Cove improvement suggestions
Why waste $ if there is a high percentage chance that you will receive stuff of little value that just fills up your inventory, or a ship that you have to sell cheap to get it off inventory.
You should get input from your CA's before the next reset on the Cove.
The Legend Chest is even worse. If you have to give up 5 items to get 1 item that isn't better, then we will continue to avoid the Legend Chest all together.
Having to sell excess stuff of little value in a bazaar takes time and is a real pain, not to mention that it typically doesn't sell and you are left with too much inventory.
Please consider breaking the Cove up, where there would be an adventure chest, with goodies for adventurers, a trade chest with items/boosts for traders, and maritime chests, where the items/boost would help in battle. The 4th chest could be for Shipbuilders, and the last chest could be equipment/clothing. All chests would provide the same chance to get one of the ships being offered, or maybe a slightly better chance to get an adventure ship from the adventure chest, a trade ship from the trade chest, and a battle ship from the Maritime chest.
That way, we won't fill up on ship building stuff, if we are not shipbuilders, or Nanban certs if we aren't going to Nanban, and we won't have to spend so much time trying to level stuff we don't want, or can't use, via a bazaar, or shouting in merchant chat, which is another pain in the arse.
If you won't break the Cove up like that, then please consider breaking up the Legend Chest into the same 5 categories, so that we can, at least, get rid of the stuff we don't want, and get something better (really much better) in a category where we hope to improve.
If the ultimate value of the Cove is that you can spend real dollars to improve your game then please make sure that is the outcome.
The Cove shouldn't create a new hell of too much inventory, you don't need. We want to stop spending time searching to find where we put something that is hogging up our space, and then more time trying to get rid of the clutter. That is not a fun part of this game.
The only way to get rid of the "beginners stuff" is to have more real "newbies", and then you have to keep the "newbies" from leaving. That takes advertising and rewards specifically for "newbies". With the pandemic still going strong, there are a lot more gamers than before.
Lets get our fair share!!, and then keep them.!!
MikeR2