Wait, red face means you lost that crew.. really?

[maestro]

So I finally got a classic pirate ship up and running and I attacked an island full of enemies, it was a close one, but of my 12 crew, none were lost thanks to my interevention healing and all..but after the battle 2 crew including my map expert are red faced angry and won't return the the ship.. I had some drinks to get some back but my whole crew went angy red and I just recently left port with them drunk and happy.. so what gives? I have the ship, the crew and I win a big battle and now they want to desert?

[Bananaedmonkey]

yep

[comptebistouri]

Your crew loose morale each hit so if it was a "Big Battle" like you said, it's possible. Maybe it was too big ^^ (angry people may angry other member of the crew too i think)

[Brassqund]

The moral is something you always need to keep in mind.
Also, even if they had happy face when you quit the taverne, that doesn't
mean the moral was at his maximum. ♥♥♥♥ on the ship also
reduce the moral really quickly, specially during long trip.
Once you start to see a lot of yellow face, you need to go to the tavern.
If you wait too much... ... well, too late.

[maestro]

ok thanks

[Bananaedmonkey]

also never hire anyone with the "perk" bully, then the crewmate will either get hurt or hurt other people (both with moral and health bar) last time i had a bully my first mate ended up killing him........ i should have listened more when they had there conversations

[maestro]

Yeah I have someone who's attacking my crew now and then, so they must be a bully. I need to get better at doing background checks before I hire lol.

As for having red faced crew stuck on a island, I was out of morale items and didn't realize paying them would get them back on the boat where I could then go to a tavern. Now I'm seeing that you really don't want red faces, ever. It's just one step from implosion.

My problem now is making cannons efficiently. For a while, I had 4 cannons and they were all fired right away, preventing level 4 ships from getting off more than a few shots, but now my crew seems to be acting really inefficiently, as in not loading cannons before a battle instead running around grabbing more ammo while my ship is blown up. All I can think is I need to greatly reduce the size of my boat and give them less area to fumble around with.