Not trying to [Mod edited] and moan so bear with me.
I'm starting to get frustrated with the game. Last night my brother and I logged in, gathered some resources from the outpost voted on a voyage and were getting ready to go.... only to have another sloop show up and destroy us at the dock before even weighing anchor.
Then after gathering some loot we were on our way to turn in and call it a night (we dont get to play together that long or that often) we encountered another sloop only to spend the next hour running away from them. Passing multiple shipwrecks they could stop at instead of chasing us. It became frustrating to the point we debated on just rage quitting and calling it a day.
It feels like something needs to be done so that people dont have to spend their entire time playing having to run from another ship especially when they are still newer to the game and aren't that good at ship to ship battles yet.