Refund Storage Crates, Supply Crates, etc

Not too long ago you couldn't sell the siren tridents either and every time you loaded into an Outpost that another crew recently vacated, you'd come out of the tavern to a dozen of them floating in the water next to their leftover supplies. Rare solved this problem by making them sellable to all the trading companies for 250 gold each; I always said a similar approach should work with Storage Crates.

I don't think Storage Crates need to be refundable; honestly there's not much reason to buy one at all since they're the most common item found washed up on the shore. I've always got 10-15 left over every session, and that's not counting the ones I've emptied during downtime and dumped overboard.

No reason why Rare can't make it so that we can sell excess Storage Crates in the same way. We can sell Storage Crates of the Damned for up to 1,100 gold after all...no reason we shouldn't be able to sell the less-ghostly ones, too (for much less since they're so common).

If they're worried about balance, make it so you only get 100 gold per crate or something. Just to encourage pirates to sell everything they've got on board before leaving a session. Probably help towards server a bit too when there's fewer individual parts to render...

@thegrimpreacher said in Refund Storage Crates, Supply Crates, etc:

Not too long ago you couldn't sell the siren tridents either and every time you loaded into an Outpost that another crew recently vacated, you'd come out of the tavern to a dozen of them floating in the water next to their leftover supplies. Rare solved this problem by making them sellable to all the trading companies for 250 gold each; I always said a similar approach should work with Storage Crates.

I don't think Storage Crates need to be refundable; honestly there's not much reason to buy one at all since they're the most common item found washed up on the shore. I've always got 10-15 left over every session, and that's not counting the ones I've emptied during downtime and dumped overboard.

No reason why Rare can't make it so that we can sell excess Storage Crates in the same way. We can sell Storage Crates of the Damned for up to 1,100 gold after all...no reason we shouldn't be able to sell the less-ghostly ones, too (for much less since they're so common).

If they're worried about balance, make it so you only get 100 gold per crate or something. Just to encourage pirates to sell everything they've got on board before leaving a session. Probably help towards server a bit too when there's fewer individual parts to render...

It's mainly that theyre convenient for carrying around the island and using "take" from all the barrels, so you can loot the island for all it has, and then sort it out on your ship afterwards. In safer seas, you don't start with anything and theres no chance youll get one for free for people who have recently logged out. 5000 gold is approx~ 10-20, maybe even more, loot items in safer seas as well. One of my friends is trying the game for the first time, and we're doing the tall tales with him first, but hes not always around, so when he is around or if he has to go suddenly, then basically we just eat the cost of the crate(s) and it's a bit high. Multiple times because sometimes he's gotta go cook, sometimes he's got work, etc. Playing the game already kind of demands a committment of time if you've got treasure aboard for the most part, so it's kinda harsh to charge 5,000 gold for something that just makes looting simpler

The thing is, I know there's functionality in the game for it to determine whether or not a storage crate you've received was purchased from the island you're standing on, so I know they can tell whether or not its origin is there, and while I agree we should be able to sell storage crates for at least a small sum of gold, if the price is 5000 for an empty storage crate, selling them back for something like 5K each would be a bit much. It's why I said refund, basically. We buy it for 5k, use it to loot an island, and we can return it for 4500-4800 if we bought it from that same outpost. This way if we loot an island and end up having to switch ships just after taking off (which very frequently happens) then it doesn't feel like we've lost 5000, 10000 by the time everyone joins.

So yeah, I'd say selling ones you just find out in the wild for 100 or whatever is fine, I just want to be able to loot islands cleanly with the crates if I bother to carry one around with me rather than sprinting everywhere. It's just that 5000 is a high price for a little convenience in gamemodes where you can earn so little, and where closing your session ends up giving you no return if you spend it

edit: in retrospect, if the reason it's 5000 gold is because theyre afraid someone would buy it, and use it to cheese another player by looting their barrels or something, maybe just make it so you cant use storage crates on another crew's ship? Idk, I already fight like an obnoxious punk when I have to make sure people sink on the high seas by eating their food and killing them as soon as they spawn. the pvp is already full of ways to gimp people and cheese them. If this is actually a concern, well, Rare plays god here. they can make it cheaper on safer seas to coincide with the massively reduced rewards, too, its not like you can bring it with you to high seas