So Sea of Thieves is out and, like many people, I'm absolutely adoring it but finding myself wishing there were a few different things to do. Obviously new enemy types and areas have been confirmed by the dev team for sometime after all the April work is done on minor fixes and touching up elements where required, but it'd be great to get a community-shortlisted set of ideas that Rare can dip into as and when they need or want to. Prepare of a rambling wall of incongruous ideas, me hearties!
To that end I've had a few ideas about various things that could break up the monotony; A.I. ships (PvP is all well and good, but I LOVE the idea of running into ghost ships or more heavily crewed pirate vessels) perhaps with guaranteed loot and/or escort and bounty jobs on the high seas. Yes, the Order of Souls exists, but why are all those skeletal captains stuck on dry land? It hardly seems fitting, and seriously dishonourable for a pirate about town. It'd be great to run across skeleton crews and have epic battles, or even rare-spawning skeletal fleets which will take the co-operative effort of two or three player-crewed vessels.
More sea-life: so the Kraken is epic and all, but don't we all fancy our very own Moby D**k story? Please add whales of varying sizes, and a harpoon gun to attach to the blubbery wretches (could also have a secondary purpose in ship combat, though WILD inaccuracy with it would probably be much more entertaining). The harpoon could allow for your ship to get dragged about by the whale, causing damage as it swims too close to islands and rocks, or even tows you straight towards another player-crewed vessel.
I've got plenty more to add to this list, including (but not limited to) ideas about shipwrecked mariners (on islands AND rafts), just no time to do so right now. Hop on board, let's get some finely honed suggestions agreed on as a group and see if Rare are interested to take any of them.
Avast ye, mateys.
