Here we go again...
Tao, please keep in mind, while your details and points are nice and all:
- Big, realistic ships are WAY too complicated for everyday kids, let alone a Disney game. If I wanted realistic ships, I'd play PoTBS. And on top of that, I actually played PoTBS for about a week, and then left. Why? Because it was just too complicated for a pirate like me.
- They would be (at least in my opinion) less fun to sail. Realistic ships are big and slow, and you won't get as much action with them as you would with POTCO's version of ships.
- The game has developed too far down the path for them to change everything now. Can you imagine how much chaos there would be if Disney dropped a bombshell changing the POTCO ships as we know them? We'd have hundreds of 8-year olds (its quite obvious a lot of pirates aren't over the ago of 10) running around yelling "ZOMG, MY SHIP. WHAT DO I DO?! "I WANT MY SHIP BACK!" "I'M GONNA LEAVE IF THEY DON'T FIX THE SHIPS!"
- The rest of the game doesn't really follow a realistic path in the least. As EC said, we're fighting a giant skeleton with a pistol for a hand. This is somewhat of a fantasy game, mate. There just isn't a spot for an overdose of realism in the POTCO Universe.
Remember mate, its just a game, a childs one at that. Stop worrying about the details, relax, and enjoy it 8)