Disney should make a brand new ocean system, like when a ship sinks, waves come from the ship causing ships in vicinity to shake, and when sailing, waves should come off bow and have bow splashes. And I'm down with the new weather idea. We should also have new walking animations, where we walk and to run, we hit Shift. Add explosions to ships when they sink and cause them to rip apart. Maybe also add wind sounds and effects

I thought I remembered some release notes they had a while back saying that they introduced lightning and fog, but I never saw that. Anyone seen that?

you can see lightning on top of skeleton ships (although it looks nothing like lightning, it it just well... a blob of white light.) Fog? havent seen that yet...
Anyway, I would also like to see ocean getting improved, from both the shore and while sailing. Like matthew said, there are no waves at all, at sea and on shore. Ships look more like flying above water then sailing above water. The ocean while sailing also looks fake... looks more like land that got covered blue.

they gotta lot to do when making it realistic

Are your Graphic Settings on High? A lot of that is there, but only when the High Graphics setting is turned on.

Due to an unexpected occurance, i can't set my settings on high or i lag everywhere however i do remember what it was like with high grahpics it is not much different then normal or medium graphics high graphics just make it so you can see everything w/o having to be up close, well from my perspective

You mean these release notes?

Release Notes - December 10, 2009

New Game Features and Improvements:
Ships and Sailing have undergone several improvements.
You may see a boost in performance while at sea and slight changes to ship design and sail animations, depending on your graphics settings.

A new lighting and fog system gives more atmosphere to the environments based on the time of day.

Yea! That! Thanks James. Was never able to notice the lightning and fox system though...

i never saw the fog, just the lightning of sorts over undead ships

I would lol if PO added storms and a tough 1 sunk my ship...

but i would NOT lol if it sunk my ship again...

Part of the issue is simply a matter of - the more detailed, the slower it goes. They are simply trying to make work on as many PCs as possible as fast as possible.

Now, obviously they could ratchet it up some but must be willing to lose the older slow PC customers in the trade-off.

I would upgrade PC's in a heartbeat, we need some content