Point Battles have been announced as the newest skirmish feature, and they are explained in detail in a recent dev blog entry: "Every battle in Pirates of the Burning Sea is restricted by the number of players. With the point battle option checked in skirmish, the limit switches from player count to player strength."

If this type of battle sounds interesting to you, the dev team is asking players to log on to the Testbed server at 4 p.m. Pacific tomorrow, May 14, to create and test your own Point Battles. If you participate, you'll get an arrow through your hat to add to the clothing collection of one of your characters.