I don't think trading will ever come out. Trading in online games is known to cause problems, and I'd much rather loot than recieve something through trading, because then I'd know that I earned it. And we don't really need new weapons. Disney are already dishing them out in codes, and we have some pretty cool famed/legendary weapons to get while looting. I'm pretty laid back about that update, but trading is a big no-no from me, unless Disney decide to let players trade certain things, but that could also cause problems, possibly making some players feel as if they're not as free to do what they like as they want to be.
I completely agree about the updates you do want. I have to choose between my war galleon and war sloop if I want the brig, and if Disney are going to put out new ships I would like it if they would also allow us to have more than three ships. Being able to type ship names would be useful also, as any combination of ship name has probably been done before, and I'd like something more original, that my pirate may become known for.
I find that the updates most players are demanding (trading, Kraken, etc) really don't sound that good after you think about it. The two updates you suggested, among others, will always be useful to players of all levels. Some more wanted updates would benefit players quite a lot (like ship customization), but your idea for more than three ships hadn't even crossed my mind. Now I think about it, the ideas people such as you are coming up with now are far better than the ideas that have already been discussed.
There are two updates that I would like the most, if you don't mind me sharing.
1. Stop players from randomly teleporting, with maybe a request box popping up asking if the player can teleport. It would help a lot of players.
2. A sort of bookmark totem. There could be a quest for it (or not), and when you recieve it, you can put it where you're standing, so if you have to get tonics or something and you're in a hard to reach place, you can just teleport back to where you last put your totem. But you only have one totem, and once you've put it in a specific area, it disappears from the last. It could also disappear when you log off.
Well, there's what I think.
