SeaHawk123

I feel that it should deal damage but not sink you completely. It would be nice to see players cooperating and advising their fellow captains of rough seas in the chat.

While I understand the issue at hand here, I do not believe simply banning people is the solution. You have to remember people purchased this game and I can imagine it would cause many complications with Steam and cause an uproar on the community forums there. Banning should be a method which is used as a last resort and for very serious actions such as cheating or hacking. While breaking boarding by friendly players is very much a frowned upon action it is neither cheating or hacking; it's simply annoying. I mostly believe the best solution would be to give the player initiating the battle an opportunity to lock the battle to his friends/ group. This way you avoid getting into a battle with other players who might carry out such actions as breaking boarding or stealing your boarding action on another ship.