Current News: Jan 21, '09 Recruiting Pirates

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by Maximvs

...and from more than one pirate - I heard they can't sail a boat to save their souls!...

I'm not saying they are good (I wasn't there) but it sounds more like a communication problem. Was the goal: quickly defeat EITC? Gold? Cannon reputation? Make people realize they are human too? Just give 1,000+ people 5 minutes to chat with a GM?

I've been known to fire off a broadsides shot into the air, to communicate to the crew which side I need them on (while trying very hard to not steal their rep points.) It's 5 seconds faster than going to the skull, sea combat, Port side (left)! And it's about 2 seconds faster than typing "left" (Or, as I usually type it, about 15 seconds faster as "qwleft <- <- <- <- <- BSK, Del, Del, Del, Del, Del, Del, LEFT!" Why left arrow, backspace and delete each have a one second delay, is quite a mystery. Why the chat locks up when you delete the first character on a line is an even bigger mystery.)

Also, driving with a FULL crew is often more difficult than with a medium sized crew. Trying to give every cannon, a piece of the action, is essentially impossible.