As some of you may have already noticed, we've recently fixed an unintended mechanic with seamonster zones, so that seamonster cooldowns are per-zone, rather than on a per-ship basis. The cooldown times themselves have not changed. This change was primarily due to groups who could very easily generate upwards of ten million gold in the span of a couple hours (and did so on a near-daily basis), with very little risk or effort involved.

Rather than lowering rewards and punishing smaller crews by making their efforts less valuable, we've made this change to keep seamonster hunting a worthwhile investment of your time, while preventing absurd amounts of gold being generated on a daily basis. Seamonster hunting is still far and above more profitable than hunting and other methods of gold generation, and still not subject to the gold cap, this change just introduces a bit more competition to the sport.

Happy hunting!

Penned by My hand on the 13th of Chronos, in the year 834 AF.