Self-created treasure maps

@bigdog1st For starters, why were your hours of gaming "lost"? Didn't you have fun? You set sail on an adventure, solved puzzles, killed skeletons, found treasure, buried it, fought bloodthirsty pirates. Sounds like you had a great time. and no one can take that away from you.

we can't really talk about what "sane pirates" would or wouldn't do with their treasure maps given that pirates never actually used treasure maps. One pirate buried some treasure and created a map to it once (William Kidd in 1699), the story inspired a popular movie, and since then, burying treasure, drawing maps to it, killing pirates and stealing their treasure map, then following it to dig up their treasure, has always been a fundamental aspect of pirate pop culture fiction. And the concept gets adapted to fit whatever artistic creation (movie, book, game etc.) it finds itself in.

In Sea of Thieves, the creators have (I assume) done their best to fit the concept of stealing treasure maps around things like game mechanics and balancing. That's not to say it couldn't be done better. I'm just curious how you think it should be done instead.

i.e. If not by sinking your ship, how else would you like your treasure maps to be stolen? Would you prefer they drop as loot when you die? If they're placed in a snap sack, can someone steal the sack? If what you want is for the concept of stealing treasure maps to be removed from the game entirely, I doubt you'll receive much support, but if you think there's a better, more interesting, or more creative way it can be done, that's definitely worth discussing.