Booty
- 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".
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[hide]Dividing the Booty
Whenever booty is brought aboard a ship, 50% of the PoE is automatically divided amongst the crew. This division is unaffected by the crew's chosen booty share. The rest of the PoE and any commodities or treasure chests brought aboard, are placed in the ship's booty chest for later division at port.
When a ship ports, any player ranked officer or above in the crew can divide (or "divvy") 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 when appropriate (for example, players who left during battle can be given -1 to reduce their share of the booty). Once the division has been approved by the officer, it is submitted for approval by the rest of the pirates on board the ship. 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 affect the decision.
Each pirate is given a portion of the booty based on the number of battles in which he or she participated, indicated under their names in the booty division panel. If the booty being divided is from a flotilla, blockade, or Atlantis, this is replaced by the number of 10-minute rounds for which the pirate was present. The booty can only be adjusted up or down by one 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.
Special note if you're only an officer
If you're only an officer and you're aboard a ship to which you don't hold the deed and nobody ranked FO or above is on board, the crew/restocking cut goes into your pocket instead of into the hold of the boat after you divide the booty. This is because you can't manipulate the funds in the ship hold, so you're forced to restock from your PoE on hand. If a higher ranked officer is onboard when you divide the crew cut will go into the hold and the higher ranked officer will have to either restock or take out the crew cut and give it to you.
Undivided Booty
If a ship is at sea when the server reboots, it is whisked back to its last port of call, all commodities and PoE in the booty are dumped into the sea and lost.
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).
The auto division of booty was introduced in release 2007-03-21, and initially only divided 25% of the booty amongst the crew. This was later changed to 50% with release 2007-09-04.
See Also
External Links
- Official game documents
- Spanish article: Botín
