well i am not speaking from myself but 3 friends which got sunk repeatedly by
pirates. i have no idea about shar/rocker or what they do to be perfectly
honest i just hear the whines from news. But you can talk to my friend
seaside who doesnt use his ship anymore because of pirates etc. I agree with
others that people need npc ships to combat who wanna engage in ship v. ship
combat. Otherwise there is nothing to use all those guns you spent so much
on...

Anyways i didnt mean to attack rocker + shar in my post, people are just using
the system the way it was meant to be used, but i think what i was just trying
to say was that the system as it stands now drives a significant number of
lower lvl players away from buying/using ships