To all the defenders of Golden Sands

Rigged. It doesn't matter what you do they're just going to change the rules and all the adventures are terrible, broken or both and they should wrap it up and throw away mysteries too.

I'd rather have Arena and PvE servers.

@longbeardfellow said in To all the defenders of Golden Sands:

@pithyrumble said in To all the defenders of Golden Sands:

Rigged. It doesn't matter what you do they're just going to change the rules and all the adventures are terrible, broken or both and they should wrap it up and throw away mysteries too.

I'd rather have Arena and PvE servers.

Hands back [TinFoil Hat]

microwaves and keeps eye contact

The expressed rules have been misinterpreted several times and a well respected forum mod is being roasted on Twitter for giving thr corporate response they were supposed to.

I can elucidate several issues with Adventures that were present in multiple Bilge Rat episodes. Location based forced pvp is a prime one. Lost Sands could have been an amazing pvp chapter and that's as one coming from a strong PVE background/favour. The problem is rules and interpretation. And the hiding of prevelant info. NO ONE WANT TO CAMP GS OR REAPERS HIDEOUT.

if there were a more accurate/timely scoreboard we might.

@metal-ravage
It's good to get the word out, but I don't know how we're going to get anyone to do it regularly at this point.

I just posted this somewhere else, but I'll say it again. On YouTube and Twitter, 2/3 of the votes are to save Golden Sands, yet the reapers are winning.

Do you think this is a result of lack of information, lack of balance (boringness or points being uneven), lack of player support, or a combination of the three?

In any case, I think this was a kind of a poorly done adventure, with the lack of info and the lack of PvP for a competitive game decision.

@pithyrumble is right, Rare knows how to make forced PvP from past events. Why is this adventure so PvE heavy when it should be the opposite? They gave us cannons and forgot to give us a reason to use them...

@metal-ravage With the amount of time & testing retro-fitting an existing island like Lagoon of Whispers, which would be the only ideal choice in the area barring all of the texts, lore, and stories that revolve around it, would be staggering based on a decision made by the community that may or may not be needed. At the end of the day, it's difficult enough to get cosmetic sets completed, I just can't see them doing all that work for something that may or may not happen even if it's a brand new island they wanted to bring in. At this point no one would complain about a new island getting shoe-horned into the mix, there is plenty of extra space in the outter rim for something new to wash up, or be uncovered by the shroud, however they want to paint it. Heck, that could be an idea for bringing in/rotating new islands into the world.

I've run the reapers side over a dozen times at this point. I aim for a minimum of 2 a day.

@captain-coel

@jojo-buddy-v2 and I have done 70 reapers mission and turned in 224~ rum and silk crates with a some wood and fruit crates sprinkled in for good measure. The odds are stacked against us but we must persevere!

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@metal-ravage I agree, I don't have a horse in this race so if they wanted to do something, they should just go about it and be done. I've already max-leveled again, and am not about to grind more veils for the rest of that horrid lvl 30 set that I wouldn't buy if it was on sale at a seapost. We've just made it passed the half-way mark for finishing a thrice recolored hunters set for twitch drops and everyone is expecting them to cough up a new outpost IF golden sands fails?

When the going gets tough, Merrick's followers get going to other activities that are easy. Keep pounding Golden Sands with those soulflame kegs people!

@metal-ravage said in To all the defenders of Golden Sands:

@kommodoreyenser Actually you reapers were complaining about having to use rowboats.

I have had zero issues setting up for a solid adventure loop solo. There have been two instances of others coming and sinking my idle ship at Reaper's but that was returned in kind and never repeated itself on the same server. You can repeat the servant's path each time in about 10 minutes of rowing. Sure it doesn't net gold, doesn't progress anything else in game, but it works. So no complaints here.

The issue with this is people have lives outside of video games. Lol I don’t have the hours of time to play SOT and do a adventure that makes little to no money over and over again. I did it a few times but the game let us believe blowing up rowboats gave points to Merrick now we are told it doesn’t. So I have to agree with others this event was rigged and Reapers were always going to win. What a waste of time.

@metal-ravage said in To all the defenders of Golden Sands:

@kommodoreyenser Well Merrick is glad for every resource I bring to him and pays for them. Even funnier is blocking reapers progress at Cannon Cove, exploding their rowboats and selling their relics.

Glad someone is putting up a fight. Most on your side seem to just complain about having to work for a win.