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Crew Morale?

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i haven't been sailing as long as you have so i may not know the method for doing this but how, exactly, do you lower your crew? you just get them killed off as i don't believe the game allows a shore pass so pirates can go home for the holidays...
 
The best way to keep your attacks on ships profitable is keep in contact with the Barmaid <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> She's a bounty of information on ships with over 1000. And as I think someone said look out for any city that's defended by within 20 or so troops of your crew and you can generally sack them at least once before you can install a Governor of your choice <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

I've found sacking cities often yields upwards of 1000 all the way through to 7000 or so with a double sack normally netting a cool `4000-8000` gold, as well as decreasing the crew. This constant action, replacing of crew and massive reward does a good job of keeping them all happy <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
Besides getting them killed off in ship and land battles, if you sell extra ships and you have more crew then can fit in the remaining ones, you can drop them.
 
Leto.. I find it ..facinating that you have been sailing for 21 years without dividing the plunder at all.

You are indeed a pirate god!
 
Well keep in mind that mantaban or whatever his name is yields 100k and each lost city 50k. That is 300K right there.

The rest of the money can be gotten from sacking cities and treasureships.

There was a period in the beginning of the game where my crew was unhappy as soon as I passed around 100 men. But when the money strated roling in, it all changed.


Good luck <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />
 
Yep if you go after all the quests and successfully nail them within a reasonalble time of each other, it appears you can go on practically forever without dividing and plundering.

From my experience it seems impossible just playing as a pirate though, no ships be carryin over 100k <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":c" border="0" alt="mad.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
Question related to this: has anyone ever had his crew mutiny so far? Happened to me at least once per game in ye olde Pirates!, but never in SMP so far even when sailing for `2-3` months on end with an unhappy crew...
 
They once turned mutinous in my first game, a small amount of them left at a port when I stoppped and sailed off, but it wasn't anything disastrous and I was on my way to do some sacking and then divide and plunder <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="8)" border="0" alt="cool.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
I do my pyratin' in a sloop (sloop of war, royal sloop) and so keep about 100 men or there abouts. I'm on Rogue level and stay at sea about 2 years before dividing the plunder. Pretty much the first time my crew becomes content I will start looking for a place to settle in. That may still mean 6 months of selling stuff off, plundering, and so on, but my goal in the short term is to divide plunder.

To me it's a game bug that your crew can get very unhappy and nothing much happens. I still play as if it were the old game (the unhappier your crew the more deserters left when you sailed from port, who took more than their share of the cash). So when they are no longer happy, it's time for me to thin the ranks, look for some more funds to come in, and such until I can divide the plunder and make every member of my crew rich.
 
I have not encountered bugs about crew happiness. What level do you play on? My crew either deserts me in a port if they are unhappy, or take one ship from my fleet and a part of my treasure if they really get mutinous. Happened only once, though, as I was testing the limits of my crew's patience...
 
Seems like the crewmen got a pretty tame bunch during the last fifteen years. Yesterday night, I played Pirates! Gold again and there I´m always busy keeping my men content. Sailing for more than one year apiece is tough, doing much more is downright impossible. But that these rogues mutiny every time just before I sail into a harbour to divide the plunder instead of wait a few weeks... impatient bastards <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" />
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-Duckbeard`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Duckbeard)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->no ships be carryin over 100k   <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":c" border="0" alt="mad.gif" />    xD:[/quote] <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /> Doesn't Morgan? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
 
Core blimey he's been busy in yours <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_eek.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shock:" border="0" alt="icon_eek.gif" /> Could have sworn he only had around 40,000 on mine.. If he's been holding back on me there's gonna be hell to pay <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
I think the pirates carry more gold in the lesser difficulties. Not too sure on this though. Haven't tested it out yet.

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In my games, I have noticed that the longer I wait to bag the other pirates the more gold they have on them.
 
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