Island capturing should give passive income instead of infamy for factions
Elaboration & Justification
As is known, for people outside of factions, infamy as it is right now has the benefit of helping their guild gain benefits such as a larger bank or a higher member cap. Compared to this, faction influence does little to nothing for the people who have to work to get it, only spawning more of their respective boats on the sea.
What I suggest is that instead of the 30 infamy that members of a clan gain every 5 minutes for every island they capture, members of a faction should gain 30 GALLEONS. This makes sense lore-wise because organized factions are backed by big lore figures would obviously have wealth to distribute to its members and, plus, it also makes up for factions’ inability to gain infamy and the rewards that come with it.
By adding this system the devs are free to alter the amount of passive income based on many factors such as rank in the faction, overall influence, or whatever it may be but this actually gives a good reason for factions to actually oppose clans capturing islands and fosters player interaction.
At high influence, any appearance in the news should give more renown
Elaboration & Justification
Although this could be added for both factions and clans, I think that if a group has high influence in a server, any and all (positive or negative), mentions of members of said group should have a greater effect.
Add the ability to choose which title is displayed on leaderboard
Elaboration & Justification
Right now, perhaps because badges have yet to be distributed for leaderboard statuses, your name and appearance on the leader will automatically change depending on your rank.
This system is fine as it is right now but a problem is that trying to display any of your other titles will change the color it has on the leaderboard as well. Its really unfortunate in cases like bronze sea explorer where you have to choose between having a white name that only shows your title when hovered over or when met in person, or having your name appear with a vibrant color on the leaderboard to indicate your ranking.
I think that a possible change for this would be to have seperate vanity and equip title slots. One (Vanity) for leaderboard color display exlusively, (Equip) and one for the one to appear when hovered over, on main menu, etc.
In the case of the example above with this new system it would instead appear as so:
