Idea #1: I want to have toxicity loosened a little bit. I know that already has some people screaming and punching the air, but hear me out. Toxicity is one of the many reasons people end up leaving this game, such as what happened Summit1G (there are many reasons why he left, this is just one of them). Nowadays, people are banned left, right and center for doing very minimally toxic things. This helps no one, and it drives people away. Therefore, I offer a solution. You can loosen toxicity by allowing simple swears and general toxicity to go by, while more evil toxic people will get the ban, such as racists and predators. You can also incorporate a multi-report system, in which 1 report will activate the process of the investigation, but it will take multiple reports to actually get a confirmed ban.
Idea #2: Competitive Sea of Thieves returns, under a 1 ship vs 1 ship, inside of a set boundary, bracket style mode. Basically like hourglass, but competitive. It would be used with private servers that you can give to the organizers of the event. However, this means that you will be needing to allow the hosts to select how many supplies a boat starts out with, as it drives so many people away and takes hours of setup to even get to the starting point. The supply collecting without choosing how many supplies you start out with has driven many people away from the competitive community as well. In terms of things that would draw people in to the competitive mode, the prizes would have to be grander than those of NAL and SoC. I propose that each time a team wins a season overall, they choose 1 ship item to get from a complete ship set exclusive to that competitive league. Or, they can choose a custom weapon set that is exclusive to that league. Eventually, if you see enough success, you may actually be able to use cash as a prize, which will draw more people in.
Idea #3: Bring. Back. Arena! It would fit the storyline so perfectly if, once Flameheart is resurrected, Flameheart goes to DeMarco and resurrects him and has DeMarco run the arena again as a skeleton, under the command of Flameheart. We could also integrate the hourglass levels into it too. Once you choose to play arena. you can choose to fight for the Servants or the Guardians, just like you do in regular hourglass. All of the ships would dive, and resurface in an old arena formation, with all of the boats sitting there until a the announcer finished, then they can start fighting. It would make sense if you could choose which faction you can fight for, cause you already do that for normal hourglass, and you can fight the same faction anyway in normal hourglass too. The Pirate Lord could be fighting in the arena to try to stop Flameheart from taking over the Sea of Thieves. You can also fit in skeleton and ghost themed cosmetics, like an Eye of Reach completely made out of bones for the Servants. The only problem is, the devs would have to keep up with all of the glitches in this arena, cause they didn't care about what happened to the arena last time, in terms of how broken and glitchy it was. Tell me what I described isn't cool, cause it sounds amazing to me. This bringing back of arena will be absolutely huge for the game, as many people miss it and it has the opportunity of brining them back.
That would be the end of my ideas, but I am not done. I care for the state of this game and its player base. If any of the devs sea this and aren't convinced, I would like to create a presentation of the ideas I have, but I go more in depth. That is the level of which I care about my ideas. Furthermore, If any of these ideas get passed ESPECIALLY the arena one, I would like to be directly involved with it. I wouldn't want paid or anything, I just want to create something that everyone could enjoy. That would be my biggest dream come true. I hope i can convince you of my ideas, if anyone would like to talk to me about these ideas, my Discord friend name is "saint_tinyfoxtato", please feel free to contact me with your concerns, I will answer to anyone.
