I really appreciate all these stuff devs are doing, but I believe, this is not what players want. Personally, I wish to return to this game so much, but every time I do this, I face some incredible level of boredom. I don't care much about pure PvE. I want to rob people for gold. Or, at least, earn some PvE gold with a real danger of being killed by other players. And I think, dat lots of players have same preferences.
Plz, add more ships with unique features. Like, idk, chinese ship for 3 or 4 players with a cannon at each side (at front and back too). Or a ship model, dat is weak in close combat, but with mortar for effective ranged combat. Add an option to heat up cannon balls in furnace in order to make fire damage.
Or add new weapons or new stuff for weapon slots. (weapon meta hasn't changed for ages). For example: medicine, that takes a weapon slot, but gives you extra healing item with separate cooldown. Or Multi-barrel pistol (a weaker, but faster version of blunderbuss). Or, at least, add no-scope version of already existing sniper rifle!
This one is very suggestive, but: you can add perks or classes, that don't need to be upgrated or earned. Just some simple buffes and debuffes. Like: faster repair and other ship chores, but lesser ammunition. Or, for example, 200% more ammunition at the cost of 1 weapon slot. Or extra 15% moving speed at the cost of 40% of health. Sky's the limit!
Sea of Thieves - is a unique and really interesting game. But dev's obsession with PvE upsets me. This game could be so much more. It just needs extra basic gameplay depth. Lots players bought Sea of Thieves just for fun, random PvP. And even more players will come to this idea after hundreds of hours of monotonous farming.
