Seen people complaining about the skull being uncontested by other players because most people already have the commendations and the gold reward is too little. Simply increasing gold amount might not work because some players will be rich already. My solution is making an exclusive reward for selling the skull. I have two solutions, one I like more than the other. My first one is that it gives a unique currency that can be used to purchase unique supply crates that can't be bought with normal gold. These supply crates could have something as simple as a lot of pineapples or maybe something more powerful like a crate that has a few randomly generated cursed cannonballs or Wraith cannonballs? Second solution which I believe most of you won't agree with is the addition of emissary grade 6 which can only be obtained by selling the Skull of Siren Song while being a grade 5 emissary of any kind. This emissary grade would mark you on the map. The reason I think this new grade would be received negatively is because it would be abused in non-organic PVE server takeovers and would make the problem worse than before. I believe this could be solved however. My solution is that grade six does NOT increase gold earned for selling loot but instead it makes it so that sinking other ships will cause them to spawn a good amount of loot corresponding to your type of emissary (for example you are a grade 6 order of souls and you sink another ship that has no loot, when their ship despawns, a bunch of order of souls loot will float to the surface) (Can only be done once or twice on one ship to avoid server hop abuse with friends). However if you are sunk, the person who sunk you gets a reward as well, your emissary flag which can be sold for a hefty amount (Maybe like 50K?). I feel that something like this could make the skull of siren song much more sought after as well as adding another feature to the game that brings PVP to a server. I know this is not a perfect solution and would love feedback on this idea to improve or change it, but the siren song voyage should have a reward that is exclusive to it, not just gold.
Edit: I think making having emissary grade 5 before selling the skull a requirement for grade 6 is a bad idea as the voyage might appear when at a lower grade, so it should boost you up to grade 6 from any grade. Also, grade 6 being a PVP focused grade should have some benefits like being able to see all ships and the type of ship on a map and this is a stretch but maybe also have the ability to click on a ship to see their current supplies. This would make having a grade 6 on your server a massive threat.
