Walk the plank?

[Dr. Zeppers]

Well I think Disney's perspective here is if you put your ship on public, these are the things you can expect.

The ability to boot people from your ship was actually addressed with the ability to turn off public boarding which used to be wide open, click on guy at helm, TP.. your on board. They introduced the option to filter what pirates could come aboard and it solved the problem.

The ability to boot someone from the ship would be abused, and likely diminish the overall experience of the game for many. Im not saying everyone would abuse it, but it would be abused, I could see some players being captains on open ships just for the priveledge of kicking people from their ships (ive seen lots of gamers put up their own game servers just for this purpose). Whereas the captain of the ship has the option of turning public off at present which is the implemented control factor which has worked quite well.