Yeah...you're right, everyone is different. Some people are in more of a hurry than I am. Those things you mentioned don't really bother me. I like the more realistic approach to navigating around rather than teleport (aside from meeting up with Guild)...adds difficulty and more strategy to the game. If someone asks to hunt down a EITC or something, if it's somewhat on my way, I'll go after whatever anyone on my ship needs. I think it's funny when my ship gets a full crew out of nowhere. The other night I went out alone and ended up with a full crew that took out at least two dozen ships on the way from Tortuga to Port Royal. I love the challenge of trying to out-manuever 5 ships attacking at once....and I don't really care if my ship sinks. My fleet of Storm ships are the ones in the heat of the battle, not hanging back firing from afar. If you see one...feel free to jump aboard
...but what's this about no grenades before lvl 30? I didn't know that...I've been waiting to get my hands on those.