We need to use our gold REAL bad out economy is broken

I have some ideas and hope many of you do as well and if so please share them no matter how stupid is sound we just need bring attention and give so some solution to fix it

My 5 ideas to use/spend our gold

1: New huge range of expensive and cheap cosmetics to grind for such as clothes, ships and equipments

2: Pirate gambling games to bet our gold with anyone or for anything at the Sea dog tavern on adventure mode

3: Allow us to have ability to buy crates, rowboat, empty treasures chest from there respective place with our gold once hitting pirate legend status

4: place an bounty on an pirate and chooses how much the reward Is from 5000 to 25000 for sending that pirate to ferryman ( to place bounty on someone will cost your gold) (I can see flaws in this idea but it Is worth to just saying it out loud so other may come up wot better idea for this)

5: use gold to buy resources for your ship, you can only buy so many resources before they go out of stock and waiting an couple days for the shop to restock but will cost more each time you buy them out thoughout your session

@lou-enderdragon
Buying supplies, crates, etc. has been suggested numerous times and the response has typically been negative as it creates an advantage for people who have been playing longer against newer players. This goes against a core concept of this game and is unlikely.

Bounties have also been suggested numerous times but I have yet to see a way to implement them that wouldn't be abused.

Gambling is also a non-starter as this game's rating would not allow for it.

As for expensive cosmetics, this is the most likely place that Rare could rebalance the economy. It wouldn't even take a lot of cosmetics. Releasing even one ship set for 10 million gold would be a big step. Doing something like that a couple times per year would give the dedicated players something to show for their dedication without giving them any sort of gameplay advantage.

@lou-enderdragon said in We need to use our gold REAL bad out economy is broken:

I have some ideas and hope many of you do as well and if so please share them no matter how stupid is sound we just need bring attention and give so some solution to fix it

My 5 ideas to use/spend our gold

1: New huge range of expensive and cheap cosmetics to grind for such as clothes, ships and equipments

New wave of cosmetics would definitely be welcome, but since devs are more interested in PE items, I doubt, we'll ever get a bigger cosmetic based update.

2: Pirate gambling games to bet our gold with anyone or for anything at the Sea dog tavern on adventure mode

From what I've heard, there is a problem with Video game content rating system, you see, most of targeted audience for this game are also kids and you can't have gambling in 12+ rated game.

3: Allow us to have ability to buy crates, rowboat, empty treasures chest from there respective place with our gold once hitting pirate legend status

This goes against the main idea of SoT's gameplay, which is fact, that everyone should have balanced odds and that long time players shouldn't have an advantage over new players. Player with more money could buy crates, rowboats, etc. while new player would have to find them=imbalance

4: place an bounty on an pirate and chooses how much the reward Is from 5000 to 25000 for sending that pirate to ferryman ( to place bounty on someone will cost your gold) (I can see flaws in this idea but it Is worth to just saying it out loud so other may come up wot better idea for this)

This thing just doesn't sound right, probably would've been exploited.

5: use gold to buy resources for your ship, you can only buy so many resources before they go out of stock and waiting an couple days for the shop to restock but will cost more each time you buy them out thoughout your session

Same answer as 3rd idea, players with more money would have huge advantage over new players/ players with not much money.

@mystic-nefro 3 and 5 Wasn’t really my great ideas but I thank you
For sharing your opinion on it, i just hope that rare have an solution for this problem and hope this spread awareness of this issue

The in-game shops definitely need to add more gold priced cosmetics & liveries. While the choices seem plentiful for new players, it's gotten a bit stagnant for us day/year one pirates.

Don't get me wrong, the PE cosmetics are very cool, but we also need some in-game gold priced options as well.

For example. You have the new ship liveries coming out with each major update. Instead of ONLY buying them in the PE, they can have the "Collector's Edition" sets in the PE while having a "Plain" version for purchase in-game.

Another idea would be to emulate how items in the Bilge Rats store goes for doubloons when they first release, then after some time they end up moving over to the Bilge Rats gold store at a more expensive price.

Do the same with some of the ship liveries, weapon skins and clothing in PE but like...wait a year or something, then put them in the in-game shops for gold.

PE can be left for any newly released cosmetics/liveries/weapon skins and be the permanent home for all the pets & emotes.

@lou-enderdragon said in We need to use our gold REAL bad out economy is broken:

Ahoy there fellow pirates and black dogs drowning in there own riches we have an problem which you all know too well.

The sea of thieves economy is broken we need more way to pay/ use our gold to get us broke to really force us to do voyage or steal to regain the gold, i mean look at Pace that man makes the shores of gold vault room like an small corner bank.

We must find more uses for our gold soon Let forget about the new gold maker content update because what the Point of having this huge hoard of golds other than to brag about it and I FEAR that if we continue on this path soon most sailors will be too rich to even do any voyage and will try to steal loot from other but fail because everyone is too rich to do voyage which mean LESS treasures being dug up which also mean no treasures for us pirate to steal from.

As an community we all must come together, share our ideas and fix this growing problem that is getting bigger each update that introduced more way to get gold rather to use our goods.

SO I ASK YER SCRUVY DOGS WHO IS WITH ME, FOR THE GOOD OF THIS WELL CRAFTED GAME AND SAVE THIS GAME FROM IT MISTAKS

Pace may be a little unique as an example. The man plays sea of thieves for like 10 hours every day.

Go all the way down on the scale to me and I have 2.4 million 900 thousand gold. (I bought the inky kraken set.) It's kind of a lot, but I still need to buy and unlock legendary cosmetics!

I'll never stop collecting treasure for as long as I can still connect to the servers.

First pirate I’ve ever heard wanting to spend all there gold and become broke...like why???

@mystic-nefro said

3: Allow us to have ability to buy crates, rowboat, empty treasures chest from there respective place with our gold once hitting pirate legend status

This goes against the main idea of SoT's gameplay, which is fact, that everyone should have balanced odds and that long time players shouldn't have an advantage over new players. Player with more money could buy crates, rowboats, etc. while new player would have to find them=imbalance

I think as long as what you can purchase with gold is limited to basic items (cannonballs, wood and bananas) plus treasure chests (that can't be turned in for rewards) and basic rowboats (limit one per crew), it wouldn't impact game balance. The thing to remember is that the exchange wouldn't be gold for power, but gold for TIME. Most people are impatient and/or have a limited amount of time to play games. Giving the option to reduce the most monotonous parts of the game (gathering resources) while asking players to ante up their gold for resources that could get lost in a wreck plays directly into the risk vs reward of the game's design. Additionally, the gold cost could be increased exponentially as items are bought in a session, so it becomes less attractive/unfeasiable to buy an infinite supply of resources.

We NEED more people commenting on this post. Every idea I’ve seen here has been said many many time. This isn’t only something that needs to be talked about because it would help put players with a ton of money. Depending on how they add gold sinks, this game could be greatly improved. If they go the route of something like supples (something that doesn’t really add on to the game) then it will fix the gold sink issue. But, if they add something that’s brand new and is a gold sink system, it would further improve this game. I’m hoping some people out there will see this and contribute their original ideas that could not only add a gold sink system, but also something new and cool to the game.

@lou-enderdragon in single games usually money goes to repair the ship, replenish supplies, pay salaries to officers and sailors, we do not have this, but the gold lies under our feet.
Many people ask for a PVE server, but for some reason I don't see a request for a single player game

1: It won't solve the problem, but great start would be a crown for 100 millione coin.(I am not kidding i have more then 100 mil, and would like to buy a crown)
2: The gambling is a great idea, because you can win and lose, in an infinity loop, so yeah it would be great maybe in K11, it has already some table to do, and if i lose, i still can grab my sword.
3: I love the idea to buy them in empty, or at least the rowboat would be great.
4: the bounty idea, the best in the list:
I would love to see this in the game in some kind, just imagein what can be better, when somewho defeat you, and you throw some money on his head, toxicity next lvl.
It would be great way to give some more function to the Ferryman who has a great lore, but it is the perfect function for him, to count the coin after a soul collecting.
I would be happy if the bounty collecting would be online if I got a bounty in my head, that bounty won't leave me until somewho kill me, it would be a great way to start another champion, for the "Legend with the most bounty" title(not an ingame title, just a symbolic title) and I also loved to see a board in your session's bounty.
I loved to see a webpage where the most bountied peoples are, the top10, or the top100.

5: i dont like the idea to buy resource, because where the love of looting?

@burnbacon said in We need to use our gold REAL bad out economy is broken:

First pirate I’ve ever heard wanting to spend all there gold and become broke...like why???

did you docked your ship in Tortuga? Where you can buy *censored thing* for gold...(definitely grog)

imo we need some obscenely expensive cosmetics up for sale. something on the order of 10 million gold needed to buy all the pieces, at minimum.

another option i have always liked is to have 'alternate ship models' available for unlock. for example, a 25 million gold bermuda-rigged schooner which is functionally still a brigantine.

stuff like this would not only be a great gold-sink, but it would sort of revive the desire to 'flex' that seems to have evaporated since the ending of time-limited cosmetics.

Pirate Legends should have access to a bunch of good quality cosmetics worth hundreds of thousands to millions per piece. I'm also on board with @TehStepford's idea of ship models.