Seriously I don't get it.
They're considered 'special voyages' but still take up our 3 slots. They gave out 2 this year that are automatically put into your inventory. That's an immediate 2/3 slots filled meaning you can only have one other voyage on you until you use up the Gildeds or are forced to delete these once a year voyages just so you have some inventory space. Look at any other voyage given out during Live events and they do not consume a voyage slot. Fate of the Damned Voyages, Festival of Fishing, Black Powder Runs, Firework Stashes, hell even Legend of the Sunken Kingdom doesn't take up a slot, and that's not even Live Event limited.
It would make more sense for those Live Event voyages to take up inventory slots over Gildeds, as at least with those you can buy multiple of them. If you run out of inventory space you could just delete a Fishing voyage and then buy another when you have the space, no issue with deleting them. But with Gildeds you only get the 1, if you delete it then you cant just buy it back like the other Live Event voyages. It just makes no sense to me that out of all Live Event voyages, they specifically made Gildeds the one that takes voyage slots.
The Devs are well aware that players like to hoard special event voyages so it amazes me they still haven't changed Gildeds to not take a slot. I know a lot of people are hesitant to use their Gildeds immediately because they know most others are and as such theres a lot of players hunting them, as such they would rather wait a little while to use them. But that means they have to temporarily run a single regular voyage slot. Its not like they're opposed to generally changing the Gilded Mechanic as they consistently change it each year. Like this year they altered it so instead of having 4 options from Larinna and you directly buy one from her, instead you are manually given them which I guess helps lessen the amount of people who don't realise to buy it and are upset they missed out. But at the same time, as you can only ever get 1, it means you can't wait to purchase it when its convenient to you.
I really don't see any downside to making Gildeds not take up voyage slots.
On that note I still don't understand why the normal voyage capacity of 3 has been maintained all his time with how much powercreep the game has experienced, ie Captaincy Voyages of which you can hold 50, but only 3 regular voyages? I do not understand what this limitation does for anybody?
