User blog comment:Ishi Clarke/If you were running PotCo..../@comment-7107679-20130607131124/@comment-4889310-20130607190748

Maybe for trades relating to such items, only have trading availability to other pirates closer to your level? Say someone were to trade me a Seven Seas Cutlass in exchange for something else they wanted that I happened to possess. Its all fine and dandy if we're both lv. 50. Now, lets take that up a notch and say I was lv. 25. That'd be game rushing me, wouldn't it, mate? SO, to keep you happy, we'll implement a restriction on trading weaponry and clothing to pirates within a level range, up or down, from YOUR current level. I'll leave it to you guys to figure out the exact range, but here, have at it :D Gold trading will probably be affected as well, but gold only carries us so far, doesn't it? Don't need it- much- for looting, so why bother putting restrictions there, if not for the sake of ship customization?

I second the notion of placing SvS Flagships and this strange PvP island that slapped me from out of nowhere. At this point, ANYTHING, even a loot rebalancing is well worth the effort in reinstalling. I am getting tired of looting for HOURS on end CONSTANTLY and getting nothing worth a river's worth of crying, that is partly why I quit myself