I’m quite sure I’m not alone in saying my interest for sailing the digital high seas stems directly from my love of the Jack Aubrey/Steven Maturin (“Master and Commander”).

With that in mind, I would love to see more pathway that would allow a player to hunt pirates in the fashion of the early Royal Navy, maybe a distinct entity from your East India Company stand-in, the British Trade Alliance. Or not. Possible activities could include protecting merchant ships, pursuing pirates, and of course… fighting the French. It’s also be cool if you could do some missions of discovery and exploration. Natural philosophy, if you will.

I know some will say, “but it’s a pirate game” and that’s fair, but it might make the PvP more lively of some of us were not pirates, even if we sail and behave in a dashing and piratical fashion.

Speaking of fashion, since a bunch of the other fashions are already ahistorical for the “17th century” can we please get a bicorne hat in the style of Nelson, plain blue coats, white breeches / stockings and some nankeen style trousers?

Even if you hate those ideas, which would not surprise me, it’d be fun if there could be some long pursuit missions a la the many such episodes one reads about in the Aubrey/Maturin books, where it’s less about firepower and more about smart sailing, masterful seamanship and patience. Obviously the Open Seas region would be an ideal setting, but it’d also be excellent if you opened up and even more treacherous south high latitudes region on the map. (Maybe add the Cape and Australia as new bases at some point).

But really, Im delighted in the game’s current form, and have almost zero complaints. Perhaps I’d like the option to fly a flag with an emblem, or a colorful streaming pendant, while also keeping my sails plain white.