Careful don’t lose more than ye gain

Arr pirates!! Now we be talking 'bout Targets - their benefits and dangers. Naturally, there be benefits to gaining resources of all sorts (gold, lumber, rubies, gears, rum) from Targets and that be the reason why many pirates be wanting a piece of them. Especially the Ruby Targets.

But I want to tell ye - Careful! Don't ye lose much more than ye gain!

Ye see, we be getting also quests to capture and collect resources from Targets. That's 'cause the game be smart - they be creating situations for pirates to fight one another. Ye see on the picture an example of such a quest with a nice reward of 6 Man O' War vessels - but at what cost? Ye gotta hold the Target for 1 hour before ye can claim resources and that be difficult. If ye put only 1 Bonnie then other captains will capture it. Ye can try messaging and asking everyone not to capture, but let's face it, ye can't message them all and not everyone is "nice".

And if ye put up a huge defense making sure nobody captures then ye run the risk of someone sending a blind attack for example with 1000 Marauders as it happened to me recently and, in that case, even if ye win, ye be losing a lot of units costing ye much more than the reward from the Target.

So, be careful, try not to get into the situation where ye lose a lot more units for the sake of few.