crew

[Cpt Nogo]

How can i give to my ship a not complete crew?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

What do you mean? You want to have less crew on your ship? Just fire some.

 

[Cpt Nogo]

Yeah, but i'm not the owner of it, it would be easier to capture it like that :s

 

[Pieter Boelen]

If you enable godmode with the cheatmode, you can easily capture any ship you want.
Or just use the console to give you whichever you're looking for.

 

[Cpt Nogo]

Use the console? :s

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Open PROGRAM\console.c with Notepad and find the following lines:

       // Give ship
        // ------------------
        //    GiveShip2Character(pchar,pchar.ship.type,pchar.ship.name,-1,PIRATE,true,true);
        //    GiveShip2Character(pchar,"NL_Amsterdam","Amsterdam",-1,HOLLAND,true,true);
        //    GiveShip2Character(pchar,"CursedDutchman","Flying Dutchman",-1,PIRATE,true,true);
        //    GiveShip2Character(pchar,"QueenAnnesRevenge","Queen Anne's Revenge",-1,PIRATE,true,true);
        //    GiveShip2Character(pchar,"RN_SteamFrigate","HMS Astrea",-1,ENGLAND,true,true);
        //    GiveShip2Character(pchar,SHIP_CURSED,"Black Pearl",-1,PIRATE,true,true);

Remove the // from one of these lines, change say "NL_Amsterdam" to whatever ship type you want (from RESOURCE\MODELS\Ships ),
save the file, load your savegame and press F12 to instantly get the ship of your choice.
(When done at sea, this requires a reload to worldmap/shore).