133. Coloured name tags.
Ideally this would reflect hours played in any given role. If difficult, it should simply reflect hours played in game in total, as recorded on Steam. This colour code would be visible to Captains when accepting players onto their boat, before they click "accept", and to all crew once they're aboard. This would help more experienced players tailor advice to a player whose experience is otherwise an unknown quantity of they've not played together before. It would operate in both senses, in preventing an experienced player from "teaching their grandmother to suck eggs", but also to ensure that a very new player isn't overloaded or yelled at for making a balls of a task!
It might also be possible to vary the apparent age of avatars, with hours played so that inexperienced players have more youthful appearance, and vice versa.
Suggested increments:
Up to 30 hours Red
31 to 100 hours Orange
101 to 300 hours Yellow
301 to 1000 hours Green
1001 hours plus Blue
1001 hours plus. Purple
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