Blocked progression for Merchant Alliance commendations

  • ItzTom2367
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    Currently, several Merchant Alliance commendations are extremely difficult or practically impossible to complete under the game’s current state, especially for new players or returning players who have been away for several years.

    Affected commendations:

    • Black Powder Merchant

    • Merchant Forager

    • Merchant Shipwright

    • Cast Iron Merchant

    After the changes to the mission system, the availability of the missions required to progress these commendations is very limited or inconsistent. Even after dedicating many hours of gameplay, progression remains unreliable.

    Suggestions:

    • Increase the spawn frequency of missions associated with these commendations.

    • Reintroduce barrel-based missions related to these commendations.

    • Create direct missions specifically designed to allow reliable progression for these commendations, ensuring they remain completable within the current game design.

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  • DerMasterBob
    Commander
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    They should
    -Add a votable keg contract (1-6 kegs like it used to be with animal voyages pre S11)
    -Drastically increase the amount of crate contracts in bottles an journals
    -Remove the merchant voyages from bottles/journals that can be voted on anyway (rum, plants, silk)

    Or add a voyage for everything.
    Since they changed gifts from very difficult to completable in a day, it shouldnt be a problem to do the same with kegs and crates.

  • DANK JIMB0
    Captain
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    They need to either do a rework of merchant quests to include these or have them increase for the bottle quests.

    They could use the merchant bottle asset and make it wash up to guarantee a delivery mission.

  • BurnBacon
    Vanguard
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    Season 20 update.

  • DANK JIMB0
    Captain
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    @burnbacon said in Blocked progression for Merchant Alliance commendations:

    Season 20 update.

    Don't give us hope Burnt Bacon

  • BurnBacon
    Vanguard
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    Currently, several Merchant Alliance commendations are extremely difficult or practically impossible to complete under the game’s current state, especially for new players or returning players who have been away for several years.

    And once they “fix” this. Players will complain there nothing to do, not enough to do and bored. Because they finished everything by blinking.

    Keep the difficulty. Only reason to join the game anymore is hunting these near impossible tasks.

  • Fry9889
    Commander
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    I just finished all of them last week. It's still possible. But it really isn't fun. There's a trend for some people to resist any changes in commendations that they have already completed. I completely disagree. It's tedious and I don't feel any particular achievement in having good luck 250 times.

  • MuteGames
    Ship Mate
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    This was briefly mentioned in the Season 17 twitch stream. Drew mentioned they had tried rolling it into a few other voyages as a fix but so far hadn’t settled on a fix for it.

    I’m making slow progress on it, usually getting a couple of contracts a day/week while I am doing other things on large islands. I am definitely seeing more Smuggler bottles than I was hoping to see this season but still getting a few contracts that way as well.

    Here is a very helpful guide on the Mysterious Journals, best I’ve seen around personally, that should help while we wait on a permanent solution from Rare - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3442548965

  • Flashkannon5118
    Sailor

    Add to that Taker of Stolen Stock. I suppose if you have friends on the same server as you, you can get it done, but for solo players it's a game of rather random chance with slim odds in the era of diving to quests and merchant scarcity in general.

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