I play a little. I have eight pirates on two accounts. One level 50 she does invasions, when friends want her BB's, PVP and Privateering. Really have no desire to master them all. I try to keep them at different levels to play with different friends. I will delete small pirates when they hit level 20.

Can you guess why? Yep grenades. I have three pirates in the high thirty range with seige charge, I cannot bring myself to delete them because of all the work put into tossing grenades. Two of them also have the older body types before potco gave everyone a more realistic shape aka a little belly fat, bigger booty and smaller treasure chest. Since I cannot make pirates like them again they will stay.
But like many players my master gets dusty and makes rare appearences.
And the little ones level up faster every time. I want new challenges, disney better deliver or I can go basic and wait. Little basic pirates can get everything but dagger and I am doing that now anyway.