Hello! In the last months I've played a lot of Arena, both sloop & galleon with a very reliable crew.
Problem is, most of the time (for galleon) people join with open lobbies and prevent other ready crews to start and play, ofter resulting in 40+ minutes of waiting for a 15 minutes match.
Everyone should be able to play arena, but it would be ideal if they got matched before entering the lobby, that should only have ready to go teams.
Another cool addition, that would also remove the problem of people wanting to do team death match, would be to change the lobby itself so that it allows for killing other players (maybe outside a safe zone with the vendors), so that people can test & improve their pvp skills without bothering other players that want to play Arena as intended (with ship vs ship combat)