Originally Posted by
Stacy_Strong_5392338
So I checked out the Caribbean Pirates after playing the game for almost a week. I tried to board a ship and found out I needed a map. So I found out how to get a map - 100 donations at my guild. Okay!
So after waiting until I had 100 donations, I claimed a map and boarded a ship. Then found out I needed someone from my guild with the other half of the map. Disappointed, I left the ship.
I came back with my guildmate. That's when I found out that just boarding the ship and leaving it meant I no longer had a map anymore. That's pretty bad game design and it irritated me. Fortunately, it was midnight and I could get up to 100 and claim another map. So I did and boarded the ship. I was literally in the process of telling my guildmate - who is in the same physical room as me - which ship to board to join me when I'm attacked by someone way above my level, killed, ejected from the ship...and now I don't have a map again.
So this part of the game is designed to just have you waste your time having no clue of what's going on and get you killed by people who can swat you like bugs. Are you certain that you're trying to build a fun game?
That is completely, utterly, ridiculously, and incomprehensibly stupid game design. That's the kind of thing that tells people like me that our time is being completely wasted in a terrible experience like this. I still have no idea what the deal is with the Caribbean Pirates. I don't know the rewards available, the mission that it presents, how strong I need to be in order just to try it out...nothing. All I know if that I've spent several days trying to figure out how to start this incredibly stupidly designed farce of a mission and I can't even get enough time to get my crew on board before being killed by people who have no business fighting someone who has been playing less than a week.
Games are made to be fun. There is no fun to be had here. If the goal was to create an incredibly annoying and awful time, then congratulations - you've created a game that leads ignorant players to the slaughter and refuses to allow us the chance to play the Caribbean Pirates section. Well, there are two ways to not play this game. One is to keep us from having the resources needed for a particular section. I doubt that you're shooting for what the second option is.
