Challenge

Custom paint and naming my own ships. I can see if the historic ships have that name only, but I want people to recognize the ship and quake in fear....(Okay, that's not likely, but still.) Any ID should include the name of the ship.

At some point I set sales to be transparent. Now I can't find the control for it again (someone telling me where I found it would be a help), but that isn't issue. I start with my sails transparent, but when I return to OW after a battle, they aren't any more. I return to port and sail out again, they are transparent. If I go into another battle I can see through them, back in OW I can't. Anyone know how to fix this?

Perfectly timed announcement. Thank you.

I affix my mark.

Telescope in OW. (This is the big one for me.) I want to be able to identify ship flags and class before I get to close to escape in my small ship. Pictures of available ships before purchase. I don't spend money on things site unseen IRL, why do it in-game when I'm unfamiliar with all available ships. I like the bounty on players idea. Notations on the map, but if you add navigators they should be very expensive to hire. Hiring pirates for missions against an opposing faction (granting plausible deniability) sounds good. But I'm not sure the "attack other faction = instant pirate" idea is the best. No survivors may lead to suspicion, but it takes witnesses to prove piracy. I see it for the trials and tests, but in release, I think it might be overkill.

Thank you for the welcome. Please forgive me for I know not what I do. I feel much better now.

On diplomacy: What would be the status of neutrals in such a system. Could they sign on to one of the warring parties as a privateer to attack enemy ships and take cargo and prise ships without being labeled as a pirate as was the practice during the era, or would any such attack be considered priacy?