The damage output is different from animals to other pirates when you shoot them and doesnt matter what your damage output is showing cause it's not accurate for example if an animal is has 800 life and a pirate has 350 life it will take less shots to kill the animal than the pirate. Also the game is fun and addicting but once you get so far in the game the only way to get the required items needed to get further in the game is to spend months collecting resources or buy overpriced items