Ok bare with me and keep an open mind, but I have another great idea that could being an entirely new layer to the sea of thieves that will brig long-term gains and player-development. Imagine this: Every island in the sea of thieves has a plot of land, the terrain would look normal, it would just primarily be an empty chunk of land with grass foliage and some bushes, but relatively flat. Near each plot would be an NPC. Let me introduce to you Sea of Thieve's very first real-estate faction. In this faction you turn in wood crates, item crates, fruit crates, and cannon-ball crates. We already have a hunter faction so how about a gatherer faction? Well Myster People you just said real-estate faction. Yes, yes I did. The next layer to this faction is you can purchase land from the real estate faction as you progress, similar to purchasing your order of souls items or the whaleing barn. set, you purchase land instead and as you get a higher level the more land you can purchase. This land is yours to BUILD on, yes you heard me right... BUILD. It gets more interesting from here, you build using every-day materials you sail with. Want to make a building? Purchase a blueprint from the real estate shop on an outpost or from the ancient coins store and you can build your very own pirate base. Reach max level with a faction? Great! You now receive a blueprint for that faction's structure and your new base can double as a fully-functioning outpost as well, but you have to earn reputation with each faction to get that privilege. Remember how I mentioned earlier that every island would have a plot? Your base would save between play times and all you have to do is go to an island, talk to the real estate agent near the plot and BAM you can upload your base. Choose wisely though, you can only do this once per play session and cannot jump from island to island. Once you log out, your base is removed and the plot becomes empty for another player to come along and upload their structures. Remember how earlier I mentioned you use every day materials to build? Well yes, you get blue prints by purchasing them, participating in events, leveling up factions, spending ancient coins on them, or any other way Rare decides to spice up the rewards you get for playing, and you can use your surplus wood planks to create and complete structures! Blueprints could call for planks, cannon balls, crates of silk (YES IT WOULD GIVE THIS ITEM MORE PURPOSE!) fruits, meats, get resourceful here! Well Myster People, what would you do with fruits? PLANT THEM OF COURSE! Farm your own resources once you get the proper blue print or have enough land, chop down your trees to get a small amount of wood and one some fruit to keep and one to re-plant depending on how much it grew! Players would be able to express themselves in entirely new ways by being able to build their own custom bases and outposts, Rare could go the route of an entirely blue-print based system or let players use planks to build custom structures or even a blueprint to build a custom structure where you place walls and such in your own patterns! Incomplete buildings will still show, but just as that, incomplete so other players can see your progress as you build cool things! Not to mention, don't forget to add cannons to your base to defend unwanted company!
I hope this takes flight and is heard by Rare and the community! Tell me what you think!
