Opinion - Did Sailing Become Harder?

The jury is still out for me on this question.

To some extent, the problem may have been that after playing an advanced pirate a long time, when I play a baby pirate, I overestimate what I can do.

Also this works in the other direction --sometimes we find that they temporarily changed a server and sailing is much easier there!

On 11/12/12 the game went down for two hours during the day.  Presumably they made changes and repairs to the game at this time.

Shortly after the game came back on line, I went sailing in my level 6 (armor) War Brig.  We were attacked by a hunter after we sank our first ship.  We received significant damage (yes, that's why we don't attack hunters with a bunch of red ships around us).

About two minutes later we were attacked by another hunter.

It now remains to see if any other pirates report similar events.

Later, while sailing with two guild pirates, the captain said she thought that the Hunter was shooting at us faster.  A guild pirate on cannon agreed with her.


Note: our guild is very adept at sailing.  Over half our active players have the revenant ram and know how to sail at the Edge.  It makes sense that they would need to respond by making sailing harder.

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(written later)

One guild pirate, who sails a lot, made the comment that she thought the enemy were shooting faster.

A day or two later, it seemed to me that the sailing difficult dropped back down to what it had been before.