Hey guys!!! I haven't posted in a long while but I'm back!!! So I finish my pirate last night and all of a sudden I was thinking of Cool Ranch!!! I realized how long it took me to completed it and I would love to shorten it!! They need to shorten Big sky!!! You don't know how much I hate ship battles!!! So you can tell me which places you reeeeeeeeeeally wanna shorten!!!
Happy Sailin' and see ya in the spiral!!!
Friendly Taylor Silver Lvl 65

SnazzySwashbuckler... on May 23, 2015 wrote:

Hey guys!!! I haven't posted in a long while but I'm back!!! So I finish my pirate last night and all of a sudden I was thinking of Cool Ranch!!! I realized how long it took me to completed it and I would love to shorten it!! They need to shorten Big sky!!! You don't know how much I hate ship battles!!! So you can tell me which places you reeeeeeeeeeally wanna shorten!!!
Happy Sailin' and see ya in the spiral!!!
Friendly Taylor Silver Lvl 65

Hello and welcome back to the message boards friend!

All in all I actually very much enjoyed all of Cool Ranch, especially the journey through it. I understand that Pirates would get impatient after 4 whole books in the same Stormgate, but I don't mind at all, since that means more story for me :)
If there were one place in particular I'd have to shorten, it would be Miranda. An obvious choice would be to cut down on the cards but I'm not sure that it'd be an easy task for KI, since all of the card quests are actually quite fun and very interesting. In fact I'd say Miranda is the most interesting and fun place in Cool Ranch- it's a LITERAL ghost town! My suggestions would be take out the beginning fight with the Skeletal pirates, and the fight with the ghost of the mayor [I believe he was the mayor, or maybe a sheriff or governor]. Maybe shortening the Mag 7 Quest by finding an easier way to get to Billy the Kid [because I swear to god those fights took me SOOO many tries because I'm bad], but again it wouldn't be too easy for KI to just take out a whole chunk of Cool Ranch.
Hope you have a fantastic week!

Cpt. Cruel Owen Quarrel, Level 65 Savior of Miranda [and enthusiast of Miranda Migas]

anecorbie on May 24, 2015 wrote:

I would cut out the English Bill story completely; what purpose does he serve in the storyline?

I imagine that he connects back to darkmoore (if/when that is released), that's how some classes get characters like Tonka, and he has some pretty good loot. He is collaborating with Deacon, meaning the armada is involved, which could come into the story later.

I feel like the bisons were way too dependant on us so I would shorten the time kith the bisons
Also I would shortened the whole of the first skyway it's a while before you actually establish yourself in another skyway

Overall, Cool Ranch imo was pretty cool. The theme especially Doritos....... Jk

If I could shorten one aspect of Cool Ranch, it would be to decrease ship battles and bumbleoon fights. Also, I'd like to maybe shorten our time in Arroyo Grande. To me, going there seems a little bit redundant or pointless. That's just me though. I'm sure others enjoyed it

~Clever Finnigan Voss~

Duke of Westminste... on May 24, 2015 wrote:

I hated helping out the bison spirits so I wish they would shorten that or minimize the bum balloon fights.

those buffaloons are SO ANNOYING. I am a privateer, fyi

Nothing, the whole world was awesome fo me

Definitely Port Regal and some parts of the Duck of Death chapter, and maybe some parts in the Magnificent Seven chapter.

Wait... actually, there is something that could use some shortening... during the side quest, "Basic Training", in Fort McMurtry, one of it's quest goals had us battling against Sky Snake Queens in Haunted Skyway, & it was a big pain & a struggle to defeat 6 Sky Snake Queens. I think that should be changed to have us battling any type of Sky Snakes in the Haunted Skyway, including the Bone Snakes & regular Sky Snakes. That would be a big breather.

Silver Talon Ire on May 25, 2015 wrote:

ALL OF IT.
Jk but i'd love if Cool Ranch and Valencia swapped places time wise.

I'd cut out The Bisons,Duck and The Seven

-Silver Talon Ire Lv. 60

same
but if you`d switch cr and valencia, cr would have to be longer then the current valencia is.

I would say the number of ships to be defeated in a sidequest.It involves to defeat two different factions and the number is very high,for a sidequest. At least do the same for the sidequests,like balance the difficulty.

For the main quest, no offense however if it got any easier than it is now.It might annoy veteran players and might say " What happened to the challenges ? " For now in my opinon,it's a balanced challenge for veteran and new players alike.