the game is much to easy, like an arcade game!
my opinion: much more realistic!
crews must be hired and paid and have moral.
limited crews to hire in the cities,
crew need supplies: water, food, care, weapons,...
special crew members:
officers, doctor, ship carpenter, fitter,...the cook!
different skills, sailor, gunner,...and skills can be improved, trained.
crew can be killed, healed (faster if you have a doctor), changed, taken from boarded ships,..
if you board a ship, and want to send it to a harbour, you need to split your crew.
and this ships can be captured by other players if the crew is small ;-)
if you want a safe return you have to escort it.
and no teleport!
humans can only teleport in kiddy-games or in science fiction, not in 1800 ;-)
and crew in the ship graphics ;-)
clap on all the sails!
ahoy