I apologize if this seems like a rant, but I thought I'd put this up for discussion. My friends and I have noticed a very uncanny trend during our adventures. We can usually sail for hours at a time without ever seeing a megalodon, skeleton ship, or kraken. But then when the time comes that we have about 9-12 loot items on our ship, we'll be on our way to our next destination when suddenly we are attacked by a kraken.
Okay, cool, we can handle it pretty easily.
But about 20 seconds after the tentacles rise, a meg jumps out of the water and we're suddenly in a 1v2 boss fight. After seeing neither of these encounters for our entire session, they both appear at the same time.
The next day, the same thing happened. Except this time I was playing solo, on a sloop, when a skeleton ship attacks me. It's hard enough to get away from those things when they're constantly spamming sail disabling balls and regular balls of destruction alike. But couple that with a meg that, once again, also decides to attack me at the same exact time makes me truly wonder what sort of circumstances are causing these encounters to take place. It has continued to happen since then, so much that it to seems to be more than mere coincidence. I'm beginning to feel like having more loot on your ship seriously influences how likely you are to experience enemy encounters.
