There's a very good chance I've posted this before, but I feel it's worth bringing up again.
Please add cosmetics to all commendations.
They don't have to be "new". For completing merchant of grand fauna, give me the hat that has a feather in it, but it's a chicken feather. For gold voyager (miles sailed), do a slightly different capstan. If you wanna go nuts, add colour variants on the grades (grey through gold). If you need ideas for things, I would happy to throw many at you.
Hell, even just flags would be nice. Imagine a piggy flag. Or a gunpowder one. A chest. A foul skull.
But I'd really like something more than a title than no-one ever really sees or understands. Almost everyone I meet (I've been playing a lot of discord groups) spends time checking out what other pirates are wearing, even if it's just for a second. It's not uncommon to hear someone asking where they got a particular item.
I have never been asked where I got a title, or how. Pirate legend is the only one discussed, and everyone's aware of the requirements (currently about 2 weeks of fort grinding).
I understand why you've nerfed the PL grind. It was alienating casual players. But it continues to mean almost nothing. You get a purple outfit you wear for a few days, and then you move on. Most people I met on the grind up quit shortly after hitting it, me included. we'd come back for a few hours every time there was a new content drop, but that would take 5-10 hours to crank out, and then we'd mostly go dark for a month until the next content drop. I spent a bit of time grinding commendations, but then they got nerfed, so that didn't feel special any more either.
What would have kept me? More cosmetics. Something to spend my money on.
Compared to, say, the Arena or the meg Based on no visibility whatsoever into your internal team dynamics, more cosmetics feels like it would be such a small thing to do (you have item commendation-locked cosmetics already, so there are no new mechanics), and reskinning some things or making some flags is not a big manpower investment compared to, say, fishing or a new mission type. But for god's sake, make them fun. People love the crab and blacksmith(?) and ghost stuff, because it stands out, and you have to jump through some hoops to get it, so it's a little bit exclusive. It feels good to wear, if that's how you get your kicks.
If you don't do this, those casual players who have smashed their way to legend in a month will suddenly find out what the rest of us know - there's not a lot to do afterwards if you don't care about making numbers in boxes go up. And while I'm obviously fine with that (I'm still playing, and have numbers still to increase), I don't want you to lose these players through boredom. You'd be amazed what people will do for a hat.
Since I'm already asking for the world, please can you add filters to shops (hide bought items, at least), and a random button to all chests, including ship livery? Oh, and a "hide" option for messages in a bottle (with a show all to bring them all back). kthxbai
