Performance based allegiance gain

Everyone would abuse this and just cannon farm rep, not a good idea.

Reward players with allegiance based on resources USED BY THE OPPONENT (only food and wood, not cannonballs)

I don't see any way to cheese that. And it will entice runners to at least put some holes in your ship or try to kill you. And long fights are rewarded

At one point people need to stop shutting down suggestions benefiting the vast majority of players out of concern of 0.2 % of the playerbase that use exploits.

Yes people are gonna cheese this game. You know why ? Because it's a grinding fest nonsense.

Now do we stop doing things because alliances can benefit from it too ? Damn what's that obsession about alliances ? Let people play their game the way they please. What difference does it make that some people get stuff from alliances. Let's beb happy for them and move on.

We're all trying to come up with suggestions to ease that PAIN this mode is to 90% of players. I don't care if I accasionnally (1% of my games) come across people that exploits this and this.

Do I need to remind that ONE OF THE BIGGEST EXPLOIT in the game right now is double-tap animation canceling ?

Personally, I think a Deeds system just for the Sea of Bones would be a good idea. You have Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Deeds available related to the PvP that bump up you Allegiance gains for completing. That means there are caps and time limits in place to reduce the farming issue, you encourage people to actually try to engage with the mode as intended through the Deeds, and then people who are not great at winning can still put in some effort and try can still see some alright progress even if it encourages them to do it through smaller sessions with it (1-2 matches any given day to try and hit their Deeds). You also have something that can just reset on regular intervals to keep people focused on coming back to the Sea of Bones over the longer haul.

Some very basic ideas would be:

Daily Deeds
Participate in a Faction Battle
Win in a Faction Battle
Achieve a Faction Streak of at least 3
Hit 10 Cannonballs in Battles
Hit a Cursed Cannonball in Battles
Hit 3 Firebombs/Blunderbombs in Battles
Kill 5 Unique Enemy Pirates in Battles
Repair 15 Holes in Battles
Repair Mast/Wheel/Capstan in Battles
Anchor Turn in Battle
Catch a Full Billow in Battle

Weekly Deeds
Participate in 5 Faction Battles
Win in 5 Faction Battles
Become a Faction Champion

Monthly Deeds
Participate in 20 Faction Battles
Win in 20 Faction Battles

I'm sure plenty more options could be added to such lists of Deeds. Each Deed completed could have a scaling amount of Allegiance gained for Daily/Weekly/Monthly options. The options reset on those timescales so there is a pacing cap to how much of a boost this can give to avoid farming things and camping situations (and Pirate kills are noted to be Unique Pirates so as to not encourage spawn camps either but rather participating in more Battles on the Daily).

This would be a good way to help people feel like they are getting something out of it and keep casuals trickling into the queue consistently to get their bumps from effort (even if they can't manage wins). This will help with population issues hopefully alongside Matchmaking adjustments being worked on and open up more Pirates at similar Skills hopefully finding eachother in queue as more casuals pop in for a quick couple matches.

I think something like that, along with maybe sprinkling in a few more Rewards as you go along the grind (and in-between the top grind and first major rewards) would also help to get people wanting to invest at least a bit of effort into the Sea of Bones.

@nohr-tenko this is terrible. loss exp should be loss exp and win exp should be win exp.