Voyages arent valuable enough.

@gianni001 I am inclined to agree with you on the rewards for gold hoarder quests. The merchant quests pay much more if you have a any sort f golden animal among the list. The best rewards from from Message in a Bottle quests, if you can find them, and Skull Forts. But damn, skull forts by yourself is super difficult and very time consuming. That being said, stealing a key from another group is also loads of fun.

I'd settle for just some consistency. Did a rank 30 Gold Hoarder voyage earlier and got 3 Castaway Chests. I've also turned in a Captain's Chest, Chest of Sorrows, and 1000 Grogs, and got 970 for Captain, and 8-900 for the other 2.

I feel order of souls has been the best for me. I thought this as well earlier. Me and a buddy grinded for 6 hours and hit every ship wreck, message in a bottle, powder keg, and netted about 12k for one drop off. 6 voyages. We only found 2 captain chest, 2 villianous. We had ALOT of stuff...

We dropped everything off and hit a skull fort and made another 13k in 45 minutes..

I've done 2 order of souls and gotten 8 skulls. 2 of them being villainous. ~4k in 2 hours.

All these times avoiding pvp entirely.

It is pretty inconsistent with amounts for chest and skulls. And higher level voyages done guarantee better chest. But I think ultimately higher voyages grant more chest, giving you a higher probably of getting a better chest.

It's all about those ship wrecks thou.

I think u got unlucky with ur voyages.
Im 28 on goldhoarders and got everything on the picture in 1 voyage and 1 shipwreck. (I guess around 1hr)

@padd All people have difference tastes, and most do not enjoy longwinded, unrewarding grinding.

Honestly with the quality of cosmetics in this game, I'd honestly prefer it if there was never any cosmetics or shops and gold was just so you could pile it up somwhere to show off, like the pause room in Fable 3.

Doing quests is kinda fun, but also very lacklustre. I'd rather a beter variety of ways to ge gold than what to spend it on right now. But to link to your comment, consider at least that as you rank up in the guild, you will earn more. It's just very inconsistant.

As for non pvp earnings, just pick some order of souls voyages and focus on wreckages. Wreckages seem to offer hte best income to efort ration in my experience, and you just take them on opprtunity rather than having to search for them specificly. Hoarders voyages can offer too little for too much time spent completing them, and MA voyages are only much good if you build up a stock of animals first. Skulls are fairly easy to find most the time, and a lot of them occur on smaller islands and can be done easily with boom barrels or cannon.

Or just play pvp. you can still dig up a captains chest or high end skul from a wrckage here n there, and sometimes take a lot of booty from other players. I lost 8000 worth today because some guy spent about 25 minutes chasing me and I had to turn the game off. So he got it all I guess.

Merchant Quest should definitely pay more, they’re the most time consuming and annoying.

@star99er Definitely got a quest for 3x pink and black spotted pigs. Never been so upset in a while even with PvP. How could 3 islands with pigs not have a single one I wanted !

The thing that bothers me the most about the gold rewards for voyages and stuff is that the amount of gold each player of a 4 player party receives for cashing in any item is the same as what each player of a 3/2 player party or even a solo player gets for cashing in that same item.

I think all items should be worth 4x as much globally, but then when cashed in it should be split evenly between the number of party members, so taking on high level voyages as a solo or duo is appropriately more rewarding to account for the increased difficulty due to less manpower.

This might lead to more people choosing to play on the sloop the maximise their profits, but I think this could be balanced out by not giving any extra faction rep to smaller crews so there is still an incentive to being in a larger group so you can clear each voyage quicker for maximum rep gain.

I would also suggest that a stake system could be added to give galleon groups who regularly play together a way to funnel more money from each turn-in to the group leader (captain) so they can be the one to buy the expensive boat cosmetics.

Kind of like the system in GTA online when doing heists were you can agree what share of the reward each player gets ahead of time, though it should be each players choice to give up a part of their stake to the captain, not the captains choice to force them to do so.

@gianni001 As you get higher rank the chests have higher chances of rolling as higher level chests. You got unlucky once, move on. Also, playing solo will usually mean you are not doing things as fast as you could in a group.

They have to cut the chance for a castaway chest to 0% after you hit lvl 15 or 20. After that Seafarer...

I personally just do voyages with 3-4 X-makrs. When i don't get it i just abort it cause no worth to do the puzzle for a useless chest.

Agreed. Just spent 2 hours or so and got next to nothing (gold lvl 30 voyage).

Did the stupid riddle quest got a seafarers chest. Not great, but thought whatever cause I found a marauders random on the island and got a second map for the voyage with 6 X markers. (Awesone right?)

Nooo. NOT SO. End result of that island was 4 seafarers chests and 2 castaways, what a waste of time.

@ch4o5bl4d3 said in Voyages arent valuable enough.:

The thing that bothers me the most about the gold rewards for voyages and stuff is that the amount of gold each player of a 4 player party receives for cashing in any item is the same as what each player of a 3/2 player party or even a solo player gets for cashing in that same item.

I think all items should be worth 4x as much globally, but then when cashed in it should be split evenly between the number of party members, so taking on high level voyages as a solo or duo is appropriately more rewarding to account for the increased difficulty due to less manpower.

I was astonished when I found out this WASN'T the case, actually, as this would've made perfect sense by pirate standards as well: more crewmembers means more you'd need to split the loot with, and a soloist may have a much harder journey but will be getting to keep all of the loot they find.