For 1 coin and scowling

Nah. Make it 20,000 gold and maybe a degrading. It punishment for losing it but at least you can get something back.

Since it isn’t difficult to raise grade ingame.

Its entirely intentional that you have to level up your emissary again if you sink. If you can just quickly reattach it, then that can be exploited heavily by scuttling your ship at grade 5, grabbing your loot again and only attaching it again as you are about to sell so that reapers cant spot you. As well, its free to raise a fresh flag, so if you sink, your punishment is needing to gain back the em grade.

Emissaries arnt a free gold system, they arnt there just to give you a bonus 2.5x gold boost, they are supposed to announce to reapers and near by ships "Hello! Im hauling around a massive pile of loot!!!" So if you can hide that flag in any way, then that defeats the purpose of it.

@legendonion No. Emissary system is risk vs reward. You lose your flag? Tough. That’s the risk you took flying it.

No, this shouldn't be a thing. Otherwise (some) ships would just instantly scuttle as soon as they see another ship and hide their flag, just to collect it later on and attach it again so they can't lose their flag ever.

@legendonion no, it's a risk reward system. Honestly once you improve skelly ships will never be a threat on their own