I could not find a place to post this so I hope Rare reads these replies...
Me and my mate were sailing the seven seas when a promt covered the screen, telling us that new pirates would scour the seas. We had no idea this meant that our server had just merged with another. We were trying to figure out what it meant. Was this a new quest? A riddle?! What I am trying to say is; Implement this in more interesting ways! We got super-excited from this single suprise-promt! More random events and quest popping up!
PS. Love the game DS.