so, i have done a couple of missions, just saying 12 santisimas on a fleet is madness, i know historically fleets had 40 ships but....come on. thanks for the rank upgrade, but sadly im back to lvl 1 missions due to nearly sinking on my own lvl missions, even the cutter and privateer i faced got my snow to 30-40% hp on the sides of my ship. I cannot play like this, 2hr for a 200 xp on lvl 1 and lvl 2 missions. Its just a no no thanks. Im leaving this game until the next month, i hope 9.8 or 9.75 or which ever is the next patch will solve this. Suddendly making the last 2000 xp to complete 5000 has bumped to 20-25 matches, im not going through the 10.000 step in lvl 1 missions, see you in a month. and i made only 10.000 gold...guys you have to re-think this...soo much, i would say you need to hotfix this in the next couple days. The game now is unplayable for a newly started character. I would say people who are entering the game now will FOR SURE sink a thousand times in their basic cutter. The npcs are deadly accurate plus the damage the do...OMG.
PD: capturing ships disabled is still a bad idea and will forever be a bad idea, those who say its great already have lvl 3 shipyards and are producing large ships as crazy and dont care new players cannot capture ships...they already captured theirs and now they have moved on....REVERT