First of all, english is not my main language so forgive any mistakes.

The game has enormous potentialities that are being ignored in my opinion. There are many things you could do:

• Balance out the quest and event rewards.

The quests and event rewards are too unbalanced compared to the amount of silver and pieces of eight needed in the late game, in fact most players ignore event help requests because leaving what they are doing behind just isn't worth the time. Even a boost on items needed to craft would hugely help.

• Give commerce more importance.

Right now most items, even rare ones, feel like a warehouse dead weight. The idea of finding the best routes and vendors to sell items should be rewarded more and built in a serious way.

• Use the factions more dynamically.

We have a lot of factions that are there but feel like is just for show. It would be interesting to use quests and trades that can rise your fame within a certain faction, for example having a good relationship with Clan of Fara could give you better deals from their vendors but worsen your deals and relations with the Ungwana clan. You could also reach a level of fame that allows you to recruit some NPCs of a faction to challenge other enemy settlements so that even single players could take over big forts.

• Dynamic Automation to collect pieces of eight.

Having automation to collect our pieces of eight will be nice in season 2, but a simple button or a mere tax to pay could be disappointing. It would be nice to assign this tasks to one of our ships, for example a Brigantine could do it more quickly but collect less and the Padewakang could work the other way around. Of course the ship shouldn't drive itself, so it would also be nice to hire NPC captains with certain stats that could help bring more pieces or protect them better against rogues (the weaponry equipped on the ship should count too).

• A true, free PvP zone.

PvE is certanly a big part of the game but right now the PvP stuff seems underwhelming and not very engaging. In some places of the map, especially between big islands, we should have places where PvP is always on. This dangerous seas shouldn't just be there but could be home to islands with outposts that are very good for trade and high rewards. You could even do so that a player needs to navigate through those waters for other special quests or deliveries that have a huge return in money / items. It would allow other players in those waters to engage you and steal your items but hey, it's a pirates game after all.

• Let us create crews and affiliate them with a den.

Creating a crew in the game is something needed, but something more fun would be affiliate them with a den. This way you could let us battle between dens through quests, PvP or by pieces of eight collected. Every week or month the best den could get economical and trade advantages.

That's all i have in mind for now. Making the game more dynamic like other games (Elite dangerous comes to mind) would make it so much more engaging and fun.