No, no, a thousand times NO! I see a tremendous downside to trading, with very little to recommend it.
As mentioned above, trading is one of the absolute worst things about VMK. It has fostered a ridiculous "Have or Have Not" mentality, with some players scamming others, etc. Also, until they recently introduced the ability to turn off trade requests, you would be constantly bombarded with pop-ups asking you to trade with So-and-So. I'd love nothing more than to be in the midst of some battle on PotCO and have a trade request pop up on my screen.
If you need gold, just go and plunder it like a good pirate should. Or win it at the card table. And there are NPC's that will give you coin for completing their quests, too. (I never go for a sail without first visiting Bartholomew Watkins in PR.)
If it takes an extra few days to buy that War Ship or Fancy Coat, so what? It's not like they're rapidly adding new content to the game.
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