Random skeleton ship spawns

@kin6-nothin6 with the new ship damage it's annoying they need to tone down the special cannonballs if they are going to add them back

@galactic-geek skelly ship spawning right next to you is the best spawn you can ask for. For the first 10-15 seconds they won't fire and you have the best opportunity to land free hits below water line.

@kin6-nothin6 I hope so. I miss them.

Now that you mention it I have noticed that they have been absent recently.

Personally I never liked them. Good riddance.

Hopefully never, forced spawns on players are a mistake.

@galactic-geek active skellies should come back not as random spawns but as a part of a more complex story that makes greater sense like a skelly invasion into the world of SOT for xy reasons.

And there should be specific missions, like trade/supply runs across the map, which would be guaranteed to draw skelly attention and spawn their ships, 1, 2 or even 3 skelly ships at once depending on how many ships (in alliance) run the mission together
e.g.
you go alone or with another ship you get 1 skelly,
3 ships get 2 skelly spawns,
4 and more ships get 3 skellies .
Like a sort of mini fleet that intercepts you. It could happen once or twice per run depending on the mission's importance.

And there could be navy factions for each region which would give navy reputation that you'd gain through doing these missions because they would count as an active opposition to the skelly invasion.
And it could be in conjunction with forts which are places skellies have taken over and hold thus, the inhabitants of the affected region are in distress which warrants the supply runs. Many possible ways to conceptualize it.

I for one miss active skellies.