My stats are falling

[Ahad88]

I keep sinking ships and winning battles but somehow I cannot increase my stats! Heck my stats are decreasing. I can only do 3 to 5 damage with my sword and if not for my pistol I have to spend 1 hour fighting a single enemy. This seems stupid but how can I increase my stats? I tried sleeping in a tavern for a night or two but I cannot get rid of the negative buffs to my stats. Any solution?

[nZ RaifalM3n]

Do you have a big ship and low navigation skill?

[Ahad88]

Originally posted by nZ RaifalM3n:

Do you have a big ship and low navigation skill?

I have a class 3 ship and a navigator = 32 on board but my own navigation skill is not much.

[XŦĦ§¥]

Most likely that;
-As Raifa said, you are sailing a ship way over your skills, if you hover your mouse on top of the "Navigation" skill in your character sheets, it should say what ship class you can sail without penalties and the navigation requirements.
You might need to hire an officer specialised in navigation in a Tavern.

- If I recall correclty, your character "Health"(NOT your life points) might be very low, affecting your stats as well

-Depending on the game difficulty you chose, your stats progression are much slower.
Keep an eye on the "%" next to them, it is supposed to be sort-of grindy, keep in mind that enemies will scale up just like Skyrim, so don't go level'ing only navigation skills, then you'll get absolutely Rekt on the ground battles.

[stretch]

Sailing higher class ships also lowers your core stats and that will lower how many officers you can recruit as well as many other things. Lots of negatives to sailing too big a ship. I did it too. Learnt the hard way.

[MrGray]

Originally posted by Ahad88:

Originally posted by nZ RaifalM3n:

Do you have a big ship and low navigation skill?

I have a class 3 ship and a navigator = 32 on board but my own navigation skill is not much.

You need a navigator with at least 65 skill for 3rd class ships.

[VaeliusNoctu]

Originally posted by MrGray:

Originally posted by Ahad88:

I have a class 3 ship and a navigator = 32 on board but my own navigation skill is not much.

You need a navigator with at least 65 skill for 3rd class ships.

This makes most sense. I dont think that i must have navigation skills as long as my navigator have them.

Otherwise i need no navigator if i need the skills either way on my character. He is the captain and dont need a Jack of all Trades.

But good i found that Thread bevore i buy/sail a to big ship too.

[StanTheManPC]

Originally posted by MrGray:

Originally posted by Ahad88:

I have a class 3 ship and a navigator = 32 on board but my own navigation skill is not much.

You need a navigator with at least 65 skill for 3rd class ships.

Is this the reason why going from a brig the upkeep is only like 7k to a gallon which is around 80k? I didn’t notice at first until I was 100k is debt.

[VaeliusNoctu]

Crap, i wonder how much cash you make in this game if upkeep for one ship is that high.

[wolvescream]

Nav 60 for Class 3, either you or a Navigator. Though you will need one in the early years anyway, since you suck at steering ships.

So get a worse ship.

Besides, when you sail a ship above your ability, you get bad stats everywhere, even when trading. Even with a good Purser. Means you will sell conquered ship way beyond their value. Instead of getting 60.000 for a Gallon, you´ll get about 3000.