SoarHawk
Sea Legs
Hello Everyone,
I may not have met most of you because I am not really too active on here. For those of you who don't know me, please let me introduce myself. My name is Dylan. I have played POTCO and TLOPO for years and years. My childhood was mostly comprised of playing Pirates Online, to be honest. I have had many pirates (Soar, Captain Shadow Sail, Jack Daggermenace, Soar Hawk, etc) all of which were mastered on POTCO. On TLOPO, my main pirate is currently Captain Shadow Sail. Although this may seem a tad pointless, my main intention is to explain that I am not some noob coming in trying to tell everyone "the way things should be". I have been with the game for quite a while.
Let me also clarify that I am NOT saying the developers are not doing a fantastic job. My hat goes off to them for recreating the game as well as they did. I am truly thankful to be able to play again, and I would like to sincerely thank them for the effort they've put forth, and the dedication that they have offered in order to get the game where it is today. I realize they are not getting compensation for this, and I feel as though they do not get enough gratitude from players; but rather, mostly complaints. That being said, I still do feel as though they have made a tremendous mistake and are ruining the excellent job they've already done, and all I would like to do is bring this to their attention. Please see below:
The loot system previous to the sailing loot "fix" was rewarding. That is the only word I can find to describe it. You didn't have to sail for days upon days to find a decent piece of clothing, or a famed weapon. By "decent" I mean not a bright tank or open shirt, which is what I find 90% of the time, but I will address this later. Although some may consider the sailing loot to be "overpowered", I simply considered it a method save players time, and not have to sit for hours upon hours to get the item they desire. With the "fix", I found the following issues now occur:
If a developer is reading this, please not only consider this letter, but the countless other complaints you've received. The players have spoken, please take action. Thank you for all of your effort, and the dedication you have given to this game. Despite this complaint, I still do appreciate all that the developers do to ensure we have a game to play in general.
Sincerely,
Dylan
I may not have met most of you because I am not really too active on here. For those of you who don't know me, please let me introduce myself. My name is Dylan. I have played POTCO and TLOPO for years and years. My childhood was mostly comprised of playing Pirates Online, to be honest. I have had many pirates (Soar, Captain Shadow Sail, Jack Daggermenace, Soar Hawk, etc) all of which were mastered on POTCO. On TLOPO, my main pirate is currently Captain Shadow Sail. Although this may seem a tad pointless, my main intention is to explain that I am not some noob coming in trying to tell everyone "the way things should be". I have been with the game for quite a while.
Let me also clarify that I am NOT saying the developers are not doing a fantastic job. My hat goes off to them for recreating the game as well as they did. I am truly thankful to be able to play again, and I would like to sincerely thank them for the effort they've put forth, and the dedication that they have offered in order to get the game where it is today. I realize they are not getting compensation for this, and I feel as though they do not get enough gratitude from players; but rather, mostly complaints. That being said, I still do feel as though they have made a tremendous mistake and are ruining the excellent job they've already done, and all I would like to do is bring this to their attention. Please see below:
The loot system previous to the sailing loot "fix" was rewarding. That is the only word I can find to describe it. You didn't have to sail for days upon days to find a decent piece of clothing, or a famed weapon. By "decent" I mean not a bright tank or open shirt, which is what I find 90% of the time, but I will address this later. Although some may consider the sailing loot to be "overpowered", I simply considered it a method save players time, and not have to sit for hours upon hours to get the item they desire. With the "fix", I found the following issues now occur:
- Sailing is no longer rewarding at all. It seems as though its a trade off, either gold, materials, or loot. There is no clear way to get a decent amount of all three like the previous system offered. When you spend an hour sailing and find yourself only getting 800 gold, that is extremely unsatisfying, and frankly unfair. The previous system offered a fair balance of all three elements, making sailing enjoyable and rewarding.
- Ship upgrades and prices are now overpriced. Considering that the average run offers around 1,000 gold (if that), a player would have to go sailing 1,000 times to achieve just ONE 100,000 ship upgrade. If you want a rank 6 ship, you're probably looking a total of around 300,000 gold, which means you would have to go sailing 300 times. Why are we making players grind that much just for one ship? I'm sorry, but no one with a legitimate life has enough time for this.
- Finding loot has become extremely difficult. This is probably my biggest complaint. I, like many players, focus primarily on finding bright / dark black clothing and legendary / famed weapons. Land loot is WAY too time consuming. To give you an example, I was off from college this past week. Consecutively, I looted approximately 13.5 hours in varied locations on various servers. I received 85% bright tanks, 10% open bright shirts, and 5% undesirable brights that I either had or simply didn't like (such as bright yellow). As for weapons, I recall I got 2 famed weapons. One of which was a repeat and the other was undesirable in my eyes. Point being, finding loot on land is extremely difficult especially when looking for a specific item. Sailing made it much easier to acquire decent items that players desired, and without spending hours upon hours trying to look for it. People have lives, people have jobs, people go to college, and they should not have to spend hours upon hours for even a chance to get items they desire. Look what happened to me, 13.5 hours wasted.
- The land loot system is extremely unfair. I cannot tell you what a large quantity of loot are tanks, and another huge quantity of are open shirts. Why are those items so common? And other items, such as coats, so rare? In fact, the only bright / black coats I own were from sailing. I get over and over and over the same types of bright clothing. The system is simply way too strict in terms of chance of locating a decent item (common bright / black items such as coats or vests). As for famed or legendary weapons, they are extremely rare as well. On one particular day, I was looting for 4 hours, and got one famed, which I was not happy with. How is it fair that you put forth 4 hours of effort only to find one weapon that you didn't really want?
If a developer is reading this, please not only consider this letter, but the countless other complaints you've received. The players have spoken, please take action. Thank you for all of your effort, and the dedication you have given to this game. Despite this complaint, I still do appreciate all that the developers do to ensure we have a game to play in general.
Sincerely,
Dylan
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