More Gold Side Quests?

[Platinum Pirate]

I find this discussion extremely amusing. In all my years, I did not have a problem maxing the gold amount for each of my pirates. Captain Del said it best:

Originally Posted by Captain Del

You need to learn to take things not as a race, but instead you should get the most out of every update in a savoring, enjoyable pace.

Players in a race for gold are only motivated to 'show off' whatever they got. It's the same attitude they have when they race to unlock a weapon, complete a major quest, or get a ship upgrade and all else for that matter. They miss out a lot and the greatest of these are the actual 'good' friends they encountered in this form of entertainment that otherwise would not have been attainable elsewhere in their own real life. Its those connections that make the game worthwhile and keep the game interesting. All the gold [and now mats] they generate while playing together just adds up beautifully.

Of course, the whole point of this thread is an option to generate more gold by having certain quests give a higher amount when completed. BDusel suggests a higher gold amount for sinking a certain number of enemy ship levels. Sounds reasonable when you think about it. Eliza Creststeel, on the other hand, suggests something other than just gold and is befuddled as to why there are so few quests with all these NPCs. She has a point there, but under the current Notoriety 50 cap, that's unlikely. POTCO, like any smart game developer, left enough room to keep players interested. Narrowing that will end it too quickly. Instead of seeing that as a bad thing (i.e., lack of quests), see it as preview of things to come when the cap is lifted. Rest assured, there will be a need for such innovative and practical quests to rep up from Notoriety 50 to 75.

Under the present circumstances, it's not that hard to generate gold. Depends how much time you spend with that one pirate on your account per day. I was able to early on, long before all this new content came to pass, max the 65,000 gold cap using whatever was available back then. And oddly enough, what worked for me back then, still holds true with this new 200,000 gold cap with all this new content POTCO added since. It's really there if you know where to look and see its value. Most prefer, to just log in to Abassa, and look for all their pertinent information at Tortuga beach. The slightly older crowd tend to find theirs at Tortuga, Andaba. Doesn't matter which, they're usually getting the wrong info, and at worst, the wrong way to play altogether.

Now, what were those other sayings our dear mothers taught us? Oh, yes, two things:

1) Haste makes waste

2) Don't hang around with the wrong crowd.

How true.