Atena Merc Problem and End Game Road block?

Throw down a couple merchant voyages & collect the crates before beginning an Athena’s & leave the ones from the Athena’s at the merchant that way you can come back & get them (backup) in case something tragic happens. You can also do this by cycling threw Athena voyages & collecting crates. I myself cancel any Athena that has maps like plunder valley, smugglers bay, old faithful isle & marauders ark. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE BACKUP CRATES BEFORE EMBARKING ON A ATHENA. Otherwise you may end up wasting hours & being sad 😞

Guys Guys Guys I know do merchant first, don't do merchant spam merchant voyages first get the crates and don't take the quest crates. I know all the so called "work arounds"

You simply need to be able to buy crates because its being spammed for crates anyway so its not going to change that fact, Its simply going to stop the whole O you sunk me now I can't even do what I need to do.... Its very silly

@pixelhood I will try to pick my words carefully here, so please be assured that they are meant as advise, not to insult you.

a) Don't get sunk while running merchant. You're a legend, act like one and be smarter than them.
b) When people steal our "regular" merchant cages, we're screwed, too. Same rules for everyone.
c) Throw down the merchant voyages and have a backup (mentioned earlier and I agree).
d) Negotiate with other ships for cages.
e) Sink other ships for cages.
f) If none of the above work, suck it up and realise that you had a s****y day - just like in real life.

This is how life is, mate. Growing up means being able to handle such things.

@lefaux2

a) Don't get sunk while running merchant. You're a legend, act like one and be smarter than them

As I stated in the first post it wasn't even us not acting like a legend or being bad it "3 of us on island 1 on boat guy on boat falls for a trick as we tell him not to let them board he die's we all blame him for sinking he leave's"

d) Negotiate with other ships for cages.
e) Sink other ships for cages.

Firstly the servers are extremely dead so even trying to find another boat takes ages, and a gallon approaching a boat I don't know if you've been playing but will open fire.

Again same thing with sinking them we had one other boat that we seen on the sea which was that gallon which was 4 vs 3 and trolling and guarding the cages...

Once again brilliant suggestion "suck it up you suck you had a bad day"
I don't have 4 hours to waste away in the hopes I can find a lonely "friendly" sloop or gallon and try get him to go get me crates?

I always think these type of responses are from students/kids/unemployed and are single...

Goldhorders there is no problem you can't loose your shovel
OoS You don't loose your weapons
Merchant you shouldn't loose the only way to do the voyage so they need to implement a way to be able to even do the voyage... its simply

I ain't crying waa waa they sunk me or waa waa they tricked a crew mate or waa waa they killed our animals or waa waa they camped out our crates so lets get that straight I just want a way to be able to continue the completion of a voyage such as GH or OoS...

@pixelhood said in Atena Merc Problem and End Game Road block?:

As I stated in the first post it wasn't even us not acting like a legend or being bad it "3 of us on island 1 on boat guy on boat falls for a trick as we tell him not to let them board he die's we all blame him for sinking he leave's"

I get that.
My learning from that story is: don't get onto a legendary trip with immature people.
So an honest "thank you" from my side for this, I will keep that in mind.

d) Negotiate with other ships for cages.
e) Sink other ships for cages.

Firstly the servers are extremely dead so even trying to find another boat takes ages, and a gallon approaching a boat I don't know if you've been playing but will open fire.

Again same thing with sinking them we had one other boat that we seen on the sea which was that gallon which was 4 vs 3 and trolling and guarding the cages...

What TZ do you play in? We play CET and the servers are packed (in the sense that there is not a single second we don't see another ship).

Once again brilliant suggestion "suck it up you suck you had a bad day"
I don't have 4 hours to waste away in the hopes I can find a lonely "friendly" sloop or gallon and try get him to go get me crates?

Ok, so now we're talking convenience (which is totally fine).
I'm not telling you what to do (in this post) but if the game held my hand to a degree that I could just buy all cages I want, I'd rather not play the game.
Or I'd just get up at 3am, buy me a ton of cages, constantly resetting Crooked Masts to make a ton of gold in 3 hours - which for me defeats the purpose of the game somehow.
For me the challenge is that I can actually lose something. As you stated: you can't lose any voyage.
So you lost your legendary trip.
It happens, deal with it.

I always think these type of responses are from students/kids/unemployed and are single...

39 years, married, no kids (does a dog count?), 70+hr week as CEO of a tech company.
So as far as I'm concerned I don't fall into any of your categories.

Goldhorders there is no problem you can't loose your shovel
OoS You don't loose your weapons
Merchant you shouldn't loose the only way to do the voyage so they need to implement a way to be able to even do the voyage... its simply

I ain't crying waa waa they sunk me or waa waa they tricked a crew mate or waa waa they killed our animals or waa waa they camped out our crates so lets get that straight I just want a way to be able to continue the completion of a voyage such as GH or OoS...

I understand that part, but then again.... what makes the legendary trip so legendary?
Technically the only difference would then be
a) that you don't need to drop 8 voyages
b) you get your glowy chest at the end.

@pixelhood Now, I'm not saying dropping and canceling merch voyages for extra cages is technically buying them, but I'm just saying, dropping and canceling merch voyages for extra cages is technically buying them

One time we lost cages. Met a sailor on the ferry. Asked him to show his voyage. Merchant, perfect. Then asked if he could spare some cages. He refused. So we found him and took what he had anyways.

@lefaux2 said in Atena Merc Problem and End Game Road block?:

What TZ do you play in? We play CET and the servers are packed (in the sense that there is not a single second we don't see another ship).

GMT+1 and I get on at 9pm or 10pm and play 2-4 hours before I need sleep as up early for work

Once again brilliant suggestion "suck it up you suck you had a bad day"
I don't have 4 hours to waste away in the hopes I can find a lonely "friendly" sloop or gallon and try get him to go get me crates?

Ok, so now we're talking convenience (which is totally fine).
I'm not telling you what to do (in this post) but if the game held my hand to a degree that I could just buy all cages I want, I'd rather not play the game.
Or I'd just get up at 3am, buy me a ton of cages, constantly resetting Crooked Masts to make a ton of gold in 3 hours - which for me defeats the purpose of the game somehow.

I completely agree however if a single crate cost 1k or 2K you wouldn't spam it and it would give an option to the people with limited play time to actually complete something

39 years, married, no kids (does a dog count?), 70+hr week as CEO of a tech company.
So as far as I'm concerned I don't fall into any of your categories.

You fall into the bored of wife, have a lot of money and have a fancy office or mancave to ignore her and play games alone though... (Joking no offence and slightly jealous) but I have only have one 60inch 4k smart family TV and actually like spending time with my missus

I understand that part, but then again.... what makes the legendary trip so legendary?

You don't need to be legendary to do it and its the exact same as what you've done for the entire game so nothing really legendary about it.. hence the 2nd part of my post...

Which I was saying we need some variate

Idea 1. Have an Athena chest x on island that has to be dug up 40 times and the skeleton spawn rate is really high.

Idea 2. Have the Athena voyage put a New fort that's not in use "active" and make it harder or longer.

Again these are suggestions if you have any I'm sure rare would like to see them....

@android-ouija said in Atena Merc Problem and End Game Road block?:

@pixelhood Now, I'm not saying dropping and canceling merch voyages for extra cages is technically buying them, but I'm just saying, dropping and canceling merch voyages for extra cages is technically buying them

You can't fix something that's not broken.

so your discussion in the tread is that its not broken and they don't need to add in a way of giving you an option so that you can complete the voyage?

Its called a UX fix and is to increase user experience of the game just like they did with having to have a crew to cancel your voyages with votes they changed it so you could just remove them...