Ep. 403 RIP Doubloons!

Ahoy there, pirates! This week, I'm joined by Caleb as we sit down to talk about the Doubloon reset that's coming with Season 19, the overall cadence of Rare's development for the game, changes to Hourglass, and some other topics. Caleb wanted me to include the notes from the show so you can get an idea of what we chatted about for reference. Check them out below!

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--- Show Notes ---

Doubloons

• History

  • Earned by doing Bilge Rat commendations (Actually called bilge rat doubloons) > Stopped giving them away from comms, now through certain items (and insider rewards) > Added them to seasons

  • Used to buy stuff from the Black Market

    • limited time items themed around the updates > bilge rat voyages & letters of recommendation & convert to gold > past seasonal items

• Now

  • Now more “scarce” and while you can “earn them in small amounts at sea” (confirmed reaper chest & season track) main source will be a monthly event, and those sources will earn you smaller amounts.

  • Black Market: Past Seasonal items, Past limited-time items (don’t know if letters of recommendation or gold revert will remain)

    • Don’t want to argue limited-time items for the umpteenth time.

    • Seasonal items already come back for doubloons, now they will just be in the black market instead of their respective shops.

      • Blackmarket used to sell new recolors for gold, and one day Rare threw them all into their respective shops instead; why are we going backwards here?

    • Why convert the current past seasonal items to gold if you’re still going to charge doubloons for new past seasonal items?

    • What’s changing?

      • Past season in the black market instead of the respective shops

      • Past limited-time items as well

    • Doesn’t solve the issue of long-time players having nothing to spend doubloons on.

Dev Cycles

• 2018-2019: Big updates every couple of months with small updates in between

  • Small updates called Bilge Rat Adventures

  • From release to anniversary update

  • Hungerdeep > skeleton thrones, gunpowder skeletons, mermaid statues > cursed sails

• 2019-2020: Small updates every month

  • From a few months after the anniversary update to the festival of giving (2020 - 2nd one)

  • Fort of the Damned > Seabound Soul > Festival of Giving > Legends of the Sea > Crews of Rage

• 2020-2023: Big updates every couple of months with small updates in between

  • Small updates are called events. Bile Rat Adventures was now just an umbrella section for commendations tied to the new updates.

  • Season 1 > festival of fishing, vault raiders > Season 2

  • 2022: Events dropped for Adventures

    • Season 5 - Season 8

      • The start of Season 9 had the last adventure

    • Events were now sparsely used for some time-limited things or to track stuff like community day

• 2023: Small updates every month

  • Season 9-10

  • Features released across the season

    • 9: Monkey Island

    • 10: guilds & safer seas