Crew gold and items

[Trebutor]

Hi,

I am sure not every one will agree with this view, but let me propose this simple mod for gold management:

Buying/Selling items in shops should be done with your own money,
not the crew money. I am not talking about ship cargo here, just items
like swords, potions and so on.

After all, you looted those items all alone and the crew as nothing to
do with it. Futhermore, when buying items, the crew would not be happy
if you spent their hard earned gold to buy you a new fancy sword.

What do you think ?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I reckon that should be do-able somehow. Only your personal gold doesn't really increase very much in the beginning of the game so you wouldn't be able to buy new weapons. Also: You could give better weapons to your officers, so they would get profit from it. I reckon there should be toggle "pay out wealth" vs "pay out crew money". That has already been added for blacksmith repairs in the Post Build 12 modpack.

 

[CatalinaThePirate]

I think something like that is already in place, or was... I just object to the fact that if you're spending your own money on a sword, what about if you wish to buy one of your officers a good sword? Or fill the weapons locker with good swords and pistols? What about potions for your men and your officers? Are you footing the bill for THAT, too? Because if you are, on your present salary (not dividing plunder but paying your crew every month) you are going to go BROKE, otherwise...

SO - while it is do-able, it should be SWITCHABLE. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="yes.gif" /> <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" />

 

[NathanKell]

My idea was roughly that, but that the crew (and officers) would reimburse you when you gave them weapons (less than market value perhaps, but not much less).

A historical note: when boarding enemy ships, _anything and everything_ was counted as the party's plunder, and Bad Things happened to any who tried to keep things for themselves...

 

[Trebutor]

Oups... I swear I never took anything for myself nor even looted the inventory of my fellow officers !
<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="whistling.gif" />