Ok but the prospect of prize money was one of if not the only thing motivating RN crews. A captain who is making them rich would certainly be obeyed more smartly…
True.
I am bumping it up a bit, but not too far to maintain balance, and to keep in mind the fact that any potential for prize money is balanced by the fact that it’s only a figurative diversion from the real objective.
Ok I suppose a bird not in hand is a bit less appealing if you know you are about to get into a furball with an “invincible” frigate.
Certainly after this cruise a prize winning captain should be beating old salts off with a stick who want to serve aboard his ship.
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Then come the rattle of drums and the low rumble of heavy wheels on bare deck, as gunnery drill begins in earnest. set event_sick true That afternoon, you are strolling the quarterdeck when Master Burroughs approaches you… with his wife in tow.
You also get something like this with the slave ship event.
Missing asterisks.
Fixed now.
peering beyond the rocky walls of your hiding place towards the protected harbour of Trimountain/
You order it done, and quickly. Your cast-off top{gender}, like most sailors, cannot swim, and if you delay too long the issue shall become moot.
The training time outside of Trimountain does not seem to be improving the c_stats
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Are you sure? They do use fairmath, which might be doing it.
Pretty sure. Two cycles of gunnery training in a row and it didn’t budge above 55.
Were you choosing not to alter the previous training routine?
Because if so, I just fixed that.
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Seems like traveling from Worsley to New Lancaster isn’t triggering a random event roll.
I just checked, and it definitely should be.
Maybe I am just very unlucky but I’m also not seeing a c_stat increase.
That’s odd, because there shouldn’t be anything different in that script from the others.
Can’t wait to go for a full Patronage run with a foppish aristocrat captain with Lieutenant Pakenham. For now I at least prefer to have a competent Lieutenant.
From the first chapter:
“The Columbians are too preoccupied with cutting loose the wreckage of their won foremast”
Should probably be “own” or “one” foremast.
Picking the middle Composure/Sensibility option:
“Any more would give the impression that you lack composure, or worse yet, that seek attention and adulation to an uncouth degree.”
“that seek attention”, should probably be “that you seek attention” alternatively just “seek attention”
Just prior to choosing your First Lieutenant:
“Yet as you stride the quarterdeck in the lantern-lit gloom, you spot your First Lieutenant, peering at the Cordial’s retreating form from the stern rail, and looking for from content.”
“For from content”, should probably be “far from content”.
Picking Lieutenant Shannon as First Lieutenant:
"The gun crews performed well today, {pronoun_5}, {pronoun_1} observes as you step up next to ${pronoun_2}, “but I fear they shall be less steady against a real opponent.”
There should be a quotation mark after pronoun_5. (“The guns performed extra well today, sir,” he observes…)
Very uncertain about this one, but when talking to Cromwell about the Heavy Frigates you have the option to ask:
“If we find this enemy frigate, do we have permission to engage him?”
On one hand, a male-centric crew would refer to ships as “her”, no? But on the other hand, I guess the enemy is more of a “him”? Eh, very uncertain here, but better to mention it just in case. Or is the gender of ships also flipped? Cromwell keeps calling the ship “he” if I ask him about whether I can engage or not.
I’ll just post this now and continue in a second post once I found some more typos/issues. Good reading, love the writing. 
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Pronoun bug after infiltrating Trianomour harbor by boat to spy on the enemy ships:
Markham’s face lights up at your words. “Oh yes sir! Thank you sir!”
In truth, Markham’s actions might well make $[pronoun_3} eligible for a chance at examination for lieutenant
Also, on the next page after that:
“Forgive sir, if I have overlooked some finer point of sea service,”
There should probably be a me after forgive here.
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On the way to Worsley:
“Foraker makes she way down the Columbian coast, carefully avoiding the Columbian forts”
Her way?
Found an earlier typo, when agreeing with Bannister that peace is necessary:
“Bannister thankfully does not have the poor sense to gloat as you enter your arguments alongside his own. Fisher retreats back to his glass of port, sulking. He has too much good sense to press the issue now that you have set yourself against $[pronoun_3}.”
The pronoun uses the wrong bracket type ([ instead of {), and therefore appears as normal text rather than “him/her”.
Here is a non-typo issue: I sailed to New Lancaster, raided the ships there, sailed into port. Then I sailed to Worsley, and after that I was only able to sail to Trimountaine for obvious reasons. However, from Trimountaine I was able to directly return to Worsley without checking anything at Trimountaine (even though I had just been told that the ship was definitively not at Worsley). This gave me an extra random event, which was quite neat, but overall made no sense for the story.
When I then return to Trimountaine after that, I get the event with a guy falling overboard and decide to “send the launch to rescue Whitlock” but I get the following error message:
line 781: Invalid string, open quote with no close quote: "women
After that the game crashes. 
EDIT: In fact, it seems like you can stay on the Trimountaine-Worsley patrol route infinitely? I guess it is a good way of seeing all the random events quickly, but I think there should probably be some fix there.
EDIT2: Currently exploiting it to get the best crew in the entire Royal Navy. 
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How many chapters will be in this game?
Chapter 2, feigning retreat:
“Your order Foraker to wear away and head for the open ocean, feigning retreat.”
Should be “You”.
Also, I saw some error in the stats when looking at the date. I think it said “June, 203, 1813”. Pretty sure there are not that many days in a single month, even in Albion. This might have been related to the exploitation of the Trimountaine-Worsley bug.
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Three. I’ve got one more left, and then the epilogue.
This should be fixed now along with all other reported typos/bugs.
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