Subject: Feature Request: Expanding Crew Limits (6-8 Players) for Custom Servers / Safer Seas

A few things if I recall from when streamers had access to private servers they already had the ability to have more than 4 per ship. Also as customer servers from the sounds of it will allow you complete control over the server IE spawning in shrouded ghosts on demand. Spawning 1,000 chests of fortune in front of you. They won't be allowing progression on customer servers. Safer seas already has no progression outside of currency which as we have all been debating lately over just how useless and pointless currency even is in this game, safer seas was meant to do two things, scratch the PvE itch for those who just can't do PvP and its a deal breaker for them. Also to kinda give a training ground for new players to learn the ropes. It more ended up being the latter as without captaincy to progress milestones, the most you can do is level a trade company to the safer seas limit which was half of level maximum... Then they increased the level cap so now it makes 0 sense.

But yea also custom seas will be costing a monthly fee. So you can now have you friends buy the game, the host at least I guess? Unless everyone? Would need to be paying that monthly fee for custom server access. And icing on the cake. 0 progression of any kind as we have said even with safer fleets, you can't do captaincy, reputation is limited. So other than commendation grinding which is as much for rep as it is for unlocking cosmetics safer seas/fleets would still remain useless.

They are so dead set on this being PvPvE that their attempts to try and add more features for the sake of increase revenue they can't grasp that no one will be willing to pay for custom servers. Ok. No one is an extreme exaggeration. It is very much for streamers and most of the dedicated SoT streamers barely even play anymore. Most of us average Joes if anything might pay for 1 month to check it out then realize how useless it is. Especially the PvE minded of us. I 100% would have bought in to be able to easily host my own little solo full progression server. Glad to pay a monthly fee for that. Instead their focus is on trying to "re-balance" an economy which the wiser of us just sees as smoke to mask that with the scrapping of all S19's PvE content making anyone who came to SoT 2 years after launch will have plenty of old doubloon cosmetics to grind for. But everyone has too many doubloons so the fix for that is obvious. So we are in the situation we are in now. Baffles me as to why they keep adding gold shop stuff for such low prices though. Like surely a gold reset has to be coming too. Who only handles a fraction of the games fundamental problem at once? To upset the players in waves instead of just one big overhaul.