The Chinese New Year 2018

Does anyone know the boarding bonus needed to board the dragon? Also, any idea what the odds are of getting something for boarding?

 

Ahoy,

You need a Boarding Bonus of 20,000 to board the Screaming Dragon.

Swift

 

BP is trying their best to force all players at all levels to "Level Up", which is wrong in my opinion. As is their total disregard for new players trying to start out!

 

The Event Chests' spawn rate needs to be increased. It takes a long time to find just one.

 

No more flares in Black Market
No flares in MHH
How are we supposed to play this event without ammo,sorry for my stupid question ... -.-

 

There has been happy hours. My unqualified guess is that there will be another HH before this is over. Till then your options are event chests, shipwrecks and mojos. I think shipwrecks are really good for flares (often they give 5k flares), event chests are bad for flares but they give 60p lvl 5 once in a while which is nice for noobs.

I do however agree that there should have been unlimited expensive flares on the black market.

 

I have to disagree with this. Player are influenced to level up, not forced. If you wish to stay at a lower level then that is your choice. This gave no incentive to level up however and so there would be very strong players in the Baby Raid that made it difficult for the smaller players. By influencing them to level up it has made the Baby Raid more habitable for newer players.

Additionally, previously levelling up had no real benefit aside from access to high levelled NPCs and more space to play in but the benefits your ship could get were the same. By introducing features for higher levelled players such as crowns, additional event ships, island shops (25/1), Commonwealth officers and Commonwealth Raid Map, it has given players an incentive to level up. If it not difficult to level up. Despite it being a long and tedious task, it is not overly difficult and the vast majority of players ready to level up to Level 21 will be able to work their way up to Level 30 in a couple of months if they try.

My last point is that all games give benefits to players the further they progress in the game. It is common knowledge that for the vast majority of games the further you progress through the game (Levelling up in Seafight's case) the more you find access to better equipment, weapons, loot and abilities. This is just like every game. The issue lies where the high levelled players have very little restricting them from hunting smaller players, but this is another question for another day.

Thanks,

~Des

 

The baby raid is no where near habitable for new players, there are a few players that stay in the baby raid almost all day and all they do is sink the new small players out so that there guild can reap all the pearls. Boats with 600k or more hp that hit for 100k-160k (without scrap ammo or the mauarder event ). So no the baby raid is not for new players at all.

 

I can only speak from experience of my own server, but please remember that the situation would be even worse for you at the moment if the players that have levelled up didn't.

~Des

 

I am not new player

First off i am not a new player and as for our server it is not possible for new player at all and if some of the bigger player that leveled up because of bp pushing them too had not the baby raid would be easier for the little players because they made sure the little players stood a chance.

 

See, I am quite confused about this now as it seems to be going full circle. You said it was not fair for BigPoint to target the event at higher level players. I appreciate your point here and personally I agree with you that features like events should be fully accessible to all players. However this, combined with if they made other high-level features obtainable for all, would remove the incentive for players to level up, meaning there would be even more strong boats in the Baby Raid sinking out the smaller players.

Secondly, there are more ways to farm pearls than just Baby Raid. Yes, it is the way designed for lower levelled players but through the majority of events tied with some shiny hunting there are plenty of alternative ways for players of low levels to make reliable pearls. It is easier said than done for BigPoint to balance every feature in the game. Aside from bringing values to players cannons and other on-board equipment to determine their 1-to-1 strength there is no real way to keep "strong" ships out of the baby raid.

~Des

 

That is the point... BP makes the events unfair for the little players, quests in higher maps only, some event boats only spawn in maps 6 and above.
And as far as the baby raid we had a few bigger players that made the baby raid a place that little boats could play in but whne bp made the events for higher levels and added more cannons for higher levels they leveled up and the small players can not survuve in the baby raid now.
And the easiest way for new players to make pearls is the baby raid cause they cant shoot event ships.

 

I totally agree with a lot of this. The reason behind a few of these points is to try and prevent abused by bots. The events spawning in Level 6 and above are for two reasons really. Firstly, bots with Noobie Protection (although this has been changed) would otherwise be able to farm away down there all day to no consequence, but also because many of the large NPCs hit very hard and are aggressive. Players often complain about them being all the way down to 2 maps because they sink small ships in just a shot or two.

The other thing to remember is that in the coming weeks we will have maintenance to re-work the world map, reducing the number of maps considerably and this may change the way BigPoint decide to deal with events and the maps they spawn in.

~Des

 

On our server big players live in the 2 maps just because they can sink players in 1 or 2 shots, that is all they do. Just like the mauarder event there are more big boats in the 2 maos than there are small boats because they have the advantage over the smaller boats. I hope that when they do reconfigure the maos that they make it more fair and easier for the smaller/new boats to be able to participate in them without haveing to worry about the bigger boats sinking them just becasue they can.

 

I still see Flares in the Black Market, although a couple of days ago there was two ways to buy them; 1000 or 10,000 per unit. There are still two options but both are the same, 1000 per unit.

 

Bawdyn, there were a buylimit of 500k flares from black market.

 

I respectfully disagree with your viewpoint but respect it: (1) It is no longer play for free, (2) this is the first time quests have been available *only* to players at higher levels, and (3) BP went from buying items with pearls to "cash only" for the good stuff long ago (how can a 14-year old gamer pay these amounts of money)? For this and other games like it, the game reviewers refer to these cash transactions as "micro-transactions". That's not what we have here! Thanks.

 

I can vouch that ♥§ea§♥ is far from a noob! He has sunk me several times and I have played almost 9 years.

 

Now this is something I can agree with (mostly lol). The prices and heavy dependency on payment items to progress is not the way games should be run. I don't have an issue with micro-transactions and in-game purchases for the most part so long as they are not paramount to performing well. Other games where they bring out extra maps and maybe the odd balanced weapon is fair enough for me but I do agree that Seafight takes this way too far. I only know a couple of people in their teens on this game who actually have a strong boat which they have paid for themselves so the average teen which this game is directed at isn't even able to compete.

The area I disagree with is that it is not free to play. I get this was probably just meant as pay to win which it definitely is, but players can still play without having to spend, just not well!

This event isn't great for small players that's for sure, but as I said, the aim of the game is to level up so making the odd event targeted at higher levelled players I think is perfectly valid. Making all events like this would be awful for smaller players I agree but the odd one here and there doesn't have enough impact in my opinion. Its a relatively short event too.

The limitation on buying flares and other event ammo on these events though... Yeah... I don't get that lol

 

You are technically correct: It is "free to play". It is just that I cannot imagine with the business model BP now uses how *anyone* would get enjoyment trying to play free. In this exploding universe of games available to play via computer or other means (i.e., consoles), it stands a poor chance of being enjoyable to play "free". That is just my opinion. And as to micro-transactions: I see very few on here, and a lot of these offers you could easily spend $100-$200 in one day. (And not just a one-time deal either). That does not seem micro to me!