Level cap raise?

[Basil Dreadflint]

Good Math Green! I still think Notoriety to 75 and weapons to 40 or even 45, but I am anticipating a lot of rep from the next story shapter, similar to what can be gotten from the first (Pearl).

To give some expamples to add to your final paragrah:

I have one pirate totally mastered who has never done ANY of the level 5 weapons, the clothing or the SvS quests. I'm not sure the yeild on those, but the clothing quests have TONS of ships to sink, so there should be quite a bit of rep available there.

A second totally mastered pirate also hasn't done any of the above mentioned quests, nor finsihed the Pearl or the Boss Battle. So he has even more rep available.

The third totally mastered pirate has done the clothing and level 5 weapons quests, but has not done the SvS nor has he done more than 5% of the Pearl quest. There is at least 20K of rep available in the Pearl quest alone.

I'm hoping that they raise the limits WAAAAY high. I don't agree with the idea of Fully Mastered. It implies that you are done! I think that the limits should be so high that even if there are no active quests available, you should still be able to earn rep and gold while you wait for Disney to continue development.

[CaptainGreenGene]

Originally Posted by Basil Dreadflint

I am anticipating a lot of rep from the next story shapter
To give some expamples to add to your final paragrah:

I agree the next chapter will yield more reps and greater game interest and I do see some signs that this might be what all the hubbub is all about.

Not sure about the "expamples in my final paragrah" (I jest) but
I do however have a friend who has stopped training exactly at level 40 and has not done any of the Pearl quest but has done every other quest and is nearly mastered in all weapons. This gives me a rough estimate of how many reps are available over the number required to master. The entire Pearl quest yields approximately 50,000 reps(WIKI). Add an additional 4000 reps to master all weapons(according to my friend) and you end up with about 54,000 reps. To be sure this is at best a rough estimate because as you all well know some "drops" give you reps. The more "drops" you get the more reps you have above and beyond what you earn questing and training weapons.

At this time let me make A Modest Proposal (not the one by Jonathan Swift since we all know that ...a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled...)

My proposal is this:

1) Raise the level cap to 50
2) Raise the weapon caps to 35 and add a level 25 and 30 weapon quest(for most weapons)
3) Give any pirate who has exceeded level 40 the reps they have earned up to level 41 only. If you have not reached the requisite number of reps to get to level 41 (42,700) you get exactly what you have earned to date. If you have exceeded this number of reps you only get credit for the one level. When you earn 1 more rep you automatically get credited for the entire level 40 and you start at level 41 (The MMORG's Adventurequest, Dragonfable and Mechquest use this method and it works out very well) That means you only get credit for 42,700 reps no matter how many more over that you have earned.

If you do the math using this proposal you and the other suggestions from my last post you can gain 363,500 reps or more and need only 361,400 to master level 50 (the most reps being obtained by those that reached level 40 and stopped training) The players that mastered all will get the benefit of an entire level head start on the rest and those who stopped have the advantage of easier reps. Assuming you can earn an additional 50,000-60,000 for the next story chapter this would put you almost exactly in the same position you are in now, that is about 1 levels worth of spare reps when all things are done. Remember to get from level 49 to 50 notoriety you will need 67,900 reps! Just to put that in some perspective, that many reps took you from level 1 to level 19! The entire set of reps you earned getting to master level 40 is the same number of reps you will need to get to move from notoriety level 45-50! I don't think anyone will get bored this summer at that rate.

I sent a copy of this to Disney and I expect its been filled in the "circular bin" already but is sure does make good sense none the less.