I know that this is a different kind of game than the ones I used to play and I read somewhere, that it will never become a game with a real time combat... but I would like to see that...
In that case, could be possible to combat with many war fleets in the same time and every war ship would be useful for some kind of operation. Strategy in naval battle could be more significant than now and, yes, in that case, could be possible to organize multiplayers attack and defense (with voodoo or without).
And the new section in Forum (HoF), where the results of the battles could be posted and everyone could comments... Not only the game could be more visited, but forum too... and by experience, if someone could post his ''victory'' against an ''enemy'' (not for ''farming'' traders, but for fighting other war fleets), that could be essential for popularization of the game. Btw, ''farming'' or attacking trade fleets for money, could be still possible, of course, but that kind of ''success', would not satisfy the condition to post a battle in Hall of Fame...
I am not dissatisfied with the current game mode, I accepted it as such, but I have no desire to fight ... and I would like to have it.