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From: crichard@eecs.wsu.edu (richardson craig s    - CS500)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Pirates! How do you score?
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.231211.16594@eecs.wsu.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 91 23:12:11 GMT
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In article <2460@sumax.seattleu.edu> davidy@sumax.seattleu.edu (David L. Yee) writes:
>Oops, I goofed when I said reducing the number of fellow buccaneers      
>just before dividing up the plunder increases your personal take. It was
>pointed out to me that your haul is a fixed proportion of the total depending
>on your level - I had thought you recieved x number of crew's shares (which
>is in fact affected by the number of men before division. So, it seems I have
>sent thousands of hapless pirates to a untimely death for no good     
>reason. 

Not necessarily.  The survivors are that much happier with their shares, which
it seems to me makes more crewmen volunteer when you go recruiting (in the
assumption that they'll survive :) ).  But I don't know if it's a good idea to
go around losing battles to do it...

--Craig (Long John Silver Imitator)
-- 
You can't cheat an honest man.  He has to have larceny in his
heart in the first place.
- Claude Dukenfield