Out of cuiosity what do you expect us to do as pirates? No nation is going against the US to help split fleets. We're in between the US which appears to have approx 60+% of the entire playerbase, Spain and Britain. Spain has moved South to get away from the US and Britain has a truce with the US. Along with the largest pirate clan o4v leaving pirates and joining the US they are able to zerg western Florida (although the few battles were fun there we can't do 8 vs 40-50+) and zerg the Bahamas at the same time. The only logical thing for us to do is leave to somewhere we can actually achieve something rather than lose 7 ports per day to the US.
Not complaining at all, those are simply the facts. We tried to hold out in western Florida for some good pvp and there were a couple of really fun outnumbered battles with SOL but it's a numbers game unfortunately.
Really liking reading all these action reports though, great stuff.