as a pirate player :3 I find it easy to pray on there transport fleets as the guard dogs all the way on the other side of the map hunting down a lone pirate scout , make the leash shorter and drop some bounty hunter fleets or make the mercenary ones hunt down the stragglers of war , sure would make my life hell with there defense fleet there to protect there base
as for the save thing ....sigh save at the start run real fast gathering a fleet ect ect then die a horrible death load and sigh all the way back where I started o.o hate when that happens , some form of save would be nice like a separate dock save thing that does not save over your Manuel saves , that would be a nice addition