Ships and Piracy, the final frontier.

I'll ask you, one more time, why does piracy exist and
is unavoidable if you want to own even a remotely decent ship?

Let me break this down:

Ships are a luxury item, and cost a lot of money (and time).
I for instance have spent some 12m+ now to a ship (class5), and
its not even remotely top notch.

Why did I want the ship? To enhance my merchanting stuff, explore
areas I would not otherwise go so often. I want to drag bucketloads
of crap eq with me from different continents for cannibalize and
other abuse. I want to float around Arelium and drink beer at the
crows nest watching the clouds go by.

But I can't. You know why? Because there are pirates near. Last
time I took my ship out to practice sailing, I got nuked down few
steps away from the harbour without mercy. It took an hour and some
cash to recover from that. Thanks a lot.

Why does piracy exist? To entertain a handful of people who've
reached a level and wealth they can afford to do so. At what price?
People don't use their ships as much as they'd want to. Or just
rush from one harbour to the other without taking the full advantages
of all the finesse put in ships.

Now. To boil it down to a simple argument: I want to cruise around
with my ship freely. I just dont want to rush full speed away from
the harbour and follow the tradelanes like a slave to reach the
next port safely. It shouldn't be like playing dodgeball with a
bunch of retards with anger management issues, but more like
chilling out at the beach playing volleyball with beautiful ladies.

Just give an option to make a ship completely free of battle, and let
the pirates kick the living ship out of eachother and let us who
still have hope for this game play without fear, instead now diminishing
the few fun things with a thing that is very easy and fair to alter.

If you didn't happen to notice, majority of the people aren't still
really happy about this continent thingie. Why still make it so hard
and annoying? Melemkor and other shipadmins, I beg of you. Do something
about this.

Thank you for reading,

~/A

It's not the pirates, it's the lack of bad stuff if you choose to be one.
It would make life at least a bit fair, if you put a few unsinkable ships near
ferrydocks that automatically attacked pirates. And disallow pirates from
using public harbours, like the ones in ferrydocks/major cities.
I'd like to think that pirates are fine, as long as they have something to
worry about from being one. As it is, they really have even less of a chance
of sinking than us regular shipcaptains. And the fact that only higher end
players play them, makes us even unable to retaliate with pkills etc.