Labor
Labor (Commonwealth English: Labour) is needed to finish producing goods. Each account is given 24 hours of allocated labor per day. On subscriber oceans, labor is evenly distributed among an account's characters (one character would have 24 hours, two characters would have 12 each, three characters would have 8 each). Unused labor by one character will not be applied to the others. On doubloon oceans, 24 hours are allocated for each character with a labor badge. Thus, an account with three pirates with labor badges could provide 72 hours of labor per day.
One labor hour is used when pirates work at a shoppe or when they forage.
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[hide]Taking a Job
If a shoppe or stall is hiring, there is a Help wanted button on the right shoppe panel. Clicking this button allows you to take the job as well as see the wages offered. Different wages are usually given for different grades.
There are three grades of labor: basic, skilled and expert. If you play a crafting puzzle, the quality of the labor you produce depends on how well you perform. For shoppes without puzzles, the quality is random.
Note that you don't need to take a job at a shoppe with a crafting puzzle to provide labor. It is automatically provided when you perform the appropriate puzzle.
Laboring Puzzles
Eventually, all shopppes will have associated crafting puzzles. For now, only distilling, alchemistry, and shipwrightery have been implemented. You can provide an hour of online labor by playing the appropriate crafting puzzle. Playing these puzzles is the only way pirates without labor badges can provide work.
You can also provide offline work at distilleries, apothecaries, and shipyards. This is done by periodically playing the puzzle. Achieving a standing of "distinguished" allows you to provide skilled labor; a standard of "renowned" allows for expert labor. You can check your current skills by clicking "Ye -> Info -> Skills" from the Ahoy! panel.
You can use up to 24 hours of "advance" labor playing the crafting puzzles. These hours are then taken from your next 1, 2, or 3 days of labor (for accounts with 1, 2, or 3 pirates, respectively).
Splitting Your Labor
Each pirate can have up to three jobs. Labor will always go to the highest-paying job a pirate holds unless that shop has no work or too many employees.
If you are working for crew stalls or shoppes, it is a good idea to make sure each stall or shoppe gets labor by either splitting the jobs between three characters or making sure your crew's stalls and shoppes have standarized labor rates.
Wages
Wages are automatically delivered to your pirate every twelve hours. To check how much labor you have provided, click on "Ye -> Info -> Labor Report".
Shoppes and Labor
Depending on the type and size of a stall or shoppe, you are limited to how many hours of labor can be provided per hour. You can view this number in the form of Labor per Hour under the "Manage Employees -> Staff" menu of a "Manage the Shoppe" radial menu. Multiplying this number by 24 shows the maximum number of hours your shoppe or stall can use each day.
Shoppes are also limited in the amount of expert and skilled labor they can produce. Stalls have these limits listed in their respective bazaars under the "Run your own stall". Regular shoppes are approximately two times and upgraded shoppes are three times those of a deluxe stall.
How Shoppes Use Labor
Labor is taken from pirates in a round-robin fashion until either the maximum labor output is reached, there is no labor left to provide, or there are not enough employees to reach the maximum output. Expert labor is always provided first, followed by skilled, and then basic.
Historical Notes
The release of 2005-01-05 added in-game labor reports. Previously pirates would not know how their hours were used except by checking the (now defunct) money report. Shoppe and stall owners no longer received nightly emails with this information.
