1. Only maintenance and some small additions are planned at the moment.
2. Somebody made a nude mod of many of the animations, so I'll be seeing if I can get that to work with the system in place.
3. Ultimately, the game is in a finished state.
4. The game has several different states of progress. The only state of progress you are 'forced' to do (if you want) is the story. Due to this, you should be able to complete the game (reach an ending) without ever getting near any other salvors OR pirates. Pirates in the pirate capital, on the other hand, are required to get the second ending.
tbh Pirates were more of an opportunity event IMO, but their original system is just to steal from salvors. So if you toggle NTRish you'll get a more canon version since they take treasure/equipment. Perhaps it would be best if I didn't allow the event to happen the first time she gets caught? Idk, lemme know if that would be a better solution.
And thank you!