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9.9 Crew Allocation, Officers and Perks, Your Fleet and of course Fishing - YT Intro


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Naval Action Patch 9.9 has landed, here is a quick starter guide covering some of the great new features, Crew allocation, Officers and their Perks, your fleet and of course fishing. Here is a quick YT guide :

 

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Kudos!  Instead of infernal, lubberly blubbering and whining about the changes, two captains who went out in the game world as it is after the patch, ran it up and down the coast, blew some cannon up and told us what the reality is now.

 

Settling down to watch with interest, notepad close at hand.  Gold Rattlesnake restless at the dock, new crew chipping shot and new 1st Lieutenant studying charts and tide tables.

 

~ Hardy ~

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Jeheil's vid made clearer to me the role of crew and fleet ships. 

 

Fleet ships can be added in port, and some of your surplus (if any) crew assigned to it.

 

Crew Management functions can be used to assign surplus crew to captured NPC ships, to be sailed back to OP or port or(?) follow along on your mission (with their damage).  This gives advantages to sailing a ship smaller than you may be qualified for, in order to have surplus crew to handle prizes captured.  He discusses the cost/benefit decisions that need to be made regarding boarding (costly in terms of crew losses) and the cost of replacing crew or popping the valuable MedKits (can be bought in port or crafted from Food Supplies, Rum and Tobacco).

 

He also demonstrates how fish caught during OW sailing can be Converted into FishMeat right on board, and provides advice regarding what to do (and not do) with Bottles that contain Treasure Maps pointing to sources of good swag in Wrecks located on the Map, and how to access them.  

 

Also, your fleet escort ships added in port have to have all guns, upgrades, cargo REMOVED before you can sail.  Capn' Jeheil reports that they will be set up with medium armament, etc. and sailed by the AI system.  He indicated that their actions can be directed from the map screen in the Combat instance, which I have not tried of yet  Your flagship will be reduced to the sailing characteristics of the slowest, deepest draft fleet escort ship. 

 

As always, a valuable, well-organized and concisely narrated instructional video.

 

~ HK ~

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Olav please confirm, but the three perks shallow, frigate and sol apply as per the port battle designations of shallow, deep and regional

 

So Shallow is upto mercury

Frigate is Renomee to Ingie

Sol is 3rd to Santi 

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Olav please confirm, but the three perks shallow, frigate and sol apply as per the port battle designations of shallow, deep and regional

 

So Shallow is upto mercury

Frigate is Renomee to Ingie

Sol is 3rd to Santi 

 

This is correct. 1-3, 4-5, 6-nonrated.

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