Invite ur friends in a group, then go to the safehaven, go to the Blackbeard, press "Invite groupmembers" then tell all groupmembers to decline the invite and u'll be placed in a queue without paying, and ur friends can just join u, have fun.
bigpoint knows about it for years ... every event with groupmap there is the same bug so dont cry
Sure they know - but they don't care because a lot people don't know this bug, so they don't put priority on this bug.
But if now everyone will use this bug it will get fixed faster