Not sure if it has been talked about in this particular light but here goes. I know many people want the ability to join friends servers to fight them or to pirate with them. I had an idea and was wondering peoples thoughts.
Instead of a join server option that would open up 90% guild 10% non guild servers issues. If a player who started a game chooses to he can split his ship. Basically he will restart on that server at a port if a slot is open (or it just wont let him split at all) with a new ship. And can invite other friends to join ship 2 that he now captains. But to limit the chaos this could cause. If you are on a ship that was split from or the ship that was created the option to split is blacked out. So maximum ships a group of friends could have would be 2 on a server. This would allow people to combat each other and/or team up in a way that is not directly overpowering. Also i would like to see the 2 ships in an auto unbreakable alliance if possible.
So that's the idea just wondering about the viability of it. Only been playing for 5 months i enjoy the game but i have many friends that play that i would love to team up with hence the idea.