Crew morale

[evil_parrot]

Someone else mentioned it in another post: the crew morale drops very fast during sea battles. Is this a bug, because i dont see any reason for this effect? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":c" border="0" alt="mad.gif" />
I would be grateful if a modder could post how to remove the decrease of crew morale in sea battles.

 

[v_Grimmelshausen]

Yest, it´s because there are some combat level multiplier in AIShips.c, that decrease morale according to situation, one of them is Combatlevel_guns, which reduces morale every time the guns are fired. And because unmodded they fire rather fast, morale drops pretty quick.
For the exact code and where it is, take a look into the topics "tartane" and "beat to quarters", it´s there where we discussed it.

 

[evil_parrot]

thanks! I tried combatlevel_guns 0.0 and it seems to keep the crew morale constant in sea battles. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

 

[CatalinaThePirate]

I like to double the rum ration, their morale goes up quickly after a battle, and what's a little drunken brawl once in a while, but good plain fun?

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[NathanKell]

Please don't set it to 0, that breaks the mod and you may get severe problems.
If you want it minized, set it to 0.000001 or something. Just not 0.

And just to note: these morale changes are _not_ permanent; as soon as you're out of combat, morale will go back up to what it was before.