I'm thinking back on the times I used to hunt miners and other locals. It's not too different from war, you usually sit and wait for people or actively look for them. It's still lots of time which passes between each fight.
Another slow day waiting for action. Our enemies has not been spotted for all day, except for Grendel Warchild who jumped in to fetch something he had bought. It turned out he had actually bought it from me, which in turn had been looted from Artemis when we took out his Tempest. Oh, The irony..
I can honestly say, that the art of war is most of the times not about battle. It's about waiting. Some grow tired at it, others dont. It's just a matter of time, losing or winning. Eventually it happens.
I'm not looking forward to losing another ship, but I wont be hesitating to jump in to help my friends when the time comes.
[-] See my first attempt at a fraps movie, from the time we took out Enne's Tempest.