Rep Gains for Finding Treasures and Skulls

Sell fast, sell often, ye who doesn't scourer the horizon for foe, will lose it all. I get it. You dug it up for it to be able to be stolen. You were the Agent of Change....

As Far as ship combat goes, Your friend is the wind. Sail into it. If you're on a sloop Vs Brig Vs Galleon, sail straight into to wind and they will not catch you. If need be, sail into the Red Sea in your sloop. Much easier to keep a sloop afloat in the red than a galleon or brig etc.

@targasbr Thanks for replying to my post! I did think that 'lore reasons' would be a valid argument against this. Obviously, when you hand a chest in, your standing with the gold hoarders increases because they watched you hand it in.

Passive gains with these factions when you unearth chests/beat skeletons could maybe be explained by tales of your accomplishments making it back to the respective guilds. Lorewise - the people of the Sea of Thieves hear about your exploits, even if they never see the proof of it.

It's a little weak, I'll admit, but I do feel this change is important enough that I'll suck up whatever narrative explanation they want to shoehorn into it.

@SprungNickel427 Obviously the best way to avoid this is shorter voyages which I try to do, but sometimes I can't resist the call of a neighboring island. For when that happens though, I'd like to have gained at least a little sliver of progression if it all goes south. Thanks for the tips though - I hadn't considered using the Red Sea as an escape.

@targasbr I get where you're coming from too. Glad to hear other opinions on it.

You gain rep for selling the trinkets and skulls to your outpost. I believe that that is enough to satisfy your characters ability to level up and not spam your screen with little to no reputation movement.

You have not completed the voyage until you have delivered your loot. No loot, no gold/(exp).

Part of the fun and excitement is to get the loot to an outpost without loosing it. The fact that people are so upset about loosing their loot is proof enough. If you have nothing to loose, you won't get that adrenaline rush when someone is chasing you and you actually have to fight OR be sneaky to make a profit. It is kind of the salt (seasoning) of the game. :)

@teck7772 Hi Teck! The speed at which you gain rep isn't the issue (for me at least) but the fact that that you can play the game for hours and make zero progress towards these different factions because things go pear shaped when you try to hand in. There should still be high stakes - I should receive no gold for losing these items, but the game should recognise that when I dig stuff up, I am trying to increase my reputation too... even just a little bit.

You're working. If you don't finish the job, you should not get rewarded.

The loot you find is sold to the groups (GH, OoS & MA) you bought maps from. They pay you to go out and get them more loot. It's your job. If you don't find it and return it to them, you have no completed your job and you should not get paid. No rep. No gold. Nothing.

@ghostfire1981 I am suggesting a rep increase so low in comparison to the amount you'd get when you hand in that you are still scared to lose anything.

I think it's part of the challenge that you have to turn in loot before you get gold or rep - what trader is going to give you money or rep for not delivering the goods??!

What would be nice is maybe another faction that pays gold or rep for killing skeletons. It would solve two problems at once - lack of reward when you get robbed and the pain of dealing with annoying skeleton spawns.

It could be a very small amount - 1 gold for each standard skeleton, 5 for special skeletons (e.g. gunpowder skeletons), 10 for the Metal/Plant/Shadow skeletons, 20 for Captains. Something like that.