@burnbacon Again. Neglecting to see things from newer players perspectives. I only missed the first 5 seasons and sure I stupidly converted all my doubloons pre seasons into gold due to Rares complete lack of transparency on if they were ever going to use the currency again. But Every time I play I try to min max my doubloon income. Making sure to always save up the doubloon items to sell at max emissary for the little extra boost.
You got every seasonal doubloon cosmetic for free, on top of the free seasonal doubloons. The way you talk I almost want to assume you play on alliance discords like I used to. When you are on a server where you are gaining 1/2 the value of every doubloon item 5 other crews are selling every hour, then I could picture 1000 in a session. Captaincy ruined any kind of co-op in this game for me. Because it became all about wanting to play on MY ship. I preferred the sloop while alliance servers used 1 galleon and 4-5 brigs. Sure I could have helped them form a server with my Brig, but that wouldn't be a guarantee. Once I started playing solo more my doubloon income really tanked.
It required a lot of self control when I stopped playing at the introduction of seasons as they added some cool stuff and my theory was if I missed this FOMO because of how nice it was maybe it would help keep me from coming back. I eventually caved though and was happy when they did bring them back. I admit on return after missing so much FOMO my approach to cosmetics and how much time I spent playing changed. So I might have put in 150 hours a season? But at that it took me about 3 seasons to farm up enough doubloons to buy Shackled Phantom Hull - 3000 doubloons & Ferry of the Damned Figurehead - 3000 doubloons. Both those items are like 9001% better than these doubloon FOMO cosmetics. So price to coolness factor certainly doesn't add up for sure. I don't think most people are playing this game and fixating on just farming doubloon loot, but even if you did
I think for most people it's just the FOMO nature of it. For me not knowing how lack luster the cosmetics would be combined with not knowing the prices had me annoyed. The molten sands fortress giving you what 4 ashen keys, the vault having maybe 8 ashen collectors chests (with no doubloon items inside). That's what maybe 100 doubloons per tedious fort? Also assuming you don't get sank. Then account for most skeleton ships now are useless cargo loot with no ashen chests. Even if you get ashen chests keys are more rare now since we can't by voyages for them to be able to unlock them.
The fact their concern is this doubloon issue meanwhile 1 fort pays out enough gold to buy the past 5 seasons worth of gold shop cosmetics. But you would need to clear 10 forts to buy 1 past season doubloon hair style. Or nearly 20 forts to buy a past season doubloon jacket. Not sure why I am even trying to explain anything to you when you make up numbers all the time without looking at actual facts and data. Kinda like how Rare isn't even looking at data. They have it all internally. Also curious what you call a session. For me a session is 30+ hours. 2-3 times a season, maybe more if the event is something like last season with the 3 chests of fortune per fort? That was too big an opportunity to pass up since my approach since coming back to the game was to try and play a little more casually than I used to which was maybe 6-10 hours a day every day? If your idea of a session is 4 ish hours... yea you go record you getting 1000 doubloons in that time. Playing normally that is. I don't think many players are going around only working on activities the net doubloons. Even if you were grinding FoTD it's' not a guaranteed doubloon chest you have the useless bounty chests as well worth more pointless gold.
