Unfortunately, we found, however, that that was what worked out very well when ship, missing the rest of the game.
Only very little playing cards, so you can level up your ship very quickly and pirates pose no more danger and you can completely ransack the Anliegehafenstapel up on a map.
Our solution: we bought the game 2x so as to increase our range of cards, and play from Round 5 with two pirate dice. Anyone who wants to can buy a 2nd trading vessel with us for 12 gold and build a small fleet.
Now it makes even more fun than before.
ps: our age is between 24-27 years: D