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"It's the little things, Cap'n." Making your crew feel welcome.

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HamsterIV:
I let members of my crew who are not obeying orders know I will have them tied to the mast and flogged at the earliest opportunity. If they don't fall in line I start adding lashes to their punishment. "Not on at your post again? That is going to be another 5 lashes, what are we at now 35? You will be sleeping on your belly for a month."

I have never been able to follow through on my threats, but I like to think one day some 8 year old kid will be playing on his older brother's account, when the older brother walks in to find the kid totally butchering his good name and reputation. If the older brother happens to think my corporeal punishment suggestions are worth implementing, who am I to stop him?

Serenum:
Being humble always works, encourage your crew when they do something right, give advice if they do something wrong and always, always be optimistic, nothing worst then a captain that doesn't think he can win.
And if everything goes wrong just take the defeat with dignity instead of trying to put the blame on your crew.

I always frown when certain captains write in chat about how their crew sucks even during the game when they are losing.

Echoez:
I believe that my slightly broken accent here and there with english and my impatience with people that respond slowly will usually not make me the most pleasant of captains to people that do not respond to me.

Although, as long as the crewmembers are responsive, even in text chat, I'll make sure they are rewarded for what they do, even if they don't get it to the moment we need it, I just want to know that they are trying and listening to what I'm saying, if they do, they are a good crew in my eyes even if we lose and deserve all the praise they can get.

People that do not communicate better not hop on my ship at all, they will get yelled at and will be made to walk on the plank.

Cheesy Crackers:
Well when I used to fly my spire (Not so often anymore, but used to fly it a lot) a friend and I would usually RP some star wars stormtrooper orders because my spire's called the Death Star on a Stick.
*ahem*
ALRIGHT STORM TROOPERS TO BATTLE STATIONS! MAKE SURE YOU ACTUALLY REMEMBER TO CLOSE THE EXHAUST PORT THIS TIME BECAUSE THOSE DAMN REBELS HAVE ALREADY DESTROYED IT TWICE AND WE REALLY DON'T NEED A THIRD TIME UNLESS YOU WANT THE EMPEROR ON YOUR ASSES

Yeah it's such a friendly welcome

Cheesy Crackers:
But on a more serious note I just congratulate them if we kill the enemy or blow something important up. You tend to get those engineers who are like "Oh I'm sorry i couldn't keep the hull up I'm really sorry etc..." and I just go dude it's fine, you did a great job keeping the hull up that long.
If the crew asks you for something, like yesterday I had a gunner asking if he could go on the flamer cuz he needed progress I told him sure, would disable the enemy ship and if we happened to be going alongside them and had the opportunity I'd turn it for him to flame them a bit.
But yeah basically what the others said, be humble, don't rage at your crew, if some mistake was made make a joke about it etc..

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