Add a soft timer to prevent Instant selling of Reaper chest/ slow down server hopping / doubloon farming

Since the release of the news that the September download will put a limit per month on the levels you can purchase (1) for each faction everyone has been frantic in collecting and spending their doubloons. Once September's download releases you'll see an abrupt decline in doubloon farming. There'll be no need for soft timers at that point.
PS: I'm as guilty as anyone of this tactic right now. I'm not real fond of fishing (bought last 8 levels) and until Arena is fixed (long waits with empty servers) I'm not real fond of Sea Dogs either. We do however sink other ships that have Reapers chests on them when we jump servers.😁

@dragonwhir0 @duke-of-spire

As long as the reaper chests give doubloons, there will be people farming them. Rare is bringing back time limited cosmetics that are different from the original set. There cosmetics will cost doubloons. Now people don’t have to waste time doing the monthly content voyages

Nah. I spend time on servers. You'd be forcing me into combat situations I don't wanna deal with, punishing me and other pacifist players. I have a lot of dubs from being selective with what I buy and maybe about 10 Reaper's chests under my belt. Plus they don't usually spawn very close to outposts. Server hopping isn't very smart usually.

@pithyrumble

I have server hopped for reaper chests. It’s very lucrative and almost no hassle. Since the reaper chest have been added, I have only had 2 serious PvP battles. I have turned in 20+ reaper chests which were nothing but run to the outpost as fast as I can.

I have spent over 700 doubloons on the sea dogs because I hate the arena but now I farm them for the new cosmetics that are coming in the future

@coffeelight5545 There will still be cosmetics that are commendation based only. Even if you have the doubloons you'll still need to meet the prerequisite. It's funny, I bought 25 levels of Sea Dog Rank and played some Arena today. 5 matches played. 3 wins with two disconnects while leading. Aren is a hot mess right now! Sooooooooo unstable!

I haven't purchased any levels and have purchased every doubloons cosmetic. I've also handed in 53 reapers at this point and have 1986 doubloons. I usually play for a few hours with my crew and then I do exactly 3 server hops at the end of my night. some times I log off empty handed sometimes I get reapers. It's my way of going it at the end of the night. I also sometimes scuttle to look for washed up gems. I dunno I get bored.

Please dont take my end of night ritual away from me.

59 Reapers Chests and counting so far, pretty much all from playing as normal :?

A time limit is a cool idea though as it would add to the risk factor, but some people just don't care enough to bother. We had 5 on our boat at one point before anyone tried to come after us, and I think that was a crew just hopping for them.

@duke-of-spire I honestly think it's a connection thing or something. I either hear people that crash all the time, or people who hardly ever crash.

Agree with @Sweltering-Nick
Most don't really care about the reapers chest. If others want to go out of their way, let them.
Tonight I joined open crew and found myself on a ship with one individual on a galleon who kept attacking a brig anchored at an island. By attacking, I mean ramming the brig. The interesting part was the reapers chest was on the galleon I was on. This solo galleon was attacking a full brig and the galleon had the reapers chest?
It didnt make sense. I and another open crew player who joined after went to the outpost and turned it in. The brig never followed. Never lifted their anchor.

Timer won't do much if most sailors don't care for it

I 100% agree that reaper chests are in a very bad spot right now. It's the same like at launch where ppl were serverhopping for forts. To proove that its completly broken - i will have over 10k dubloons before the patch hits next week! -

possible solutions:

• active swirley's do not appear untill a player is at least 15min on a server
• remove the swirley's alltogether - the reaper chests will only appear on the map once picked up by somebody who is exploring a shipwreck and found one in there.
• reaper chests when initially picked up are worth 0 dubloons, for every 20 min you have them on your ship they increase in value by 5 dubloons to a max of 15 dubloons after one hour.
• ... other ideas??

The way they currently work, is from my point of view, not healthy for the game.