Post by divini on May 4, 2019 12:33:37 GMT -5
While going to the spice halls is common early and mid game, I find in the late game that you get so many morale boosting and maintaining talents that it actually becomes really hard to make use of the service. You have talents that fire off automatically vs xeno, talents that increase morale when paid, the staple Cleansing Purge that heals morale, talents that recover morale after ship battles, missions giving an automatic morale boost, etc. What ends up happening is that you end up with a bunch spicing talents and traits which can be very useful (finding contacts, rumors) end up being very hard to use. My personal example comes from playing a Scavenger captain, where I could barely use the "Roughneck" trait for finding salvage rumors at all.
I do realize you can let someone's morale drop on purpose, which I ended up doing for my above example. But it's counter-intuitive and there's the risk of desertion if you do it with a crew member.
I'm not particularly suggesting that you can spice whenever you want (though that would be interesting), but maybe like every 3-12 weeks it would be great if there was an option where you can patronize the spice halls a certain number of times just for the sake of spicing and fun, with perhaps the cooldown being reset if you visit the spice halls normally for morale. I feel this is quite natural as a crew would do this when they dock at ports anyway even if someone didn't need cheering up, like seafaring crews in the past.
