Merchant Allience is missing....excitement

Petition to remove Merchant Alliance?

wow guys calm down. first of all you all seem to base your oinion on your first two missions (1 hour is about that much as well ). you haven't even leveled up and you gave up. Also you are not going to solve a problem of lack of content by removing content. If you are bored of one alliance there are two more to try. If you are bored of all of them just go hunt players or fight the forts

personally i like the pig/chicken gathering aspect of the MA, but i do feel they could add the option to buy/sell commodities to the MA as well, and make it an actual trading Company, i can just picture myself buying up supplies and sht in one outpost and then sailing to another to hopefully make a bit of money.

Unfortunately I suspect that the game is being overhyped, and most of the cool content will come out after launch. The current content does get boring, and it’s 80% of the content we will get March 20th.

@pendragonie said in Merchant Allience is missing....excitement:

Unfortunately I suspect that the game is being overhyped, and most of the cool content will come out after launch. The current content does get boring, and it’s 80% of the content we will get March 20th.

I would avoid siting made up percentages like “80% of the (launch) content”.

You’re just making up facts to support your emotions.

I have to agree as well.

In the two previous play sessions I participated in, my crew and I never tired of hunting chests, hunting players, or being hunted by players. The skeleton forts in this beta are also fun, and I don't forsee us tiring of those either. I expect that the Order of Souls voyages will be similarly fun.

But going from island to island, searching for a specific color of pig or chicken, with zero direction on where to find them... just is not fun. I don't hate it per se, but I'm already tired of it after just a single completed voyage.

I think the concept of the Merchant Alliance has lots of promise, but the execution on the voyages, at least what we are seeing early in the Beta, seems really lacking.

@jack-littleshoe Buy? No... but you can find an empty crate for chicken or pig and go find one, catch it, and turn it in for a little coin and a little boost of rep to the MA.

@xdizzlef1x ...i wasn't asking a question, i was making a suggestion on what i would like them to add.

hmm I was plain disappointed. they're 100% fetch quests. I passed something like an hour going island to island to search for the right colored chicken while the pigs we randomly captured drove us mad squealing until one of ours started doing shouting contests with him and finally shot it.
And we made 146 coins for it. naw thanks I'll keep on chasing boxes and sinking ships to steal theirs, too. it's been boring and underwhelming and not really rewarding, considered that we can find a chest in around 1 minute once we arrive on the right island.

I know the voyage in this game is more important than the destination, but I also want hats to show my voyage off.

@deadmijy said in Merchant Allience is missing....excitement:

I have to agree as well.

In the two previous play sessions I participated in, my crew and I never tired of hunting chests, hunting players, or being hunted by players. The skeleton forts in this beta are also fun, and I don't forsee us tiring of those either. I expect that the Order of Souls voyages will be similarly fun.

But going from island to island, searching for a specific color of pig or chicken, with zero direction on where to find them... just is not fun. I don't hate it per se, but I'm already tired of it after just a single completed voyage.

I think the concept of the Merchant Alliance has lots of promise, but the execution on the voyages, at least what we are seeing early in the Beta, seems really lacking.

This post shares a lot of my sentiments as well, though I have a greater disdain for the Merchant's Alliance. I love the core gameplay of this game but it feels like the MA voyages have absolutely nothing at stake and are simply boring fetch quests

...and don't get me started on needing to speak to the quest giver to get pens...

@thephlave said in Merchant Allience is missing....excitement:

hmm I was plain disappointed. they're 100% fetch quests. I passed something like an hour going island to island to search for the right colored chicken while the pigs we randomly captured drove us mad squealing until one of ours started doing shouting contests with him and finally shot it.
And we made 146 coins for it. naw thanks I'll keep on chasing boxes and sinking ships to steal theirs, too. it's been boring and underwhelming and not really rewarding, considered that we can find a chest in around 1 minute once we arrive on the right island.

I know the voyage in this game is more important than the destination, but I also want hats to show my voyage off.

I think that one thing that could make it a lot better would be to remove the mission cap of 3, and to be able to have the merchant quests always active, so that while you chase skeletons and chests around the world, you'll also capture animals when you encounter them. I can see a funny scenario in which I'm counting my steps to find a chest when I suddenly call screaming for my teammates to bring a cage because that one chicken we need for a quest we had for one hour just crossed my road.
Making them the focus is just pretty boring, and not even really good fun for pacific players since they'll encounter aggressive ones that'll attack them, and they'll see their cute little piggies drown squealing a slow and painful death. pretty bleak

@the-lion-turtle said in Merchant Allience is missing....excitement:

@tedakin I can't really say anything since it's not allowed on this forum but there will be more things to get for the missions.
Yeah, skulls. Which are like minion forts with less skeletons and poorer loot.

Meanwhile I have to say i got bored with the forts, too. The skeletons spawn in droves, can tank multiple blunderbuss close range shots and sniper rifle headshots, and are dead accurate regardless of how you try and dodge. And you have to stay there and kill dozens of them, ranging from the initial excitement to more of a frustrated boredom. we found ourselves sighing and asking with increasing annoyance if the captain would just please spawn. (then in one of 2 of them the crypt was laughably empty).

Anyone who has spent time listening to the developers of this game should know that the voyages aren't the point of it. They're supposed to be fetch quests, not as a core principle of the game but as a way to take you around the world. The point of this game is to feel like a pirate. It's the battles, and the good times, and the jokes, and the crazy trick you did that one time with a powder keg. This game isn't built to already have a story in place; it's a place for you to make your story.

@johnson-carl Probably not, I don't quality check my posts. I misspelled feel in that last one.

They should have made these merchant alliance quests like trade runs in archeage. At the strying point, it spawns shipments that you need to sell at X outpost. Risk is timer and potential PvP loss. Might not even need a timer to still have fun.

Merchants don't gather, they trade. Shouldn't have to do any of that. Should just be transporting and selling at the destination.

@meingott77 Merchants usually don't gather, you're right. That's why they're not gathering - you are. You get it, they sell it. You're not the merchant part of the alliance.