Hello. I love the idea behind the new arena. Everything about capture the chest was done right. Except the points. Now people actively seek out weak and empty galleons to farm 5000 points with the cannons.
Now, if i want to farm kills in open crew, I no longer can because they die to one broadside and I have no uptime on the enemy crew, who is actively avoiding threatening enemies, as the unfortunate meta dictates they should be.
No actual piracy is happening in arena. No epic escapes from the enemy ship with the chest in hand. Sloops has it done right. Because they are normally strong players who dont let someone farm 1000 on the cannon off of them. The chest matters.
ACTUAL PIRACY happens in sloop arena. In galleon arena it does not. And something has to be done about that.
Maybe the chest needs to be so important that it is worth sinking to capture it, or row off with it and make an epic escape while men hop off your rowboat to anchor your pursuers. anything really. Just make chest better