New Cursed Treasure Idea

Sounds like a great idea to me, but I think the problem here is having it farmed in some way. Players cooperating with each other to abuse this, you get what I mean.

@heyitsjay6312
Agreed, the same crew couldn't level it up it twice. So you would try to give it to someone so that they could upgrade it. But then, do you steal it back or hope they give it to someone else? Or do you try to give it to every crew on the server and take it back right after? It seems like you would be at a disadvantage levelling up and even then it would take hours.
I see merit in it, but considering barely anyone goes for Reaper's Bounty chests at a free 10,000, I don't think many people would interact with it. Maybe it would be better if it had a clock on it and it got more expensive as time goes on... so that you don't have to make it the main focus of your session and it can still signal to everyone that there's much to be gained in stealing it.

Or, better yet, you take this idea and update the Reaper's Chest. No one cares for 25 doubloons all that much, maybe something here could be used to make it more worth my while?

@flamenoir4280 I see what you mean, but I think there are ways to avoid it. Like I said, it won't upgrade if it's stolen by a crew that already had it, in order to farm it, you'd have to pass it around to almost every ship on a server.

Another option is to design it so it wont upgrade if it's taken by a ship in an alliance with the other ship. And maybe when sold, only the crew who sells it will receive gold.

@grumpyw01f Yeah under further consideration I think this should definitely be a Reaper item, and updating the current chest sounds like a nice idea, same with the clock idea. Both would definitely incentivize people to pick it up.

Another thing I briefly considered (not enough to add it to the main post) is maybe instead of gold or doubloons, this thing was worth Ancient Coins. It would be extremely unique and probably about as rare as the ancient skellies, and if you keep the upgrading mechanic it would give people a reason to hold onto it rather than selling it right away. Just a possible inclusion!