Generous Gift Frustrations

I also needed three, I'd left them at the island for an hour or so, went back to check on them and they were gone. Unsure if they despawned or someone took them away.

Went and got three more, dropped them off at the Mysterious Stranger's feet, when a sloop with two brand new players (you'll be able to tell how I know they were brand new, later in this story!) rocked up to Reaper's Hideout. They then proceeded to take the Reaper Chest I left and the gifts, then head to Golden Sands to try and sell them! xD

I watched on my map table as they parked at an empty pier, then they headed to the Gold, Skull and Merchant NPC's with the Reaper Chest. When that hadn't worked, they then went back to their ship. After a couple of minutes of not moving (during which time I presume they were Googling where it had to be handed in), they finally handed it in to Jim, but when I went to Golden Sands, the gifts were just on the pier.

Thankfully, when I tried the next day, the three I left got handed in within around ten minutes of dropping them off. It was such a relief after the previous days shenanigans!

Hang on in there, your luck will come!

I think my wife and I would have had much more trouble with this if we hadn't happened across someone on a sloop who was about to stop playing. I took over his ship and we had two crews to work with! The down side then was that meant we needed twice as many gifts to hand in. Hard work but worth it.

I also see lot of players dont know where the reaper hideout is or what it is and try to turn it in at outposts and just leave it behind and log off.

They should have kept it easy and clear by turning in at any tavern mysterious stranger.

@ruigtand-nl I reckon the Reaper's Hideout will be important in the next update and Rare are trying to familiarise players with the island.

@edzedd

At the moment i wish i could go back to the previous build.

I had endless fun with ashen chest en key voyages.

Now they overcomplicated it and i see i no longer bother with those chest and only kill the skellies for a skull.

Dont really like the gift voyages atm.

Im doing normal athena's again 🤷‍♂️

Yarp, i need a lot more than just 3 but have totally given up on getting it done in all honesty.
All i have been trying to finish is the recent Tomb's, i need Tomb 1 but alas after a few hours each day doing nothing but Key hunting an opening chests i have yet to see it.

I have left some humble gift that was turned in, like 7.
The rest was turned in by some 3 new guys, from 2 different sloops that didn't really know how to play.
Overall we had a good time, where they learned the ropes from 2 old legend.

Even though I had a good time, Im not a fan of forced friendly game play. I was just lucky for what i can read.
but since Im done with all the gift, I dont pick them up, im just after the skelly lord kill.
But if I where in the area or saw somebody with the reaper flag/chest on reapers hideout, I would go there just to help out.
But that's just me, but I have 7-8k dubloons, an I havent farmed them, so for other that have more, it's not really worth any time other than the good deed

I got my own commendations done for turning in the gifts, but unfortunately, I have also given up on the ones for getting another crew to hand them in. I've tried everything mentioned in this thread, multiple times, but just can't get anyone to hand them in. I've put gifts on the table at Reapers at the start of my play session, and go for 3-4 hours and nobody had ever turned them in. I played not long ago with a very nice friend here from the forums, and we tried as well. We left 5 gifts on the table at Reapers and even sat there with the Reaper Flag up on our ship to bring added attention. No luck during our gaming session of getting anyone to turn one in..

I wouldn't mind so much if they were not time-limited commendations, but it is a little disheartening when they have a time limit on them and you spend hours trying and just have zero luck lol. 🤷‍♀️🎁

We gathered a large amount, then approached low level looking players. Allowed one onto our ship and took them there. Did this a few times without any issues.

Best advice is to get 20+ gifts. Make it incredibly rewarding for them to go with you

Oh this is fun i unloaded the loot on reaper hideout and all supplies in the rowboat.. put up reaper..
5 min sloop comes firing so i scuttle and play music on the beach with the loot and they kill me ☠

Another great experience 🙆‍♂️ and succesfull delivery 🥳

Tonight it also worked for us that was nice a sloop came and we give all gifts to them then they handed it over to us to deliver so they got the commendation 🙆‍♂️ i got them finished already myself and only need skellie bosses but i still try to gift them to others because it are gifts 🤷‍♂️

I've had verry little trouble getting the gifts turned in. I just approached other ships, Speaking trumpet in hand, declaring my intentions and handing the gifts when we got close, left a crewmember for possible instructions to get to the reaper hideout and got the commendations without trouble.