Earning some doublons through out your adventures is a big part of the game. Until now doublons are only being used to purchase cosmetic items and missions (including the emissary flags). For pirates such as me that have been playing for a while money is not a big deal anymore what makes making money not an important thing for us. When you take out a big part of the game from us, things can get a litle boring. Of course you have the other giant part of the game, the lore, but I would still like to see more uses to the money.
Having shared my thoughts and presented the main theme of my post, I will introduce some suggestions that i thing can resolve this issue.
I think that money could start being used to upgrade your boat. A new shop/island could be created, where the main focus is a shipyard theme. Here, players could spend their money upgrading their boats. Some exemples of upgrades that i can think are: Better sails (increases the speed), better quality ropes (sails are lifted and moved faster), better canons (canons deal more damage), better hull (you need to take more damage to get holes in your boat), better storage (here, a normal boat storage would need to be reduced, and boats with a better storage would be abble to carry more items), buy a rowboat that you could start with at the begining of each adventure, ...
Resuming, these are some of my ideas to make money more usefull. I know that such an amazing and creative team such as you guys can have more ideas to resolve this issue.
P.S. - "All modifications/upgrades are permanent, and when you start an adventure they would still be there."
