This just happened to me,,,working on pearl quest...a map for jack thing....anyways, out between rumrunners and tortuga somewhere towards uncharted waters, I spied what looked like little tiny speedboats next to a regular Van that I needed....lol, so funny, they swarmed all around me....but as lil as they were(scale-wise) they packed a full sized wallop.....

Crew I was with sides with me that it was ALL types eitc, not just the lil corvette in pic....and I didn't change my resolution, graphic card settings(I have a very good one too) and all that...I know they have to juggle scale with such large ships coming in...and I know frigs were dinosaurs compared to lt.sloops , etc. and I am all for realism....just was so funny...couldn't get a wide shot or I would have....anyways, enjoyed all the chat in game with peeps some who swear nothings changing, and some who swear they wondered the same things....but I do love this game!;P
Postnote: I removed pic for more upload space.

Woah! Attack of the little people!!!

Cool. but the light frigate and light galleon look normal size.

Sure you not riding on a War Frigate?

At the time I only had a reg frig and a reg gal. they had been doing maintenance prior to an event....and you can sail out there and see scale is different day before event....for instance, navy and eitc are bigger in scale near port royal....but when you sail out there it'll be smaller,,,,corvettes are really small now anyway, and sloops should be, its realistic to the time probably...but when potco first came out they were all bigger...anyways, as we got to firing on em they actually grew a lil, so we know maintenance or updates prob. responsible....I've seen weirder stuff....lol

Thats a corvette you were attacking. Not speed boat!!

Did ya read the second paragraph of the first entry...I think not.