Any tips for starting crews?

[Lucy]

the only real issue with varied levels in your crew is cannon usage, if you have one or two players with lightning, chances are the onces with out will never get a shot in as they do not have the range the lightning has.

[CrimsonRabbit]

Man, I've been trying to use the crew options to create my own crews since the feature showed up. It's really a 'dice-game'-shoot. Random crew-up story to follow:

I'm level 16 and last night I got hooked up with a crew 6 in a matter of minutes...but all were level 4-8 because I like to give it a good +/-. First, one of them wanted to take his new ship...which ended up only having 4 cannons....?...I couldn't even get on one of them for most of the time. We finally got on my galleon and I wanted to take out the grey-names for some Phantom hunting. Found some easy enough, pulled the sails and opened up the cannons for easy picking....well, they couldn't hit it and were wondering why we weren't sailing. I told them that I'd rather not sink, but moved the ship a good deal closer so they could hit it. Then a Colossus showed up and they got excited and half of them started shooting that...well, they hit them both at the same time. They were both on a charge at our ship. Man, that was some intense sailing!! I actually was able to sink them both with broadsides without being hit! (and nobody said anything like, 'good sailing')...even went between them sandwich style. So anyway, with a hull not harmed and a half plunder, one of them starts yelling in caps to go port. I stayed out and took some hits from multiple ships and this guy wouldn't quit yelling at me to port and repair. Man, sometime some people just don't get it. But then again, they sure make the game interesting and intense sometimes!!

I'm all about the random crews....great fun!! Join Crimson Rabbit's crew if the opportunity ever shows up.

[Lucy]

I had a similar incodent last night, I don't know how or where they all came from but in a matter of like one minute after launching my frigate I had 7-8 people on my boat, so I crewed them all and went with it, I try'd to tell the ones I didnt know to stop shooting at everything and let me get away from the island(I normally launch from padres so theres a plethra of big ships right there evertime lol) I managed to stay a float and make a couple of hauls and then they were hooked, when the lower levels see that kind of loot they tend to start listening all the sudden lol. anyway with the numbers we had I started targeting flag ships, found a nice little flag spawn, think it was a man owar. Anyway, one of them kept using fire and of coarse it kept sinking, we all kept telling him to stop, after 5-6 sunken flag ships with no boarding and no loot i made port, removed him from the crew and friends list and took everyone else back out for some good fun boarding those flags.