I'm not sure if this would be something people would want. But i think it could add a new depth and affect current strategies, but create new ones.
Crew on all ships needs to eat.
Lets say each crew members eats 0.01 to 0.1 food per hour.
Ships when docked eat food from warehouse or automatically buy it from market (if applicable)
Ships right before sailing out will load ship with enough food to last the sail (Can add more if we set in settings, lets say we choose 200% to sail there and back, because other port doesn't have food.)
Ships that are sailing will need to have food on board to feed crew.(both trade and war fleets) If there is no food, crew will start dieing at a rate of 1 crew/1 hr

This would also affect profits and travel speeds of all players. Would need some kind of boost in the opposite direction possibly, to add strategy without pissing everyone off.
There could be voodoo made to counter this. (blessing of the gods, 72 hr) All crew members don't need to eat or Gods create food for crew.

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crew already have an upkeep cost. go ahead and call it for food if you really want to.

Feed the crew? Are you mad? Next thing they'll be asking for is clothes and time off once a year to see their dear old mother!

I agree with John Jacob Astor here with upkeep for crew and ships we don't need something like this.
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Wolfie wrote:I agree with John Jacob Astor here with upkeep for crew and ships we don't need something like this.
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i have to agree upkeep is food

So no vacation time either ?
JK
Good point. Just an idea

Danik wrote:Feed the crew? Are you mad? Next thing they'll be asking for is clothes and time off once a year to see their dear old mother!

LOL in another post(deflation) you said you were lowering down their rations...now you give them nothing!? hahaha real pirate aren't you

Georgiy12 wrote:

Danik wrote:Feed the crew? Are you mad? Next thing they'll be asking for is clothes and time off once a year to see their dear old mother!

LOL in another post(deflation) you said you were lowering down their rations...now you give them nothing!? hahaha real pirate aren't you

he probably doesn't even have any crew to give anything to or take anything from

Danik wrote:Feed the crew? Are you mad? Next thing they'll be asking for is clothes and time off once a year to see their dear old mother!

Disapproved - too much of micro management - upkeep should be enough to justify their food