New Ai controlled ships (player ai)

[Nordtman]

I have about 30 "idle" ships, sitting around in different ports, doing nothing.

 It does not really make sense that this investment of my "Company" is not making any Money.

 

 

When I first came here to the west-indies in my basic cutter, I had both Little experince and not a lot of Money to spend.

But as years Went by and war raged, my fortune grew, my fleet grew as well. I got bigger ships, more experinced grew. I even got a

plantation, a iron and a coal mine. I Went trading, I Went for to raid enemy-ships.

But the lack of able captains/officers forced me to only use 1 ship at the time. Yes, I could bring a fleet for protection, but thats about it.

 

 

Sugestion:

Make it possible to hire captains, who could sail all of ur ships on "mission". It could be trading-missons, patrolling-missons  or bold missions into enemy waters. Give me the possibillity to give the captain intruction: How he should act in a situation.

Example:  If he see a enemy-ship of rate 5 or higher, then he should attack, lower he should try to run.

I want to set specific route, plotting it on a map. I want to give the instructions to trade, from Point x to y, also specify the merchendise he should trade in,, etc etc.

 

If one of my "Ai" captain should be attacked or are attacking, I would like to have the option to command this ship in the fight.

 

I would like to be able to "train" my captains as officers on my own ship, so I can teach them my style and my moves. They should adopt my teaching.

[Mrdoomed]

Idont think we are a company but a captain instead.

[Nordtman]

Idont think we are a company but a captain instead.

 

Well its really out of topic what "we" are. But to define things.

 

If u are an naval officer in the navy, you might just be a captain of a ship, as being given the command. This is not your ship, but it belongs to the King. The King (naval command) decide where you go and what you do. This is not our situation.

 

We are "privateers"  given the letter of Marquis to attack enemy ships. We decide ourselfs what we do and where we go. Here we own the ship we command and we can use it for trade, etc etc. But most of us owns more then 1 ship. We also own other things. We are a "Company". Ok, as commanders of a single ship we can also be called "captain"