The whole point of this thread, is that Pirates are ridiculously hard to come across at times, and to set it as a weekly quest is a bit over-the-top.

I'm not trying to be lazy here, I'm not trying to say that I am unwilling to put some work in it, but let's face it. Pirates is 99% waiting and doing nothing while having the game run in the background.

Did FFXI REALLY need more "AFK Content"? We already have enough of it, we sure didn't need more.

Though, it WOULD be nice if they were to increase the pirate encounter rate if someone on the ship has the RoE Objective set, then we could at least use this quest to get Sand Charms to FINALLY get past that stupid quest.