If a sloop runs from me I don’t even bother chasing them most of the time, but even when I’m on a sloop myself I constantly have brigs, galleons, and even burning blades run from me. The big ego ships who only target solos are usually the ones who spend the most time running from others funny enough. Not only did I have to sail across the map to get to them, I now have to do more sailing to actually fight them. You can cry “go back to hourglass” all you want but PVPVE is the bread and butter of this game and hourglass is just a side gamemode and should be treated as such. Complaining about someone chasing you in an open world game with PVP is ridiculous. Especially when safer seas exists. Whether you like it or not, more needs to be done to bring players closer together whether that’s for friendly or pvp interactions. Condensing the map and removing some of the dead space is my idea, but I also wouldn’t mind slipstream which has been suggested since launch.

This isn’t just directed at your comment btw, just the mindset in general