Ahoy!
We have a lot of cool cosmetics in the pirate emporium, but majority of skilled veterans when they see them on the seas, immediately assume that the crew sporting them won't be very good. Obviously some players might use it for a tactical advantage, hoping to surprise the enemy crew, but probably 99/100 this is not the case.
So how could Rare make these cosmetics wanted by all?
Quite simple. Tie some commendations/achievements to those cosmetics, that would be hard to get (300 barnacled chests as an exmaple, or Level 100 in PVP faction). Once the requirement is met, the ship/costume would receive an effect applied to it.
As a simple example. Let's take Black Pearl ship set and the Jack o Lantern costume.
So Once a player reaches the requirement The Black Pearl ship would be covered in the fog that the Collectors figurehead has, obviously not as strong, but enough to notice that this is not some newbies who got the game for Jack Sparrow, but a crew that knows what they are doing.
Jack O Lanter - Once a player reaches the certain criteria, the inside of the carved pumpkin head would receive flames inside.
You can think of some cool effect for any cosmetic in the emporium.
This would not only give an incentive for players to want those cosmetics even more, but no Veteran player would feel 'cosplaying a noob' since those effects would tell everyone that they are sea worthy and experienced.
I understand that pirates should wear whatever they want to wear, but Pirate Emporium ship sets/Costumes have a stigma compared to highly desired cosmetics you can unlock by playing the game.
Trust me, a lot of pirates would prefer the Spinal skeleton costume over the standard skeleton curse one, if that costume would not scream 'I wear this, because I am bad at pvp, but I really wanna look like a skeleton''
I believe more revenue would help the game growth and at the same time would make the seas more unique and colourful.
