Pirate chat will be used in the near future and has potential to be useful, especially as a communication device for better teamwork and here is how we can make it somewhat better.
By giving icons and symbols, you can more quickly discern the text that you want to choose. This is mostly better if these symbols are exclusive to important texts.
You do not need to have an overload of symbols, only have symbols for important texts. Or texts that incite teamwork. The helm was an exception as all of helm texts have a sense of being important.
Ofcourse, these texts can be seen by anyone, but the symbol displayed next to the text when announced is only visible to your crew.
Ive been using pirate chat lately on open crews and stuff and it actually helped. My big criticism is how, despite being used to where most of these are, they happen to change places. For example, Raise the sails is top on helm, but is top left on Sails.
Because of this, it could be easier to just have symbols to quickly have people spot the important announcing piece of pirate chat text.
I also think more people will feel inclined to use it if these symbols are prioritized and implemented like this.
As it stands, its only text that changes based on what you have, or are doing. Give symbols to important pirate chat texts and itl be more natural in using them.
