Can they get a bit of a buff? I never see anyone running them, and I'd like to be able to organically work on the stolen commodities commendations.
Buff the gold they give to make them more attractive? Maybe have a merchant weekend or something if a permanent buff isn't in the cards? Anything to have priates actually consider them as a legitimate option.
Merchant commodities are a casualty of over-correcting when focusing on what alliance servers are doing and disregarding the organic experience.
For whatever reason there was a pattern of releasing things that were far too easy/powerful (and obvious) to cheese and then nerfing it to death.
Commodities, they did it with emissaries and athena 10-20. Tridents had a very bizarre nerf considering how powerful they are for things that are far more important than some solo taking out a meg and a kraken easily.
The good news is that is hasn't happened much lately. Sea forts came out well balanced, underwater stuff, the athena voyages came out well balanced. So that's promising.
They can definitely make it more appealing to the middle gold wise but I think it was neglected too long for any serious comeback.
I feel bad for anyone that didn't get those 50 steals early on that plays organically, brutal.
Honestly, I kinda wanna see a Smuggling system tacked onto commodities. Like, if you have a bunch of gold hoarder trinkets or OOS skulls, you could approach your commodities with the object in hand and it'll give you a prompt to hide it inside one of the crates. Maybe change the name to "Suspicious [Commodity name]. Then, when you sell it, you get double payout. Maybe add a new voyage type where you receive a Suspicious commodity and you need to drop it off at a different outpost, where you'd pick up a new one, etc. Etc. Would give a boost to Merchant emissary cash, and give an incentive to do commodity runs with the voyage- if you're already heading to this other outpost, why not maximize profits?
Yeah its sad it got nerfed to the ground - Commodities where probably responsible for the most fun i had in this game like ever. I remember we had a lot of fun pvp over that stuff - both defending and robbing people, when it got released even after the first 2 nerfs. Many where doing it and many people hunted them down for it as well - closest thing to dynamic piracy we ever had.
@galactic-geek said in Merchant commodities:
I was running commodities 2 days ago - you should have been there! 😅
Man, I'm always on the lookout for merchant emissaries. They're always running shipwrecks though.
Sadly merchants have always been neglected because they know most people hate merchants. They buffed the animal values a long time ago. They also doubled the value of cargo but they need to double cargo again as its one of the worse value tasks to do in the game. From what I am told commodities were insanely broken when they came out then they nerfed to a level where its not worth doing. They finally got merchants feeling good with lost shipments but tweaking the other stuff to make everything worth doing would add some variety to the game play.
Rare has a habit of over correction on things and then forgetting all about it. They under tuned the devils roar so you could spend 45 minutes on an island without an eruption. people complained it was too calm and the risk of playing in the area no longer existed. While partially true all they did was reset the roar to its previous state of being overly active and now no one plays there. They claimed they would continue adjusting the zone but they honestly just wrote it off as dead content.
@habiki said in Merchant commodities:
@galactic-geek said in Merchant commodities:
I was running commodities 2 days ago - you should have been there! 😅
Man, I'm always on the lookout for merchant emissaries. They're always running shipwrecks though.
I got my 50th stolen most profitable commodity crate last week :). I had been on 49 since ages. The sunken Merchant also helped my crewmate to get another four and get the commendation as well.
I thought I would get the Shrouded one before I got this one.
@habiki said in Merchant commodities:
@galactic-geek said in Merchant commodities:
I was running commodities 2 days ago - you should have been there! 😅
Man, I'm always on the lookout for merchant emissaries. They're always running shipwrecks though.
Why run around looking for lost shipments when you can start looking for lost shipments, trade commodities, and deliver 2 separate cargo runs all at the same time?!
It's the most prolific of all the companies. 🤑
