Hmm. So I spent a couple hours tonight playing this with my brother. First question- is there a way to spawn a new ship if yours is sunk? Twice we were at an island on a quest and a group of people drove by in a galleon sank our sloop and continued on their way without looking for loot/us/etc.- just your basic griefer shit. So we were trapped on the island with no way to get back to an outpost that we could find. Is the only way to solve this having one out more of us teleport back via mermaid and drive a new ship back? That seems… less than ideal.
On the flip side, the rest of the spawning stuff seems a bit off. There was one guy that just spawned nearby over and over, came after us, we killed him, etc. We sank his sloop, he still spawned nearby, kept coming. It was asinine.