Just fought a pirate vessel. What a trainwreck.

[Murdok]

I went out this morning early to try out a merchant ship.... in the process of sailing around I found me a player that was in a sea trance fishing... After several attempts to wake him I decided to have some fun! The poor guy didn't even bother to get away as I looted 12k stone worth of fish and 14 mibs and a stack of nets off his lifeless corpse! I never thought Id find anyone fishing in fel unattended! Guess I will have to keep an eye out for more ships!

One of the joys of living and playing in fel!

 

[Zuckuss]

The merchants have at least as much loot, don't shoot at you, and are easy to find in huge numbers if you know the right spot. I routinely roll out and do 5 or 6 in a row in relatively short order and come back with thousands of high-end ingots/hides/etc.

By comparison the pirates are just buggy annoying low-loot wastes of time. Obstacles to steer around.

I can agree that it would be great if they added new content to High Seas, more reasons to fight dread pirates and more things to do in general. I think that they should replenish you better with the loot for dread pirates, especially cannon supplies. You should be able to at least break even on cannon supplies. Ship repairs are also somewhat costly when you consider how many boards and the weight of the boards you have to bring to do repairs.

Also they could add more rewards for the bounty system. They could add new liquors and other certain rares and nautical items that people could loot from ships, not to mention new boat designs.

 

[Spock's Beard]

Yeah we went out last night and apparently someone had already been out killing merchants, because we only found two. Had to steer around like a dozen pirate ships though. Pointless, worthless pirate ships with nothing good on them that nobody had bothered to kill.