Well, based again on precedent (AOL again) there's no additional fee for accessing any of those users on a single account. If they allow us to make 4 different pirates we should be able to access each of those whenever we want. Nobody's hurting anybody by allowing this to happen. Can't see a reason to add a fee to that.
Before we get too carried away, check out this post:
http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/f...ad.php?t=11658
It appears to me Disney is still working the issue.