Hello, Sea of Thieves creators, my friend and I have watched the season 7 trailer multiple times and are super excited to get our hands on it. After looking through the comments and finding out that many players play alone, we have come up with an interesting idea that we’d like to share. It can help one or more players to experience the feeling of true piracy and what it’s like to take control of the ship.
Some online players play alone or have 2 players and want to ride on the Galleon just like in the movies. We think the Sea of Thieves should have NPC fill in the remaining player's slot who is not joined as well as +4 NPC. In total, it will be 5-8 crew members on board.
In order to gather NPC members, we would have to hire the crew and pay them coins every other week or month ingame to make it realistic.
Each NPC would be under the captain's commands to help around the ship such as firing cannons, lowering the anchors, repairing, and possibly more. We think this would be fair and challenging for all of the online players to battle other ships rather than destroying inexperienced players who do not want to be bothered.
Hope this brings new ideas to the table.