Hoist the Black! Ship intimidation

[Xarge VI]

It would be a cool addition that if you're hoisting the black flag you can roll for intimidation to have the crew surrender when fighting npc ships.

It would be a nice addition for non-evil pirates. You get less loot as you don't get to loot the dead. But you get to loot the ship's chests for those map shards and things without killing the crew.

[The GrumpyCat]

I'm going to point this ActionReplays way, to see what he thinks as this is really his baby. My current thoughts would be a 'no' however or, at least, if allowed then Map Shards would not be made avaiable on the ships pillaged like this. Map shards lock away some of the best loot in the game, and it seems wrong to bypass part of the challenge to get them with a skill roll. Certainly I feel if implemented it'd have to be very carefully balenced.
I get that it'd be a nice addition for none-evil sailors, but they can always choose to simply only go after really bad guys (e.g. crimson corsaiers) and it makes no sense that some ships (like the undead vessels) would surrender!
However- perhaps lower tiered vessels, with no map shards, could have this option? That might be nice.

At any rate- going to pass this onto ActionReplay and see what he says.

[The GrumpyCat]

Talked to ActionReplay and it has been denied.