Yeh 1800 ingot /75 boards and the boards is not even an issue but that many ingots hogged up just to make 'one' heavy cannon, when more per player ship is needed, is a lot of ingots. That and the cannons seem to fire too slowly too, as some have said.
Too bad the dev. team didn't make it more like 1k ingots and then of course even less for the light cannons, and also they shoulda made a way for the abandoned cannons, lt. or hvy. to some way be scooped up by folks, sailing the seas, finding cannons perched in the seas minus their ships, ships that were destroyed or decayed.
As for myself I have one elder blacksmith, Joesef, whom has no carpentry, and one GM carpenter, Miranda whom had no blacksmith skills. It takes minimum 65.0 smithing to even attempt the light cannons and 75-85 smith skill I think to make the heavy cannons, so I been tryin to up Miranda's smithing from 0.0. I hit 64.9 smithing only yesterday, since she already has gm carp. but I am not gonna toss carpentry, on my Joesef !
Meanwhile the amt of ingots being torched just to get to ROT on smithing is...probably enough to make a lot of heavy cannons. lol By the time I DO get there in smithing skill, ingots be shot to hell that one had in accesses in banks ! Least I am trying to ADD one more person on the shard whom *CAN* make cannons, eventually, probably for folks DONATING all the ingots more often, than for sale.
Would be nice if the Dev. team really looked at the amt of ingots consumed and made em LESS for both heavy and light cannons, really, whole concept of HS was to have SHIP FIGHTS ship vs ship or ship verses pirates, and it all got bogged down in too little salt peter, that should just be all over *all* the docks for sale via npcs and not for a fortune nor in puny amts. to make enough black pwd and heavy pwd charges, and needing too many ingots too, for the cannons, lots of folks whom *could* be using cannons 'more', if only they fixed High Seas to be more USER CUSTOMER FRIENDLY for every one to HAVE fun

& not such a drugery ie fish quests.
*Ditto* for the magical fish pies ! My Hughes can make em & sells em now and then at his New Mag. home, but the sauces down at the dock are 4+k alone to MAKE them, plus the assorted fishes needed to be fished up some far rarer than other fishes in catchin em while fishing, and then when folks see the pies are 4k and up, yet the magic doesn't last quite as long as it should for the COST... well *sigh* it ain't easy tryin to sale/sell magical fish pies either !
But my WHOLE HOG no magics at all in em, DO SALE lol prob cuz folks just like WHOLE HOG BBQ sloooow cooked atop my UO *smokers*, buyin and eatin em when they got hungry, or for display in their own homes, or just for roleplay reasons only !
