Ship Lease

[akamystic]

Hmmmmmm.......sounds pretty good to me. Pretty much a win/win situation.

[Basil Dreadflint]

The high level pirate won't get a share of the gold if he is not onboard! Once you leave the ship, even though you are in the crew, you give up crew bonus, ships sunk, and crew share.

Also, isn't this pretty much what we all aready do? Just not for total strangers.
But not ALWAYS! Letting someone borrow your ship is a nice gesture, but GIVING them your ship really isnt good for them as a pirate.
Part of developing your character and leveling your pirate is the challenge of sailing. If a level 2 pirate can lease a war Gall, he could get his sailing all the way to level 4 or 5 in the first haul. By the third time you launched it for him, he would be level 5 notoriety, and probably level 7 sailing, but level 1 or 2 on every other skill. Why would he ever even bother to buy a ship of his own if he never has to pay for it, always has one at his disposal, never has to worry about repair costs, etc.?

One last bad, Since the ship is the high level players, if the one driving decides to take on a flag, they wont be able to board it. The captain is the ship owner, no matter if he is onboard or not. Only the Captain can hit the boarding button. Now the ship is tethered to the flag ship, and cant let go. (I've seen this in regualr sailing where the ship owner discoed while grappling the flag.)

One thing that has been said over and over in many of the threads about helping each other, Too much help is actually a bad thing. It develops a high level pirate who is unevenly balanced in skills, and can't do anything for himself.

[akamystic]

Good points Basil. I think Rackat was trying to say why not benefit in some shape or form for something we already do to help the lower level characters? I personally don't lend my ships out on a regular basis but do allow lower level guild members to sail every now and then.

Every pirate makes their own choice on what they want to level up and how they'd like to so do. I try to maintain a balance when leveling so I don't have a level 5 cutlass and a level 18 voodoo doll....etc. Yet there are others that choose otherwise either from experience, lack of or just pure choice.

Out of all 4 of my open characters I certainly learned many things the first time around that I did not repeat on the second character. Ultimately I did something different with all of them (including my 5th on Test).

I think this is just an opportunity for a low level to get the taste of a War Ship and gain some reps. Yes I agree they should mostly work their way up the chain as most of us did with a light sloop, light galleon and so on. Obviously some guidelines and limitations should be set if this were even to be considered.