Cost of officers

[Sebena]

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[DezNutz]

Everything is unbalanced to players that are struck with a new threat or encounter; After a certain period of time, they realize its a good strategy how the game works etc.

In a general sense, I agree with your statement; however, I disagree with your use of it in this case. As Phoenix stated in so many words, one could use this to obliterate a player into retirement from the game. That's not a strategy, that's an exploit. The designers of this game want to keep players.

[Stan Rogers]

I always just assumed the price of officers were dependent upon officers in house: not officers that once were in house.

Appears I was wrong and not in agreement with the situation.
If I purchased a couple captains that puts me over the 200 captain and lose a lvl on each ship guideline and then find I do not want the repair/lvl up cost, can I not assassin myself to get back below that 200 ships/captains and restore the damage percentage to pre 200 captain limit ?

[Captain Jack]

I always just assumed the price of officers were dependent upon officers in house: not officers that once were in house.

Appears I was wrong and not in agreement with the situation.
If I purchased a couple captains that puts me over the 200 captain and lose a lvl on each ship guideline and then find I do not want the repair/lvl up cost, can I not assassin myself to get back below that 200 ships/captains and restore the damage percentage to pre 200 captain limit ?

No you were not wrong. Phoenixknight is wrong.

The officers cost is always only relevant to the number of officers present.


I just verified it as well (for the sake of integrity):

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Officer Type   Hired Now   Next Officer cost   Actions
Captains (Each ship in a fleet needs a captain)   26   33,670   Hire
Admirals (Each fleet needs an admiral)   15   76,800   Hire
Merchants (Each trade route needs a merchant)   14   34,856   Hire
Officer Contracts have reduced the original prices above by 40%


I then used an Assasin who murdered an Admiral:

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Officers Recruitment
Officer Type   Hired Now   Next Officer cost   Actions
Captains (Each ship in a fleet needs a captain)   26   33,670   Hire
Admirals (Each fleet needs an admiral)   14   69,713   Hire
Merchants (Each trade route needs a merchant)   14   34,856   Hire
Officer Contracts have reduced the original prices above by 40%


Most probably, you missed something.

[PhoenixKnight]

May be I had a glitch, or I forgot to account for something . I checked again and CJ is right.

Officer Type Hired Now Next Officer cost Actions
Captains (Each ship in a fleet needs a captain) 267 1,474,148 Hire
Admirals (Each fleet needs an admiral) 84 1,316,550 Hire
Merchants (Each trade route needs a merchant) 70 502,535 Hire

Your assassin has successfully murdered one of PhoenixKnight (#28199) merchants !

Captains (Each ship in a fleet needs a captain) 267 1,474,148 Hire
Admirals (Each fleet needs an admiral) 84 1,316,550 Hire
Merchants (Each trade route needs a merchant) 69 491,956 Hire

[Admiral Nelson]

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