Just a suggestion, but what if something were added with the spyglass as such:
- When looking through it at another ship, other than just showing you the ships name and captains name, you can see the following;
A) the quantity of crew on the
ship
B) next to the ships name, show a
chest that signifies they have
loot on board. But make it as
a bronze chest for small
quantity/value of loot (1-
20,000) silver chest for
medium (20,001 - 50,000)
gold chest for large loot
(50,001 and up)
My idea behind this is from experience, zero loot on board the ship and being chased. When you tell them you have no loot, they don't believe you because people can lie if they have loot. But we've been sunk before by being chased for loot, said we had none, and afterwards we sailed back to that spot and found our log book and barrels. They just wanted loot and didn't believe we had none.
This could help eliminate that happening to people, make people less likely to hoard huge amounts of treasure on their ships (which I've heard can cause lagging). And it would also help people choose targets more and instead of just attacking every single ship, or spending 30+ minutes chasing a ship with no loot.