Remove the item scroll all together please.

Yeah we do not need a splash screen slowly popping up every 20 seconds for each foul skull we sell! Its really obnoxious we just want to know that it sold and how much gold it got us.

@genuine-heather

Are you talking about the top right cash in with money being added to your pool? That's not what I am talking about.

I'm talking about the bottom middle of the screen that plays a jingle and shows what item was sold. It is annoying and I think it actually hurts the game stability because it has to do that to every player in the crew and the alliance. Why do you want to keep this? I have no idea. You can't even play a shanty with that popping up on your screen. It can actually be hard to get to the legend area because you can't even hear if you're playing the tune to get down.

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@lord-szarvas

2 questions.

1. When u open the door this happens like 100% of the time? Or happend just once and u thought annoying and ask to change it?

2. Turning it off makes it so u dont see what loot is sold. Thats cool for u maybe. I like to see what my alliance had been doing.

1. This has happened sometimes since they added alliances. Not everytime that I try to get down that someone is turning in. But sometimes we play shanties on our ships and we can't hear anything for a while until all the items got their screen time.

2. That's why on my original post I suggested that they add a ledger for the whole session. Items that you sell don't have an alliance flag. Items that your alliance sells have the flag. This way you can keep track of your progress with a total number of earnings at the bottom (not that anyone may really care).

Sometimes you can be approaching an island and your island scroll won't appear until all the items are done. Sometimes you could be in the heat of a battle with anything (ships, Meg,Kraken) and get an annoying jingle and scroll (so it breaks immersion in a sense). Its not just about the shanties.

Edit:
And I'm pretty sure a good way to find statues is to listen to the siren. Imagine searching the water and having an annoying jingle pop up every minute because of some item being turned in.

@genuine-heather

What's wrong is already explained. I think it taxes the server code because it causes queues to be made. If it doesn't then I'm not opposed to an option to turn it off. You're weird for liking it though. Lol.

@genuine-heather

1. Ok well, I'm not really arguing with you about it. I answered your question about "whats wrong with that". But if you want to look at it that way then that's your problem.

2, I'm not an expert on game development or server-related code. But from experience, the game lags when alliance members turn items in. Sometimes it is because it is a lot of items being turned in. And its not just my opinion, its from members of 2 different fleets that we have talked about this.

Rare has needed time to make improvements. There are still bugs out there.

3. This is a feedback thread. So if you don't like the idea that's fine. If you like the messages that's fine too. It is weird in my opinion because they have tunes when you fight certain things like the Meg or the Kraken. People find it annoying when a cash-in jingle pops up. Sorry for thinking that people might be annoyed too.

@genuine-heather

Ok that's fine. Then Id recommends you stop commenting on peoples feedback threads cause we're entitled to our experiences on how we view the game. If you can't handle that or that somehow offends you then leave the internet because obviously, you can't handle criticism or any rational thought.

Think about it. My feedback relies on the item scroll. The same system is most likely tied into the Island scroll (each time we sail to the island it shows us). Proof of this is the delay in response if a lot of items are being turned in. You can approach and leave an island and get that delayed. (So this breaks immersion). I don't want the entire system to be canned. But something needs to be done about that (which is the point of my thread).

You continue to narrow my justification on one point. Which is probably one of my weaker ones because I cannot prove if it actually does tax the server. Everytime our fleet turns in items we are told not to turn in too many at once because it lags the server. In any case, it's not my only point so I don't know why you want to narrowly view that.

I already agreed with you about your viewpoint but now you think that you've somehow won or something. Wow, you sure showed me. You withdrew your support and hope my game experience is negative. I only called you weird for liking a system that apparently can be annoying (which wasn't my own opinion to begin with).

@genuine-heather

Mhm. Whatever.

I agreed with your opinion (if it doesn't tax the server code). But apparently, you misread what I have already agreed with you on. Because you don't know as much as I don't know either. You haven't really stated a point. I already agreed with your analysis that I don't know what I'm talking about it taxing the system because I don't really know. All I can give feedback on is my experiences and what members of 2 different fleets have been saying too. So, take it or leave it.

You come here and bash for no reason, really. It's my thread. How am I immature for trying to have some reason and a discussion? I only called you weird for liking the current state of the game because you made a one-liner which implied that you like it how it is. Which means you like having that pop-up and sounds in the midst of doing other things.

But you couldn't handle being called weird. Wow.

You talk about maturity like you have some. Your second last line talks about I'm not worthy of your time (which doesn't really matter anyway) yet you continue to write here. I don't get it...

@murkrage

Ok. Maybe it doesn't.
You stated that there was a problem with this system at launch and was fixed.
I'm saying since they added alliances, if the alliances get big enough then I notice some difference when my friends and I are out on a Galleon doing things while other boats are turning in lots of loot.

I wouldn't suspect that it has anything to do with the gold in the top right because its just adding number values to a pool. Some updates ago we have had problems with gold not showing up. It would cycle the loot but the player's pool would remain static (though a simple restart would fix this).

What I suspect is the server grabs information from an item being sold and it has to ping information to all alliance members on that server to tell the client to show this or that. To me, that taxes the server code because what the server could be doing (processing the storm across all servers to where forts are to the Kraken/meg spawn events to the pathfinding of skeleton ships) may cause some slowdown. Which is why our alliances always recommend not to spam loot turn-ins.

Again, I'm not opposed to an option if it doesn't lag the servers. That's all.
If someone likes it and wants to keep the option that's fine. But it's not really cool if it lags the server just so you can have a jingle.

@ambiguousmonk

I agree with everything you have written. I didn't even think about an object to physically pick-up which would be soo immersive and nice to have. What I had in mind was just another tab screen alongside (Reputation, Equipment... etc).