I think a useful feature to add would be an ability to fire zailors if you acquire too many of them. As it stands, the only way of reducing your crew is to get them killed during various storylets (especially since the zee beasts no longer snatch them off the deck).
Simple, find a pirate ship and choose to have it manned and sent to port for the bounty (especially one of the big ones). With any luck you will reduce your crew by 3-6 with your former zailors abandoning you and taking their new ship to the Iron Republic. Worse case scenario? More money.
But yes, they need a way to let us drop off zailors - even if it meant the chance of receiving terror or even a curse from one of the Gods when they spite us for it. The negatives could perhaps be avoided by awarding compensation to the zailors before they go as a safer if more expensive option.
What do you guys think?
edited by Owen Wulf on 10/4/2014