I don't know if this is an idea that has been floating around or not. But I have two ideas that would help with quality of life, and help the open crew experience.
First, I think it would help the quality of life if there was a way to set your emissary flag as a captain before you even set sail. This would be a simple way to help experienced crews have a little bit more quality of life. But mainly, this would help open crews set the direction the captain wants that session to go in, without the need of 2 other crew mates on a galleon to vote up emissary as well.
Second, going off of this emissary idea, I think it would be great there was a feature to be able to spawn into a session with a specific emissary flag raised. Like, you can select ship type, select open crew, and (optionally) select desired faction to join under. This would make it so the more casual Sea of Thieves gamers can join an open crew that is sailing for a company that they want to grind for. Maybe you want to hunt some megs under hunters call, but you have no way to reasonably find a group outside of discord. This would make the in game experience so much better, and it would allow casual gamers an easier way to progress in the game without affecting the more advanced gamers.
I don't know how this would work logistically, but as someone who doesn't have hours to game each day, being able to spawn into a group who is going after the same company as me, would be so nice.
