SirKittalot

Not just whaling; why not all fishing in general? Sure it's not all that exiting (although hunting a whale might be) but it would be a way to generate saleable resources, much like mining is in many space MMOs. And I see no issue in whaling in the game - it's a game, and it's portraying an historical activity. There's no outcry against all the humans being killed with splinters through their skulls, being crushed by falling masts and drowning. However, many people will see an issue in this feature, and I wouldn't put it past the likes of Greenpeace to call for a boycott of this game for "supporting the cruel and brutal murder of these beautiful and innocent and majestic and wonderful creatures blub-blub-blub" (I am of course against whaling in real life - it is completely unnecessary and unavoidably traumatic. But I'm not much of a fan of Greenpeace who are often overzealous, sometimes forgetting that solving the world's problems is not that simple). So perhaps whaling would be too "controversial". Let's not forget: many organisations love to jump on to any excuse to blow something they interpret as an issue waaay out of proportion. Such as the spearing of digital whales on a screen with digital spears, which is clearly a way for multinational supercorporations to indoctrinate people to support cruelty to animals. Funny how they're fine with the suffocation of hundreds of fish in a net.