Due to me misreading a sale for a "1r" compasses to "ir" and a post
to BS group some time back, perhaps by Roak? about some fun content
my brain threw out this idea. How about special "infrared" and
"ultraviolet" (ultraviolent?) compasses that dropped from some of
our bigger mobs. These compasses would point to special 'Hero' level
ships of Pirate or Navy alignment. These ships could perhaps require
an armada to disable and more sophisticated tactics than simply
"ramming speed!" Beyond the crew there could be a captain on board,
and the reward for the ship could perhaps be some temporary boost
to the ships in the armada that disabled the ship and killed
the crew. Lasting perhaps a week or so, to get more than just
a single boot out of the enhancement.
Other rewards could include more money from the ship's vault than
is normally given to regular ships, perhaps a smaller, permanent
boost to some stat on the ship, but only to 1 of the ships in
the armada, giving the party something to dice for, or just your
"regular" eqmob eq type of thing.

Anyway just some thoughts on something that could be neat and
unique for batmud.

--Hair