[REL] No Crew Limit Capture mod

[vorius]

I have released my first little MOD:

No Crew Limit Capture mod:



This mod removes the check on crew size when capturing a ship.

Once you gain victory over an enemy captain during boarding and get to the
'Robbery' screen you are given the option to capture the ship (setting
one of your officers as it's captain). Normally when you do this the game
does a check to see if your crew size is enough to meet the minimum
requirements for both your vessel and the captured one. If you do not have
enough, it disallows you from taking the ship.

I find this restriction unecessary for three reasons:

1. Even if you have enough crew, you don't even have to transfer any of your
crew over to the captured ship. You can simply leave it at 0 and still take the
ship.

2. You might not have enough crew on your current vessel, but perhaps you have
another vessel in your fleet which you can transfer crew from to meet the min
requirements for every ship in your fleet. Or perhaps you want to swap the crew
from another ship in your fleet with this captured ship and abandoned that
other ship. These are all options available to you with this mod.

3. The game still does a check for min crew size when you try to go back to the
global map. If one of your ships does not have enough crew it does not let you
leave the area anyway.

Get it here:

vor_noCrewLimitCapture.zip


NOTE:

If you are currently using "JsCombinedMods" I have made a version with his code merged into it, get it here:
(Currently known to work with up to JSCombinedMods v1.7)

vor_NoCrewLimitCapture_JSMerged.zip

Just make sure my mod is loaded last.



Hope you enjoy!

(Tested on COAS v1.3.0)

 

[BelThorne]

I Like It! :2up

I'll see what I can do not to break compatibility with the JSMod Version.

 

[LMjai]

So if I have only one ship and lose all my crew in a battle i can't go back to the map?

 

[Stowaway]

This mod is a must have for starting characters. Often times I am fighting battles where I am out outnumbered, outgunned, and outclassed. I lose crew for every boarding that happens. If I transfer the minimum crew needed for every ship that I capture I will soon be out of crew that I need to continue fighting. Even if I am too weak to continue fighting, and try to escape with the ships that I captured, the enemy will usually catch up to and sink one of my officers ships.

With this mod, no minimum crew is needed to capture an enemy ship. That leaves more men for me to continue the battle. I dont feel like this mod is too much of a cheat because the interface doesn't have an easy way to transfer crew between other ships in your fleet like in PoTC. Also, any crew you capture imeadiatly turn into slaves rather then having the option of joining your crew. This mod has improved my gameplay experience tremendously. Thanks.