Captain, the current User Interface is a placeholder. It will be completly reworked once core game features are done. To start a Open World Sail, press on green button "Sail", there you will see beautiful visuals
What OS are you running? In case it's Win10, try to set Compatibility with Windows 7 on the both client.exe and client_,exe files (here \SteamApps\common\Naval Action)
Captain, have you checked your internet connection? Perhaps you run heavy traffic consume programs in background?
Run connection test report to pvp2 usa via Steam launcher once you get connection issues and paste the report name here
Captains, server is up, once again, sorry for inconveniences it caused, more details here
Captain, character locking is a useful tool to prevent data loss (e.g. experience) due to unexpected issues like this one
What server do you mean, Captain? At the moment only PVE server not working.
There are some techinal issues with PVE server on provider side, there is no ETA at the moment, we will keep Captains inform, sorry for inconveniences it caused