Scurvy

[Gamghads]

Remove it please.

[irdumb - superAFK]

Początkowo opublikowane przez FrickenMoron:

Using consumables to 'fix' scurvy is not a solution. Do you seriously want to Micromanage ALL your pirates every time? What if someone has 30+ pirates, do you seriously expect the players to feed them citrus by hand every 2 minutes?

I agree, the #1 priority should be AI fixes, but scurvy isn't that hard to deal with. Citrus isn't a consumable item, if you put a scurvy fighting food on your ship where your pirates eat, they'll be fine and you won't have to worry about scurvy ever again. The only problems that would keep me from using 30+ pirates all the time is the conflicting cleaning jobs bug and the lag at towns when 30+ pirates decide to get drunk :P

[KrysisMode]

Początkowo opublikowane przez JesusFabre:

Thanks for your feedback everybody. In the next update we're going to fix scurvy-related issues by modifying the AI behaviour of your pirates so they prioritize vitamin foods over fish. This will be the list of food that will cure o alleviate scurvy: cabbage, blueberry, raspberry, banana, coconut, lemon (citrus)

Throw in a scurvy toggle and I'm sold. Mostly becuase according to that list watermelons and fruits won't do crap and those are probably the most common food sources at start next to fishing.

But seriosuly a toggle would be nice. Options are always nice. Hell throw in a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ kraken and godzilla long as they're an option you can switch on or off!

[D'Car]

I have to agree with a lot of these people that scurvy is terrible ... in it's current iteration. The consumable curative and/or selective eating of a pile of readily available fruit would be a good fix.

[Unknown Error]

I'm also on the train of that scurvy is a bad idea (currently). At least remove the feature on Easy or newer players, it took me at least an hour to figure out that I had Scurvy and had to google the soultion to the problem.

That said, it also makes food being the thing that needs to be micromanaged the most and sucks the fun out the game that are about pirates. It's also the most Simy thing about the game

[DougInTheBox]

stupid question... how do I know if one of my pirates has scurvy? I have a pirate who's health is constantly dropping, but I don't see any indication on his stats page of what the reason might be.

[DougInTheBox]

nevermind, I finally figured it out. The icon is over the character when you pause... not on the stat page.

[mr moon]

stock only fruit and veg get them to fight on a island and they usaly wil eat after a fight

[ezwip]

I retract my statement about not playing more than five minutes until scurvy is fixed. I am now at 3 hours.

[Gamghads]

Its even worse after 3 hours, if you then lose your whole crew..

[BadKarMa]

It's definatly not great at the moment, and has to be patched...

...but if you only feed Water Melon and Sour Krout to your pirates (sell your fish and all other food stuff), then you won't get sick at all!! Just remember that and you will be somewhat fine.

[FancyMustelid]

Hi! I recently got this game and had a rough start learning to play, but then I started having fun. Then I got scurvy and that took a lot of fun away, but I researched it a lot. Now I'm having fun again.

This is what seems to work until they update and fix it:

Don't got scurvy? Just buy watermelons and stock them in barrels. They don't seem to cause an issue. Anything else and you'll get scurvy in no time.

Have scurvy? Remove all the food on your boat and buy nothing but citrus and melons. It's going to eat up money, but bounty boards can pay off, so you may have to grind a bit. Stock only citrus on your ship until all your scurvy is removed. The AI currently doesn't pick foods intelligently, that's supposed to be in the next update with a big AI improvement. Once your scurvy is gone, stock nothing but watermelons.

Scurvy comes in stacks and is only cured by one rank per cure item. It can stack up to five times, but seems at the fifth stack, you're going to die really fast.

Hopefully with the update, a balanced diet will be key, but the AI will pick foods from your stock according to priority of needs.

As for the mechanic, it's a pirate game, and when you think of real life pirates, you probably think of scurvy, lice, and plenty of other disgusting diseases and infections. It gives incentive to stop at towns and interact with shops. On the other hand, it becomes another point of micromanaging that I'm not convinced is conducive to fun. Once you have the money to afford a balanced diet with plenty of food, it just becomes extra busy work. So, the fun of the mechanic really depends on whether or not you enjoy a little micromanagement, assuming the update fixes the issue.

[Filthy Goon]

Am I the only one that has no problems with scurvy? 5 man crew 20 citrus in storage, when it comes up i take out any food currently on my ship and replace it with citrus, boom no more scurvy for a good while.

[irdumb - superAFK]

some people probably don't like to micromanage or they don't realize they can remove food from their ship

[irdumb - superAFK]

Początkowo opublikowane przez JesusFabre:

Thanks for your feedback everybody. In the next update we're going to fix scurvy-related issues by modifying the AI behaviour of your pirates so they prioritize vitamin foods over fish. This will be the list of food that will cure o alleviate scurvy: cabbage, blueberry, raspberry, banana, coconut, lemon (citrus)

so does that mean watermelon, fruit, and sourkraut will no longer cure scurvy?
and that cabbage, blueberries, and raspberries will be new items? I haven't found a way to get them so far.

[ezwip]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Gamghads:

Its even worse after 3 hours, if you then lose your whole crew..

I keep restarting and trying different things I haven't gotten far enough to notice it yet. Hopefully it gets patched and I'm oblivious to it.