Hi KM interesting thoughts my friend but can i remind everyone this is a pay for game through steam when it comes out not a free to play game like others where you have to buy gold and premium time that costs a lot of money. For thoes who have plenty money could get to T 10 in no time. So i suggest proper balancing of the gold credited to you would buy you the equivilante ship if you lost it 5 times out of 5 ie. if you have a brigg costing 13000 gold lets say and you just prefere normal battles in pve or pvp then you should be able to afford that one back without droping back to a lynx. As far as ranking advancement is concerned this depends how well you do to how much xp you earn at the moment it is too low, but it was too high, that ment players could advance too fast and soon be sailing a santisima with a full crew.I suggest even balanceing so as not to put the new players off the game, navel action has to get this right to attract new players by the mass to make money and lots of it, the game is sound i like it a lot, but i am also alpha testing 2 other games that will be coming out shortly, this game in my mind is far better. So please devs make the right decisions. Ps please dont forget the map.