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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6432610" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>[OOC]<strong>Gentleman Jim - Intelligence (arming ship & crew estimating):</strong> Mostly Gunner Teague has this covered. However, Jim has heard of several English sailors fresh off their meager commissions who were negotiating with Captain Read Wallace for a place on his crew of privateers. They might be swayed if you get to them first or present a better offer.[/OOC]</p><p></p><p>[SBLOCK=shares discussion]Yeah, I literally meant 8 shares as you described. So, equal treasure to what 8 able seamen would get (assuming each got 1 share). Which is greedy but not entirely unreasonable considering the financial risk and unusual costs associated with finding/extracting sunken treasure. So with a crew of 40 (for example), giving each of yourselves 1.5 shares, and du Tourbillon 8, there would be 57 shares; if under such an arrangement you found, for example, 500,000 gp (a huge score from a Spanish treasure <em>galeone</em>), splitting treasure would go like this...</p><p></p><p>One share would equal 8,771 gp 9 sp, enough <s>to retire in the lap of luxury</s> to enjoy 12 years of comfortable living, or 24 years of modest living.</p><p></p><p>Each officer PC would get 13,157 gp 9 sp (total party treasure would be about 78,947 gp), about enough to each buy your own ship, villa, trading company, or <em>maybe</em> bribe a King's Pardon / Letter of Marque. Or enough to enjoy 18 years of comfortable living and plentiful booze, or 36 years of modest living.</p><p></p><p>du Tourbillon would get 70,175 gp, enough to do a great many things with! Or live out his next 48 years in wealth and opulence.</p><p></p><p>Negotiating his accountant Badouin's share (if any) and the distribution of "special treasures" are definitely worth bringing up. Also worth discussing are the ship's "slush funds" which typically cover repairs/supply/rum/shot and powder expenses & disability insurance for crew members. Believe it or not, pirates had one of the first formal disability insurance programs![/SBLOCK]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 6432610, member: 20323"] [OOC][b]Gentleman Jim - Intelligence (arming ship & crew estimating):[/b] Mostly Gunner Teague has this covered. However, Jim has heard of several English sailors fresh off their meager commissions who were negotiating with Captain Read Wallace for a place on his crew of privateers. They might be swayed if you get to them first or present a better offer.[/OOC] [SBLOCK=shares discussion]Yeah, I literally meant 8 shares as you described. So, equal treasure to what 8 able seamen would get (assuming each got 1 share). Which is greedy but not entirely unreasonable considering the financial risk and unusual costs associated with finding/extracting sunken treasure. So with a crew of 40 (for example), giving each of yourselves 1.5 shares, and du Tourbillon 8, there would be 57 shares; if under such an arrangement you found, for example, 500,000 gp (a huge score from a Spanish treasure [i]galeone[/i]), splitting treasure would go like this... One share would equal 8,771 gp 9 sp, enough [s]to retire in the lap of luxury[/s] to enjoy 12 years of comfortable living, or 24 years of modest living. Each officer PC would get 13,157 gp 9 sp (total party treasure would be about 78,947 gp), about enough to each buy your own ship, villa, trading company, or [i]maybe[/i] bribe a King's Pardon / Letter of Marque. Or enough to enjoy 18 years of comfortable living and plentiful booze, or 36 years of modest living. du Tourbillon would get 70,175 gp, enough to do a great many things with! Or live out his next 48 years in wealth and opulence. Negotiating his accountant Badouin's share (if any) and the distribution of "special treasures" are definitely worth bringing up. Also worth discussing are the ship's "slush funds" which typically cover repairs/supply/rum/shot and powder expenses & disability insurance for crew members. Believe it or not, pirates had one of the first formal disability insurance programs![/SBLOCK] [/QUOTE]
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