Five Reaper Chest not Enough

@jetorchidee97 you say "I know I can still do it but it's been 3 years I've been sailing those seas and it's just not the same." even though it's not even been out for 3 years :D

whilst the devs acknowledge the sailors who like to explore they must tend to the majority player base who are these grinders, completionnists and achievers whilst also on the side every now and then giving things like tall tales for the explorers to have fun with.

@jetorchidee97 Because people need incentives. Cosmetic rewards are good incentives when the actual content is not good enough to be its own reward. Tall Tale done once, was good enough imo. Yet they still added the "do it five times guys".

@PhuzzyBond Come on don't ask for more grind than what is already the case. I must respectfully disagree with having a steeper grind, especially for events.
I do agree that the difference in requierements between the commendations don't make sense.

@PhuzzyBond you mean someting like this: legendary RC commendation???

It would fit perfectly with the others comms.

For the people who don't care about commendations. You are not obliged to do it. Play the game the way you want.

I agree. Since it's going to be a permanent feature, a legendary commendation with a cool title and hopefully even a cosmetic would give people a reason to keep going for them. The doubloon reward is not enough to keep me interested or others like me who have over 1k of them saved up and just like our millions of gold nothing to spend it on. 100 for PL title and if it would have a cosmetic attached to it 250 would be more suitable imo.

You are right about many things, carrot at the end of the stick is not the way to, but it has been like this in SoT for every single event, Rare got the players used to this. When I have 3 reaper Chests on me and no one bothers to chase for more than 2 hours, it makes them worthless. Don't forget the update is only three days old. Just another piece of loot in shipwrecks.

For the amount of effort Rare puts into these events, servers are usually calm, and they are trying to amplify the presence of players in Adventure since Arena was out and it is not working. Hence the messages "Please play Insider" "Play at that day and get this ship cosmetic", because they need analysis and graphs to optimize the game which they aren't getting.

Rare already gave us 500 Skelly Ships to grind which is 100 times harder than 25 Reaper Chests. Some didn't finish them yet, including myself, and still try and finish that. These are reasons specially for Open crews to keep coming back to the game.

I work as an Indie game developer for mobile games, I face the same issues Rare goes through but at a smaller scale due to the platform, when I don't have enough data for certain games, I cannot make proper updates, and bugs are always there because I am not getting enough feedback.

All I am saying is, things that get players excited should by highlighted and taken advantage of.

@guilleont said in Five Reaper Chest not Enough:

@PhuzzyBond you mean someting like this: legendary RC commendation???

It would fit perfectly with the others comms.

For the people who don't care about commendations. You are not obliged to do it. Play the game the way you want.

Yes something like that, something to make you "need" to chase other ships.

@phuzzybond dijo en Five Reaper Chest not Enough:

Yes something like that, something to make you "need" to chase other ships.

100% agree. Last night took 2 in a solo sloop and I was so nervous. It's almost as exciting as stealing an Athena so give us that comm and title to show off. It could unlock ghost cannons.

I'll keep doing it cause it's fun, but a goal will incentive me more (I'll say 50 or 100 chests depends on the spawn rate after the event).

How about no? :)

Because it’s hard enough to get them safely but they take forever to spawn!!

@agent-samuraii not for me. Right now it's more common than megs. I haven't seen any in a week.

@guilleont

Megalodons are indeed hard to get to spawn lately, but I don’t care at this point in time cuz legit, even sailing out in open waters for an extended period of time won’t always summon her, and I sail between islands a lot so that doesn’t grant her a chance to spawn too much. Dunno what you’re doing, but it’s purely RNG based regardless.

@phuzzybond should have been 3 commendation
XXXX Sold
XX Stolen
XXXX Mileage sailed with a reapers chest on board.

@StarQuest

I dont really see it as a grind, they could have a new reaper inspired cosmetic unlock after every chest sold or every 5 chests. It wouldn't be so much of a grind but a nice extra reward as you keep cashing in the chests. If you take anything and grind it out then that's your own doing. Nothing is a grind if your having fun. I love the chests as they are but seeing a fully decked out reaper pirate with all the ship, clothing, weapons would be cool and you would know they handed in a ton of chests.

I think a definition of what I mean by what a grind is would be helpful:
"In video gaming, grinding is performing repetitive tasks, usually for a gameplay advantage or loot but in some cases for purely aesthetic or cosmetic benefits."

So it is a grind. Nothing to do with how you do it, but how many times you have to do it.

If you enjoy this, then you enjoy grinding. And that's fine ^^

@starquest Understood.
Don't get me wrong they did an awesome job with Tall Tales. You would get stuff from one completion, but also more stuff from grinding it.
This design was perfectly fine with me.

It is true that you either make achievements grindy to keep players engaged. Or you, like with the shrouded ghost, you add randomness and "low drop probability".
Both strategies are there to have players grind the content.

I would agree that 5 reapers chest are not enough if it wasn't a limited time event.
Some people play the game once a week for one or two hours. These people should have a chance at completing these commendations.

The 240 Arena victories is ridiculous, so most people will just overlook it. People who enjoy Arena will either grind rush it, or simply play and whenever they hit 240, be ahappy about it.
But this is not limited in time. So I have no issues with it.

As I said, I'm happy to see people grind stuff or simply casually play the content once.

I think 5 stolen ones would have been do-able

@phuzzybond said in Five Reaper Chest not Enough:

You are right about many things, carrot at the end of the stick is not the way to, but it has been like this in SoT for every single event, Rare got the players used to this. When I have 3 reaper Chests on me and no one bothers to chase for more than 2 hours, it makes them worthless. Don't forget the update is only three days old. Just another piece of loot in shipwrecks.

For the amount of effort Rare puts into these events, servers are usually calm, and they are trying to amplify the presence of players in Adventure since Arena was out and it is not working. Hence the messages "Please play Insider" "Play at that day and get this ship cosmetic", because they need analysis and graphs to optimize the game which they aren't getting.

Rare already gave us 500 Skelly Ships to grind which is 100 times harder than 25 Reaper Chests. Some didn't finish them yet, including myself, and still try and finish that. These are reasons specially for Open crews to keep coming back to the game.

I work as an Indie game developer for mobile games, I face the same issues Rare goes through but at a smaller scale due to the platform, when I don't have enough data for certain games, I cannot make proper updates, and bugs are always there because I am not getting enough feedback.

All I am saying is, things that get players excited should by highlighted and taken advantage of.

The point is that loot is so f--kn worthless that there is no reason to even do any of these events. I'll dab into PvP but not for the loot, but for something to do. I don't want to keep killing skeletons and collecting loot if there is nothing to buy. What's the point of fighting for a chest that's essentially worthless. The reaper chest could be worth 0 doubloons or 100. It's all the same to me. At the end of the day, what am I gonna spend it on?

Just to add to my little rant: everything comes down to cosmetics or things to buy. There should always be a goal guy are trying to achieve to keep people playing. For example, GTA Online. It's a game that I played for years. I always had something I wanted to buy. Cars, clothing, houses, yacht, planes, helicopters. There was always a goal. It would take me days of grinding just to buy a $3,000,000 car and fix it up but it was worth it. With sea of Thieves, there is nothing to buy or grind for.