For the evil pirates

I was thinking: Link Ships Sail motif to the Income Method. I'll explain,
If 28 out of the last 30 Chests I sold were a. Stolen b. Originated from other Captains missions. c. Swiped from the Sea after sinking a ship....then their Ships Sail insignia should be a WARNING TO OTHERS like a blood-red skull and crossbones.
But idf 28 out of my last 30 sold treasure chests were found, dug-up and came from my own quests then I recieve like, 10% more gold and a Ships Sail Insignia of a traders theme, explorers theme etc.
Conclusion: Better warning for non-aggressive friendly
players that a crazy unfriendly very aggressive crew are coming, and to avoid them! YET, if you see a good insignia you know there'll be a friendly exchange, possibly trade etc
Basically, you are who your sails say you are, as a guide for other Captains to assess your intentions, good or bad 👍

@majestic-sight Okay yeah, thats far tidy er. Then Captain can use their Spyglass on the Ships flag to read their 'Reputation Status' ang gauge their intentions from distance.
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I posted something similar before, I'd like to see an AI response (sadly AI controlling naval units has been denied by the dev's - i believe) in the form of a triggerable event perhaps? Maybe the trail of bodies left in your wake has drawn in numerous sharks and stirred the Great Beast from it's slumber. Your man in the crow's nest spies wave breaking oddly, a v shape forming - it seems to be heading towards you,... and a dark silhouette dances under the waters surface...
This would mean you'd get a chance to farm Krakens, though at the risk of being attacked by other players during the onslaught of the Tentacled One.

Perhaps your flag becomes 'flagged' so others become alerted to your intentions/'past activities' when seeing you clear the horizon. Maybe you'd build up a bounty that drops when your ship is sunk? but also get increased chances of finding loot on islands whilst preying on the unwary.

I discussed a system like this in another thread. https://www.seaofthieves.com/forum/topic/29482/ideas-infamy-system

Best way I can think to work this in with what we know of game systems coming already would be to earn Emblems for killing other pirates. I have a hard time imagining anyone dedicated to PvP wanting to advertise they are going to sink your from a distance (plus figuring out how this works with mixed crews could be problematic) but something that can only been seen when you are face-to-face like a title with the gamertag would be awesome.
Imagine if a ship comes in close to send boarders over and you suddenly see that one of the pirates aboard is "erikinthebakery, Dread Recruiter for the Ferry of the Damned" and the blood of everyone on board runs cold...

Ok so we've strayed a little off course, i was thinking more of an evil pirate faction similar to that of the gold hoarders, the dark magic one or the merchant alliance.

Any ideas on the sort of things you could do with an evil faction?

@shadowstrider-7 ah you get me, this was my first thought when i saw the merchant alliance caged chickens lol

@laughsmaniacaly How 'bout a Zoology Faction.
They send ye faar n wide to cage exotic species for them to take back to them.
Dodo's, Parrots, Monkeys, Albatros.
Then, as you unlocked a higher trade-ranking with ''The Zoologists'' they offer you Pets that everyone's been asking about.
1st Unlockable pet should be a dirty ship Rat. Just scurries around the lower decks in the dark areas. Leaving droppings: Map Table, Decks and Barrel tops.

And So on..

having more Evil in the game isn't my bag. That's about as evil as I can go, lol, Sorry!

@burtlangoustine i believe that pets has been discussed along with caged animals, if memory serves its part of the anticipated merchant faction.

As for not evil, why everyone is a little evil, surely even you can enjoy the humorous splendor of watching someone running for the elevator while you hold the close door button to watch the doors close just before they can enter.

Ah the sweet joy of schoudenfreiuer (possibly spelt that wrong)

@sergent-c****r Carebear? Thats over the top, we're talking about the crows nest flag insignia being like a pirates notoriety. It's given to you. You earn it, and weaker players could spyglass it to gain a few extra survival seconds.
Carebear game? No. But factually, it is a savage and brutal experience in the very least. Jesus, without traing or instructions they were torn-apart. Spawnkilled constantly, annonymous no-mic crews, outsailed, and losing every pvp for the whole beta.....how would you sell the game to these brutalised 1000's?

Off topic again here guys, come on what I'm after is:

A cool new faction (style and name) for all our misdeeds something like the marauders. Somewhere you can take evil voyages.

Come now, suggest to me your evil voyage.

@laughsmaniacaly And the most evil pirate becomes the capt'n of the flying dutchman !

@dzeenk i was thinking that it'd be like the current factions so you would get a selection of weapon, ship and clothing skins
I imagine something akin to the flying dutchman style