[Platinum Pirate]

That tends to happen regularly in Ideal to Full size servers. Lack of maintenance or just a few messing with the game for kicks are the reasons why the server performance deteriorates. Players with low end comps and/or small bandwidths tend to see it readily. When POTCO has a special event scheduled for that day, those ships start to really, really slow down--even in Quiet servers.

So try plundering in Quiet servers with a few friends. Use lower settings to improve performance. And one more thing, this is a private fan site. This is not an official site of Disney. You will need to contact POTCO about the problem at their official site:
http://piratesonline.go.com/#/help/contact_us.html

PM me if you need help with anything else.