Hey man, I agree with you! It's a bit too much loot!

Actually, I don't know if it's just a coincidence, but it feels like they've toned down the loot floating with the barrels lately. 🙅‍♀️

When I was playing about a week ago, there were shinies floating in every single group of barrels I came across when I was sailing around. Average, always 3 pieces of shiny loot with the barrels. Like, every single time. I played 2 days ago and only came across one pack of barrels floating with loot in about 2 hours of gameplay. I played again yesterday for a couple of hours and while I must have passed about 8-10 groups of barrels floating, there was not one single piece of shiny loot. 🤔😅 Just barrels, that's it. Coincidence? I don't know. Or it could be that they've read the feedback by so many people feeling that the loot with the barrels is too much and have toned it down. I don't know, but I'm definitely not seeing as much over the last 2 days. 🤷‍♀️😎🌊🦈🌴⚓

Every update takes away more and more challenge.

This has to be one of the easiest games I have ever played. Now, I mean.

I'm from the beta and launch when we actually had to play.

Now we just "move" and boom! We're rich!

A meg? Oh well. It was nerfed.

A kraken? Oh well. It was nerfed.

Ooooh! Devil's Roar? Nope. It was nerfed.

Skeletons? Eh. Nerfed.

Forts? No one does them. They just sail around and get rich for nothing.

Spend a lot of time gathering gun powder barrels for a fight? Nope. Spend minutes, as they are everywhere.

Take the time to hunt down mermaid statues? Nope. No need. Gems. are everywhere.

Work for OoS? Nope. Just shoot the gun powder barrel carrying skeltons and be done in a couple of minutes.

Work for Merchant? Nope. Just get the loot from the person and leave it there. You don't even have to ever worry about feeding a pig, or keeping any of the animals alive.

I am SO tired of the game getting easier and easier and the new "players" being weaker and weaker. Being chased? Give up. Die from another player? Give up. See a skull cloud? Stay away. See a ship cloud? Stay away. Someone gets on your ship? Scuttle and give up. I'd personally be embarrassed to be that type of person. Who just gives up? So, now us that actually play, don't get to enjoy any challenge because no one tries.

This is one of my my most favorite games, but I can't get behind Rare's idea of removing most of the challenge.

I'll be playing as long as the game is around, but I really hope Rare stops giving everything away, removes some of the easy/excessive stuff and I really hope they challenge us again.

But then again... We all know Rare devs. gave up on this forum a long time ago.

@grindtony45 said in Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ?:

I love that theres loot everywhere.
Now when you encounter ship, they always have loot on them to steal

Except it has no value! What is the point stealing it?

I do not even stop for loot in the water. I sink ships and sail away and leave the loot to float to the surface.. or not. I don't care.

@fractal-pitch said in Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ?:

@sweltering-nick a dit dans Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ? :

@fractal-pitch There's literally no functional difference between a shipwreck, and barrel spawns now. The only difference is the amount of distance you have to swim.

Wich is exactly where I think the problem is, since you don't have any thing to do to get a very good amount of treasure.

You are making useless distinctions between things that are identical in every way, except cosmetically.

With shipwrecks, you don't really have to do anything except jump in the water, and swim towards the treasure, pick it up, and put it in your ship, and then loot the barrels if you need supplies... Barrel spawns are exactly the same... So if it helps you get over it, imagine the barrels are shipwrecks. -.-

At least with shipwrecks there's a risk involved. Much more than with barrels since you're not able to see if a player is coming to you as easily as with barrels :)
Also, shipwrecks aren't as common as barrels on the water. Like I said multiples times, I saw barrels not 10 meters from a dock of an outpost and saw multiple barrels with loot spawning 300 meters from one another.

As for your shark argument, that's a common encounter whenever you are in the water, location is irrelevant to that.

On that, I agree.

You seem to be getting worked up over nothing, dude.

Well, you made your point, I made mine. I understand your point of view and I do not entirely agree with it. I hope you understood mine even if you don't agree with it. And I think, sadly, we have met a dead-end on our discussion on this topic (since we've been repeating the same arguments for the last few posts) :(
Let's agree to disagree, then. :)

1. You still have to swim... What part of swimming is "doing nothing"? I feel like you have have misunderstood something fundamental about this game, and what constitutes as work. o_.

2. The risk with shipwrecks is never that you can't see who is approaching or not, the risk is that you're not on your ship to react to it in time.

2b) Who cares how common they are? They simply are, they create a dynamic... The only complaint i have is that "treasure shinies", that sprite effect to make distant treasure more visibile, is a bit too strong, i feel like i'm being blinded by them as i sail past them. xD

3. Okay! Thumbs up xD

4. You don't understand my point of view though... At all... Made evident by point 1 and 2 there. You seem to have very selective ideas about how this game should work, you don't seem open minded to considering how this could be a good thing, instead of a bad thing. o_.

Your argument is that it's too easy to get treasure (more or less)... But who said obtaining treasure had to be difficult to begin with? I don't disagree with you, because i don't understand your train of logic, it's completely incoherent from my perspective... You're not connecting the dots of your own logic. WHY is it too easy? WHY do people have to exert more effort to gain this treasure? What does the game lose from allowing treasure to be this easy to obtain, and why does your suggestion improve the game?

I'm gonna use an analogy here to better explain how confused i am about your argument.

You: "You have to drink your glass of milk through a straw!"

Me: "... Why? It's my glass of milk, why can't i just drink straight from the glass itself? It's not like i'm drinking straight from the milk carton."

You: "Because, that's just how it's supposed to be done!"

Me: "Dude, it makes zero difference... wat"

That's how confused i am right now. xD

@sweltering-nick a dit dans Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ? :

@fractal-pitch There's literally no functional difference between a shipwreck, and barrel spawns now. The only difference is the amount of distance you have to swim.

Wich is exactly where I think the problem is, since you don't have any thing to do to get a very good amount of treasure.

You are making useless distinctions between things that are identical in every way, except cosmetically.

With shipwrecks, you don't really have to do anything except jump in the water, and swim towards the treasure, pick it up, and put it in your ship, and then loot the barrels if you need supplies... Barrel spawns are exactly the same... So if it helps you get over it, imagine the barrels are shipwrecks. -.-

At least with shipwrecks there's a risk involved. Much more than with barrels since you're not able to see if a player is coming to you as easily as with barrels :)
Also, shipwrecks aren't as common as barrels on the water. Like I said multiples times, I saw barrels not 10 meters from a dock of an outpost and saw multiple barrels with loot spawning 300 meters from one another.

As for your shark argument, that's a common encounter whenever you are in the water, location is irrelevant to that.

On that, I agree.

You seem to be getting worked up over nothing, dude.

Well, you made your point, I made mine. I understand your point of view and I do not entirely agree with it. I hope you understood mine even if you don't agree with it. And I think, sadly, we have met a dead-end on our discussion on this topic (since we've been repeating the same arguments for the last few posts) :(
Let's agree to disagree, then. :)

@sweltering-nick said in Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ?:

@ironuzuka said in Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ?:

@sweltering-nick So the glory is in the fact that now we have a mine field simulator ? (Joking)

Gold is glory. So are doubloons. Since the game keeps on rewarding us with cosmetics and cosmetics are bought using gold and doubloons, I would say the end goal is pretty tightly linked to cosmetics.
It's like pokemon, sure you have to get all the badges and defeat the league.
But you also have to catch em all.
I mean ... Sure it's about the adventures and the friends you make and blablabla ...
Nothing new ever since online multiplayer was invented. And there is value and glory there too.

Just saying gold is not as meaningless as many people seem to claim.
I guess it's all very subjective and keeping an open mind is key.

I am pirate legend... Gold is absolutely meaningless. xD

I'm not a pirate legend and gold is absolutely meaningless to me as well. I have been playing since launch and don't have any motivating to become a pirate legend actively. The only reason I did any voyages was to buy cosmetics. I have everything I want, so gold is worthlessness to me at this moment. Once we get way more cosmetics, then I'll have a reason to care about gold or doubloons. Without cosmetics, they will continue to be worthless.

@fractal-pitch There's literally no functional difference between a shipwreck, and barrel spawns now. The only difference is the amount of distance you have to swim.

You are making useless distinctions between things that are identical in every way, except cosmetically.

With shipwrecks, you don't really have to do anything except jump in the water, and swim towards the treasure, pick it up, and put it in your ship, and then loot the barrels if you need supplies... Barrel spawns are exactly the same... So if it helps you get over it, imagine the barrels are shipwrecks. -.-

As for your shark argument, that's a common encounter whenever you are in the water, location is irrelevant to that.

You seem to be getting worked up over nothing, dude.

@sweltering-nick a dit dans Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ? :

@fractal-pitch When i obtain a voyage, do i not move towards the voyage merchant? Do i not move to reach my gold purse, move to pick up the gold, and move to give the gold to the merchant, to then proceed to move to receive the voyage from the merchant? Do i not MOVE to the location specified in the voyage? DO i not move to either dig up chests, or move to attack skeletons in my way?

My point is, what part of obtaining treasure, does NOT involve mostly movement? xD

There are more factors to fantasy piracy, than pure, hard legwork, matey... There's magic, there's krakens, there's curses, therefore, there's also LUCK... right? Luck is an incredibly important part of pirate fantasy...

The thing is, when you're moving for those voyages, you do that to get to a certain point B, then do a certain tasks, then move to another point C, then do another tasks etc.
Shipwrecks requires you to dive in, check all the corners of the ships, dodge possible sharks, be aware of your breath etc.

With the system, I just feel that you don't have anything special to do to obtain a reward and everytime it happened, It felt cheap for me :(
Again, I don't mind loot being given in the barrels... To some extent !
But when I find barrels with loot and then not 20-30 seconds later I find another set of barrels with loot... And another one 1 minute later... It felt extremely cheap. Maybe I was just insanely lucky that day.
That's what I thought when I saw all your positive answers, but this morning, I still saw a lot of loot in the barrels of plenty so I'm beginning to think it wasn't just luck.
I need to play more to be sure.

@fractal-pitch When i obtain a voyage, do i not move towards the voyage merchant? Do i not move to reach my gold purse, move to pick up the gold, and move to give the gold to the merchant, to then proceed to move to receive the voyage from the merchant? Do i not MOVE to the location specified in the voyage? DO i not move to either dig up chests, or move to attack skeletons in my way?

My point is, what part of obtaining treasure, does NOT involve mostly movement? xD

There are more factors to fantasy piracy, than pure, hard legwork, matey... There's magic, there's krakens, there's curses, therefore, there's also LUCK... right? Luck is an incredibly important part of pirate fantasy...

@sweltering-nick a dit dans Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ? :

@fractal-pitch The glory is in piracy... Now, you can actually catch up to enemy ships... Potentially get their treasure. This is glory.

And honestly, the means of obtaining treasure from the world, via voyages or otherwise, doesn't contain much glory, tbvh... Tall Tales is awesome in that regard, because it involve puzzles, time limits, and traps and stuff... That's about as glorious as non-pvp piracy gets.

The point of voyages etc, isn't glory, it's to get treasure into circulation, so that glorious pirate things are more likely to happen.

I stand by what i said, i still think you are too focused on the treasure. The real glory isn't about the treasure, it's about the interactions between pirates, the adventure.

Finding random treasure is part of adventures, finding random danger, is also part of adventures... Who cares how easy it is to find treasure? It's equally easy to find danger, which puts all the treasure at risk of being lost anyway... That is excitement, that is fun, that is glory.

I'm already pirate legend, i gain nothing from treasure... That's why i'm so focused on the glory.

I do not entirely agree.
I agree that piracy is a main part of what's makes the glory in this game !
But there's more to that, I think, at least for me. :)
I'm also PL A10 so you know, treasures and gold means nothing to me actually.
I do like and I do care how I get treasures and I just think that getting a reward should be the consequence of an action in game that actually requires to do something besides just moving ;)

As I said in my original post, I even saw barrels of plenty with loot just next to the dock ! Reachable with one sword lunge from the outpost. That's crazy in my opinion ! :)

@ironuzuka said in Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ?:

@sweltering-nick So the glory is in the fact that now we have a mine field simulator ? (Joking)

Gold is glory. So are doubloons. Since the game keeps on rewarding us with cosmetics and cosmetics are bought using gold and doubloons, I would say the end goal is pretty tightly linked to cosmetics.
It's like pokemon, sure you have to get all the badges and defeat the league.
But you also have to catch em all.
I mean ... Sure it's about the adventures and the friends you make and blablabla ...
Nothing new ever since online multiplayer was invented. And there is value and glory there too.

Just saying gold is not as meaningless as many people seem to claim.
I guess it's all very subjective and keeping an open mind is key.

I am pirate legend... Gold is absolutely meaningless. xD

@galactic-geek a dit dans Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ? :

@fractal-pitch My 2nd question directly addresses your own topic, and while I never mentioned the barrels of plenty in my own thread, it was implied as a result of this update.

As for not noticing your own reply in my own thread, it's because unless I'm directly responding to someone specific with the @ symbol or otherwise quoting them, I don't really pay attention to who's saying what - only to what it is that they're saying.

Your topic isn't talking about the possibility of removing or tweaking the barrels of plenty (and if Rare should do it). Mine is. That's what I wanted to suggest. To remove or tweak them, this is the subject of this topic.
You're not suggesting anything, you're asking others general questions about the game and how we feel about the game right now, without any precision whatsoever about the barrels of plenty.

But thanks for your warm welcome, It's really interesting to see how it is important to you that your topic gets more attention than mine. So, again, I'm sorry for stealing your thunder. I misunderstood the goal of your topic, maybe I'm just completely stupid or maybe your topic isn't precise enough on what subject it is about. I'm sorry that I thought my question was more appropriated to what I wanted to discuss.

And I didn't answered but I did search. And I even know there's a topic on this in the insider section but as the barrels of plenty are actually in the retail build, I wanted to post it here.

Now, I actually want to spend my time to debate calmly and nicely with other people about the true nature of this topic, so I won't be responding to you here about your other topic.

But please, if you have any thoughts about the barrels of plenty, you're welcome to participate !

@fractal-pitch The glory is in piracy... Now, you can actually catch up to enemy ships... Potentially get their treasure. This is glory.

And honestly, the means of obtaining treasure from the world, via voyages or otherwise, doesn't contain much glory, tbvh... Tall Tales is awesome in that regard, because it involve puzzles, time limits, and traps and stuff... That's about as glorious as non-pvp piracy gets.

The point of voyages etc, isn't glory, it's to get treasure into circulation, so that glorious pirate things are more likely to happen.

I stand by what i said, i still think you are too focused on the treasure. The real glory isn't about the treasure, it's about the interactions between pirates, the adventure.

Finding random treasure is part of adventures, finding random danger, is also part of adventures... Who cares how easy it is to find treasure? It's equally easy to find danger, which puts all the treasure at risk of being lost anyway... That is excitement, that is fun, that is glory.

I'm already pirate legend, i gain nothing from treasure... That's why i'm so focused on the glory.

@sweltering-nick So the glory is in the fact that now we have a mine field simulator ? (Joking)

Gold is glory. So are doubloons. Since the game keeps on rewarding us with cosmetics and cosmetics are bought using gold and doubloons, I would say the end goal is pretty tightly linked to cosmetics.
It's like pokemon, sure you have to get all the badges and defeat the league.
But you also have to catch em all.
I mean ... Sure it's about the adventures and the friends you make and blablabla ...
Nothing new ever since online multiplayer was invented. And there is value and glory there too.

Just saying gold is not as meaningless as many people seem to claim.
I guess it's all very subjective and keeping an open mind is key.

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@fractal-pitch said in Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ?:

@sweltering-nick a dit dans Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ? :

@fractal-pitch said in Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ?:

Hi, since I haven't seen any thread recently talking about this in here, I'm just going to create one and copy/paste (ok, not true, I'm modifying some things) what I've wrote on another topic:

I Just spent the day on the seas with a friend and the amount of loot found with the barrels is just completely insane.
Seriously you encounter loot every 300 meters, that's just plain ridiculous... And the loot fund can be high-tier loot or ruby mermaid gems.
What's the point for the new players to do any voyage at all ? You don't have to do anything to get a huge amount of loot !
You don't even have to play versus the environment !
You just move and you get rewarded for that !
At one point, there even were barrels with loot not 10m from an oupost...
Where's the glory in that ?

I personally really really hate this change.
I don't see the point in it besides giving everyone loot so that everyone has something to lose when encountering another player.
But doing that is a step in the wrong direction, I think.

1 minute salty rant activated
Honestly at this point, they can just spawn loot on the outposts where we spawn.
Just think about it... Maybe we can just stop using the boat ! That way, we just stay on land at the outposts !
1 minute salty rant de-activated (sorry I had to get it out)

Am I the only one here that thinks the same ?

Hmm....

Well, they spawn loot, sure, but they also spawn gunpowder barrels... there's a risk to it, ESPECIALLY if the one sailing the ship doesn't pay attention to where the barrels are, they could easily get randomly bombed in the middle of trying to escape other pirates...

Now, to avoid this, the sailors have to actually pay attention to the seagulls above the barrels, in order to steer out of the way in time to avoid getting potentially bombed by barrel spawns... This slows your ship down a bit, which makes chasing other ships, much more fun, and interesting, seeing as now, you actually have a chance to catch up to those sloops sailing against the wind, or those galleons sailing with the wind, etc.

It's not about the treasure, or gold... It's about the glory, the fun. ;)

I hope this helped you see this update from a new perspective. Maybe now it makes more sense to you? ;3

Well, it's a bad ratio risk/reward if you ask me since the amount of time I found kegs in the barrels was pretty low, compared to the amount of loot (and their high value) that was present.

I know it's about the glory and I precisely think that having absolutely nothing to do to get rewarded isn't glorious at all. Just moving shouldn't reward you, especially that much.

Now, what you are thinking, is if people deserve the gold... You're still too focused on the treasure, dude.

To truly express what the Pirate Lord means... I will ask you a very confrontational question, just to make a point:

Who the hell cares if you deserve the treasure or not?! ITS NOT ABOUT THE GOLD, IT'S ABOUT THE GLORY! xD

Besides, i logged on yesterday, and played 20 minutes of Sea of Thieves, i saw a reapers chest, went to go get it... I noticed barrels, saw treasure, also saw 2 gunpowder barrels amidst the treasure... I was lucky i didn't sail right over that barrel spawn... Otherwise i would've sunk... I learned an incredibly valuable lesson from that, i can no longer sail in straight lines anymore, that's too dangerous now. xD

The point isn't how RARE it is to see gunpowder barrels spawn, the point is, you can never let your guard down, because each barrel spawn, has the potential to RUIN you, you let your guard down ONCE, that's enough to make you regret it. And this PRECAUTION, is what creates the dynamic that produces... Glorious gameplay.

For some reason, you seem to think that the gold IS the glory... That's wrong. o_.

Well, I think you didn't understand what I was trying to say :D
For me, I don't care about the gold, I care about how you get it, about the glory behind ! Like you, mate ! :)
And in my opinion, there's absolutely no glory at all at having loot handed to you on a silver plate like that :)

Especially to that extent.

@fractal-pitch said in Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ?:

@sweltering-nick a dit dans Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ? :

@fractal-pitch said in Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ?:

Hi, since I haven't seen any thread recently talking about this in here, I'm just going to create one and copy/paste (ok, not true, I'm modifying some things) what I've wrote on another topic:

I Just spent the day on the seas with a friend and the amount of loot found with the barrels is just completely insane.
Seriously you encounter loot every 300 meters, that's just plain ridiculous... And the loot fund can be high-tier loot or ruby mermaid gems.
What's the point for the new players to do any voyage at all ? You don't have to do anything to get a huge amount of loot !
You don't even have to play versus the environment !
You just move and you get rewarded for that !
At one point, there even were barrels with loot not 10m from an oupost...
Where's the glory in that ?

I personally really really hate this change.
I don't see the point in it besides giving everyone loot so that everyone has something to lose when encountering another player.
But doing that is a step in the wrong direction, I think.

1 minute salty rant activated
Honestly at this point, they can just spawn loot on the outposts where we spawn.
Just think about it... Maybe we can just stop using the boat ! That way, we just stay on land at the outposts !
1 minute salty rant de-activated (sorry I had to get it out)

Am I the only one here that thinks the same ?

Hmm....

Well, they spawn loot, sure, but they also spawn gunpowder barrels... there's a risk to it, ESPECIALLY if the one sailing the ship doesn't pay attention to where the barrels are, they could easily get randomly bombed in the middle of trying to escape other pirates...

Now, to avoid this, the sailors have to actually pay attention to the seagulls above the barrels, in order to steer out of the way in time to avoid getting potentially bombed by barrel spawns... This slows your ship down a bit, which makes chasing other ships, much more fun, and interesting, seeing as now, you actually have a chance to catch up to those sloops sailing against the wind, or those galleons sailing with the wind, etc.

It's not about the treasure, or gold... It's about the glory, the fun. ;)

I hope this helped you see this update from a new perspective. Maybe now it makes more sense to you? ;3

Well, it's a bad ratio risk/reward if you ask me since the amount of time I found kegs in the barrels was pretty low, compared to the amount of loot (and their high value) that was present.

I know it's about the glory and I precisely think that having absolutely nothing to do to get rewarded isn't glorious at all. Just moving shouldn't reward you, especially that much.

Now, what you are thinking, is if people deserve the gold... You're still too focused on the treasure, dude.

To truly express what the Pirate Lord means... I will ask you a very confrontational question, just to make a point:

Who the hell cares if you deserve the treasure or not?! ITS NOT ABOUT THE GOLD, IT'S ABOUT THE GLORY! xD

Besides, i logged on yesterday, and played 20 minutes of Sea of Thieves, i saw a reapers chest, went to go get it... I noticed barrels, saw treasure, also saw 2 gunpowder barrels amidst the treasure... I was lucky i didn't sail right over that barrel spawn... Otherwise i would've sunk... I learned an incredibly valuable lesson from that, i can no longer sail in straight lines anymore, that's too dangerous now. xD

The point isn't how RARE it is to see gunpowder barrels spawn, the point is, you can never let your guard down, because each barrel spawn, has the potential to RUIN you, you let your guard down ONCE, that's enough to make you regret it. And this PRECAUTION, is what creates the dynamic that produces... Glorious gameplay.

For some reason, you seem to think that the gold IS the glory... That's wrong. o_.

@nwo-azcrack I agree that this is the true root of the problem.

@fractal-pitch My 2nd question directly addresses your own topic, and while I never mentioned the barrels of plenty in my own thread, it was implied as a result of this update.

As for not noticing your own reply in my own thread, it's because unless I'm directly responding to someone specific with the @ symbol or otherwise quoting them, I don't really pay attention to who's saying what - only to what it is that they're saying.

I did saw your post, if you actually paid attention to your own topic, you would have noticed that I even responded but I thought your topic wasn't exactly on the same subject as what I wanted to discuss.
Your topic main subject is:
@galactic-geek a dit dans Loot! Loot Everywhere!!! :

So, why are there boats still sailing out there without loot? Theoretically, unless they just started their session or dropped off what they had, a ship should always have loot on board.

So this brings me to 2 questions for discussion:

1. Why are more players not attacking others to steal their loot?
2. Do you think that the SoT is oversatturated with loot?

Please discuss.

While mine is: "Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty?"
In my topic I'm more focused on the barrels of plenty.

Also, I answered very nicely and with respect to everyone here.
I understand that the initial impression of my topic wasn't very positive and I apologies for that. But, I didn't demand to change something in the game, my topic title is a question, wich implies that it was a suggestion, not a demand. Therefore, I'm showing that I'm open to debate and happy to discuss. No need to be kinda rude by saying "my topic is better because mine is more positive".

Also, I'm pretty sure that if my topic was that negative and not the kind to open a debate, it would have been closed by now by the moderators.

Now, if you're not happy with my response, I'm sorry. And I'm sorry if I stole your thunder with this thread. I just wanted to discuss and see what others had to say on the matter.

Can we go back to the topic, please ?

@fractal-pitch Next time you decide to make a new topic, do a search to make sure it's actually a new topic. I already essentially starte a thread on this topic, and now it's being ignored in favor of yours. On a side note, my thread was a lot more positive than yours is.

https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/96739/loot-loot-everywhere?page=1

@fractal-pitch said in Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ?:

@spiralout46and2 a dit dans Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ? :

I agree with the posts here about us just needing more to spend the gold on. I know there are people with millions upon millions of gold, but I've been spending mine on ship and personal cosmetics to get everything I've wanted in the last 2-3 months of playing, and now I'm pretty much set on what I have. So my gold is adding up now and I'm somewhere in the neighborhood of 800K, which is a lot for me lol. The only thing I'm looking forward to now is when I hit Pirate Legend soon, having new cosmetics opened up to me in the Pirate Hideaway as I work towards unlocking those. But otherwise, yes, we need things to spend the money on. We need options upon options, so many options and so much stuff to choose from, that it makes you want to search out in the waters for these barrels of plenty and get everything you can, and fight other pirates for them too. :)

Yup, we need a gold sink, on that I agree.
I'm sitting on 1,7 million gold, I bought EVERY equipment, clothes and weapon, a few ship cosmetics and I have all the Athena ship skin (not the legendary ones yet). I calculated that I need 3.168.100 million to buy what I haven't bought yet. And I know this won't be difficult to achieve. After that... Well I sure hope a gold sink is on the way :D

Yes lol. :) I think I'm heading in your direction, as I'm looking forward to the Athena ship skin once I hit Pirate Legend soon. I have that and the Legendary stuff to work towards. But once I get that, as of right now in the game, there's really nothing more that I want or need. Now my gold is adding up and in the coming months I'm sure I'll be like you with millions of gold lol. 💰 What we need is a massive list in the Emporium, like lots of things to choose from. Since we can't customize our character and we are stuck with the character we choose when we start the game for the first time, then we need lots of customizable options. For the ship as well, and equipment and weapons etc. And some of it should be really, really cool looking stuff for a lot of gold so that those with 3, 5, 7 million gold will have something worthy of spending it on. I want to look in the Emporium and literally find myself going back and forth between a dozen things and saying, "I don't know what to get!" Lol. 😲😅👍😎😁🎉

@grindtony45 a dit dans Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ? :

I love that theres loot everywhere.
Now when you encounter ship, they always have loot on them to steal

Well, I like that everyone has loot when you sink them but 80% of the time, it was already the case before in my experience.
I just don't think that giving loot like this is the way to go. It's just too much. I don't know, the game kinda always relied on a good risk/reward ratio and with loot floating on the water like that... It just seems too easy :(

@spiralout46and2 a dit dans Should we really have loot being spawned with the barrels of plenty ? :

I agree with the posts here about us just needing more to spend the gold on. I know there are people with millions upon millions of gold, but I've been spending mine on ship and personal cosmetics to get everything I've wanted in the last 2-3 months of playing, and now I'm pretty much set on what I have. So my gold is adding up now and I'm somewhere in the neighborhood of 800K, which is a lot for me lol. The only thing I'm looking forward to now is when I hit Pirate Legend soon, having new cosmetics opened up to me in the Pirate Hideaway as I work towards unlocking those. But otherwise, yes, we need things to spend the money on. We need options upon options, so many options and so much stuff to choose from, that it makes you want to search out in the waters for these barrels of plenty and get everything you can, and fight other pirates for them too. :)

Yup, we need a gold sink, on that I agree.
I'm sitting on 1,7 million gold, I bought EVERY equipment, clothes and weapon, a few ship cosmetics and I have all the Athena ship skin (not the legendary ones yet). I calculated that I need 3.168.100 million to buy what I haven't bought yet. And I know this won't be difficult to achieve. After that... Well I sure hope a gold sink is on the way :D