Effective immediately, or rather...on all newly spawned monsters, the general
difficulty of NPC Ship crew has been decreased in order to promote the general
ability for the average player to participate in the sinking and plundering of
NPC ships. Feedback would be appreciated in addition to the monitoring I will
be doing to this change. There is the possibility that more tuning will be
done in the future until an acceptable range has been reached.

-- Lord Tarken Aurelius, the Sage