Fixing the crew system
Alright, so far, I rarely EVER bring my crew with me when treasure hunting, and I especially don’t bring them in dark sea expeditions (Given what happened the last few times, they could not return to the ship no matter what and got “lost” on the deck of my ship.) The only real command I found useful is unload the ship while I go on an island.
Here’s some ways this can be fixed:
Teleporting to the ship (if they can’t find a way back after 30 seconds): This will help wonders in the dark sea, or generally any deckhand that just continues getting stuck. The only way to fix it in a normal setting is opening your sails and they teleport, but in the dark sea that fix is no longer available and they are just stuck on the deck of the ship, unanchored. When you say “Return to the ship,” if they can’t by 30 seconds they should just teleport to a spot. If they’re holding any chests, they will remain holding them for you to grab off of them to store yourself.
Chests: Whenever a ship sinks, when I say “Grab the chests,” they just don’t do it because of something finnicky, maybe when I grab them and set it down? Perhaps if you’re the one who grabbed the chest (and it’s not on your ship already,) if you say the command they’ll still grab it. Alternatively, if you’re in a party, they’ll grab any party member’s chests.
New Command: Prepare to board: I always found it weird that you can’t get your entire crew to go on a pirate’s (Or in a criminal’s case, navy ships,) sure you can say it multiple times to eventually get on the ship, but it’s not worth it at that point. I would find it cool if you can prepare your men to board a ship, and when you sink it and stop the ship, they will get off of your ship and attack the opposing crew. If they win, they’ll automatically loot the ship for you.
Addition: Adjusting allocations to unloading the ship
It would be nice if you could adjust what you sold and didn’t sell, or who the sales go to when you unload the ship. In parties, you can set allocations in the party to evenly distribute loot among your party members (Or just yourself if you are feeling greedy,) you can also unload all the chests you got at palo town and save the cargo you were planning to sell at Ravenna by turning off their ability to unload a specific type of object. This would help with people in parties or the very rare merchant user, especially if they did a dark sea expedition and want to evenly distribute the loot.
Allowing to call a specific crew member/deckhand: If you say a crew member’s name (First name or full name,) make them respond to that. For example, you can tell one deckhand who’s following you to wait, which can be used to guard your ship (idk how effective that’d be but ok if you do that,) or tell a specific crew member to return to the ship (like if they just picked up two chests).
That’s all I got for now, but what other ideas do you guys got for crews?