Can we have Skull Forts back ?

@personalc0ffee said in Can we have Skull Forts back ?:

@trickrtreat01 Yes but they are not intentionally gated.

Rare never assumed the player base was not going to do the ships out of spite or boredom.

This is the way Rare set it up. It's not random. it's not accidental. It's intentional.
The reasons behind it do not matter.

Also, pretty sure Forts came back before Cursed Sails was over.

Rather than get caught up in minutiae can we just have forts back. I am using the word gated because it's essentially what is happening. We can't do Forts without clearing Ghost Ships first. It should not be that way.

And as for people complaining about others farming loot, I made more gold last night by going around sinking other ships than I would "farming" Forts. We sunk a Pirate Legend galleon last night and it had over 100k gold worth of treasure. Nothing like getting the "Laden with Treasure" 20 chest achievement with stolen loot.

Skull Fort PVP is some of the best and should not be limited or reduced.

Just server hop, problem solved.

Or just complete the silly cursed sails event? I mean, it took me a little while, and I lost my ship once... but... I recently cleared the cursed sails on a solo sloop just for something to do!

It's not THAT big of a deal.

But, with that said, I do respect that you might not appreciate the cursed sails event and dislike clearing that part out. I can't really argue with a players 'want'. I too see no reason these events can't both exist at once on a server.

Though again, despite my willingness to support someone's wants.. I still have to admit it's not that big of a deal.

If supplies were not made scarce by the barrel update I would go out of my way to do it but now outposts floating barrels and shipwrecks give at most half of what they used too.

@personalc0ffee said in Can we have Skull Forts back ?:

@trickrtreat01 said in Can we have Skull Forts back ?:

@personalc0ffee said in Can we have Skull Forts back ?:

They are not gated behind the skelly ships, per se.

They can't run parallel due to performance issues. So what's happening is that one only shows up when the other is complete. Problem is, people don't want to do the ships anymore so the Forts don't show up.

So in other words...they are gated behind

If they can't run parallel then they are gated behind each other. If you have to clear Ghost Ships to get the Fort then the Fort is gated. Call it what you want. Split hairs all you want. It's still gated.

Gated would imply they are intentionally keeping it from you until you perform a prerequisite of some sort for a mechanical aspect.

The game literally can not run both at once. The problem is they never expire.

Rare is not out to get you, dude. They aren't intentionally keeping you from skelly forts.

If you blame anyone, you blame the community cause they aren't doing them. Blame me if it makes you feel better. I did them for a month straight, won't do them anymore. They cut down the waves and the aggression, but they also cut back the rewards and it is not worth my time to go do them.

Gated means something is in the way and gates content. There is no implication of intention. It's gated. Stop arguing stupid semantics. Your losing.

And they are not that much fun otherwise people would do them. So regardless of reasoning... the forts are stuck behind the ships when no one is willing to do them. This is a bad design.

@personalc0ffee said in Can we have Skull Forts back ?:

They are not gated behind the skelly ships, per se.

They can't run parallel due to performance issues. So what's happening is that one only shows up when the other is complete. Problem is, people don't want to do the ships anymore so the Forts don't show up.

What they should do instead is have these things eventually expire that way they'll rotate naturally.

This is lame, They should expire and rotate every 30 min. No one want's the ship, then it expires and the fort comes back. Also the ships should pop up anywhere on the map!

@dark-henrik-22 said in Can we have Skull Forts back ?:

Why have no one here brought up yet that the Skeleton ships now again gives four fort chests and fort skulls, thus making them worth doing again?

I don't think that's even enough. You need a ton of resources and duo slooping these boats is tough, and the brig is tin foil so, you need to alliance, to do it effectively or risk your boat. Commendation wise, There is a fort skull and chest piece that's nice but it doesn't go towards taking skull forts and there's no commendation for taking 20-50 skeleton ships.

@dark-henrik-22 said in Can we have Skull Forts back ?:

Why have no one here brought up yet that the Skeleton ships now again gives four fort chests and fort skulls, thus making them worth doing again?

And that can up yesterday with the update. Thread is older than yesterday's update.

@dark-henrik-22
Because it was just added back yesterday and no one has posted about it.