I got to say this is of high quality, the jails are extremely boring, just wait for 10 hours of nothing and either be released or get executed. however, I want to throw on some more ideas I thought up while reading this.
Negative rep quests relating to the prison from outside of it:
other than commodore kai and Edward’s upgrade quest there is little to no reason to go to the navy base as a negative rep player outside of getting rid of your bounty for free.
these quests are high risk and high reward as you are breaking into a secure navy facility to do something, but the rewards are worth it, examples include.
contraband smuggling: smuggling contraband into the prison, a more stealth oriented mission suited for smaller boats (for obvious reasons) and is repeatable.
breakouts: self-explanatory and non-rival npcs have a chance to join your crew as a free deckhand.
killing commodore kai: if that mission doesn’t exist yet.
other negative rep ideas:
smuggling: same as trading but with more risk, reward and fewer places to drop it off (more work if popular).
escape prisoners: same as castaways but for evil reps.
Not even an evil player- and this is part of the reason why I never will be. For essentially no additional reward evil players receive incredibly harsh punishments- I couldn’t be bothered to spend most of my time ‘playing a game’ well… not playing the game.
that has nothing to do with the suggestion of revamping jail system
it seems like it got abadon. In AA, you had a chance to spawn inside the cell with a prisoner that could be interacted but i would like to see this back in AO
i don’t see the point of rewarding prisoners with galleons, the jail time task and exp would somewhat fits and prevent people from going afk
overall, this suggestion would be hard to implement in bronze sea but however it would be easier for the next map/sea/server
i think this is the best idea ive seen about improving prison, gives the player something to do without giving them the option to outright escape and devaluing having friends come to break you out, without having it be an overly boring wait as a solo player
The current jail system is literally a punishment for playing the game a certain way, there is no reason for it to be what it is at the moment
Honestly the entire timer should be scrapped and replaced with minigames
