What a load of BS. Ships are usually sold at bargain basement prices, particularly since ship capture was reintroduced. Trader Brigs used to fetch over 100k, and now nobody will bother buying them when you can capture LGVs so easily. LGVs are sitting dead into the wind all over the map. I have LGV permits sitting in my warehouse that I was delighted to buy as soon as I could craft LGV to sell and sail, and right away they put ship capture back in and now they are useless. Crafting ships isn't a money-making activity, especially when many of the best crafted ships are given free to clan members. Half of the reason I craft ships is because it's the only way to get crafting XP so I can someday craft my own ships. I'm losing money on it otherwise. I bought and hauled over 10000 teak logs and thousands of various other logs, thousands of gold for furnishings, and have mined thousands of stone block and crafted thousands of provisions. All of that is expense and hours of game time. Don't bring out this BS idea that people are somehow trying to fleece other players.