It's sometimes hard to find a good crew willing to combat the Reaper or Athena factions, I join or wait for players to arrive and they happen to be either wanting to do something else or just randomly leave at the start of it, which makes me vote on the Hourglass and go solo sometimes.
I think there should be a Matchmaking mode choice added on the main menu, other than invading or waiting to be invaded in Adventure Mode, that can have you pick either faction and matchmake with an open crew against another player ship, placing you in the underwater load time area (OR at the Sea Dogs Tavern) till the match begins.
Another idea to go with it is to have a "Team Deathmatch" choice to pit two of the same type of ships against the other (like two brigs vs two brigs for example).
