Shrouded Ghost Quest Ideas for Older Players and for Those Who Do Distinctions

Imo some people feel they are owed the ghost when that's not what it's about.

Rarity is significance. That will never change. This game regularly sacrifices significance for short term gain and sometimes no gain at all.

I genuinely don't even understand why people want 5. A nightmare scenario for me is that I have nothing left to find here. Thankfully the rarity has prevented that from happening.

The shrouded ghost is something to pass along to newer players. Let it stay special and rare for them so that it matters when it happens.

@sweetsandman said in Shrouded Ghost Quest Ideas for Older Players and for Those Who Do Distinctions:

@wolfmanbush Agreed.

I'll use the Chest of Wondrous Secrets as an example.

I had never found one. I can't be bothered to spend time in the Roar, so I had accepted that I'd likely never see one. Then, they started putting them in the luck voyages and other things...got one right off the rip and it just didn't feel special at all. Kinda killed the experience honestly.

Don't make the Shrouded suddenly not feel special. I want to have that "HOLY $&@#" moment if I am ever given the opportunity.

and then it just becomes a social media theatrical performance where people try to convince each other and themselves that common stuff is still special, that the non-organic ones are just as significant

It's all because people feel owed, when (imo) we should all appreciate that we have things that matter/mattered to most of us. That was always the point of a rare meg and a rare chest in the roar. To appreciate rare things as a community. That's literally a main point of adventure.

@wolfmanbush

I don't know how I feel about either side of this argument... I feel like rng and rarity does nothing to the experience personally when you realize it's exactly like the other regular megs just rare but I've never been a fan of rng making an experience as much as I have the thrill of the experience itself

I rather it be a super hard challenge on that no one ship can perform...I feel like this would have been a good way to go originally...but the server alliances would probably have milked the value out of that today

I wish it was something different than just a regular meg with a low spawn rate though a bit of spice to the moment of fighting it

@goldseeker-gar said in Shrouded Ghost Quest Ideas for Older Players and for Those Who Do Distinctions:

@wolfmanbush

I don't know how I feel about either side of this argument... I feel like rng and rarity does nothing to the experience personally when you realize it's exactly like the other regular megs just rare but I've never been a fan of rng making an experience as much as I have the thrill of the experience itself

I rather it be a super hard challenge on that no one ship can perform...I feel like this would have been a good way to go originally...but the server alliances would probably have milked the value out of that today

I wish it was something different than just a regular meg with a low spawn rate though a bit of spice to the moment of fighting it

The game is full of monotony. From tasks to goals to commendations. It's a lot of the same thing over and over with random encounters sprinkled in to make it feel somewhat unique.

A shrouded encounter changes everything for a few moments. Entirely unique and exciting, unlike everything else in the game. Everyone that has encountered it gets excited and gets a few moments of pure gaming joy just by seeing something so rare.

There is nothing in this game like seeing someone organically encounter a shrouded ghost. Getting to see someone have their moment, it's incredible.

@wolfmanbush I suppose... I guess that's just not sentiment I have a feeling towards... A few people I know that got it said it was a bit underwhelming to them...basically thier view is like mine that it's just a shark and so I think there's just different mentalities about the thing some might find it an amazing experience while others might be underwhelmed by the fact that the encounter is a carbon copy of other sharks

My wish was it wasn't just a carbon copy of the others is all