It seems to be just a way for players to sweep their castaway chests under the rug. There is no apparent reward to cluttering your quest wheel with these things.
Can someone explain to me what the point of player generated buried treasure maps is?
Pirates gonna pirate and bury treasure.
Sounds like you found the typical trash maps tho...which really is people offloading their junk. Or ammo chests 😆
I bury everything but cursed chests and Athena loot anymore. 75 OoS, GH, Merch, 50 Hunters. Have emptied shrines and vaults just to bury it right outside. Keep an eye out for my name on the boards.
You can also use it to stash loot to turn in for emissary later (doing OoS but want a bonus on that Chest O' Grogs...)
Or do your own pirate trolling. Nothing like a 10 ammo crates map!
I'm in the camp of no expectations for digging/burying. Burying made things interesting and I never expected much from what others bury with the current system. Just something for newer players to mess with if they want.
If they wanted to really give it a boosteroo I think they add a carrier pigeon (auto post) option which will auto post a map to the board and those that bury loot get 75% of the base pay with no emissary bonus and 50% rep.
That creates an organic and interesting scenario that isn't just a cheese fest as it's all real and organic effort on both ends.
So someone like me can pve something or at times steal something and bury it for 75% and carry on my way.
Pay is also incentive for higher level/experience players to bury decent items.
It offers opportunity and improvement (imo) without any foundation changing alterations. As opposed to an alliance where people just get 50% +emissary bonus for doing nothing but being there is requiring effort without being a significant gold cheese while adding incentive and potential long term quality activity to a feature.
It also requires sacrifice which alliances don't.
This also gives all the "I really just wanna sink or steal this and don't really care about gold" pirates an opportunity and incentive to bury the good stuff rather than just sink it or hide it forever.
Creates an interesting scenario too where a thief could steal it, bury it, and those that were robbed go after the map and both get some gold from the scenario. They get to make that interesting decision of rewarding their opponent to reward themselves.
Personally I think the odds of finding items like athena stuff and ashen wind skulls/loot with player maps goes up significantly with something like the above
@pithyrumble said in Can someone explain to me what the point of player generated buried treasure maps is?:
@wolfmanbush said in Can someone explain to me what the point of player generated buried treasure maps is?:Thanks for the replies. After reading them I realize that there is a lot of valuable stuff I've left behind because it isn't emissary loot. I could have buried it and left it for someone else.
Guess the buried loot game is a bit of a (game that involves dice and nobody is offended by but I can't say the name of the game because a 19th century puritan might be offended by it) shoot, and I should just have fun with it.
Players wanted it. Players wanted to be pirates and bury stuff.
What they failed is “why” would we?
More profit to sell than give away. So it the players fault for this but also the dev who havnt really give us a good reason to search for these maps or even bury anything.(Sure you gain rep but only if someone discovers your loot. Not for burying)
@vin-the-rat said:
I realize that there is a lot of valuable stuff I've left behind because it isn't emissary loot. I could have buried it and left it for someone else.
This is exactly what I do when running an emmisary other than Reaper.
@pithyrumble So this raises a question. Seems like the player names on the maps are always randomly generated; I always figured most of the maps were left by the Good Pirate RNG, and the rest had the names randomized. Is that not the case? If I got lucky would I find “A hoard left by PithyRumble” on the board?
They should just let you bury resource crates.
A lot of people finish their session with tons of resources that are sometimes altruistically left in outposts or seaposts for the next player to find them. Allowing people to bury resource crates would give a purpose to this behavior: if you're the pirate burying the items, there could be some kind of reward for your action, and if you're someone who'd rather go find a cache of 100+ magic cannonballs instead of wasting time looting around the islands, there's an incentive to pick up the treasure map.
At the moment, since it's limited to treasure, it always makes more sense to just sell it and the burying mechanic doesn't really have a point.
Yes. The board keeps 10(ish?) RNG maps on it. The names will start to sound familiar because they're the skeleton captain's names. They'll always be stashes. If you see a hoard, that's always a player map.
If you see my stashes they're prolly safe to ignore unless I have several up. Hoards are a good bet, but check for multiple maps at the same island tho lol.
@pithyrumble Cool, thanks! For awhile I was into doing treasure maps, but rarely came across a hoard and got tired of the low quality loot in the stashes. Plus it was a lot less interesting when I concluded it was all RNG stuff rather than player-buried.
@sn0kanon @PithyRumble There are, by default, 8 RNG maps on the board - 2 for each region (the Shores of Plenty, the Ancient Isles, the Wilds, and the Devil's Roar). So, if you see more than 8, or more than 2 in a single region, then that means that at least 1 or more maps are pirate-generated, and after a while, it gets pretty easy to tell which ones are which by name (usually because many a pirate uses bad grammar, and because not every pirate-buried loot is going to be a hoard - that's just 5 or more buried things on a single island, and for all you know, it could all be storage crates).
Can't bury plain old storage crates anymore. Not sure about the item specific crates. I can still bury ammo crates lol.
Generally not worth getting them from the board in my experience. If you sink a ship and get their bundle sometimes worth checking if they've stashed something good or if for example you're looking to steal an athena. In that regard if you're burying something, worth removing and stashing your map bundle so no one can access to find.
Only other time I use is when doing a dig that I'm struggling with on a harder island like old faithful, burying something to get another map for reference can help find the spot
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