Feedback on the Weekender / Doubloons Event

The limited voyages for doubloons encourages people to pick on swabbies which is reminiscent of "hey vote on your hourglass" and should be discouraged.

Someone tells me to vote on hourglass, I leave when I have other things I want to do. Nobody is forced.

Allowing unlimited voyages but with either in the beginning paying less going forward or eventually paying out less doubloons would encourage people doing them all weekend

And once again the thing that happens is players reaching the max limit within the first day, buying EVERYTHING, which is not something they want to see.

It would encourage the actual stealing part of the event

Not really. People would be wanting to do there own thing first, hit the limit, buy the shop out and...stop.

@dank-jimb0

My experience has been vastly different than yours.

The first day, we sailed around and every single ship we asked, the player/crew had no idea what we were talking about--playing a shanty to Flameheart, what?? Why would we do this? What's the point? This is clearly a trap. We dove to a number of servers. No one had a clue what we were talking about, and/or frankly weren't interested. We even waited at Daggertooth for 3hrs or so for the fireworks event. Not a single player came by. As we sailed around later on we finally had a brig sail over to us which filled me with so much hope. I got on the loudspeaker and asked them to please join us in completing the challenge, to include typing the message to them in case they couldn't hear me, but they opened fire and kept firing at us. We had no choice but to sink them.....my heart aching with every cannonball I shot at their ship. We weren't interested in sinking them or their seafort loot, and they left the server.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, we spent hours on each server, and never saw a single ship sailing to turn in/pick up chests. It would've been difficult to do anyway, since if they cancel the voyage, the chest vanishes. Waiting for over 2hrs at Crescent wasn't fun. Mobs kept spawning on us, there wasn't a ship in sight all that time, so we finally threw in the towel. It just wasn't worth 200 doubloons to us. I read somewhere that we'd need to steal 26 chests to purchase everything. I hadn't even seen 15 ships in all the combined servers, let alone the amount of players doing this for us to attempt to steal (which was at risk of vanishing anyway if they voted it down).

The 3 voyages I had on me, were useless to me since I'd already gotten credit from another friend who wanted to try these out (he couldn't stand how mind-numbingly boring it was, and logged out to play Windrose). In the end, after hours of hoping, trying, camping and asking, we just hopped on a galleon, allianced with another galleon, and just kept exchanging the crates to each other. In the 2 hours or so that we did this, sailing back and forth between the 2 islands ad-nauseum, only a sloop came by to try and sink us but failed (no idea what they were thinking but ok). They didn't even try to steal the doubloon chest (it's been our experience they probably had no idea we even had it). There simply weren't enough ships or players doing this to steal from, and everyone we asked had no idea about the event or just weren't interested.

Fun. Can't wait to do it again next month.

We started out on Thursday with the plan of doing the skeleton lord challenge, but chased two sloops to get them to do the challenge. The first avoided us, the second were obviously swabbies, but really nice people. It also helped that we were already on their boat before they even spotted us and didn't do anything harmful to them, so I guess that made it clear we aren't trying to hurt them, even if they weren't sure what we wanted. We just told them they get 65 Doubloons for just doing what we tell them.

We also secretly burnt Grubs on their stove, but put out the fire and then told them to burn grubs on our stove too so they also get the Grubs.

I was a bit unsure what to do with the firework commendation at first, but we figured it out at some point.

The other two challenges where clear in what to do, and had the right balance between complexity and being clear what we have to do. I'm glad it was switched from ashen lord and curse ball to skeleton lord and firework, as both are easier to achieve. Getting a specific curseball is way to annyoing for a timegated challenge.
My crewmate was a bit annoyed about the Harpoon challenge, but I call that a skill issue tbh, as me and two other crewmates managed to get up there with ease.

Didn't feel like people wanted to steal the crate or had it. We did encounter two alliance Galleons were one had the crate (they were too stu... i mean, confident enough to challenge us on a Burning Blade while still having the crate), but this only happened because they challenged us... we would have stacked rituals and never even bothered them if they didn't feel threatened by us claiming the BB.

I still think event rewards should generally unlock for all pirate profiles instead of having to do events on every single character.

@europa4033 said in Feedback on the Weekender / Doubloons Event:

@dank-jimb0

My experience has been vastly different than yours.

The first day, we sailed around and every single ship we asked, the player/crew had no idea what we were talking about--playing a shanty to Flameheart, what?? Why would we do this? What's the point? This is clearly a trap. We dove to a number of servers. No one had a clue what we were talking about, and/or frankly weren't interested. We even waited at Daggertooth for 3hrs or so for the fireworks event. Not a single player came by. As we sailed around later on we finally had a brig sail over to us which filled me with so much hope. I got on the loudspeaker and asked them to please join us in completing the challenge, to include typing the message to them in case they couldn't hear me, but they opened fire and kept firing at us. We had no choice but to sink them.....my heart aching with every cannonball I shot at their ship. We weren't interested in sinking them or their seafort loot, and they left the server.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, we spent hours on each server, and never saw a single ship sailing to turn in/pick up chests. It would've been difficult to do anyway, since if they cancel the voyage, the chest vanishes. Waiting for over 2hrs at Crescent wasn't fun. Mobs kept spawning on us, there wasn't a ship in sight all that time, so we finally threw in the towel. It just wasn't worth 200 doubloons to us. I read somewhere that we'd need to steal 26 chests to purchase everything. I hadn't even seen 15 ships in all the combined servers, let alone the amount of players doing this for us to attempt to steal (which was at risk of vanishing anyway if they voted it down).

The 3 voyages I had on me, were useless to me since I'd already gotten credit from another friend who wanted to try these out (he couldn't stand how mind-numbingly boring it was, and logged out to play Windrose). In the end, after hours of hoping, trying, camping and asking, we just hopped on a galleon, allianced with another galleon, and just kept exchanging the crates to each other. In the 2 hours or so that we did this, sailing back and forth between the 2 islands ad-nauseum, only a sloop came by to try and sink us but failed (no idea what they were thinking but ok). They didn't even try to steal the doubloon chest (it's been our experience they probably had no idea we even had it). There simply weren't enough ships or players doing this to steal from, and everyone we asked had no idea about the event or just weren't interested.

Fun. Can't wait to do it again next month.

I forgot about the chest disappearing if the other crew ragequits or just cancels the voyage. It reminds me of the veils where you could get a steal but don't you dare go to early to that big green tornado in the sky because they other crew can just cancel it.

I had a steal at a shipwreck, the other crew got sunk and left the game. The shipwreck was not able to progress further and I could see the doubloon chest in the captain's quarters.

The weekender portions were not that bad in my experience and I mostly played solo this weekend. It was the doubloon progression that I think needs some work from what I experienced.

Hopefully it is further improved over the next month for all of us.