Cunning Finnigan S... on Nov 23, 2014 wrote:

Ahoy, all! If it's on thing that's spread around the Shipyards and Skyways faster than humorous gossip be the tales o' the Test Realm. And what finer words have reached my ears are those of the elusive Scrip.

I've read a lot of commentary on Scrip as well as Ratbeard's words on Scrip and how the system was intended. It's meant to be a slow collecting venture that can grant any fairing Pirate a freshly smuggled item or two (or three if yer lucky) from Squid Viscous in the Black Market.

The main issue that's gone around is the extremely low drop rate of scrip and it's narrow ways of obtainability. So I'd like to suggest a few ways Scrip should be improved and expanded upon in later tides.

1. Increase the range of drops from Skull Island to Aquila. Currently, drops are best found away from Skull Island, but even in those far-off realms, they're still hard to find. When I read the updates, I always thought that you could still find scrip in Skull Island, just at a much, much smaller rate and amount. More drops of Scrip could be found in higher worlds, however, drops are still pretty low (and I am aware there was an update to the drops).
Suggestion: On 10 point scale, Scrip drops should be found lowest in Sinking a Ship or Broadside combat (Skull Island Ex. 1-4 Scrip), midrange in defeating a Skyway Boss (Skull Island Ex. 5-7 Scrip), and highest in destroying a Turret (Skull Island Ex. 8-10 Scrip). You can a little more Scrip during any of these if you find yourself a party. Scrip drops for worlds, story-ordered, should look something like this:

SI: 1-10
MQ: 10-20
DS & VA: 20-30
CR: 30-40
MS: 40-50
MB: 50-60
AQ: 60-70

2. Decrease the amount some items cost in the Black Market. I, personally, like the concept of cool items at Skyway robbery prices, but some items could come down a bit such as the Housing items, Deluxe Ship Cabin, and Gear&Banners.

3. Increase the Scrip rewarded in the Smuggler's Arena Gauntlet. I would suggest a lvl65 Pirate should get close to 200-300 Scrip if they can bash all 10 boss heads. If the fall among the stars, the lowest a lvl65 should get for at least striking one boss out should be 50 scrip.

4. In the future, add a Companion Task called "Smugglin' " that rewards Pirates with Scrip. Pretty self-explanatory 'ear.

5. In the future, add Scrip as possible Quest rewards. Primarily, in quest lines the require Broadside Combat or shady dealings.

6. Add Scrip as a reward in Ranked PvP when it comes. The concept of Scrip and the Black Market give themselves a slight nudge in similarity

7. Add Scrip as a possible drop from the Tower of Moo Manchu. If anyone's got to have a bounty of shady business currency, it's got to be Moo Manchu himself.

Cunning Finnigan S... on Nov 23, 2014 wrote:

Ahoy, all! If it's on thing that's spread around the Shipyards and Skyways faster than humorous gossip be the tales o' the Test Realm. And what finer words have reached my ears are those of the elusive Scrip.

I've read a lot of commentary on Scrip as well as Ratbeard's words on Scrip and how the system was intended. It's meant to be a slow collecting venture that can grant any fairing Pirate a freshly smuggled item or two (or three if yer lucky) from Squid Viscous in the Black Market.

The main issue that's gone around is the extremely low drop rate of scrip and it's narrow ways of obtainability. So I'd like to suggest a few ways Scrip should be improved and expanded upon in later tides.

1. Increase the range of drops from Skull Island to Aquila. Currently, drops are best found away from Skull Island, but even in those far-off realms, they're still hard to find. When I read the updates, I always thought that you could still find scrip in Skull Island, just at a much, much smaller rate and amount. More drops of Scrip could be found in higher worlds, however, drops are still pretty low (and I am aware there was an update to the drops).
Suggestion: On 10 point scale, Scrip drops should be found lowest in Sinking a Ship or Broadside combat (Skull Island Ex. 1-4 Scrip), midrange in defeating a Skyway Boss (Skull Island Ex. 5-7 Scrip), and highest in destroying a Turret (Skull Island Ex. 8-10 Scrip). You can a little more Scrip during any of these if you find yourself a party. Scrip drops for worlds, story-ordered, should look something like this:

SI: 1-10
MQ: 10-20
DS & VA: 20-30
CR: 30-40
MS: 40-50
MB: 50-60
AQ: 60-70

2. Decrease the amount some items cost in the Black Market. I, personally, like the concept of cool items at Skyway robbery prices, but some items could come down a bit such as the Housing items, Deluxe Ship Cabin, and Gear&Banners.

3. Increase the Scrip rewarded in the Smuggler's Arena Gauntlet. I would suggest a lvl65 Pirate should get close to 200-300 Scrip if they can bash all 10 boss heads. If the fall among the stars, the lowest a lvl65 should get for at least striking one boss out should be 50 scrip.

4. In the future, add a Companion Task called "Smugglin' " that rewards Pirates with Scrip. Pretty self-explanatory 'ear.

5. In the future, add Scrip as possible Quest rewards. Primarily, in quest lines the require Broadside Combat or shady dealings.

6. Add Scrip as a reward in Ranked PvP when it comes. The concept of Scrip and the Black Market give themselves a slight nudge in similarity

7. Add Scrip as a possible drop from the Tower of Moo Manchu. If anyone's got to have a bounty of shady business currency, it's got to be Moo Manchu himself.

Noble Tyler Strong on Dec 4, 2014 wrote:

1. Pretty good idea! Although there are no ships in DragonSpyre yet

2. I think that decreasing the cost will also decrease the value, I think it should stay the same price, considering there are few items available right now.

3. Considering you can only do the dungeons once every 18 hours, I don't see why not.

4. Considering Scrip is already difficult to obtain, people would probably barely battle ships or do the Smuggler's Arena as they can just send all their companions to obtain Scrip, I mean companions doing lots of things is good and all but people get to the gold cap and nautical level cap pretty easy thanks to Companions, so I don't know, I just feel like less people would be eager to work with other pirates is their companions could earn Scrip for them.

5. I kind of feel like Scrip would be more of a side quest reward if anything, since you could possibly already obtain Scrip from ships when doing Nautical quests.

6. I don't really think if that would work, I mean we are playing a professional match and are given a currency used for a Black Market... yeah... anyway, like anercobie said, Scrip is meant to be a team effort sort of thing, Ranked PVP can be team effort but primarily it's all a competition and not everyone gets happy in the end of it or get a fair amount.

7. I kind of feel like bosses should drop Scrip but also I feel like they shouldn't, especially in dungeons like the Tower of Moo Manchu, considering all the epic drops we get for each and every class.