Rewards for Graping Crew

[Captain Comery]

Ok, when the battle finishes and you do no damage to ship armour but the crew instead why do we not get gold for killing crew.

I'm not saying the reward should be the exact same as causing armour damage but we need some gold for grapping.

[Henry d'Esterre Darby]

Do you mean upon a successful boarding and capture?  In that situation, your gold is going to come from selling the ship.

[Captain Comery]

I mean firing grape shot and killing crew that way. Not necessarily capturing the ship just killing crew.

On a seperate note: when I grape a ship to surrender and I leave battle I don't get the ship that surrendered even though the battle ended.

[delaine]

noticed that myself when graping a navy brig in a pavel only got gold for the crew i killed in boarding(was 12)

[Henry d'Esterre Darby]

I mean firing grape shot and killing crew that way. Not necessarily capturing the ship just killing crew.

On a seperate note: when I grape a ship to surrender and I leave battle I don't get the ship that surrendered even though the battle ended.

 

Thank you for elaborating.    Getting gold, just like XP, for killing crew via doesn't sound like a bad idea to me.

 

I've edited the title to be a little more clear.

[Captain Comery]

Thanks

[Jack Feathersword]

I noticed this yesterday.

 

I was in a bellona firing grape into a frigate, i took the crew down from 280 to 140. After this i sunk the ship using double shot. I only recieved XP and gold for 8 crew (killed by double). 

[Captain Comery]

This is definitely a problem because if we capture a ship to keep it we won't be able to maintain them. For god sake grappling is a MAJOR part of the game and we get no cash out of it!

How can we maintain a ship without cash!?

[Destraex]

I agree to some extent but think a ship should be more valuable with a crew. In fact remaining crew should be able to volunteer to replace your losses.

I also think that defenceless ships should be able to be warned, hailed and stopped for inspection or capture without a shot. Not every time. But some of the time especially when the enemy captain knows its just a matter of time.

[admin]

Killing crew currently gives simple 1 crew = 1XP point in PvP. In PvE it is lower.

[Captain Comery]

Pirates fight more Ai than players though. When I traveled from MT to Parrot bay I saw only 1 neutral player. Neutral is no fun and they run every battle.