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any other way to make crew happy?

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Pesusieni

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Is there any other way to make the crew happy than the divide plundering?
I just dont like the plundering 'cause then i lose all mi money and all mi ships and the the crew goes to 40 AND it takes so much time (months passes by). Is there another way to get those happy / veryhappy from unhappy?
 
Right now the only way is to make alot more gold in a hurry. I have been thinking about this, and I think there should be some measures that can give a short term boost to moral. If this were real life, and the men were getting restless, but you had just gotten the last piece of the map to find Montey's hideout, you could tell them: "hey look, all you have to do is hang with me for a couple of more months and you will be richer than you ever dreamed of"

Maybe a shore leave where they all get little piece of the plunder and it takes a week of time off the game clock. This would cost you a week's (or it could be more) time, you wouldn't get any of that portion of the plunder, plus it would decrease the pot and they would get mad quicker after the effect was gone. So you are penalized for doing this if you can't make a fairly quick turn around in your fortunes.

Or, maybe there would be a way for you to enforce discipline. Once again, if it were a real life situation, there would probably be one or two of the guys who are starting to stir up all the trouble. They could confront you, and you could either choose to divide the money, or fight them in a duel for control of the ship. If you loose, they take your flagship, or you are relegated to the smallest boat in your fleet, or you are marooned if you don't have another boat. I was reading an article about Blackbeard the other day, and it told a story about him playing cards with two of his senior officers. He ended up shooting one of them in the knee, and the guy ended up with a permanant limp. Some of the other officers asked him why he had done it, and he said that if he didn't do something like every so often they would forget who he was.
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-Pesusieni`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pesusieni)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Is there any other way to make the crew happy than the divide plundering?
I just dont like the plundering 'cause then i lose all mi money and all mi ships and the the crew goes to 40 AND it takes so much time (months passes by). Is there another way to get those happy / veryhappy from unhappy?[/quote]


Try this link, it sheds some light on the subject; <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />

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If there's way to get some women on board or get some rums, that'll make crews real happy. Unfortunately, these elements are missing in the game. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
 
That guy has been sailing for over 200 months <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" />
Well, this one must sure be easier than Pirates! Gold, there you could keep your crew happy for just about one year. Even if you found all ancient treasures, sacked Panama, Cartagena and Havanna and had just enough men to man your ships, after a certain time they wanted to divide the plunder, no matter how much you´ve got.
 
Actually getting women on board would've made sailors back then extremely unhappy, because they were a superstitous bunch and women aboard meant bad luck.

Now rum, yea, that would've been the way to handle it. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.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" /> Yeah, I remember that line: "No, no, we can´t take her, it´s terribly bad luck having a woman aboard" - "NOT having her along would be far worse..."
 
Actually you just need hookers. That would also be a good way to get more money: You divide up the plunder and the crew spents it in you own brothel. Arrr Pirates meet capitalism! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-Pesusieni`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pesusieni)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I just dont like the plundering 'cause then i lose all mi money . . . [/quote]

You don't lose money, you gain money when you divide plunder. Imagine you own part of a company. That company is worth millions of dollars. That's all well and good, but you don't get your share of those millions until you sell the company and split the profits (i.e. divide the plunder). Then instead of the <u>company</u> having millions, <u>you</u> get hundreds of thousands.

The ship's money is not your money. The only money you have is what shows up in your personal status screen.
 
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The ship's money is not your money. The only money you have is what shows up in your personal status screen.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Aye! Dat's why ye should buy all de trinkets ye kin from de Traveler, 'couse it ain't really yer money! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-Fred_Bob`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Fred_Bob)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Aye! Dat's why ye should buy all de trinkets ye kin from de Traveler, 'couse it ain't really yer money!  xD:[/quote]
Although the crew will get mad at you if you overdo it - because it really ain't your money. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-nem`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nem)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Although the crew will get mad at you if you overdo it - because it really ain't your money. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />[/quote]Heh, just buy 'em a fiddle and that should make 'em happy... ...For a while, anyhow! <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" />
 
"Captain the men are quiet anxious because you just spent half of our loot on some diamond neckl.... oooh, a fiddle! May I? May I?" <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.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" />

But you're right of course. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
I look forward to what happend after he uses the fidle. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.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" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="icon_wink.gif" />
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-Col`. Kurtz+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Col. Kurtz)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Actually you just need hookers. That would also be a good way to get more money: You divide up the plunder and the crew spents it in you own brothel. Arrr Pirates meet capitalism!  :cheeky[/quote]

Did you read "A cup of Gold"? Well, there´s a passage telling about a pirate captain who had his own rum distillery and he sold his rum to his crew. One cruise, it nearly came to a mutiny, because the ship was sailing around one tiny island over and over again: the crew still had money and the captain still had rum.
 
Or you could take few broadsides from enemy ship, thinning your cranky crew to happier numbers. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whippa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":whipa" border="0" alt="whippa.gif" /> Or stretch out the boarding swordplay to lose some of those ungrateful ingrates. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/duel_pa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":ixi" border="0" alt="duel_pa.gif" /> Too bad you can´t do "oops, it was loaded"-kind of accidents. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dev.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":d:" border="0" alt="dev.gif" />
 
Yer a true pirate, Straydog! Arrrrr! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dev.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":d:" border="0" alt="dev.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" /> That's what I'd do too! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />
 
Attack a town, that usually thins out the ranks a LOT - attack a big town and you can get away with less men... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dev.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":d:" border="0" alt="dev.gif" />
 
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