The game allows you to buy a ship but they are extremely expensive. In the current closed Beta test we finally have enough players hitting max level where they just purchased ships as Guilds.

If I'm not mistaken three ships have been purchased so far. Hopefully we'll get enough in the air soon enough where they can start running across each other.

The ships allow players to travel to inaccessible Allods (floating islands). Each is it's own boss-guarded zone with good loot.

The best part is that the loot is not officially the players until they get their ship back to a port. If another ship runs across them before they claim their loot they can be boarded and have their treasure stolen from the treasure room.

I have high hopes for when the game goes live and we get a substantial amount of ships out there.