24,000 doubloons for 'premium' Puerto Rico boosters.

[Kenjiro_]

I would not only got banned from forum but probably also risk jail time if I told what I really think about this "festive event" 

[Uglesett]

Also, someone should probably inform Sub_Octavian that WG increasing the "value" of the reward doesn't actually increase the number of hours in a day 

[Captain_Singleton]

all we can do is vote with our wallets...

[Sunleader]

6 minutes ago, MacArthur92 said:

Not going to spend dubloons on that... Period.

@Sunleader yes they are. But the CMs don't see any problem.... Like literally everything for them is ok...

Just a money grab for some ship that is somewhat better than Alaska in few minor things - but not worth that dubloons at all. 

 

4 minutes ago, Kenjiro_ said:

I would not only got banned from forum but probably also risk jail time if I told what I really think about this "festive event" 

 

No Joke. I am really not someone hesitating to throw Money at Games when I want something.

But if WG doesnt want to give away a T10 Ship for Free then well they should not freaking do it lol.

Just put it in the Shop with a 90 Euro Price Tag on it and done.

 

But dont make a Farce like this out of it.

God I am really not someone above Grinding. But this ???

During the Christmas Holidays no Less ?

 

I.ll just treat that Event as not happening and the Puerto Rico as a Ship you can Buy for roundabout 80 Euro.

Thats the more Honest way to look at it really.

Because with these Directives I dont even think I could get this Ship even if I tried.

Even if you very consistently got Decent Results you would basicly need 100-150 Battles for each Directive. And up to 200 and more for the later ones.

This would come up to about 4-6 Hours Grinding each Single Day for the entire Next Month lol

This is just not the kind of Time I have Available even if I cut some corners and basicly limited my whole Gaming to this Game only.

 

[samphilconlor]

5 hours ago, Altsak said:

I was planning on sacrificing 6k dublos to help the grind. After seeing the directive missions my rational part of the brain took a definite NO stance. Nope nopenopenopenope.

 

^ This

Those directives are beyond a joke, way to shoot yourself in the foot WG.

 

Guess I'm just playing for Lutjens and saving for the Georgia this year via the snowflakes.

[Sybeck]

4 minutes ago, Uglesett said:

Also, someone should probably inform Sub_Octavian that WG increasing the "value" of the reward doesn't actually increase the number of hours in a day 

 

 

What's the betting that they actually used some human test players to actually see if it was even humanly possible to do this grind within the allotted timescale?

[Zemeritt]

4 hours ago, MrConway said:

We also did not say the opposite, but I think that would have indeed helped.

 

But that is also why we are here to answer questions :)

 

Just to bad that the majority of the players does not interact with you at all and will just drop this event in an instant, disappointed.

[Kenjiro_]

2 minutes ago, Sybeck said:

 

 

What's the betting that they actually used some human test players to actually see if it was even humanly possible to do this grind within the allotted timescale?

 

I don't think anyone at least as smart as a pigeon needs testers to see this is not humanly possible. Let alone in xmas season... 

[Anarchy___]

Vor 4 Minuten, Sunleader sagte:

I.ll just treat that Event as not happening and the Puerto Rico as a Ship you can Buy for roundabout 80 Euro.

 

Nope, that ships costs like 200€ in dubloons - or 80€ for Boosters and still some significant grind.

 

Also, Buying the boosters 1 week into the event means you have to grind more, 2 weeks in and the boosters make no sense to buy at all.

 

PS: Snowflakes got a MASSIVE nerf, you get about less than half compared to 2018 ... just to make sure there is nothing fun about this update. Oh, and Günther for 175k coal.

 

I think i'll enjoy some single player games over the holidays ...

[Yedwy]

1 hour ago, Bics93 said:

Maybe it’s time to poke him about “russian bias” a bit, if you know what I mean 

Grinding this is still easyer then grinding 24k steel?

[CensorMeDaddyWG]

3 minutes ago, Anarchy___ said:

Nope, that ships costs like 200€ in dubloons - or 80€ for Boosters and still some significant grind.

 

Also, Buying the boosters 1 week into the event means you have to grind more, 2 weeks in and the boosters make no sense to buy at all.

 

PS: Snowflakes got a MASSIVE nerf, you get about less than half compared to 2018 ... just to make sure there is nothing fun about this update. Oh, and Günther for 175k coal.

 

I think i'll enjoy some single player games over the holidays ...

I see this 200€ figure floated around frequently, but where does it come from? Did they say definitly what the auto-completion costs somewhere? 

[Anarchy___]

Vor 6 Minuten, Kenjiro_ sagte:

 

I don't think anyone at least as smart as a pigeon needs testers to see this is not humanly possible. Let alone in xmas season... 

But but, Sehales said it is OK, so i'm looking forward to watch him live stream his progress - ALL OF IT  - just to show us how wrong we were and such ... right ?

[LudwigCruwell]

6 minutes ago, Anarchy___ said:

Nope, that ships costs like 200€ in dubloons - or 80€ for Boosters and still some significant grind.

 

Also, Buying the boosters 1 week into the event means you have to grind more, 2 weeks in and the boosters make no sense to buy at all.

 

PS: Snowflakes got a MASSIVE nerf, you get about less than half compared to 2018 ... just to make sure there is nothing fun about this update. Oh, and Günther for 175k coal.

 

I think i'll enjoy some single player games over the holidays ...

Witcher was on sale on Steam for roughly 10euro...
Gues,s what I will play with during holidays :D

[Panocek]

5 minutes ago, AkainuTaisho said:

I see this 200€ figure floated around frequently, but where does it come from? Did they say definitly what the auto-completion costs somewhere? 

On REEEddit was mentioned you can spend 24k doubloons on boosters and shortly afterward, you can instantly buyout PR for another mere 35k doubloons. And on NA apparently there are madlads who did exactly that to bring PR on day one.

[CensorMeDaddyWG]

1 minute ago, Panocek said:

On REEEddit was mentioned you can spend 24k doubloons on boosters and shortly afterward, you can instantly buyout PR for another mere 35k doubloons. And on NA apparently there are madlads who did exactly that to bring PR on day one.

Gracias for the info. Didn't see the 35k figure yet. 

[Anarchy___]

Good thing I did not participate in that recruiting thing, I would be feeling really bad by now for luring someone into this shuut show

[Yedwy]

People are overeacting, I mean did someone expect to get a T10 supercruiser for nothing? How long does it take to grind 250k coal or 24k steel by casual play if even possible (steel is hardly obtainable in any casual way)? 

 

Have you all already forgoten the Christmas campaigns of old such as the one for DOY for instance?They were grindy as well and many  missions were random only with bad tasks in them...

 

I mean lets be honest - yes this is grindy but missions themselves are not hard to do and seems many or all are coop doable as usal in directives of late and hence just a matter of well grinding...

[Panocek]

4 minutes ago, AkainuTaisho said:

Gracias for the info. Didn't see the 35k figure yet. 

On second thought, its not the first time as WG put ridiculous pricetag on "event" ship, as Benham, as those who follow Way of the Whale had to spend 35k doubloons in crates.

[Vinyl_ScratchPlays]

I think someone over on the NA forums even worked out the math with whats currently known and acording to it, its impposible to actualy get the PR for free with you only useing shipbuilding tokens..

But hey, at least it aint as bad as the 950K XP Mission that people are finding out over in the NA right? RIGHT?!


Edit: Also found this "Directive 6 Carrier Mission "Get 2,700 torpedo strikes."" From the NA forums once again

[Afghanicus]

1 hour ago, Bics93 said:

 

WG PR departement is always top notch 

Just saw this one...

 

WOW... just WOW.

 

I can't give an honest opinion because it would violate all possible forum rules but... WOW.. just WOW.

[henryk5pio]

14 minuty temu, Yedwy napisał:

How long does it take to grind 250k coal or 24k steel by casual play if even possible (steel is hardly obtainable in any casual way)?

Steel veeeeery long, but 250k coal, probably 7 month. All you have to do is collect all three containers for the daily and always select resources to get a minimum of 400 coal.  It is therefore a minimum of 1,200 coal a day, but x 365 days it is minimum 438k coal.

 

PS

Sorry for my english, i don't have english native speaker.

[MyopicHedgehog]

1 hour ago, Bics93 said:

 

WG PR departement is always top notch 

 

Wow.  Does this guy (SO) actually understand PR or customer relations?  How does he think it works out for the retailer of a 100% discretionary good when that retailer not only spits in the eye of every potential customer but also tries to shove fecal matter down their throat, metaphorically speaking?

 

I don't think I have every seen such a tone-deaf, bone-headed and misguided rant before from someone trying to persuade people to give them money!

 

Way to go WG, way to go.

[Ocsimano18]

13 minutes ago, henryk5pio said:

Steel veeeeery long, but 250k coal, probably 7 month. All you have to do is collect all three containers for the daily and always select resources to get a minimum of 400 coal.  It is therefore a minimum of 1,200 coal a day, but x 365 days it is minimum 438k coal.

 

PS

Sorry for my english, i don't have english native speaker.

I'm guilty of grinding enough coal for a Smolensk, with the 25% ticket, within 50 days. I've premium time and used 100% XP camos. I also grinded all coal from the filth and Sprint event and got lucky two times with super containers dropping 15k. That was a grind, but like ten times less demanding than the one WG proposes here.

[Afghanicus]

21 minutes ago, henryk5pio said:

Steel veeeeery long, but 250k coal, probably 7 month. All you have to do is collect all three containers for the daily and always select resources to get a minimum of 400 coal.  It is therefore a minimum of 1,200 coal a day, but x 365 days it is minimum 438k coal.

 

PS

Sorry for my english, i don't have english native speaker.

Yes, that's even you would get 400 from each container but sometimes you'll get 800 and sometimes even 1200. For completing the daily missions you'll get an additional 200 per chain or 400 per day etc. etc. so the 250k coal can be obtained in a much shorter period of time.

 

That's not very relevant, just wanted to give a short insight. There are many threads regarding coal grind so we can continue over there.

[GulvkluderGuld]

41 minutes ago, Yedwy said:

People are overeacting, I mean did someone expect to get a T10 supercruiser for nothing? How long does it take to grind 250k coal or 24k steel by casual play if even possible (steel is hardly obtainable in any casual way)? 

 

Have you all already forgoten the Christmas campaigns of old such as the one for DOY for instance?They were grindy as well and many  missions were random only with bad tasks in them...

 

I mean lets be honest - yes this is grindy but missions themselves are not hard to do and seems many or all are coop doable as usal in directives of late and hence just a matter of well grinding...

It's not overreacting. If the directive figures I've seen qouted on reddit are accurate

 

350k fxp 

35k base xp

etc

And doing that not once, but 7 times (each stage similar missions).

 

This is in fact, way worse than grinding a Legendary Module (at least that only has 5 phases, and 3 of them are fairly easy too!). Sure you can do it in a month in coop if you dont have a life or a job.... or value your sanity.

 

The point is this grind is ludicrious regardless of the reward. If the reward requires such a grind, WG would have been better off giving away a lesser reward and toning down the grind.