Ahoy,
There is a lot I have on my mind in terms of suggestion and feedback, but I will stay true to one particular issues this time. My question is, how to be more pirate when the game itself does not encourage that sort of behaviour and often does quite the opposite. Becoming a pirate legend via extremely long PvE grind is really not my cup of tea nor does it anyhow reflects piracy as such. It is rather mere sideline of all the activities which is a shame.
Now, to the concrete problem. I decided to be more pirate and raid shipment with a friend on a sloop. Hunting galleons was what we thought best alternative to mindless grind that has nothing to do piracy, let the others farm random bounty and we'll try to hunt them down and steal it. However, after sinking a number of ships with sizeable bounty on board,to our dismay, we learned the booty was gone with the ship. Nothing was left and our effort has come into vain! Now, I do not know whether that is a glitch or a mechanic of the game. Hope for the former sincerely.
Some of you might say - but pirates are thieves not killers in first place. Here is the problem. Trying to overcome constantly respawning crew of a galleon with one or two man boarding party and still be able to run away with the loot without being killed on the run is apart from few cases a rather super daunting task. Without sinking their ship, the crew cannot be subdued to let off their cargo. They have nothing else to lose as there is not any penalty for losing a ship.
Thus a solution is seemingly at hand. I would really appreciate if the game encourage piracy by fixing this problem. Sometimes the naval combat lasts for dozens of minutes even hours. But why all this for nothing? I am not one of those griefers who would camp at outposts or complaining for lack of content, but hey if you make a pirate game, make it more about pirates!
Cheers & "Be more pirate!"
Six
