Yes, but as the WaW site says - it's really not about the tonnage. I think you're missing the fact that WaW is NOT a league in the competitive sense of the word. There's no competition going on, no "MVP" awards for tonnage, no effort to evaluate player performance based on sinking stats.
The key is improving immersion. And that's where WaW's sense of organization and community really comes into play. It really fixes one of SHIII's biggest "bugs" - the feeling that you're all alone out in the atlantic. If any kind of merit is given to players, it's for contributing to this community feel as much as possible.
