I could only play for less than 15 minutes yesterday but almost went up a cannon level during that time! Seeing "+220" for Ogres and level 27 skeleton ships was awesome.
The seas in front of Padres were packed which turned out to be very profitable. On my way back to port, I fired broadsides in all directions. With seven other War Galleons out there balsting everything to pieces, everything I hit went down and I ended up with a dozen Royal Chests and made 1700 gold during two runs!
And I guess that is going to be the rule of the day. Since all the popular spots are going to be packed, I plan to attack everything I see since there will not be time to move from server to server and besides they will all be crammed with players like me. Basically I plan to fight like a pirate for three hours so my apologies in advance to those of you who consider this bad etiquette. Arrgh!