Bring back Overachiever Sails as unlock.

@ashen-alexx said in Bring back Overachiever Sails as unlock.:

bringing back the Overachiever Sails would make them much less valuable.

I believe requiring to unlock every vanilla achievement would maintain the sails “value.” It shows dedication to the game. Someone who spent days, months, heck YEARS in this game. I would argue it would be MORE impressive to get the sails now than back in 2018.

Some of the vanilla achievements are sitting at a “.01% of gamers unlocked this achievement.” This game has been out for 3 years! You would imagine those achievements would have a higher unlocked percentage. Especially since Rare “made it easier with the new voyages.”

Let’s face it, the community gets too wrapped up in limited exclusives and “you had to be there” mentality. This Sail is not one of those. It’s not story driven like hungering deep or cursed sails. It wasn’t a special voyage like the mercenary voyages. It’s tied to the game’s achievements. Something EVERYONE earns throughout their time on the sea. Not a “you had to be there.”

Also, if I recall correctly, Rare had switched it from having to unlock ALL SEVEN of the changed achievements down to one because the community deemed it “too hard.” Rare rewarded those who were there at the time, but if you want to earn them now, you gotta do it all.

@hazerblade “everyone who had to unlock the original had it easy”

You what mate ?

There was a limited amount of time to unlock one or multiple of the commendations/achievements that had plain and simple insane requirements to complete.

Your proposal is to give everyone an infinite of amount of time to complete all the vanilla commendations/achievements....
Which are all much less grindy or changed to be more accommodating....

And further more due to continued updates all of the original achievements have become easier and less grindy due to: alliances, increased loot values, emmisary system, more differentiation in voyages etc etc etc

This can be summed up as:

Limited time + high grind factor on some achievements/comms
Or
Unlimited time + low grind factor on some more achievements/comms

The cosmetics coming from the latter is infinitely less valuable then the first

Answer is simply No, these where a landmark giveaway for people that put a heck of alot of time into the game in the first year and supported the game trough and trough.

Same for Year 1 pirate legends who got the golden PL livery.

Same for Day 1 patches, launch crew EOR’s

These things have value due to their scarcity and unavailability, the game is about cosmetics and only about that on a progression level (apart from narrative stuff)

These unique cosmetics tell a story;

“I was there”
“I had to do this”
Etc
Etc
Etc

@callmebackdraft said in Bring back Overachiever Sails as unlock.:

@hazerblade “everyone who had to unlock the original had it easy”

There was a limited amount of time to unlock one or multiple of the commendations/achievements that had plain and simple insane requirements to complete.

These unique cosmetics tell a story;

You missed the context of “easy” by having people who earn it now having to do all the grind achievements. Despite having “infinite” time to unlock them, why is it that they still have a low unlocked percentage?

“One” achievement at the time vs. “all achievements” is easier. The only people who had it rough were new players at the time. Most day one players were close to unlocking those achievements by December with the changes, just had to grind harder for a week or two. All the achievements is not a “grind for a week or two.” It’s months of grinding. Dedicating toward one achievement then switching to another.

Thing is, it celebrates the same “I was there.” They achieved the same achievements, if not MORE than some of the day one players.

This isn’t like a “1 year anniversary” event, where you log in and get the items. It’s similar to the “1 year pirate legend” but I would argue it’s more grind than that.

Despite it, I know it won’t happen. It is a cosmetic game after all, but I have all the limited time stuff. I am in the minority when it comes to having these exclusive cosmetics come back in some form for newer folks, just tied to more tedium.

@captain-coel this would be a good idea, even it is was simply a green or so version of the old orange ones.

@Hazerblade the over achiever sails was of OVER achieving the new values, which cant be done anymore because the old values are... wel gone.

A different set of sails like Coel advised above would be best, reintroducing an old cosmetic for which the old requirement cant be achieved anymore will get quite a few people salty.

@callmebackdraft said in Bring back Overachiever Sails as unlock.:

@Hazerblade the over achiever sails was of OVER achieving the new values, which cant be done anymore because the old values are... wel gone.

But you weren’t “overachieving” when to get them you just had to unlock the achievement by that date. True, the folks that had more than what the minimum was had to turn in 1 more of whatever the achievement called for. I do concede that it is a valid argument for those who had WAY more than the new value for “Overachieving.” However, getting all achievements is also “overachieving.”

A new colored sail would be nice. I do like what Rare is doing with events now. You can always earn the new stuff with commendations after the fact, such as the Fate of Souls and Frostbite sets.

@galactic-geek I'm having a hard time figuring out how you were cheated.

Exclusive cosmetics should stay exclusive or they're not exclusive, pretty simple. The only cosmetics I bother to use are the time-limited ones i've got because they're unique.

@galactic-geek So why didn't you just go get 4 more chests elsewhere?

@galactic-geek 4 chests was still quite easy to come by 'back then'. I feel for your loss, but I stand by exclusives staying exclusive. I'd be salty as the seas if they started giving away my sexy black dog stuff. It devalues it and makes it less 'cool' imo.

No way. The requirements to get those was insane. That would be completely unfair to the people that earned them year 1