I remember when the game was fun for me and for a group of my 3 friends. We were building a brigantine and were roaming around killing ai and eventually doing PVP. So what happened? Devs came up with an idea to make ships unbelivabely hard to craft for groups below 5-6 players. (if you have 5-6 its still hard). So now ships cost gold, which can be obtained in many ways, but they are very time consuming, and if less time consuming then dangerous (as sperm whale hunt i.e.). Now i cant even recommend the game to my friends as they all think its too time consuming and hard to play.

I remember when the game was fun for me and for a group of my 3 friends. We were building a brigantine and were roaming around killing ai and eventually doing PVP. So what happened? Devs came up with an idea to make ships unbelivabely hard to craft for groups below 5-6 players. (if you have 5-6 its still hard). So now ships cost gold, which can be obtained in many ways, but they are very time consuming, and if less time consuming then dangerous (as sperm whale hunt i.e.). Now i cant even recommend the game to my friends as they all think its too time consuming and hard to play.