Emergent skelly boats are free treasure now.

So all one must do is board, find a keg, light the fuse (after making sure your boat is out of range), leave, wait 15 seconds, then grab the treasure.

Or...Shoot the ship with fire/cannon balls and watch it explode from a distance.

I'm not saying I don't appreciate free loot, but it does eliminate the fear factor of them that was clearly intended.

Fear is, if your foolish or the skeleton ship decides before exploding to Ram itself into your ship, Than explode...you also "may" take some of the damage and also sink before getting the loot.

Instead of thinking "Oh cr@p, a skelly ship.", I think "Oh, sweet, I could use a Horn of Fair Winds right about now."

I cant think of anyone besides newbies who actually fear Skeleton ships anymore, Well no...Hourglass players tend to fear them as well.

They always were, usually one handful of cannons spread across ship with a firebomb on deck was enough to sink. They're not really worth it for me having finished the smuggling comms since cant sell to sovereign, too much effort to run it to Smugglers.

I'm fine with them because I'm using them for comms and I'm pretty sure they won't have it as often after this season, unless they decide to keep that as a feature of the smugglers route