leveling up canons

[wmah]

Getting on a crew with a captain who just likes going out sinking ships for fun can help. I maxed my sailing and cannon first. I found it easy. Now I will go out and just sink for fun, I don't need any gold. I like it when someone comes on and they just want to level cannons as then I don't have to keep going back in. I will park out far leave the wheel and tag 2 or 3 go back to the wheel keep a watch on them as those on cannons start sinking them. If they start to get close enough I will go back over and hit the masts to take out the sails and let those on cannons just finish them off.

It is true you get the most rep for ghost ships. But when I help others level up cannon I tell them all if you can hit I will stop and we sink it. I have taken sometimes 5 minutes just to drop anchor at padres cause the cannoneers keep tagging more. I know I have gotten annoyed by a few ship captains that are too eager to drop anchor and not let the guys at cannons finish off a ship even when the ship we are on has a near full hull and we are out of range of the enemy ship shots.

One more thing I do is try to keep everything on one side of the ship, so no one has to move. I also make sure I position the ship so everyone on the one side can hit something. If there are enough crew on board I try to get them on both sides.