Dear Developers,
Let me get straight to the point. There are some changes you guys need to change in this present update so that people get more interest in Sea of Thieves than other games.
Problem 1: Ship name – Ship name edits are costly
Solution : Let me tell you simply no one is going to look at the ship naming plate except the ship owner; everybody is interested in PVP hence when someone boards enemy ship they will simply ignore the name plate. No one has time to find out what name you have engraved on your ship. So according to me ship name edits must be free and can be changed every time before setting sail. This name customization must be available at Shipwright along with other ship customization like sail colour, hull colour, etc.
Problem 2: Sovereign lift and harpoon –
Solution : Sovereign lift and harpoons are useless basically, players know how to dock the ship so that they can unload cargo and sell fast . While sovereign stands near dock players can easily unload cargo from ship and directly sell to sovereign which I find a faster method than using a lift and a harpoon .
Problem 3 : What is the use of gold hoarder, Order Of Souls, Merchant ?
Solution: If you can sell everything to the sovereign what is the use of other trading companies ? According to me Sovereign must get a different emissary and of course without that lift and harpoon.
Problem 4 : Shipwright supplies too easy to buy and resupply. For this let me give you an example, I was chasing a galleon which was out of supplies they had woods but not cannon balls and foods . In the middle of the fight they started sailing towards outpost. One of them got down and bought the supply instantly. As I was on a sloop I could not catch them in tail wind.
Solution: To solve this each Captain ship can buy supply only for one time till their ship sinks. Until then they cannot buy supply from shipwright in any outpost.
OR
Shipwright supplies must be in crates so that the purchased supplies cannot get instantly transferred to ship barrels.
Problem 5 : Duo sloop’s mast must not get the ability to bear 2 chain balls. As a solo slooper when I hit enemy duo sloop’s mast I found one of them easily repairing the mast every time I hit. Hence their mast did not fall at all.
Solution : If you are playing solo your sloop’s mast can get two chain balls hit to drop. But if you are duo the mast must fall down at one hit of chain ball.
Problem 6: Athena voyage quests can be found in shipwright shop then what is the use of pirate legend cave?
Solution : Athena voyages must be given a respect and those voyages can only be purchased from pirate lord or anyone else in pirate cave. If this is not done I think the Pirate cave is totally useless as players will not get any interest to visit it just to meet some NPCs.
The above solutions are very much needed to bring interest in every player. I think developers of Sea Of Thieves must take a look at this very seriously.