Standardized sailors

[aim4]

Do you think TeamNF would consider changing our existing sailors to 14/10/10/etc.? My gunners suck (7/9 and 10/9) and I would be overjoyed if they could be changed to standard retroactively...

[Tunk]

Though admittidly one of my gunners would benifit the rest of my crew would suffer as if they came off a motor bike without a helmet and smashed head first into the curb.

The whole standardised sailor thing is crap anyway, whos bright idea was that?
Leaves no variance to players now.

[papajohns]

not a big fan of this standarized sailor thing.....takes some of the economy away from the game if you ask me

[SteveePL]

When I joined I had no idea what "good" base stats were and I didnt know how many sailors I could create, so I took what they gave me and said ok, this guy has better accuracy then that guy so I will make him the gunner.

Had I have spent hours reading manuals and posts about a game I may not of even liked I did what probably most noobs would do, jumped in with both feet. Around level 20-25 I started to realize how important these stats were. So there I am in my Z1 and what am I going to do, put level 1 gunners onboard? Wrong.

I can see the reasoning for these "standardized" sailors however I think it would be more appropiate to give "noob" sailors these sailors for the first 6 sailors, after that its shop till you drop.

[NWHDarkWolf]

With all do respect to Steve, I must agree. The standardized sailors is junk, pure and simple.

Understand the background I came from: EQ for 6 years, EQ2 for 8 months, Diablo and Diablo II for years before that. Stats never meant much in those... YEAH Right!!!!!!!! Stats are everything in any game, IMO. And they make a huge difference here too.

The first thing I did, even before I downloaded the game... I read the stupid manual. ANd then threw out 90% of it because I didn't undestand it. LOL I read the part about the sailor system and paid attention to the stats I got on my sailors. As a result... My 37 Brit BO levels slower than anyone lese on my ship. Why?? I didn't know enough to refuse him, but I did know enough that I recognized his lower stats.

I created a whole 8 or 9 person crew once I got on after the patch. Why?? I knew it wouldn't last. Much like number 9, I knew that most players would scream bloody murder over it, and TeamNF would have to pull it.