I am sure this topic has been covered before but as someone who has purchased nearly every cosmetic in the game and still has 3.6 million gold (and climbing) I would like to see more things to spend it on. Here are a few ideas my crew and I have discussed recently.
Supplies- How about letting us buy supplies for the ship with gold? Each ship vendor could sell x amount of cannon balls, boards, and low tier food per set amount of time. Not an absurd amount but enough to allow players with lots of gold who have already spent tons of hours playing to be able to jump into a ship and get going without spending the first 30 minutes looting barrels. This could also give a freshly spawned boat a better chance at defending itself against a fully stocked boat that attacks right after the new boat enters the game. This could possibly even be put into arena where a ship could travel to an outpost and spend silver to resupply if they find themselves empty in the middle of a match.
row boats- Same as above. just purchase a rowboat from the ship vendor when you don't feel like hunting one down. It would be even better if the purchased rowboats could match the selected ship hull paint job.
ship repair/change ship size- Returning a ship to it's undamaged look at an outpost is something I personally would waste gold on. Being able to go to an outpost and change the ship size without loosing supplies or changing servers when a crew member has to leave or another wants to join would also be a nice QOL improvement imho. I know changing ship size might run up against problems with server population limits but it would be nice to see something like this worked out. This might only work if it was only possible to reduce ship size, or maybe an error message letting you know there are too many people on the server to increase ship size at that time.
Cursed cannon balls- Again not an absurd amount. Maybe 3-5 random curse balls available at each outpost per set amount of time. Similar to seapost vendors.
Empty chests- These have been a handy addition to the game. It would be nice to be able to purchase a few before leaving port for transporting the smaller items we find out on the seas.
I personally don't feel things like this stuff would add any real advantage. Just a way to reward successful pirates by allowing them to speed up some of the more tedious aspects of adventure mode. It would also mean more gold being spent so there is more reason to keep adventuring once you reach the realm of "pirate rich". I would love to hear peoples thoughts if there is something here that could be massively exploited and I am just not seeing it.
As for traditional gold sink items I personally would like to see some less flashy legend tier clothing and equipment.
