Would be pristine if you guys included these things, it could totally popularize the game exponentially:
- A well balanced PvP system. I'm talking hand guns, sniper rifles, muskets and such tweaked to perfection(bulletdrop and everything).
- Ability to run around your ships, swim and go underwater and run around in land and have side adventures(procedurally/randomly generated map so in multiplayer a part is new in every server?)
- Full modular ship building support. You can even steal part of other ships you've taken over.
- Ability to use a dinghy and board ships
- Interchangeable flag system to show if you wanna talk/give up/or be hostile. Yes you can lie.
- Maybe a super hardcore mode where you start with nothing but a boat and you can be recruited into a crew and rise up from the ranks and earn enough money to get your own ship. And no healthbars of the ships. Only you can spot them them with a spyglass.(AI's can be placeholder for your ship but really suck at PvP but you are able to upgrade your AI crew member's weapons/armor but not skill)
- Become a pirate hunter? Or a bounty hunter and get rewards for returning acquired loot or killing a pirate ship with a bounty?
- VR support?
- Economy system?
- Dynamic map additions where devs can randomly place a rare treasure finding events/islands on each hive server
- Fixed amount of loot as in rare loot(like maybe a canon) that can only be found via treasure hunt is only a fixed number of those in the world(server).
- Ability to make private servers that is synced to hive, but if customized it isn't synced.
This is just feedback to go off from. Most of the stuff I said I won't implement myself. But if you are going multiplayer might as well go full hardcore ragtag.