Player Owned Port Scores

I realised just now that the percentage they show isn't meant to reflect your percentage chance of success, rather, it just shows the percentage you are to reaching the full amount. Seems obvious really but I always assumed they would be the same. So, all the rants many of us have been having about every percentage below 100 really being an approximately 10-20% chance actually aren't actually the noticing of a bug, rather, a realisation of the way the odds are meant to work. By not reaching 100% we're not skilled enough to complete the mission so it makes sense you almost always fail it.

Wish this was made a little clearer by Jagex themselves but whatever, accepted they're incompetent now, could have made a much bigger error I suppose.

It's just really dumb as you get stuck in a loop- to reach 100% on slate missions you need the boat and crew upgrades which you can only get by using slate. So to get slate you need to have slate already. It's stupid.

That could all be explained by a bug, but I think it's more likely that people are posting only to complain when they don't get the expected results (95% is kind of seen as a sure thing). Granted it's pretty terrible luck to fail several of those, but I don't think what you see on the forums or with your own personal success rate is a good indication of the big picture.

Besides that, I've been in a few spots where my best option was to take a voyage at <50%, and it's gone my way some of the time. If 90% meant 70%, I'd have to think that 40% was a lost cause, and that's just not how it is.

Anyway, updating my score again.



I've now unlocked the Hook region. Got pretty lucky with some easy slate missions right off the bat and was able to 100% several in a row with 2 ships running. Also got my first trade good.



Still need some gunpowder for building upgrades, so went back to focusing on that.