There are a few instances in which people are thrown in the brig.
-We are goofing around and having a laugh
-Player is stuck and we are trying to "fix" them
-Player is being dumb or trolling the crew and we want them off our ship so we throw them in the brig in hopes they will leave.
The problem with using the brig to punish a bad actor is that you have added things to the game since launch that people in the brig can do to troll their crew. They can set our boats on fire with fire bombs for example. While that would have a limited inventory to do so its still an annoyance. If you are trying to do cargo runs and have water in your ship to keep plants wet they can also bucket up your water so the plants would wilt. If they refuse to leave the only option we are left with is to kill them with blunder bombs and such over and over again in hopes that they will get tired of loading to and from the ferry. But then this is toxic behavior on the crews part not the troll in the brig. So the person in the brig who is the actual toxic troll player can then report his crew mates for killing him over and over because he refuses to leave and RARE didn't give us the option to "Make character walk the plank" aka Vote kick him off our ship.
I don't understand how you let bad actors report players for using the brig feature you added to your game because you don't give us an option to vote kick. I get that being kicked off a boat could create a negative experience for that player but if the player is a troll that's their problem and they should maybe reflect on why they keep getting the boot. Basically I avoid open crew so I never have to deal with these cases but Having heard from people who were banned due to a troll in the brig who refused to leave.... What the heck is this? Its almost like the brig only exists for role playing not intended as something to be used to deal with bad actors.
In the same way you have a timer on being able to let someone out of the brig how about another timer at double the length where we can make the person walk the plank and kick them off the boat. That would give them time to maybe talk their way out of the brig but if the crew chooses they could force the person out of their session.
