A Naval Combat/ Sailing Idea

[Edax]

Ok in my feature thread, someone mentioned being able to sail on the open seas and engage in naval combat against NPCs and other players similar to BDO and Archeage. I think it would be a cool open world content update. Although I know it may never be implemented, I wanted to expand on the idea from that thread. From here on out is how I would make such a system, so feedback on the idea would be appreciated

Content

-You have a customizable ship which can be upgraded by playing various missions that you can get from NPCs on randomized small islands or a set of dev curated islands.

- For what you are doing while on the water, you could have a variety of missions like deliver items, kill NPC crews, fishing (could use ocean fishing as a backbone)

-For PvP naval content you could have piracy on the water (opt in with greater rewards?), Instanced ship battles where you zone into a large team 1 on 1 battle.

Naval Combat

- The easiest way to do this imo would be to use the already existing custom actions system where you're given a set number of abilities based on what your doing. (Manning cannons, steering the ship, lookout, etc.)

- Boarding enemy ships could be possible where you have to fight it's crew?

Will add to this as people comment ways to improve it (it's also quite late here atm)

I don't think this is the game for naval combat. We don't even have mounted combat.