Yeah - Ships are being sunk everywhere and not many are making up my quest counts. Still it is making up for the loss of gold on Weapons that have dropped in price
A few of the older quests were like this. Go kill a soldier / skelly / sink a ship and get such and such a thing. It would end up actually meaning sink quite a few ships / kill soldiers / skellies before you find the one you need.
I sometimes only had to kill one while my missus had to do a few, but swings and roundabouts.
It does seem that this is a get it out and fix it later release. Maybe a better spell checker is required at least lol