After two and a half years of perpetually having "too much gold" - e.g. buying someone a war galleon or war frigate each week...what's the new max gonna be? Infinite?
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Originally Posted by MacIronhawk
EDIT: P.S. I'm serious when I say, if anyone gets a sword I want, and we can start trading things, I'll gladly pay 10k-45k for the sword.
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If I get El Patron's Sword, MacIronhawk, I'll sell it to you for US $10,000.00 sure. :-)
Hmmmm. It sure would be nice to get a rare drop from each expedition fleet battle won. But somehow, it seems like doing a "drop" system is a dramatic shift from this genre. They stopped doing clothing drops a year ago...is this setup a high maintenance scenario or what? Even if it is a system like "common" items dropped from every boss defeated...idk. We'll have to see how this goes, eh?
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The announcement says "42 clothing items." Pfffffffft.
Hat, shirt, vest, coat, belt, pants, boots = 7. Currently, you get starter item + 3 slots to fill + any clothing drops received after that inventory is full. Some people had all slots full before doing the quests, then got subsequent clothing drops. Add things like the "black bandana," the "gold bandana," the "red bandana," the "valentine's day shirt" and you could conceivably have 10 hat items alone...today.
Their new system is 42 clothing items? 6 slots instead of 3? What gives! That doesn't even cover the items people currently have!
Why not 1,000 hats? Surely they aren't suggesting they transfer all that information around to every pirate encountered...only the clothes visible should be packet-identified to other viewing pirates. If they are worried about causing lag from increasing inventory, perhaps simply making that information (correctly) private could solve some lag issues...
Seriously...6 slots per clothing type? Seriously? I just don't get it - they know the limit should be huge, right? Why only 3 additional clothing slots? If you are going to the trouble of changing it all around, why leave the limit ridiculously low? Seems like a waste of programmer hours to me...they will still get the same complaints that people don't have room in inventory for special-event items.
Why did Disney call it the "
bandana incident" - note: that's 2008 not 2009. The problem from that time, isn't fixed by the new inventory - if anything, this update seems worse (and I haven't even seen it yet - just going on reported facts!)
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Disney's continued spiteful punishment of basics - not to give unlimiteds more - but to punish basics - is gonna bite them. Ads continue to say "Play Online For Free" while they do stuff like this. The downgrades in-game for basics that were formerly unlimited is outrageous. It's as if Disney is saying "thanks for being our customer - now keep paying for nothing or we'll make it worse than being a starter character." The majority of the nag screens appear only for formerly-unlimited basics, instead of newbie basics at the end of 1 week. People continue to go basic for lack of content - so instead of adding new quests they add random drops. That oughta make their former customers come back.
Not.
Think about it - the basics (that were formerly unlimited) that you see in-game are without any question, the most helpful pirates you encounter. They can't steal rep - they give away gold weekly - they boost your crew bonus - they heal like you've never seen - they revive you when you're down - they sail you around when you need cannon rep - they give you retraining hints when they see you doing something wrong. Why? Just to hang out with old friends occasionally, while waiting for whatever they are waiting for. (The Kraken, in my case.) In return, they get 10 times the nag screens that "preview basics" get, they get insults daily from elitists, they can't use skills they've earned, they can't use ships they've earned, they can't wear (OR EVEN SELL) clothes they earned from drops or quests, they can't wear tats they've earned, they can't finish quests that they started and now they can't equip weapons they capture. "Play Online For Free" is quite far from a true statement. Once you've paid money to Disney for some unlimited because you thought it might be worth it, the mouse marks you as a target.
Quite frankly, the attitude shown by several above, is beyond sickening. But what goes around, comes around; no action needed on my part, there.