Control. Can it work against you as well?

[Farrago]

If you have the control perk and you need to escape, does the perk then work against you delaying or preventing your escape?

[Anne Wildcat]

Yep.  Control works good if you are hunting in a ship without stern chasers, such as the Lynx, privateer, cerb, renomee etc. But you don't want to be caught in enemy waters in a tanky, slow ship having control. 

[Barbancourt]

A fellow national once tagged an AI fleet near my trader fleet without noticing me, and it took me about an hour to escape from the AI fleet since I had the Control perk.  I only escaped because I was able to chain the AI sails pretty good early on and crawl away from them after that.

 

[Farrago]

Thanks for the answers.