Hi. I don't understand how we are supposed to keep up training all of our Companions? I am at lvl 18 now and i have 11 Companions! I can't seem to earn enough Gold to buy Comp Training points for all of them! My weaker Comps keep showing up in battles, and this is a real problem! It would be nice to delete, or at least disable the weaker ones! I am worried that later in the game, the weaker companions will really be a problem! Any thoughts on this please reply. Thank you!

A tip (credit to Darthjt):

Do not level your companions right away. You'll have to spend up to 4 companion points just to keep your first mate leveled up as much as you.

Wait until a single point can level up a companion at least 1 level. When you get to the point where you have so many companions, wait until a single point can level your companion 2 levels. That way you'll slowly build up your companion points over levels, and with quests that give companion points as rewards.

I have quite a few companions as well, but so far, at level 16, still have 10+ companion points at any given time.

I thought about this too, it is true that waiting to spend companion points makes your companions drop behind in levels, 3-4 levels. But I think it is better to have all companions 2-4 levels behind you with plenty of companion points to spend to level them up, than to have 1-3 companions at very high level with no companion points left and the remaining companions 5+ levels behind you.

Quests give quite a good amount of gold as reward. At level 18, buying companion points is expensive, so I understand. Even if you do not want to spend your gold you earn from quests, farming gold is a good idea. Each fight in Monquista earns you almost 100 gold per fight, and the random fights can go very quick.

I am very thankful that you can buy companion points, and I am very greatful to KI for adding that feature. Their very reason for doing so was to prevent someone from spending all the points, and then having a very bad time playing the game because they did something that they could not have reversed.

This is exactly what I had done back in Alpha. Before Darthjt found a good 'strategy' for companion leveling. I spent every single one of my points on my first mate, and ALL my other companions fell behind 5+ levels. Bonnie Anne was STILL at level 2. Needless to say, since there was no way to purchase outside points, I had a very bad time playing the alpha at level 10++.

This is a major part of the game. Allowing folks to delete companions would actually "break" it as I see things. Its a learning curve with the game. If players can keep what companions they want, and ditch the ones they dont want, then you will have a severly easy and unbalanced game. It would truly make the game beyond a doubt a game where the pirate with the most 'real' gold wins and take away part of the most challenging parts of the game as well.

Tip: Do not train your companions until you have to. Save your companion training tomes/points. Only use one when it will raise your companion an full level. If you can wait longer, you can get even more mileage out of your companion training tomes.

I keep my companions 3 levels below me, when I level giving me 4 levels above them, I train each of them a full level using a single training tome/point each.

Farm bosses for gold, sink ships for gold (my favorite way), keep stocked up on training points/tomes when you can (up to 10), as the price of these keeps going up.

Corbinslove1 on Oct 26, 2012 wrote:

I have dont the Gortez mission 2 times and I have yet to get the monkey companion. My boyfriend was in there with me and fought as much as i did and he received it and I did not!! o.o I wonder how i can get this fixed? I already contacted Support and havent heard anything from them.

Sometimes only certain classes will receive a companion reward from completing a quest. What class is your boyfriend and what class is your character?

sender511 on Oct 25, 2012 wrote:

Hi. I don't understand how we are supposed to keep up training all of our Companions? I am at lvl 18 now and i have 11 Companions! I can't seem to earn enough Gold to buy Comp Training points for all of them! My weaker Comps keep showing up in battles, and this is a real problem! It would be nice to delete, or at least disable the weaker ones! I am worried that later in the game, the weaker companions will really be a problem! Any thoughts on this please reply. Thank you!

save your points up, on my privateer i have 20+ and my companions are only 1-2 levels behind me.
wait until they can level twice, it might be harder early on, but its better in the long run!
Generous Megan Nightingale 11 Privateer

I'm level 46 (Stuck on stormzilla but not to bad as i'm doing side quests now) and I understand what you all say, but the thing is it isn't to bad since all my companions except for muskeeters and my Subodai (lv 45 that's why side quests- for companion points) I'm a Swashbuckler and anyway my worst companion is that crazy monquistador because he already does around 100 damage so he doesn't need to be leveled up for healthe because he's ranged. So since I have 14 companions at the bottom it is a 1% chance of coming in so I put him there so it's unlikely he'll come in, but even so it's good to have another ranged with you in a battle. Off topic in my Stormzilla fight it's funny when i'm like 40 ft. and so is Stormzilla and here is my armadillo pet and he's like 20 ft. tall since he isn't a companion he isn't in the suit with you, yet he still can come into battle with you so they had to make him big, compared to you.

My current strategy (I have switched up since my prior post) is to actually wait until my companions are 9 levels below my pirate! Occasionally I break that strategy for a single companion to get them promoted quicker as well. Yes, this can be a bit challenging at times, but if you can endure it, the dividends are awesome.

1. Companions train 3 levels with 1 tome when your pirate is 9 levels ahead.
2. Training tomes start to pile up, so you no longer have to purchase any.
3. Gold stacks up since you do not have to buy any training tomes.

My last 2 pirates I purchased a Marleybone galleon at level 18 because I was already max gold!!!
(I had a high level friend I could port to)

My first pirate that did this got to level 50, and had 128 training tomes saved to further train his companions.
I only had to buy 12 tomes total at that point to get ALL my companions to level 50.

I understand what is being said. Barkadat3p mentions it very clearly.

But, I do like the randomness that comes with entering fights. It is like playing an itunes music libraby on random, where the highest played songs tend to be on the top of list.

I like what Ratbeard had said about it. It is completely optional to train companions, it is like a cherry on top. That way you never enter a fight with "bad" companions if you actually work on leveling your crew.