Heyoo,
I just have a nice idea making trade more fun, dangerous and lucrative!
I would love for pirate outposts (or new islands) to become small walled pirate towns rather than outposts having a little square with maybe 3 buildings producing a certain craft like a bakery, distillery, weaver etc. Also a warehouse keeping supply and the trader who will regulate trade. Being able to buy goods yourself that are in stock and produced by the town filling barrels in the lower deck or area in your ship as capacity, every town having supply and demand like an island with a bakery might need rum. (Maybe being able to do small favors for an artisan will favor you more and give better prices than buying from the trader??? ) ships might to be a little bigger to fit the barrels. It would be nice if multiple hits on the same spot would create bigger holes where barrels have a chance to fall out, bigger holes need more planks. Now this would make pirating sooo much more realistic and lucrative as the goods give big profit if stolen and thus trading isn't just a walk in the park.
Now onto forts. Just having a lot more islands I would not care if they were in depth or fletcher out but if you could get for A Lot of money (permanent) upgrades on an island (first buy building rights which should be expensive as well) to build 3 artisan craftshops to your liking, a warehouse, walls, cannons and docks with trader to make it a personal trade post but with costs for the atrisan craftshops.
You should be able to immediately transform the island if you get there again in another server.
Now if you combine all of this with my other post with the factions and stuff I would love if you could seize islands in the name of your faction like for the netherlands, France, England, Spain and pirate factions between multiple ships and single pirates only owning purchased islands.
Now this allows for wars and peace between factions with the pirates just being a shoot on sight.
Giving a slight cut per profit for your factions coffers to help fund bits to player island forts.
Every factions should have a home base to buy and sell from with a little higher commission but more faction reputation.
This is a lot I know and much more than 1 suggestion but this would perfect the game for me.
Cheers.
