Solved Ransoming captains.

[Teemu Elo]

Ahoy mateys. After the governor of Barbados decided to pay me 14k a pop for the heads of two spaniards that thought my heavy galleon would make easy prey, i've decided to hang up my trading gloves for a moment and picked up the Constitution I grabbed off some Gentlemen of Luck earlier. Now the question is, I vaguely recall hearing something about friendly nations paying more for the captains, but I obviously can't walk into Belize and ask the local governor how much his boys are worth to him. And I say obviously, because I even tried to sneak into a spanish settlement once to do that.. Never hurts to try. Nonetheless, would this then mean that dutch would pay more for the spaniards than say, englishmen or frenchies do?

 

[blackmane]

Yes, as far as I remember, they do. They might even pay double. When I do trade runs to get some gold from the spanish cities I usually get rid of the spanish officers that have accumulated. With a trading license, no problem

 

[Teemu Elo]

Ah, well.. I'm not entirely sure that even if I bought one of those crazy overpriced licenses the spanish guards would be too fooled. "Okay, he's flying the flag of spain, he's got the papers and.. Hey, that's a dozen of our captains from ships that he recently sunk!" Propably wouldn't fly unless I ALSO paid to reconcile with Spain..

 

[blackmane]

I just wanted to add, I am at the moment on hostile relations with the dutch, I captured 5 of their captains, bought a trade license to smuggle goods and sold the captains off. They give 5 times the money you would get for a simple pirate captain. So I think it pays off if you have more business there than just ransoming one captain. Although the shop owner did not want to give me a chartering mission