My ship ideas for POTCO

[Dr. Zeppers]

Real cool ideas, but we'd need about 100 times more ocean area, and enemy NPCs to accomodate all the pirates sailing out there I think!

[Basil Dreadflint]

LOL.

Didn't say it would be easy to implement.
But, wouldn't it be cool?

Besides, it wouldn't be an "always", it would happen sporadically, with no warning.

You'd be sailing along just doing some plundering, and a fleet of 5 ships would pull out from behind PDF heading towards PR. Two Warlords and two Man-O- Wars surrounding a big fat Galleon type vessel (Like an Ogre, but bigger, and flying a flag.) You look at your War Friagte already slightly damaged, and your crew of you plus 3, and one of them only has level 6 cannons, and now you got to decide. Go for it, and try to disable the Cargo ship while also under attack by at least 3 of the 4 escort ships, possibly/probably get sunk, end up in jail, and lose the cargo you already have. All that on the chance that you might get through the guard ships and board the Cargo vessel and earn up to 12 Royals, and the glory of beating the escort fleet. OR, do you sit and idly watch them sail by, watch some other Captain further out take his chances?

And, I bet it would draw more players to the game.