Stop giving me > 50k gold on on login and just increase reward sizes

Yeah, quite a bit of treasure value doesn't make much sense these days.

The thing that always gets me are the gold pile values. Big ole piles o' gold giving a few hundred coins seems off to me. Especially when it's a big part of the voyage/content. The gold pile delay makes it seem kinda silly to me.

Personally I liked what they were trying to do with raid rewards but many were critical of it. I like less treasure with one piece being worth quite a bit more.

Something like the tribute chest def doesn't hold up in modern SoT with its value. It was a part of why the BB is so unappealing now.

@theblackbellamy said in Stop giving me > 50k gold on on login and just increase reward sizes:

@wolfmanbush said:

Personally I liked what they were trying to do with raid rewards but many were critical of it. I like less treasure with one piece being worth quite a bit more.

Lol wait did they change those?

Less treasure (that is worth more) means less stress on the server. Could've also added more gold piles/pouches (also worth more), since these are "consumed," which is presumably also less stress on the server.

It really just didn't go anywhere (yet)

I was hoping they would bring a lot of the treasure down and increase value all around the sea.

Feedback about raids in the feedback areas is often that they are underwhelming as far as reward goes.

I think there should be less treasure overall, more value to the treasure, rework commendations as needed and then work in the gold and doubloon pouches for progress along the way.

That could help content like shrines because then people are being rewarded along the way so the risk of leaving the ship makes more sense.

Tall tales should have more gold/doubloon rewards along the way as people progress.

They can both stabilize the win conditions of treasure items/content while making it more rewarding for people to participate organically in the content.

Skelly camps as an example are good about the piece of loot but then the gold piles are just silly low for the risk of leaving the boat.

Look into skelly camps. 20k per orb. Takes about 5 minutes once you get used to doing the constellations.

@realstyli said in Stop giving me > 50k gold on on login and just increase reward sizes:

@wolfmanbush

I really feel that these kinds of low yield and very predictable activities could do with an element of RNG to shake things up. If you know exactly what you're going to get before you even dive to them, that's always going to make them underwhelming. Give a low chance at landing high tier loot and that would make them more exciting.

Unless they reverted it, the Burning Blade has a chance to spawn an Ashen Chest of Legends? Which I think is a great idea.

Same kind of thing with the Voyage of Luck. Getting a gilded one feels awesome, but even the one dig maps feel great when you get something high tier.

(and, yes, I agree that the gold piles are very silly in terms of how little you get)

I agree that the rng can work but they tend to lean towards less rewarding rng more than surprising and exciting.

If the bb had an athena (locked until sunk) and then a random cof then it's appealing.

A tribute chest or maybe a 1/20 ashen athena isn't really worth the time to many.

So I think there is an opening there where they can make activity both rewarding by default and then extra rewarding once in a while.

Old school example is meg loot. Megs were always one of the non-event things that could drop ancient bone dust. I still remember years ago when I killed a meg and got 4 ancient bone dust out of it, while reaper 5, on a gold and glory weekend. That was a huge dub at the time.

Megs were always worth it to me because it was one of the pve things that had random treats. Could have been a stronghold skull and ancient bone dust (which was pretty much like a free skeleton fort at the time) That was a big deal for solo play back then.

Could just do more of that and just make it more relevant by using current win conditions.