Confused about the Cabin Boys

Please explain why it now costs each player 10,000 pearls/ 14 days to make the calculations easier. Aren't they using a computer to do the math? The "Cabin Boy" NPC ship is not spawning on USA West maps. Please remove the variable reload cannon speed feature from the game (makes the calculation really easy), or provide a means of obtaining the Cabin Boys besides purchasing with pearls.

 

Ahoy mate,

The cost for elite powder monkeys hasn't changed. For 200 powder monkeys it was 10,000 pearls. For 14 days of Cabin Boys (which are faster at reloading than elite powder monkies were) is also 10,000 pearls.

There is not a "Cabin Boy" NPC in the game. If you are referring to an NPC which drops the Cabin Boy, there is the Smugglers NPC. This has a chance to drop 1 day of a cabin boy.

The issue was not difficult calculations, as you stated, a computer is running it so it wouldn't be difficult. The system that was in place with the old Powder Monkeys was flawed and the cabin boys fixed that flaw.

Does this answer your question?

 

Almost. Before the sync you did not have to buy the powder monkeys. Now you HAVE to buy the cabin boys. Why make the change?

 

You are not required to buy them. You can still sail without them. You can shoot a Smugglers NPC for a chance to win a cabin boy.

 

I think what he is saying is that now the only source of Cabin Boys is to buy them. With Powder monkeys, you could bid in the market and get them in the cauldron so you didn't have to buy them all.

 

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