Risk, commandeering and shipments. This is pretty frustrating.

So Ive been loving this league so far, its fantastic but I do have some feedback. I ALWAYS send my two ships off with 0% risk and for the most part its just that, everything runs smoothly. Yesterday I had a ship commandeered and I went to rescue the crew, I fought this pirate boss on the beach and the battle was epic and well designed (although insanely long because his HP was ridiculous, it ended up being quite taxing on my hand from all the dodging). I managed to win and the loot was pretty disappointing but I did get like 50k gold, fair enough I guess.

This is where it gets frustrating though, not even 24 hours later and I have ANOTHER ship get commandeered and another fight with the EXACT same pirate boss. This is again off of 0% risk and shipping to one of the closest ports. Well I wasnt so lucky in this one and I got killed, so there goes my shipment and my crew. I tried to bargain beforehand but the bargain button doesnt light up and it doesn't tell you how much gold you need to even bargain, I put like 20k gold in my inventory and it STILL didnt light up so I didnt want to even try to spend more than that.

Anyways, despite how I enjoyed the fight (the first time) I despise having to do it AGAIN 24 hours later when Im shipping at 0% risk. What even IS risk if I still have to worry about my ships getting abducted, the shipment stolen and the crew all killed while at 0%? What could even be WORSE than that? I also feel like if I kill one of these special bosses I should not see them again so soon. Do I have to engage in a 10 minute boss fight every day??? Please no. I feel like 0% risk should be just that, 0%. I don't mind the occasional crew member dying in a tavern brawl or w/e, but this is too much imo.

Now imagine you accidentially exit the area right after you enter and your only option is to abandon the crew or pay up, which I don't even know how much it costs and is probably too much anyway to be worth it. So, RIP Rank 9 crew. xD

This is still very frustrating. They could at least leave the portal open until you give up, or have a visible timer (in the quest log?) for when it disappears.

i agree that the commandeering of ships is unhinged. i've had 3 ships commandeered out of 5 in the last day. i think the boss is too hard (for me) to beat, and i never have enough gold, nor can i get it to release the ship and crew.

i sure like this league, but that part really stinks. also, as the OP makes clear, there's no way to buffer against some of the shipping outcomes.

i certainly hope ggg would consider dropping the difficulty of the pirate boss for lower level players and scaling him up for higher level players.

It even states in the risk tooltip that the risk doesn't affect loss of crew members or ships getting commandeered so you having 0 risk is pointless regarding this matter. It's a random event and you got unlucky to get it twice in succession. That's all there is to it really.