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This just happened to me for the first time yesterday; and, man, was I p.o'd!
I had just bought a War Galleon, and was taking it for its maiden voyage. Right off the coast of PR was a Revenant, two Monarchs and a Kingfisher or two. I lowered my sails and moved from the wheel to the cannons.
I was trying to tag the Revenant when a "So-And-So wants to be your friend" message appeared. Nothing annoys me more than to have friend requests from people I don't know pop up when I'm in battle, so I clicked "No". Then I got an invitation to join the crew of So-And-Ao, which I also declined. Suddenly, So-And-So boarded my ship. Since I had just tagged the Rev, I figured I'd deal with him later.
But my trouble was not over, as a second unknown pirate sailed up. First he blocked my view of the Revenant with his sails. Then the whole ritual began again: "Friends?" No. "Crew?" No. Unknown Pirate #2 boarded anyway.
The Revenant had turned toward me and was in the perfect position for my cannons, when suddenly I felt my ship begin to sail! One of the boarders had taken over the wheel! I jumped from the cannon, ran to the wheel, kicked the scurvy jerk aside and took back control of my ship. Thankfully, I was able to broadside that Revenant and dock without damage.
The amazing thing is that this pirate (who was a Level 10 paying member) had the nerve to ask me to be friends again after we docked! I told him NO WAY, that what he had done was very uncool and incredibly rude.
PotCO had supposedly fixed this issue in one of the updates about a week ago, but it's obviously still a problem. If nothing else, they should give us the option to block off access to our ships to anybody but friends and enlisted crew -- or be able to boot people who come aboard uninvited.
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