I really understand these suggestions, how I see them is that people just get frustrated that they can't play FH2 with high numbers of players or decent ping in their country, so they suggest something that they believe will help this mod get more players, what is really good, but they push their ideas as they firmly believe in them and sometimes, they just don't take under considaration all pros and cons and when some people (be it devs or anybody else) reject those ideas they get frustrated even more. I'm sorry to say that, but naval warfare won't happen (at least it isn't planned for now) for all mentioned in this topic reasons, if anybody can help us with it and submit his (good quality) work, and/or ship moddels so we will have something to work with, chances to get naval battles in FH2 will drastically increase but what we have from this community is only constant whines and demands without any real help. If you think that making naval warfare using old FH1 models is a huge thing FH2 devs were not able to achieve you can't be mistaken more. For now I can only suggest you to join public servers to help populate them, everybody is working on eastern front, so don't expect naval vessels and any other drastic gameplay changes in the nearest future...