Unable to recruit officers...

[Cronan]

Hmmm ok, well after my embarassment with Peter Bloood yesterday, I decided to start as Diego. Was having a good time, running around kicking ass, got myself a new ship and all that... Yet now I find myself unable to recruit officers at all... I only have 4 in my team at the moment (A cannoneer, bosun, navigator and fighter.). Is this some kind of bug? Have I done something wrong? Or is the officer amount capped at 4?

Cheers in advance.

 

[Sordid]

The number of officers you can hire is determined by your stats; the game claims it's determined by Authority, but I'm not entirely convinced of that as I seem to be able to hire more officers than I had been at the beginning.

 

[redCorsair]

count companions too.
it is determined by authority ( game claims that).

when nothing left use personal perks multitasking type for officers.

 

[LordDrow]

The rule I've seen posted on Seaward's forums is that the maximum number of officers you can hire is your Authority times 2. So if you have a score of 3 on your Authority, the maximum number of men you can have under your command is 6, so on and so forth.

Cap'n Drow

 

[maseyda]

There is a way to hire more officers than your allowed limit.
When you reached your limit and found one or two officers that you want to add to your team, just buy cheap vessels and leave them to the Port Control.
Then go and hire the new officers that you want.
After hiring them, take back your vessels from the Port Control and sell them back.
But I'm not sure whether some of the officers will resign in the subsequent game days to bring back you to your allowed limit or not.

 

[niikuu]

oh boy, now I don't regret having whole 10.

so far my main reason for it was "you'll get best women..." written in the tooltip

<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/nerbz.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="nerbz.gif" />

 

[maseyda]

<!--quoteo(post=331465:date=Jun 21 2009, 01:01 PM:name=maseyda)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (maseyda @ Jun 21 2009, 01:01 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=331465"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->But I'm not sure whether some of the officers will resign in the subsequent game days to bring back you to your allowed limit or not.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I hired two ex.officers above my allowed limit.....approx. three game months passed over it.....they are still with me, although one of my officers has no loyalty at all, none of them resigned.
Game doesn't force me down to my allowed limit. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />