Crew and morale

[VonVolks]

I was just thinking about immersion and "anti grind" yesterday and I had an idea.

What if you could develop a relationship with your crew and build up a band of brothers mentality.

The way it worked was you would begin add normal and after a few victorious battles your crew would stay to bond with you.

After that point every victory would add 1 point to Base moral to say a 200% maximum.

This bonus would help in boarding and also give other bonuses added at certain percentages (I.E 130% faster sail handling, 160% faster reloads, 190% higher top speed & turn)

BUT if you betray your crew for promotion by moving to a bigger / different ship, you go back to zero again as you have to win over a new crew.

This would be a reason to stick with ships and not just constantly jump up to the next one.

Thoughts?

[BramtheDutch]

Sounds like a good plan but I think 160% faster reload and 190% speed are a bit overkil, I can imagine something like this but no bonuses over 110%, because the game needs to stay skill based.

[VonVolks]

No that's not the bonus but the level example of WHEN the bonus would start.

Eg, when your crew bond had reached 130% of Base morale then the sail handling bonus would kick in (whatever the bonus was)

[Puchu]

Morale and crew exp systems have been suggested time and time again. The devs so far have only answered to it regarding officers. i would love a morale/crew exp system to make crew valuable and surrendering more common. But i doubt it's in the making. but you never know.

[VonVolks]

yeah I would have morale go down as well as up. So surrendering / being defeated would reduce things.