Originally posted by Jimiee:

So, whats this with small ships taking all the ports. It beats the whole purpose of the game. Flag the towns with 2-3 players, take the town 2-3 players lol.

purpose of the game?

Well no wonder game is dying xD haha

On PVE we take ports to generate raider attacks, so we can get chests from the raiders. I and my clanmates would rather do proper attacks with a full squadron of ships but player numbers have fallen through the floor. The port defences now consist of a small group of players targeting the incoming merchant ships and looting them for chests that contain rare woods. Unfortunately on PVE we cant buy a flag so have to do hostility missions to get enough points to allow a port attack, which with two or three players is pretty tedious.