Skeleton Cosmetics/Skins?

Funnily enough I had a similar idea.
Basically Rare would add a viral commendation (a commendation that can only be unlocked by interacting with someone who has the commendation) that only Rare staff initially have and some skeleton curse vanity items and a set of skeleton lord themed cosmetics.

While someone with the commendation and has a skeleton curse vanity item equipped, players without the commendation who interact with the cursed player have a chance to get the commendation too, which awards them the skeleton curse too.
Chances of getting the commendation change based on how they interacted with the cursed player, e.g. killing a cursed player on a rival crew guarantees getting the commendation, being killed by them has a 30% chance, being killed by a cursed player on your own crew has a 1% chance (to reduced likelihood of open crews teamkilling cursed players), taking a item offered by a cursed player has 10% chance (with 15 mins cooldown to stop people just passing items around over and over), and anything else you can think of.
As players with the commendation interact with others, it'll appear like the skeleton curse is spreading through the playerbase and would be a cool lead-up to Flameheart's inevitable resurrection as the playerbase itself will appear to be his new skeleton army. Some may even decide to roleplay as such.

To encourage continued use of the curse and thus increase chances to spread the commendation, all the clothing, ship and weapon cosmetics are tied to spending active time playing the game (so people don't just AFK at an Outpost) and/or completing a number of any activity while having the curse equipped.

The curse itself makes the player look like they're halfway through changing into a skeleton with green flames bordering the line between your human and skeleton parts. If you equip more skeleton curse clothing cosmetics, your curse changes to look more skeleton like as you equip more of them. Variants of skeleton curse for other skeleton types can be unlocked by killing those skeleton types and/or completing activities associated with those skeletons (e.g. complete Shores of Gold X number of times to get Gold Skellie curse) while having a skeleton curse equipped.

Clothing, ship and weapons cosmetics follow a similar theme as the curse in that they're popular already existing cosmetics that are half skeleton-ified or are simply the items skeletons already used in-game if they are not already unlockable.

Overall this idea would make a great permanent addition to the game that encourages new role-playing opportunities, rewards playing the game however you want and encourages interacting with other players.

@impymidna said in Skeleton Cosmetics/Skins?:

@dappercreative It'd be pretty cool to roleplay as Flameheart, Briggsy, Gold Hoarder (currently my fave) or Graymarrow, adding them as unique skins to the new costume category in the clothing store and even have a curse and be your own skeletal pirate and keep certain facial hair and clothes on your body.
this the sea of thieves not the pirates of the carribean ;) but a curse like that or even a questline like that would be cool

I saw someone in a green skeleton costume cant remember if i have screenshot may have been a dev testing it on my crew so its in the game somewhere.