Ship combat is a necessary module. In addition to opening up other careers such asNavyit provides an essential element to the trading game of "something to spend money on". Currently you can just continue to amass profits and there is no real reason to upgrade your ship. Once ship combat is present then there is the possibility of pirates and areas that are too dangerous to go into. Also, of course, it the player takes a smuggling route, the Navy may very well come after them!

The basic of this are done but I'm not entirely happy with the results. It is all straight classic fighting with vector movement (made blessedly easy by the computer). It needs a lot of work to make it work well though.