Shores of gold tall tales (1 to 9) needs some rework

  • Elmoren6688
    Rogue

    I've been doing Shores of Gold for the Gold Curse, which, in my opinion, isn't that beautiful and could be much better.
    When you do Shores of Gold from 1 to 9 the first time, well, 1 is cool, 2 is okay, but 3 to 5 are boring in their execution (not judging the story at all, only the way you complete them)... 6 and the rest are kind of good.

    You just repeat the exact same stuff from 1 to 5: Read the book, go to island X, dig/fight mobs, repeat.
    Sure, there are slight variations, but overall, if you don't play with RNG, in my first time doing all tall tales, I think I've gone around the map 8 or 9 times.
    Tall tales are short, until you need to go to the opposite side of the map.

    The duration of tall tales is mostly travel time, which is really bad in itself
    And then once you've done that, why not do it 4 more times for each tall tale that you just did? What's even the point of doing each tall tale 5 times?
    I get that a lot of commendations are repetition and all, but tall tales shouldn't be about 'farming' them. You don't do a tall tale for the reward (8k gold is ridiculous), you do it for the story or the skins you'll get for it.

    I think the Gold Curse and the Curse of the Order should be available after the first completion. Doing each tall tale once should be enough to complete the tall tale at 100%, like Monkey Island.

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  • Sandfeld2004
    Ship Mate
    Insider

    @elmoren6688
    Just abuse checkpoints if you want the curses. The tall tales most likely wont be reworked, since they have more important stuff to handle.

  • Elmoren6688
    Rogue

    @sandfeld2004 What do you mean abuse checkpoints ?
    Scuttle ship when you can after a checkpoint, restart tall tale to get a different random and stuff like that ?
    Checkpoint trading with others, I already do that but it's still long and boring, you shouldn't have to do that.

  • Orsokuma2668
    Seafarer
    Insider

    I have all commendations for all Tall Tales. I must say I agree with the opinion that repeat runs 3-5 are somewhat monotonous. That being said, I'm currently in the process of re-running them again for the sake of it and I'm quite enjoying it.
    Advise that you break up the flow; run a couple of Tall Tales, do a few Sea Forts, take on the Skeleton Fleet or Ghost Fleet, perhaps a Fort of Fortune, come back to more Tall Tales.

    In regards to the checkpoint thing, I didn't know that was actually a thing until the week after I had completed the full 5 runs for each of the Shores of Gold sequence. It's quite simple to do solo, though I've found that having a friend (or, in my case, being that friend) who's willing to [drop before the hand-in > rejoin after the hand-in > rinse and repeat] tends to be the way to go for those who don't want to do the grind.

  • D3ADST1CK
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    Insider
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    This was brought up after they introduced the Seabound Soul, which only required 3 completions to unlock everything. I think the general feeling was that they weren't going to be doing required repeats to unlock everything, but that they weren't going to modify the original tales either so we are stuck with 5 for 1-9.

    The Heart of Fire made sense to have 3 completions, since there are 3 different routes, and I think that every tall tale after that doesn't require you to repeat it (unless you missed a commendation along the way).

  • BurnBacon
    Vanguard
    Insider

    Old Tall tales that at the time were awesome compared to the tales today.

    Can’t fix them. Why? Waaaay to much resources

  • DanBeardLuff
    Lord
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    Founder

    @burnbacon said in Shores of gold tall tales (1 to 9) needs some rework:

    Old Tall tales that at the time were awesome compared to the tales today.

    Nah, they've never been awesome lol. I'm still struggling through the og 9 all these years later. About halfway done with gold curse : /

  • Sandfeld2004
    Ship Mate
    Insider

    @elmoren6688
    Ask on the official SoT discord server and you will find people who will help you with the checkpoints, much faster than doing the tall tales 5x.

  • PithyRumble
    Rogue
    Insider

    The only real rework it needs is having Golden Sands wording replaced with Port Merrick.

  • Smuntface
    Captain
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    @elmoren6688 said in Shores of gold tall tales (1 to 9) needs some rework:

    Doing each tall tale once should be enough to complete the tall tale at 100%, like Monkey Island.

    Incorrect. If you completed the Monkey Island tall tales as they were released you missed out on the new cosmetics released in November.
    I.E. The Tavern Chef Uniform, Circus Superstar Uniform & Legend of Monkey Island Cutlass
    https://support.seaofthieves.com/articles/15445339480850-I-have-previously-completed-The-Legend-of-Monkey-Island-Tall-Tales-but-did-not-get-the-cosmetics-

    Regarding the older Tall tales, they're stupid easy now.
    Since they introduced checkpoints, they can be cheesed unless you're solo. Some of them can be cheesed with the final checkpoint for completions 2, 3, 4 & 5, without even leaving your final outpost destination.

  • SweetSandMan
    Lord
    Insider

    As someone that completed the OG TTs the old fashioned way long ago, I completely agree that the requirements for the Gold Curse are...silly.

    That said, it fits with the MO of pretty much all the commendations in the game. Most commendations require a comical level of monotonous repetition to complete.

    So, while I agree it's silly and unnecessary...making changes to that now would require them to at least consider a rework of virtually every commendation in the game.

  • WoodyBus2033399
    Seafarer

    @sandfeld2004 Thats not a smart idea they don't like people checkpoint skipping there

  • Sandfeld2004
    Ship Mate
    Insider

    @woodybus2033399
    oh well someone is power hungry, nevertheless it isnt fixed, other discord servers also exist, if its such a problem for them.

  • WoodyBus2033399
    Seafarer

    @sandfeld2004 I mean theres no way to fix it the reason checkpoints exist is to ensure if you sink you dont have to start from the beginning its just that others abuse it + its against the rules in sot main to ask for checkpoints so wouldnt call them "powerhungry" per say

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