I’ve been playing SoT for years and I’ve always enjoyed earning new cosmetics for my pirate and ship, making various unique outfits and ship sets with my friends.
But one thing that we have been struggling with is maintaining a constant interest in the game. Like any game that requires you to grind in order to progress and earn rewards in can be hard to find the motivation to focus on a goal. Commendation hunting can only keep you busy for so long and soon enough you will have all of the cosmetics you’ve wanted.
This is why I think Rare should add in a new personal pirate hideout (Similar to that of the lobby in the Arena). Where you can load into relax, wander about, interact with your friends and mess around. There’s also so much you could do with customising your own hideout. Such as change the layout and decor, mannequins that have preset outfits on display, trophy room that can display your various achievements, have your pets roaming around, etc.
To add to the incentive of becoming a pirate legend you could make it so that only legends unlock this hideout, and that you can enter it by opening up the stairs to the legend hideout. But instead of going through the portal to the legend hideout you can take another one to your personal one.
This is just a rough idea but I feel like it would add a new major aspect to the game that would help more players stay interested for the long term.