Leviathan

That does look nice though honestly I don't mind the one that we have now. I do agree that the water level should be visually represented like it is currently within the compass.

Sure that's not just radioactive bird poop glowing in the moonlight?

The player-selected polls have been started at the beginning of the year for the past 2 years. This is how the Santisima and Ontario/Snow ended up in the game this past Fall. This year the initial poll was started at the end of December and then narrowed down to a final poll in January. We probably won't see these ships in game until the end of 2015. The developers also have their own core of ships they are building to flesh out the lineup.

It was in the player-selected ship poll for 2015 but finished in the middle of the pack. Link http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/2994-player-selected-ships-2015-final-poll/ You'll have to wait for the next poll to come around unless the developers take it upon themselves to make it. They have quite a few in the pipeline already though.

Looks like images from some kind of twisted pin-up calendar

I think it's imporant to separate PvP and PvE statistics (just going off the current system). Maybe even make the leaderboard sortable to account for differences in 1v1 battles versus 5v5 or 25v25 type battles as statistics will vary greatly in these. In general - Total number of battles, Average Accuracy, Win/Loss ratio, Average Damage (make this sortable by ship class and battle size), Average Battle Size, Ships Sunk/Captured and maybe Damage Received. The same could be done for guilds by showing the Total number of battles, Win/Loss ratio, Ports Captured, and Ships Sunk/Captured A Daily Leaderboard and an Overall Leaderboard would be nice as well. Perhaps even add in a Records section for things like "Most Ships Sunk in a Day" and "Most Damage in a Battle with X Ship" as this would encourage competition. All of these could be tracked at the Individual and Guild level and for Daily and Overall.

I've actually ran across this model online before. The builder is Vic Yankovich and he did an awesome job with it. Here's a link to the build thread and a short video of it http://www.euromodel-ship.com/eng/royal-william-2.html http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=611006

On board as well

Throughout testing, even before sea trails, the player base would spike with the release of new content and updates and dwindle during the time between. It's nothing new and even Admin stated that's what would happen.