The whole point of this game is to play and collaborate with other players, it clearly states that going on a sloop will be a more perilous journey. I think games mollycoddle players far too much these days, try playing a game where if you die, you go back to the start and you lose all your progress, that was the 90's for me as a kid lol. Complaining about losing loot and being sunk by a kracken is totally lame, it's a kracken we're talking about right? Have you seen paintings and illustrations of kracken attacks? If I were responsible for the kracken it would have been at least three times the size it is and it would have meant almost certain death for gallions and their crews, a sloop surviving a kracken attack? Nah, I don't think so. The point is, it is possible to escape a kracken with a sloop going solo, it's actually not that difficult given the right set of circumstances such as having planks of wood and being quick. Okay so your going down if a meg or another ship chips in on the effort to see you sink but man, that's what's great about this game, it's unforgiving and occasionally it reminds us that the seas can actually be perilous.