Ahoy you scurvy sea snakes!!
So as all us salty sailor's can see... when leaving your captained ship the rank of Captain is thrown into the air whether or not you return... this is kind of mildly upsetting for a lot of people for a multitude of reasons, if your game crashes and you join back nothing that you do from that point onward will build progress towards your ships log.
Picture this, you've spent 4 hours stacking the fotd in hopes to gain reputation towards your ships log, a pilfering pirate comes along and convinces you to sword block and ring the bell which results in your game crashing... that's a minor inconvenience, you may have lost the goldfish you caught but atleast you can rejoin... but oh wait... you won't get any reputation towards your ship...
I don't expect this to be an issue for longer than 2 months due to the team at rare being amazing at what they do (other than hitreg)... (jk) but until then why not spitball??
I propose that we have a system that atleast passes the hat down to the next cremate whilst giving credit to the original captain in the logbook on the voyage table, i.e ( Captained by grogswiger69 Previously captained by bedazzledbucaneerbby ) everything that is don't on that captained vessel brings reputation to the vessels own ships log, as well as bringing reputation to the players captains log of course...
Just an idea, I'll more likely than not get bashed for me idea but Ill not be goin down without a FIGHT!!!