Well the thing that really inbalances Merchantnavy and Pirates is that people
haven't taken the 3rd choise and gone Navy = start hunting pirates to get
those nice +dex bonuses instead of str(pirates) or wis(mnavy). When i get to
up my ship enuff to even dream of trying to hunt down Ooga's and Shar's ships
I surely will as thanks for all the times they sunk my petty class II
non-combatcapable little ferry.
Might be just my lacking wisdom in this matter, but the reason why i wouldn't
go navy, is that one day ship can be pirate and next it might not be.
Attacking non pirate ship as navy, wuld turn me into pirate... so pirates
always has the first attack.