I think a second server combined with some of the conversation of Shadowoods draft would be nice to see. Different drafters and teams but scoring and weighted scoring for gold coin, ship damage done, plundered, and so on.
I do think that including a newer player on each team should be mandatory or automatically added. Could you imagine the benefit to a new player to have all those people strategizing on different elements of the game? Perhaps not someone that signed up today but a player over 30 days and less than 120 or something to that effect.
sorry if i got off topic.