Region:  NA

Character:  Picklenose

So I went to try the new Pirate Fleet zone.  Didn't stay long, but did  about 10-12 packs of ghost/goldmont ships.  Overall, I'm disappointed.

Got zero map drops, so probably better off at saltwater crocodiles for that still.

Got a couple sea crystals, but probably still better at sea monster habitat.

Got a couple claws of the waves, way better at sea monster habitat.

About 1 out of 3 ships you kill drop absolutely nothing, and that includes about 1 out of 3 of the big ghost ships.  Nothing.  Why?

Impossible to round up the ships like you can round up saltwater crocs, so you're going through a lot of cannonballs (granted you get some "emergency cannonball refills").  You also go through rations fast because of all the sailing around you have to do at each pack of ships since they're all scattered.

Trash loot needs to be increased.  Ended up with about 49 mil in those treasure chest trash drops for like half an hour of grinding.  Horrific.

The occasional sailing exp drop is decent, gave me like .05% at M8 sailing.  Could be a little better.

Overall, I don't see this sea zone being that great.  I'll give it a few more shots, but as mentioned above, crocs seem way better for maps and sea monster habitat seems way better for claws and crystals.  

Is bad, the only thing that is better than crocs is that they don't do as much dmg to your ship so that make the spot very chill to grind, but the big problem with any spot is always when they're not worth to grind and just like the others 2 grind spots in the ocean this has the same problem and is the silver making is just equally bad, I really don't understand why they just don't wanna make that better, because a treasure can drop there? every other treasure that drop on land is decent for silver, like can't even be compared to anything in the ocean really... could've just changed crocs loot table and added these new things there so it was a better idea, oh yea and on top of that agris doesn't work in the new spot.

The place clearly needs a buff, but i think you're doing it wrong too. You can round up and the ships. They sometimes behave weird but it works most of the time.

Spent 3 hours there after figuring out some stuff and avg income was 450m trash, 2 maps, 5 green, 10 grey, 0.5 blue, 200coins. That is with level2 scroll, otherwise spot is awful. I think i still can improve a lot.
Picking up loot is a pain sometimes if not packed. All ships drop something except the fire ones. But weirdly, like you noticed some only drop dust or 1 coin :D

The damage, if your ship is fast enough, is non existent. like at crocs. once you understand how it works... it's stupidly easy and boring.

The spot imho was intended to be a mix of the ther two so it has to be less rewarding than the other two.
Will not really talk about the good sides of it so they don't nerf it when we ask for bettter.

It still needs to be increased in value and droprate. But so do the other ones. The struggle for a few millions on whatever sea spot is bad. Very bad.

Sea spots for endgame ships should be around 1b/h (with lvl1 scroll and not depending on agris) regarding the work put into crafting/enhancing. And reward at least 500m/h for green gear ones (what a season geared player can make).

Thanks, I'll give it another shot.  I was trying to circle them like i do with crocs and they just weren't clumping together.  Also forgot to pop lvl 1 ls, so there's that.

I think i wasn't drunk when i tested but level1 = no scroll at all. 
you only see an increase with level2.
Another weak point of this spot.

you must circle them but if they fire at you, they go stupid (like when one attacks at crocs). Make larger circles.

They add nice stuff, but always flawed :'(
and it's not like people don't point it out.

Done about 30 hours at this new zone, averaging 20-25 packs per hour. Drops are fine. one thing I would change though is adding moss remover as a drop or increasing the amount of crow coins you get by about 3x so that there is not a net loss of 300-400 crow coins per hour. The AI for the boats could be drastically improved. 

The drops seem fine to me. I average 350-392 trash and 4-8 maps/hr with yellow on Valor with blue gear and no Ebenruth's Nol. The only issue I have is that it is negative crow coins/hr spot.

I think the EXP Journals could be improved as they don't seem to scale with EXP buffs and them being Character bound seems a bit strange to me. Do wish the EXP they gave was a lot more so that Guru sailing and above is realistically achievable.

This zone needs to be improved.  There should be guaranteed trash loot for every boat.  With no drop buffs going, I can get anywhere from 2 to 4 boats per pack (which can include the large boat) that drop absolutely nothing.

The spot isn't bad, but I've only really put 20 hours into it. My average is currently 520m silver an hour, just under 300 claws and 5 moss covered maps. The last couple of runs, I've made the effort of making sure I pulled candids and the young into the ship group, adding blue whale oils, steel candid shells and other candid drops - my average is creeping toward 800m silver an hour. I stay a full hour with the only things I end up consuming other than level 2 loot scrolls are rations. I've never had a boat not drop anything, but I have had them drop only their trash loot.

Valor, no Nol, all blue gear with only prow and cannons at +10.

No drop buffs going, yeah, the spot is miserable.

I thought lvl 2 loot scroll doesn't work there, same with agris?  And ya, I don't need anything there (other then the sailor exp drops) so I'm not using any drop buffs, but the trash treasure chest thing should be a guaranteed drop from every boat.  Every mob in the game (just about) has guaranteed trash loot.