Dear fellow pirates and developers, I'm not entirely sure if this suggestion is possible but I thought I'd ask anyway:
My main character is a male bodied pirate, I was forced to delete my first pirate due to it making people uncomfortable that I (A closeted trans girl) was playing a female pirate, so I remade my pirate and have since put countless hours into the game, and made it to pirate legend, however, I did it as a character I wish was more like me.
So my suggestion would be to add a feature/option to have a 2nd character on one account, kind of like GTA 5 online, you can have two characters, but your rank, money, and some progress is saved, (IE, pirate legend status could carry over)
Now I understand I could just use a different account, but then I'd have to spend so many hours getting back to where I am, and you could just say "Why don't you buy a appearance change? Problem solved!" While I do agree that would solve the problem, I cannot do that because I'm still in the closet and play this with IRL people who don't know, so I'm at a lost of what to do with a game I genuinely like playing.
So perhaps you could have it be like, your main pirate has a sibling and or it's just a different person altogether, nonetheless, that pirate can start off with the same money, or maybe half of the money (or even share) with the first character, and either all the progress could carry over, or maybe have it be halfed some way? I'm not sure.
I get that this suggestion isn't great and would only serve a small portion of people, but I personally would benefit so much from this, but anyway, that's my idea.