This will be long, so bear with me.
So alliances have always seemed to me like a way to get out of pvp, instead of an actual team who work together to get loot. Sure, sometimes they cooperate and get rich(server alliances), but other times it is, "Oh no! they are chasing me! Put up the alliance flag!" And a lot of times I just get backstabbed.
But my idea is so there is a special, alliances only island. When an alliance is formed, each ship gets an "alliance coin". So when three ships are in the alliance, they have three alliance coins, and can go to the alliance-only island. They can then spend their alliance coins on constructing a new "alliance ship".(you wouldn't be able to queue into this in the menu screen)This ship would be very large, with maybe 8 cannons on each side, I am thinking 5 above deck, 3 below deck, and would meant to be operated by 10-12 people who are in an alliance. This ship would take an in-game day to build after the coins are paid, and if it is sunk, it is gone. I think this would provide incentive for alliances to grow and play together instead of just being an easy way out of a fight.
This might be a horrible idea, but I've only played for a few months.
