Two questions re: ships

Sunless Sea
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I have been playing the last few days and now that the game is officially released I have two questions. I wanted to wait until today in case there were last minute patches:

  1. What does &quotship weight&quot do? As far as I can tell it doesn’t affect ship speed. Does it do anything? If not, why is it included?

  2. There are patch notes saying things like &quotprize ship value increased&quot and notes about capturing ships. Apparently if you reduce the crew to 0 you can board and capture prize ships. However, current mechanics as far as I can tell actually make this impossible because you will destroy the enemy ship WAY before you reduce the crew near 0. IS this broken? Will it be fixed? I want to pirate ships so if its going to be fixed I will wait to play a bit.

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It does affect ship speed, just not to a very noticeable extent. It’s easier to notice if you go straight from the default steamer to, say, the Dreadnought.

Just musing aloud, it might be possible to capture a ship currently if you had a decent deck gun, the weakest flensing gun you could get your hands on, as little Iron as possible, and a lot of patience. You’d use both guns to bring the ship’s hull to 50%, then you’d switch to the weak flensing gun only.

Anyway, if you look around the forum, we’ve had a few discussions about this. No official response yet, however.

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Thanks. It doesn’t seem like you should have to deliberately gimp your Iron stat and choose the weakest gun possible to be able to capture ships. I hope they patch it.