Building ships on the caspian?

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

1. Foot, you said it's a "big fat waste of money" to build a naval ports and a fleet just to hunt down the pirates. I say, at first it's an even bigger waste of money to upgrade your trading harbours there only to have them blocked by the pirates, and secondly building fleets outside in the mediterranean / ocean is just for the same reason only except you're playing with BI, besides of shipping around troops of course.

2. You said "there weren't enough trees in the nearby vicinity to support large fleets". Well, please take a look at the province of Hyrkania, and what you will most likely notice is the sheer abundance of trees there, just in the direct vicinity of the Caspian Sea. So either you aren't right about the trees or the map.

3. You said "our system doesn't have space to deal with military vessels on such a small level", talking of shallow-draft patrol boats. I think that the smallest size of boats, I think Pentecontarai, would be perfect to represent those shallow-draft patrol boats. They aren't big, they aren't expensive, and they are buildable with the smallest size of naval port.

I think Zadrakata, Hyrkania is a perfect place to allow for the construction of those little ships. Otherwise, the Caspian Sea is a little bit "Dead Sea", almost useless for the player, only a big hole in the map.