Ransom broken - shipment and crew all lost

The game said I could pay the ransom for 50k to get my crew back. After getting 50k, it greys out the button to pay it. If I get rid of the 50k, it'll tell me to get 50k again before telling me I can't use it to pay the ransom.

I'm hearing it's intended to be impossible after failing the boss, but if that's the case, why is the game presenting an "option" to do only one thing? If the only option is to lose all of your shipment and crew, why is the game telling me I can pay a ransom and then telling me I can't before abandoning my shipment and crew?

Why isn't there a warning before the boss that says "You have to beat this boss on your first try or else you lose everything you sent and all of your crew, even if you have gold to pay a ransom"?

Anyway, nice bug. gg

Not a bug. It’s intended to be that way.

Let me know if you need some help going through it a little slower, bud.

They're not wrong that it is intended to be a 1-shot attempt. Same applies for all 3 Kalguur bosses added this league.

But the bug does remain all league that it falsely shows you can ransom when you can't after failing (via death or leaving prematurely or instance failed). Not sure stating it anywhere would change anything sadly.. there's people bug reporting daily about the mining/smelters working on other ore when they run out of work, and that has a tooltip explaining that is how they work.

Even if they added a notification like Voided maps on every time you enter the boss that it is a single attempt only, then people would complain they have to click through it each time (I've done over 50 of them so far). From GGG perspective, it ends up being a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.

Yeah I suppose that's fair. The one shot boss thing I can understand, but it got extra frustrating when they dangled the 50k carrot saying I could at least get my crew back.

I think the play for GGG should be to just tell you your crew and shipment is gone as soon as you fail the boss. At least then nobody is wondering what's going on.