One of the issue they need to fix is the beginning islands problems like players occupied them for themselves is bs. Hard for new players to play when someone has three ships, 20 mounts and adding trades. So what they need to do is non-crafting on the beginning islands, increase the town size for crafting tables area thats ffa to use including leftover from players to use if players are nice, and 4-6 small shipyards for players to build somewhat better ships to leave the beginning areas with npc to build ship parts for shipyard (sails, sidings, and etc). This will help with new players to start off and have an easier time to play right away. Also fix hungry issues since thats way to high to start off. Also tame pets or crew members can't get off boat when in the Freeport and only have medium to huge ships park a good distance from Freeport to use a row boat to get to shores of the Freeports. Schooners and anything smaller then a Schooner can aboard the shores.