Planned Feature Crew Weapons on Ship Gun Decks

[Talisman]

Playing Jack Sparrow - I just walked around the Black Pearl looting the chests when I noticed that the weapons on some of the crew on the gun decks were spades,shovels, and axes, instead of swords. ( see images )

I have just used the jump Start to play Sao Fengs Missing Bodyguards - so there are no weapons in the weapons Locker.

But I have not seen the crew armed with these before ( at least not recently - since these were removed as weapons a couple of versions ago - Beta 3?).

The Save is in Port after going ashore -you can use it to go back to the ship and some of the the crew will be armed with Spades etc.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Different types of crew are generated in different ways and armed in different ways too.
There are:
1. Boarding crew, generated in the boarding code and armed from the Weaponslocker
2. Shore crew, pre-initialized at the start of the game, used to be manually equipped, but now automated by @Jack Rackham; these DON'T use the Weaponslocker
3. Deck crew, randomly generated in a different part of the code and auto-equipped similar to other NPCs

In this case, we're dealing with option #3 and as far as I'm aware, those can still get Spades and Pickaxes.
I don't remember ever disabling that and also cannot find evidence in the code that is indeed meant to be prevented.
Which isn't to say that it shouldn't be done, because it doesn't make all that much sense.

I also may have discovered why you're seeing them now, but not before. Apparently those weapons are set to nation PIRATE.
Since you ARE now a Pirate but probably never were before, that might explain it.

It doesn't actually influence the game though, since these guys should never get into any fights.
Except if you ask them about some fencing practise, that is....

 

[Talisman]

I also may have discovered why you're seeing them now, but not before. Apparently those weapons are set to nation PIRATE.
Since you ARE now a Pirate but probably never were before, that might explain it.

That is true .

 

[Pieter Boelen]

This moved as marked as "Planned Feature Request".
It does make sense to get this in line with either the boarding crew OR the shore crew.

I think the deck crew is created through PROGRAM\LandEncounters\LEnc_monsters.c