Spice up PvP ship battles with this idea

I'm with @Galactic-Geek and @Schwammlgott on this topic.

Also think that for Adventure mode nothing is neccessary to do about PvP.
Designed as a social experience it should and will regulate itself.

People are free to do what they want. We have tools to use like the Reaper Flag encourages encounters and we have tools like the alliance system and are free to betray and do false flag operations.
Make it a system and people find ways to exploit it, circumvent it, endlessly complain about it or whatever.

Edit @WildBloodOz what do you think about encouraging to have people communicate and interact more.
Like doing some parlay and such.
What i think is cool is people slightly roleplaying and have things established like people protecting other ships for the 50% of the loot they get on their journey.
More meta gameplay and such.
But i see there are flaws because of the randomness about players in servers.

If you want to encourage people attack you, get an Athena place it on your bowsprit, hoist Reaper Flag and sail around using the speaking trumpet and offer everybody to attack to get the booty :D

I am sure this would encourage people to PvP :-)

I think the biggest "problem"
we, some, others? have is to not get exactly what the whole Design is about.

1st of all i dont know if there are open sandbox PvP with full loot games on xbox.
PC players, but for sure not all and also just a fraction may know UO, Darkfall, LoA or played on Conan Exile PvP servers, Ark or whatever.
Rare did all right and - depending on personal taste - even better like these games, because of having no vertical progression and therefore a guaranteed gamemechanically even playing field.
Sandbox PvP is and need not be perfectly balanced. Like zergs doing PvP or having the imbalanced of Galleon versus Sloop etc.
It's all about the players to organize themself etc...
And sandbox PvP is an open to everyone party.
If you login to Adventure mode you agree to be exposed to PvP and to be able to attack others.
No guarantee PvP will happen or PvP wont happen.
Players can do a lot to avoid PvP if they dont want to.
Needs some knowledge about the Map and all plus beeing cautios as hell and better be not alone.
It's a Multiplayer game and a sandbox more or less, so this is all up to the player.
I'd say you cannot 100% avoid PvP if you dont want, but if you organize yourself you can avoid PvP nearly up to 90%.
Scuttle would be 100%, but i'm talking about a way without giving up your ship and loot.
It highly depends on the players and their chosen ship, their knowledge about the Map and the gsme in general and for sure what they want to do etc...

People who want to PvP in the Adventure mode have a much harder time and zero guarantee they will find other players to attack.
That's also a significant fact about every other open sandbox PvP game.
I was out to pk in other games for hours to find someone, searching the generous farm spots, for SoT this is Forts i'd say, and anyway didn't find someone to kill and rob or they were just too many to attack.
You also need to think about this.
In SoT a "Pirate" who set sail to plunder others only has absolutely no downsides other than that it's not guaranteed you find someone who has booty.

Therefore we got the Arena.
That's for sure not what sandbox pvpers want.
Bit sandbox pvpers should know what it is about their playstyle.
And it is not guaranteed PvP or loot.

If Rare would incentivice it or change something about it, the whole thing about players would run out of balance imho.
What you want more as a sandbox pvper who want to get loot from other players is PvE Spots like Forts that these players do and you then can compete over.
Sandbox PvP is also to roam around, prepare ambushes, lay traps etc... and a good amount of time is lurking and no instant action.

@Duke-of-Spire

I like the base idea, but because of reasons @CotU42 mentioned about gold and oldtime sailors like us and new ones i'd like it if we just get something like a messageboard at Outposts what have the most fearsome pirate of the server on a wanted Poster.
People know then there is someone on the Sea who is well known ad someone who has killed other players. To get on a wanted poster kill 10 players on that server. If someone killed 11 he will be on that poster until they logg off.
When someone kills the most wanted Pirate, the counter reset and show the one who killed the most wanted Pirate.
X Killed the most wanted Pirate Y on day ... at... 4 o'clock.
Until nobody has 10 kills again this "reward" Poster will be in place until they logg out.

I would like it as some sort of immersion feature.
Nothing really gamechanging.
But if you see a wanted or a reward poster at an outpost you at least know there are people out killing others or hunting others, because they killed at least 10 other players.
Or 10 times the same player.

Can be also exploited and such, but as long as it has only immersion meaning, i think that's fine.

@duke-of-spire sagte in Spice up PvP ship battles with this idea:

@bugaboo-bill I'd rather it be tagged to sinks than kills. Kills would be so easy to farm. Sinks would be a little harder.

Thought about this, but it's hard to say someone sunk by xy exactly.

Sometimes they sunk because of getting a Meg or Kraken additionally or they sunk because they did a bad maneuver in PvP and it wasnt the other crew who sunk them, but had some luck and help of the environment.
And it would be hard to track it accurately, but sure, if they can do this it would be better.