Paltry treasure from Expedition Fleet on Open

[Edward Edgemenace]

On test servers, doing the Expedition Fleet battle, I remember getting 6 royals in my light sloop when the ship of the line was defeated.

When they released it to open, they seem to have eliminated the good treasure. It is common to get a single cargo crate (gold value: 14) from ships of the line on open.

What's going on? Am I switching ships too much on open, where on test I mostly sailed from only a single ship? Has anyone else seen this behavior/bug?

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Also, what is the point of the Expedition Fleet? The battles are exciting (I had a 40 minute battle yesterday, mostly solo, before finally defeating the tyrants and Intrepid.) But the amount of reputation from the battle is close to nothing (100 rep per ship) and the treasure is 1/10th the cost of repairing my ships, 1/20th the cost of ammo expended, at best.

As much as I love finally having a REAL sea battle in-game, it seems like there is absolutely no reward. At least on invasions, you get that double rep bonus thing at the end.

It seems to me, that each of the 5 ships that I hit, should award something like a bonus 2,000 rep when they sink, for each person that actually hit that enemy. And possibly an extra 10,000 rep when the last one sinks. These are tough battles - there really should be some incentive here, no?

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What do other people think? Is it enough to just get a feather in your cap, while losing lots of gold in the process and getting no rep? Am I missing something here? Pfffft, I'm gonna go level weapons now.