Perks are not enough and need more,you need to be a shipbuilder and make money and even with a really good ship be able to go up against a PVP specced player,I have fishing and fleet 1 and prepared and double Shot and Charge ,I cannot survive without these , im sure down the road I could flip Perks ,but you gain one to lose another ,I guess all in how you stack them together and when you use them , CvT=/t-T,And losing ships are never factored in because you just don't know and I lost all the ships I ever built,Only time I have a Point for PVP is when we took Ports.If we are going to lose ships we need more,if we lose ammo we can run or fight for another day,I guess why navies never ran out of ships.