Per Mike Chapman at gamescom captaincy voyages are supposed to "let you select exactly what you want to do" ok... I would like to do devils roar cargo voyages. I would also like to do just gold hoarder vaults & get voyage complete credit meaning these voyages should be exclusively for that quest type and not bundled into other stuff like riddles and Xs etc. I don't see any way to hyper focus my gameplay with captaincy voyages since they involved a lot of RNG with the exception of LoTV because they is a very specific voyage as it is.
I feel like these voyages need a lot more variety. I havent put down many of them but from what I am seeing for gold hoarders for example its 1 X island, or 1 riddle. or a vault with like 7 other islands to visit. Theres no way to hyper focus your gameplay and complete multiple commendations at once in a timely manner. So basically rather than doing captaincy voyages it seems like we still need to resort to lower level pirates using normal trade company voyages if you want to actually work on voyage completion commendations. Like i saw phuzzybond make a video about commendation completions with captaincy but he was only focused on unlocking the cosmetic parts not the actual over all completion. Which IMO makes for a bad play experience. Like he suggested only doing the portion you want then abandoning the voyage. Which honestly has been my 4 year history in SoT is people canceling out voyages because "not enough captains to kill on that island" or "island is too big" or "too far away". In his video he talks about how with the vaults youre getting vaults opened and the tributes chest. yea but never ever getting voyage complete. Same with ghost ship voyages do the ghost ship part for the ghost skulls commendation and then abandon. yea but theres not only commendation for ghost ship kills, ghost captain skulls, but also just completing ghost ship voyages.
Just feeling like outside of LoTV these voyages for players looking to go after one specific thing arent very specialized for that kind of play.
