Pirate game prototype

During my gaming experience I’ve noticed that pirating-gameplay had never been shown as good as it could be.

I can list some things I expect from pirate game. My expectations are based on films and books about pirates and sailors. So they are:

1) Crew management.
Orders, motivation and moral choices.
Every story about pirates always includes leadership problems, fragility of the captain's power etc.
There are many good games using this theme in gameplay. Last and obvious one is Frostpunk. And it’s pretty cool as a reference.
Using these mechanics as hardcore elements, we can reward player by some fan stuff: managing ai-based individual npc-s, pointing favorites among them etc.

2) Complex ship control. In books and films there are many specific facts and ideas about ship controlling. These ideas generate many interesting situations and give characters a lot of opportunities. Yet in games, there are too few examples of these things. Usually a ship in game is only a car on the water. Yes, it moves slower against the wind. That’s all.
In real life then, sailing physics is much more interesting and complex. Yes it sounds like a hardcore, but I believe that games can use some magic that makes hard things easy and exciting. Better for me, that sailing indeed provides a lot of tempting game situations.

3) References also give many ideas of sea battles mechanics. Merging two previous ideas I see gameplay like this:
Player controls one character on the ship. This character can give orders to a crew, and probably can participate in the execution. Orders can be very concrete or high abstracted. Crew is managed by AI and can follow orders with different quality and speed. Battle tactics should be based on crew management, using environment opportunities and collecting info about enemy ship.

As I was thinking about these ideas I understood that I'm a coder experienced enough to make a rough prototype of this game.
So I started a project in Unity and hope to see what I can achieve.

Right now it is only a basic prototype of sailing model. UX and settings should be heavily adjusted.