Deadmans Chests different loot value

[Holm Hansen]

Chest A:
Note for a rare uncraftable ship, Paint Chest

Chest B:
Note for an common craftable ship, no Paint Chest

From same Event.

Is it intended or is it caused by technical reasons?

[Holm Hansen]

17 minutes ago, Banished Privateer said:

RNG

RNG is clear, but it should be from the same category. (craftable vs. non-craftable ship) and paint chest is completely missing.

 Before it was the case that Deadmans Chests always have included RNG-items from the same category.

[jodgi]

Similar issue with bottle loots; Most of them are so shitty it's barely worth the time to go out and retrieve them 

[Jan van Santen]

Indeed. Sailing to a bottle/storm wreck and back is usually 2hrs+. Plus search time for storm wrecks plus risk to loose the race.

Loot quantity/quality should be worth the time spent/risk

 

the risk/time vs loot seems to work in other areas: Eg the loot from hostility mission ships is way inferior than that of same rank in ow.

So a general balance according to the risk/time to loot ratio seems a legit request imho.

Edited February 17, 2019 by Jan van Santen

[jodgi]

1 minute ago, Jan van Santen said:

is usually 2hrs+

I've seen that mentioned before, I've never gone longer than 20 min out plus 20 min back. How come your wrecks spawn so far out?

[Jan van Santen]

1 minute ago, jodgi said:

I've seen that mentioned before, I've never gone longer than 20 min out plus 20 min back. How come your wrecks spawn so far out?

Yesterday eg i opened a bottle south of Kidds and the wreck was close to Swannsborough. According to netlify map thats 343 K distance. 

[jodgi]

3 minutes ago, Jan van Santen said:

Yesterday eg i opened a bottle south of Kidds and the wreck was close to Swannsborough. According to netlify map thats 343 K distance. 

Try to open the next one sitting in port, maybe you'll get more sensible distances?

[Palatinose]

41 minutes ago, Jan van Santen said:

Yesterday eg i opened a bottle south of Kidds and the wreck was close to Swannsborough. According to netlify map thats 343 K distance. 

Perhaps bottles spawn near a town in nearer distance? Try to open them in Mortimer. I used to sail not further than Cap Francais ratio wise.

 

[jodgi]

7 minutes ago, Palatinose said:

I used to sail not further than Cap Francais ratio wise.

Ye, the absolute longest I've sailed is 90k

[Holm Hansen]

It also are matters in  the whole discussion:

How often do you manage to get a chest from this event? At how many failed attempts? (there are also need time) Or you missed the eventstart in online-time.

 

And finally, at the same running event,  chest B contains nothing else that you could get in the normal game too and chest A contains things that you cannot get on an other way in the  game.

 

Also was in the former events the content of the chests in all the same, category related. Thats why i think, its can in this case also be an technical issue.

 

Edit: ok, seen too late, you talk about bottles...

Edited February 17, 2019 by Holm Hansen
addition

[Jan van Santen]

BTT than: Not to mention that during yesterdays storm wreck event we got a rain storm in the area, making it very hard to even spot a wreck.....