Booty
- This article would be greatly improved by the use of a screenshot or illustration depicting a booty division.
- If you're looking for the sunshine widget panel, see booty panel.
Booty is the total amount of PoE and commodities pillaged from other ships during a voyage. The booty is viewed by clicking on the "Ye Booty" chest and selecting "Inspect the Booty":
When a ship ports, any officer of the crew can divide the booty by selecting the appropriate option. He or she will then view a screen with a default booty divide according to the crew's booty shares. The officer can then adjust the booty shares if he or she feels it appropriate, and then it is submitted for approval by the rest of the crew. A notification is sent to the players, who can vote by clicking on "Vote on booty". They may then vote "yea" or "nay" and a majority is needed to effect the decision.
Each pirate is given a portion of the booty based on the number of battles he or she participated in. The booty can only be adjusted up or down a single battle for each pirate, except for the divvying officer, who may not boost his or her own share, but may reduce it as much as desired.
The crew cut can be lowered but never raised.
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[hide]Dividing the booty if you're only an officer
If you're only an officer, and you're aboard a ship you don't hold the deed to, after you divide the booty the crew/restocking cut goes into your pocket instead of into the hold of the boat. This is because you can't manipulate the funds in the ship hold, so you're forced to restock from your PoE on hand.
Undivvied Booty
If a ship is at sea when the server reboots, it is whisked back to its last port of call. The contents of the booty are dumped into the hold, and no record remains as to what pirates were aboard or how many battles were fought. A scrupulous CO can use chat logs to recreate this information and pay jobbers.
If all pirates abandon a ship at sea long enough for it to be auto-ported (30 minutes), all commodities and PoE in the booty are dumped into the sea and lost.[1]
After a ship ports, if the booty remains undivided for more than thirty minutes, it is automatically divided according to the crew booty shares.
Historical Notes
Previously, officers could set a pirate's share to any value. Also, the crew cut could only be increased, not decreased. Both of these were changed due to the actions of a few unscrupulous players. As it stands currently, the divvying officer can only adjust the number of paid battles for a pirate by one, either up or down (see above).
