imaginary, right? Like, not real. All of it is made up. The cosmetics you buy with it (which is ALL you can do with it..) they’re also not real.

You guys are literally whining about not getting enough 3d rendered meshes and database entries as a reward for having fun. The entire point IS playing to get them. Once you have them they are utterly worthless. They will not improve your marriage counseling sessions. They will not make your dad call you up and tell you he’s proud of you and they won’t make the people at work any nicer to you. They will have absolutely no impact on your life other than seeing a number.

Playing the game though, you can keep those memories for the rest of your life if you choose. So really, with that perspective, do you really want to be sitting here complaining about not having 3 or 4 more pieces of imaginary (not real) loot?

Everyone has gotten used to the mass loot piles over the past seasons. They've rebalanced it back to how it should be. Loot has more worth if it's not as abundant. High risk activities have the highest payout, diving to specific faction quests the least. Staying on the server puts you at the most risk, hopping to new voyages has less risk. This is the balance.

@wolfmanbush said in Come on guys - Loot:

If they ever take serious steps to chill out alliance server rewards and continue on with this less treasure thing I think it would be better for the game.

I find less overall treasure with decent values to be significantly more appealing than this -treasure all over the place- stuff that has been long going on.

I dunno if they will continue on what they started here but personally I see a lot of potential with it.

Agreed. The one thing I’m hoping for is them adding longer, more challenging voyages with better loot at the end. So if you want to play the on rails stuff from the captain’s table, go for it. But if you actually want to settle in and experience the sandbox and get lost in it like we used to, then you can grab a different voyage. Personally I wouldn’t care about the loot, but that would be the place to add it.

I did not find anything fulfilling about an RSI in my index finger from slurping loot up off the ship at Sovereigns. Eventually your brain realizes it’s being fooled and stops releasing dopamine and you’ll just need more and more flashes and Cling-clings.

@a10dr4651 That's the problem, yes if a single piece would be worth more and they give you less loot, but the grand total after selling IS NOT the same. It's faaaar less than the gold made before, it's really not worth doing anything but world events, shipwrecks and skelly captains, the rest gives you jack all.