My guild strength and status is not an issue, but there are several people who have a problem in view of the ethics of people who choose rarely to sail, but often steal maps, and sink others and simply hand off their maps to their own alts. Apparently, the motivation is simply to prevent anyone they chose from making a successful sail, since they do not demonstrate any desire to make successful sails of their own. Obviously, if they wanted to make sails, which they easily could (at times), they would, that is the normal goal of Pirates.

So in essence, the practice I see is not one of fair play, and like many other aspects of the game, there are restrictions to prevent abuse by players who are much larger and able to take unfair advantage of the smaller players. Tynon obviously cares about the smaller players, and does not want them to become so discouraged by rampant power abuses by the larger players that they quit the game; hence some of the other restrictions on revenge, etc. There are restrictions on what level players that can be hit in HR, as another example. If you win a revenge from a prior attack, you cannot continue to attack the weaker player at will. It just seems to me that what is being done, although not strictly against any current rule (other than some possible rule about owning multiple accounts), does violate the spirit of the game as portrayed by the rules that do exist to govern and provide a balance between large and small players. Without the existing restrictions, higher powered players would drastically dominate all the other players. Tynon obviously lends some protection for the smaller players to keep them encouraged and striving to grow, and become more powerful.

So in summary, there are players who have alts in other guilds that are given maps taken from "enemy" players in Pirates simply to prevent the aggressors sail limit from interfering with their idea of revenging/punishing others without limits, and enabling them to use their superior strength to unfairly harass people they dislike. Hardly fair play. I am merely exploring some means of eliminating this avenue of what seems to many to be unsportsmanlike conduct.