They maybe playing around with settings on certain tasks, as with tongs, one pirate got them after first sargeant, but my other still hasnt got them and defeated 8 sargeants so far.
Niether of them can get any silver from the EITC ships tho, must of sunk over 10 on each and still not even one.
Still if the sister game TT is anything to go by, it can take a while to find things, there were tasks on there that took a lot of tries to get what u wanted and it varied a lot.
Biggest problem i find, it being beta, when u've defeated quite a lot and still not got something, u sit there wondering, is it a bug, am i wasting my time. Can only keep going i spose and hope they fall into place eventually.
I havent seen many daggers flying about however, but there are some high level pirates about, this could mean dagger task is not completable at this time of course.
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