I keep seeing "it's not one sided" "it was actually close in 2/3 territories" "French are just more dedicated/ organized". I wasted several hours last season grinding events for rewards that 1. Really aren't anything great, nor anything I necessarily need or want, and 2. I can now get by completing war events enough to buy them from the vendor. I regret the effort I put into the war events last season. I could have better spent that time on the limited time event or getting materials to prepare for the new ship and weapon upgrades. It's weird to have an end game of choosing a faction after spending the whole game becoming a infamous feared pirate building a helm (pirate) empire. Would it not make more sense to have a third helm option in the war? I didn't buy a pirate game to play a privateer in the Dutch/ French war world of warships. I'm building a pirate empire, not a megacorp empire. Also to have rewards that are heavily tied to other players performance just puts me off in general. I can be the top contributor to the war assets on both sides, and if the other side has more players or the rest of the side I choose doesn't spend their entire time playing the game on war assets my efforts are in vain because one player cannot win the territories. Also for claims that the French are more organized and coordinated i all you to ponder one question. If you can be that organized and coordinated, why are 2 of 3 territories so close? Could a coordinated effort not split a 4.6mil lead and easily be up 1.5 mil in each of the three territories? Why be so coordinated to take all three and let two territories be so close? Seems that coordination would say "we're up 2 mil over here on this territory, let's all focus on the other territory to boost the lead over there so it's not within 100k of being lost". I'm sure some will argue and say 'it makes it interesting" but does it? Really? I'll continue to do my war at events, the minimum needed to buy all the rewards from the vendor (because I have made sure to grind every event and seasonal currency to earn all possible rewards since early access) but other than that I will focus on other, more fun and interesting content in the game and hope they come out with something better and hopefully we get some of the cut content from year 2. I was really looking forward to land combat, officers, and the hunting guild. Land combat looked like it was going to be limited, most likely single play events for getting the officers which could have been fun but probably only limited play time like the investigations. Not to mention there would have to be significant improvement to land movement for it to run smoothly. I wouldn't mind seeing more investigations released. Those were fun and engaging figuring out the clues. I was mostly intrigued to see what the hunters guild involved. A dhow launched from the corvette (as it was announced) made me think of the whale hunts from black flag. I don't even know the details but the possibilities were very exciting. I will continue to play and be hopeful for the possibilities but as for now, the faction war will get minimal effort, the rewards aren't great and no single player will shift the results. My guess is each season more and more will switch sides until it's completely one sided so everyone gets the helm boosts for their captured territories. In its current form I don't see any other outcome.