The two sides of emissary ledger

I’m the opposite on how I feel about the ledger feeling like chore except for Athena Fortune which is really gruelling to reach the highest tier since their voyages/activities are really boring and chore like, hopefully this new PL voyage with fix that

@butterfinger750 me and my mate said same thing last night. For me I get that Athena has to be more challenging, in terms of skelly difficulty, etc. I just feel like TH runs take so long and getting to grade 5 in Athena Emissary takes forever. Wish it wasn't so time consuming.

@lovelocc alliance servers…find them on discord…solves everything

@lovelocc said in The two sides of emissary ledger:

Recently, I've found myself seeing the emissary ledger as more of a chore than anything else.
Whereas it was intended to be just another fun little thing for you to do on your spare time and get extra rewards for, it's grown fairly difficult to do on your own.
I personally don't have that many mates to sail with anymore and where it'd be for reapers and eventually gold hoarders it's actually ok to get emissary ledgers, but when it comes to the other remaining ones it's no fun.
It's simply become a stressful task where you have to tell yourself "Oooh I gotta think about getting my emissary ledger up this month and then the other month otherwise I'll fall back behind" and really gives out that feeling that if I don't get done with it I'll probably regret it at some point and so for that I really need to get over with it.

It reminded me of the Insider Programme, a chores on a certain time basis. However Insider doesn't make me feel that way, It's just an hour every week of playing the next build...
It's nothing much and not a lot of hard work to simply test out and give feedback about something.
So this is where it pretty much all made sense to me, the only stressful part to emissary ledger is it's difficulty, so if that was to be lowered to a (still resonable) certain rate of difficulty that could be ok for solo sloopers and not take too long I feel like emissary ledger could finally feel like a fun task to be done.

I'm sure many other people don't feel the same way about it as I do because someone there finds it easy and the other guy always had a full galleon crew under their hand, but feel free to speak your mind about this.

What I am hearing is that the game is harder when you are trying to do things by yourself which is by design. Not everything in the game can be catered towards people who solo sloop for whatever reason.

The emissary ledgers are fine as is. They don't go away and if you plan your voyages accordingly you can get them all done each month.

If you are struggling to have people to play with, try looking at the SoT discord or LFG on xbox. When my friends are not online I pick one on there and 9/10 times it goes just fine. I met my main crew from on there.

@lovelocc Realistically to get top tier in any given company ledger it usually requires however much loot it will take you to stack about 3 to 4 g5 flags and then turn in all of that loot at g5. So even as a solo it's very doable in a few play sessions.

As a heavy solo slooper who has all the ledger rewards, I feel the Ledger rewards need to be made even more challenging. It's a joke how easy it is to make the top 25%.

Not everything in this game needs to cater to the casual. The Ledgers were designed to reward those who like a competitive challenge.

They are all really easy to do solo. The only ones "hard" are reapers (because of pvp) and Athena (for the lenght of the voyages).
For Reapers, when I was solo and I needed to rank up the ledger, I was using cargo run in devil roar. Load as much as possible of them (at least 40 if I remember correctly) on your ship without putting your flag. When you're ready, find an harpoon rowboat, put all the stuff you want to sell to reapers, and sail to the hideout. As soon as you arrive, detatch rowboat and use harpoon to drag you near the npc. After that, put flag on and sell all. You will receive flag rank increase for every cargo you sell. To be sure you get all the stuff of the ledger, try to have at least 500k points at the end of the month in every faction.

I feel like it is pretty easy, it is only about 500k emissary value for each which is just a couple of voyages

I've found myself seeing the emissary ledger as more of a chore than anything else.

Chore or grind? But the best thing here to ask “do you want the items or not?”

If you don’t care for them, don’t worry about being the best or high ranking.

@sweetsandman said in The two sides of emissary ledger:

As a heavy solo slooper who has all the ledger rewards, I feel the Ledger rewards need to be made even more challenging. It's a joke how easy it is to make the top 25%.

Not everything in this game needs to cater to the casual. The Ledgers were designed to reward those who like a competitive challenge.

Not really competitive when the top people tend to be alliance server folks.

@dank-jimb0 said in The two sides of emissary ledger:

@sweetsandman said in The two sides of emissary ledger:

As a heavy solo slooper who has all the ledger rewards, I feel the Ledger rewards need to be made even more challenging. It's a joke how easy it is to make the top 25%.

Not everything in this game needs to cater to the casual. The Ledgers were designed to reward those who like a competitive challenge.

Not really competitive when the top people tend to be alliance server folks.

Alliance Server players make up probably the top ~1% of the Ledgers. The other 24% are reserved for us folks that play the game how it was meant to be played...WITH RISK.

That said, it's a shame they'll never be able to run an event like they ran early on in Emissaries that awarded the very best of the best with something special beyond just the regular rewards...Just another thing that alliance servers have ruined for the rest of the community.