Galleon is, by far, the least played ship, and has been for some years. As a player who once upon a time played sloops and brigs exclusively, I have taken a preference to Galleon over my time playing. Organizing a galleon crew who works together effectively and cooperates isn’t a very consistently easy thing to do from scratch, which I assume most people are, myself included.
You just don’t really see galleons on the waves very much. Mainly open crews or joking groups of friends who aren’t getting much done. Since it’s so frustrating to organize a galleon and how long the galleon queue times are compared to the other ships, I feel like it would be good to provide an incentive for players to keep that galleon queue full and fresh for time to come.
Perhaps a rotating double XP weekly between ship sizes, or a static scale of extra XP for Galleons/brigs. As with so many things in this game, Sloops dominate it. It’s just natural. People like playing alone. It’s easier and faster. The people who are level 300 in servant’s are certainly not getting it from galleons, because sloop and brig will always be faster and easier to set up, and less work to coordinate.
On top of Galleons just not being the most popular, I feel that with the slower Xbox-only times, it’s just not very viable for me to get my curse the way I had hoped. I usually play on the crossplay servers, but after having several consistent sessions where we’d be fine for a streak of 4-5 and then get smoked by a sweaty pc crew, I just don’t see myself doing it on PC. But here I am thinking I might have to if I wish to get enough matches on the galleon queue.
Anyways, I think it’s clear that something has to be done to incentivize people to use the ship sizes they normally wouldn’t. Hopefully this call reaches my fellow Galleon fans, and maybe we can make sure the original ship doesn’t get snuffed out by the sloop like it always does.
Cheers!