Do i end it all

[Nuclearman7]

@GhastlyShell

It works in cohort with all other systems (levelling up, stats, profession mastery, deckhand affinity) to make changing deckhands a major pain

I completely forgot about this but youre completely right about it

@GhastlyShell

ll while having knowledeably useless professions with non-descript details (like chefs using fished up fish for meals, nothing tells you about that despite being important).

Dont most of them have a decent description tho? I remember navigator, shipbuilder and cannoneer being pretty straightforward in terms of information. Merchant i forgot and enchanter & chef arent very descriptive, so i agree with those.

Your next point i fully agree with tho, again i somehow completely forgot about switching deckhands costing effort for imo no good reason. Luckily that effort isnt too much, except for their profession and loyalty.

@GhastlyShell

As to why this will get worse with time, that would be because they will likely become completely obsolete past a certain (global) level with ships having absurd stats by default, and ship parts furthering this powercreeping.
It becomes a useless, clogging, and time-consuming feature that will require an overhaul (or straight up removal) in the future.

Bigger ships = more deckhands but ye i could see new ship(parts) making deckhand stats way less useful. Tho vetex does have things planned for deckhands, such as having them command parts of your fleet. Those are all things for the future tho so its hard to say if thisll actually become an issue or not

@GhastlyShell

but what about rarity and profession mastery

Rarity increases the scaling of their stats. So a legendary deckhand has better scaling than an adept one. As for their profession mastery, those work with % and therefore will never be obsolete. A 5% instant durability regen and 33% more durability gain from repairing your ship will always be useful, same for all the other abilities since they either work with %s or are something completely different (merchant’s shop and chef’s meal cooking).

But either way, all the issues you mentioned (except the issue mentioned next) would become only small qol issues if vetex allowed us to change our deckhands’ stats and professions more easily. Theres no real reason not to allow this change, hell you could even make it cost galleons for yet another galleon sink