Fleets - is it an issue still, or did it settle after all this time?

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@Presifir

it helps gathering resources a whole lot easier which is useful for endgame conten

Yeah, if you want to avoid the grind, because you have a life to live beyond the screen - you can do that. If you are ready for the grind - you’ll reach your goals way faster.

@Presifir

Before, you’ll need to have a ton of friends that are rich to be able to provide you useful resources such as potions if you ever want to engage in endgame content

Before, you could just as well do all yourself, you weren’t required to have a ton of rich friends, you’re weird by saying that.

@Presifir

This task is actually useful for casual players as they can use this so that they can focus more on what they want to do, no more going around waiting for food drops, buying low energy food ingredients, nor do they need to stop and fish while hoping they get a big catch.

I would have agreed here, since occasional fishing is how I stayed fed throughout my pre-FR gaming. But now, animals exist, and you’ll passively accumulate their meat, just by exploring islands. Meat solves this problem, therefore Fishing task is useless. And, even aside from meat, cooked fruits and mushrooms aren’t that bad, and you get a lot of them from chests. Not to mention, the earliest quests like those in Redwake, Frostmill and Palo, often award you food later on in a message.

@Presifir

This probably wasn’t the intended design of this task as it’s probably there to make it easier to have access to certain items in the renown shop.

I see Renown being awarded here as just Vetex thinking “Hm, you sink ships in this task. Sinking ships in game gives you renown, therefore the task should give it too” and not considering the consequences. Renown isn’t even the main point of the task - its resource and food gathering, the followers and the renown are just bonuses.

@Presifir

The whole point of the Dark Sea is to be a challenging endgame content where you’re supposed to survive while fighting enemies with the difficulty slider being the range you’re in

…while earning precious rewards in the form of dark sealed chests + some bonus loot from the enemies directly. Dark Sealeds are the main reward from the Dark Sea, and they are failing at being it, to the point that a simple fleet task can replace their grind.

@Presifir

There’s no need for fleets to become a universal through all files when you can pass on the resources you get from it to other files using the bank feature.

Them being universal isn’t aimed to assist your other saves while forgetting the bank exists. Them being universal prevents you from repeating the grind to upgrade the fleet again on that new file.