I agree with the new story chapter, but the side quests for jewelery or tattoo's are sometimes more fun, mainly because you get the satisfaction of knowing you can complete one of them when you come online by the time you go offline if it's staying for an hour or so.
Maybe a quest where we have to board a flag ship and rescue someone, and after they have a cut scene where they give thanks

that would be cool. But i want more unique items such as tattoo's, hair colors, clothing, as notoriety isn't very good for my big pirate anymore.