@mr-bobby-says eeeehhhh you seem to be missing a few things.
It really doesn't keep the game tense and exciting. It's a matter of perspective of opinion acutally, but for what I would consider a normal human, spawn killing and being spawn killed is not tense and exciting.
the reduced reward statement you're a bit off the mark with. Regardless of whether you have treasure or not, having to fight people over and over for your reward and that makes the reward less reawrding...
your next to comments aren't relevant and don't really make sense.
The foreign country was not a comparison, it was an exampleof a situation where victory is not really victory, because there are multiple types of war to be fought. A comparison would be a boxing match where currently every time you knock your opponent out he gets another shot of adrenaline and carries on. The only way to win is to stand over him and sucker punch him every time he wakes up. Over and over again. That would be a comparison.
and i'm talking in general, not specifically about ships coming back. True, you get a head start, but is that going to be enough? considering you have to recover from a battle and they do not because they get a fresh ship. But the focus of my thread was on the mermaid camping and endless spawns without a ship.