Talk:Redridge Fleet/@comment-7263041-20160112091403/@comment-7263041-20160112203837

I don't play nice with bullies sadly Ranets. That said.

All the historical context used by Everen can be thrown to the side for the simple reason that none of the ships he listed are in the game. Unless someone wants to create a version of those ships in fanon, in which case, go right ahead and use those numbers.

We have ships, with crews, available in game. The transport ships that ferry us between continents have crews, the Alliance ship at the Twilight Highlands base has a crew fighting with Orcs, there are multiple examples of ships with crews out there.

Now the argument could be made that due to game limitations, we are only seeing a small number of NPCs on these ships, because putting a larger amount of crew members on them would be a waste of resources and would slow down computer systems due to the number of NPCs that need to be loaded. However, that is at best theorycrafting since there are no hard facts to back up that idea.

Given that the best ship in the navy currently (according to canon lore) is the Frigate, which has a total of 16 cannons, that ship needs a minimum of 34 crew members. That's two officers (ship captain and first mate) and 32 crew / gunners, two for each cannon. Now you could expand that crew to include more officers to maintain general order about the ship and perhaps add a lookout, but its highly doubtful you need much more crew than that. When they're not on the guns, the crew are working on maintaining the ship rigging, the deck etc etc.

At most, a Stormwind Frigate needs 40 crew members by my estimation, no more than that.

Now when I do the calculations based on those estimations, I am still wrong about the crew numbers, and I'll edit my post above to reflect that. If there are 40 crew members on each ship, then the total number of crew required for the entire fleet is actually 1,120 (officers and crew lumped together there).

As I said to Everen, I have a right to state my observations, whether Varadu takes them into consideration or not is up to him. I also have a right not to be attacked for stating those observations, something Everen clearly doesn't understand.