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My reason for writing this post:
I decided to make this post because i haven’t seen it come up since the latest change to the milestone system (for me this proved that Rare actually listens to player feedback), that affected the numerical requirements for unlocking milestones, of which i was overall happy with. In this post i would like to see what the community thinks about the way unlocking ship milestones work, their experiences with the update so far, and what change they would propose if any. -
My opinion of ship milestones:
Even when season 7 launched my main concern has been with the way your owned ships milestones work. The way the current system works is if you are a captain on your captained ship you will be earning progression towards your ships milestones and your pirate milestones, but the rest of the crew will only be able to earn progression toward their pirate milestone.
Although i have to say it does make sense that you would be earning progression for the ship you are currently aboard, but this would still exclude the rest of the crew from earning those milestones and the rewards associated with them until they were able to do those same activities on their own ship. For a galleon crew as example this would mean 3 out of 4 people would not get any progression for the activities they partake in during a game session which, in my opinion is not fair for the crewmembers.
- My experience with the update so far:
Since season 7 was released i only played once, partly because the people i wanted to play with were unavailable during the time i could play. Normally when that happens i would look for crews over on discord but since season 7 i just automatically assumed that everyone advertising would want to progress their own ship, and i felt unmotivated to try to join crews, because even in the past, sometimes it felt really difficult to find crewmembers for the same activity.
The time when i actually got to play i was a crewmember on my friend’s sloop and i couldn’t help but feel that i was missing out on progress on my own ship (maybe that makes me a jealous person). What makes this worse for me is that i initially went with the attitude that i wasn’t going to care about ship milestones, but i kept on getting reminded by the notifications that we received when my friend’s sloop reached certain milestones.
- My proposed solution:
If you are on a captained ship that you aren’t the captain of, you would still receive progression for that ship type if you also own one, and if you own multiple of that type you would have to choose which one of your vessels you would want the progression recorded to at the shipwright, this process could have a cost of either doubloon or gold cost assigned to it similar how the letters of recommendations work but instead of being able to purchase one level each month you could bribe the shipwright to record your deeds, that you achieved on someone else’s captained ship to your own and it would also provide another way to spend your gold/doubloons if you wish to (but i also wouldn’t mind if it were free of charge).
Well that's basically my standing on the current system for ship milestones.
Thank you for reading and have a lovely day.
Best regards
Lunarweave