User blog comment:Lord Marshal Samuel Harrington/A Letter to Spain/@comment-4107060-20110713131554

See, this is the biggest problem in the game. There's no way to actually do much of anything to a person in these "wars." The most you can do is fight in a pvp battle where the teams usually get mixed up and the losers just say the winners "cheated" and the fight didn't count or fight in a svs where the ships auto repair and there's no way to actually win. That's why there is so much trash-talking and name calling is because the most you can do to a person is insult them. Unlike some other games such as POTBS where you can permanently blowup their ship or shoot them in the face with a flintlock without needing them to press "accept pvp."