Travioman

all buffs need to be increased for the game, but I totally agree with you but i think the devs were trying to go for the more you use your ship the more you can do with it.

An idea that will probably be turned into a mod is called some sort of hook that can be thrown to the ship and then pulled by your team or by yourself. 

The best way that this could be done is the way that Sea of Thieves did it. What they did was have 1 ship for every person on the water and they made them in a specific area of the map. The AI for ships of the damned and all Animals needs to be modified in the sense that animals have a lock on a radius and after going out of that lockout radius they should disengage from you. Either a radius or a period of time where you are passive.