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Why do no one want to look for pearls? It cost us nothing, checking whether any clams we control have pearls, would be automatic once we decided to do it, and we can certainly use the income.
 
AramilOniasha said:
We could only check for pearls near the islands, that is something we would have to do once we arrive not while we are traveling.
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Not really, whenever we pass over somewhere shallow enough our range reaches the seafloor, it's a simple matter of checking the input from our power, to determine if there's any clams with pearls, if there are, we command the clams to open up, and send a crab or lobster, to grab the pearl and bring it to us.

Clams are within the things we control, that mean we can detect them whenever they get within range, from there it's just a simple matter of collecting any pearl we find.

Currently Taylor is just ignoring any clams in her control as useless, all it take to change that, is her remembering to check them for pearls, and she should be getting a steady stream of income, whenever she pass over a stretch of shallow seafloor.
 
Do that enough times in the market will come crashing down leaving pearls to be very useless. Also, we are pirates and thus any material wealth that we have will automatically be assumed to be stolen and therefore a lot harder to make use of. Grabbing any Clams or mussels to stick onto the bottom of our boat to have them breed and be used as a means of attacking and scuttling enemy ships would be a good idea though.
 
Traiden said:
Do that enough times in the market will come crashing down leaving pearls to be very useless. Also, we are pirates and thus any material wealth that we have will automatically be assumed to be stolen and therefore a lot harder to make use of. Grabbing any Clams or mussels to stick onto the bottom of our boat to have them breed and be used as a means of attacking and scuttling enemy ships would be a good idea though.
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The world market is fucking big, we aren't going to crash it just by selling what we collect along the way, sure if we found a billion pearls and sold them all at once, we would devalue pearls, but why would we even want to sell that many pearls? We don't need that much money, selling a few hundred or a few thousand pearls, is barely going to be a blip on the radar as far as the world market is concerned, the worlds pearl divers gather more than that every day, yet selling that amount of pearls, is enough to get us a very nice profit.

And being pirates is not an impediment to selling things, it probably should be, but that's just not the case in One Piece, in Water Seven, Nami and Luffy just wandered into a jewelry shop and sold their gold, and they were pirates with actual bounties at that point, Taylor don't have a bounty yet, that mean no one really know she's a pirate, so there's no impediment to her selling things.

I really hate that whole the market will come crashing down argument, yes it can happen if you sell an endless amount of something, or if you're selling in an isolated village, but in a reasonably connected port town, you aren't going to crash the market, selling enough of a type of valuables to make you merely somewhat wealthy, it's only if you get greedy, and decide to sell ridiculous amounts that it might happen.
 
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tarrangar said:
Not really, whenever we pass over somewhere shallow enough our range reaches the seafloor, it's a simple matter of checking the input from our power, to determine if there's any clams with pearls, if there are, we command the clams to open up, and send a crab or lobster, to grab the pearl and bring it to us.
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When do you expect us to get somewhere shallow enough to be less than half a mile deep while in between islands?
 
[X] Skill: Queen Administrator's Best Buddy
[X] Physical: Speed

I still think Queen Administrator is the Best Buddy.

I don't think getting our strength up to a useful level that feasible given how absurd strength can be, plus having only 1 arm seriously diminishes our ability to use strength. So that basically leaves a speed build as the alternative.
 
[X] Physical: Endurane
[X] Skill: Espionage

I advocate for Taylor becoming the trawhats supreme chief diplomat.
 
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AramilOniasha said:
When do you expect us to get somewhere shallow enough to be less than half a mile deep while in between islands?
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At random times, the ocean isn't a uniform level, there's lots of underwater mountains, reefs, and just general places where land is only a few hundred meters below the surface, the ocean floor is no more flat than the surface is, there's entire island sized stretches of ocean, that's only a few meters deep, sure it's probably only something like 1-2% of the ocean that's shallow enough, but considering the Strawhats sail at least dozens of miles each day, and Taylor range stretches out a fair bit, that mean that she should have something between 0.5 and 2 Square miles of ocean floor within her range each day, that's enough to find a fair amount of pearls.
 
tarrangar said:
At random times, the ocean isn't a uniform level, there's lots of underwater mountains, reefs, and just general places where land is only a few hundred meters below the surface, the ocean floor is no more flat than the surface is, there's entire island sized stretches of ocean, that's only a few meters deep, sure it's probably only something like 1-2% of the ocean that's shallow enough, but considering the Strawhats sail at least dozens of miles each day, and Taylor range stretches out a fair bit, that mean that she should have something between 0.5 and 2 Square miles of ocean floor within her range each day, that's enough to find a fair amount of pearls.
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Aren't there places in One Piece that are hundreds of miles deep, though?
Or am I thinking of something else?
If I'm right, saying she'll always have ocean floor in range is probably wrong.
 
tarrangar said:
At random times, the ocean isn't a uniform level, there's lots of underwater mountains, reefs, and just general places where land is only a few hundred meters below the surface, the ocean floor is no more flat than the surface is, there's entire island sized stretches of ocean, that's only a few meters deep, sure it's probably only something like 1-2% of the ocean that's shallow enough, but considering the Strawhats sail at least dozens of miles each day, and Taylor range stretches out a fair bit, that mean that she should have something between 0.5 and 2 Square miles of ocean floor within her range each day, that's enough to find a fair amount of pearls
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I think you are overestimating her range and underestimating how fast she would be out of range of any particular clam. She is very unlikely to find any water shallow enough to actually reach with her powers, and it is even less likely that are also shallow enough that they stay in her power long enough to tell something to retrieve it. Retrieval is something that would only be feasible near islands where they can wait for the slow moving things to actually bring them up.

A good rule of thumb for her range, if she cant look over the side and clearly see the bottom, it's probably too deep for her to reach with her power.
 
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AramilOniasha said:
I think you are overestimating her range and underestimating how fast she would be out of range of any particular clam. She is very unlikely to find any water shallow enough to actually reach with her powers, and it is even less likely that are also shallow enough that they stay in her power long enough to tell something to retrieve it. Retrieval is something that would only be feasible near islands where they can wait for the slow moving things to actually bring them up.

A good rule of thumb for her range, if she cant look over the side and clearly see the bottom, it's probably too deep for her to reach with her power.
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Then she only collect pearls when there's a big amount of them, Nami is certainly going to be up for a 10 minute stop, when Taylor find a bank of Oysters with 500 pearls.

And no that's not a good rule of thumbs for her range, Taylor's range isn't endless, but it's something like 300 meters, that's more than a bit of seafloor she can reach.

The point about time to retrieve is valid, but luckily clams tend to be found in clumps, so it's not going to be Taylor finding 1 Pearl at a time, it's going to be her finding a big bank of clams, with thousands of pearls, every once in a while.
 
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RavensDagger said:
Does the amount of money Taylor have matter? I mean, more is always better (weeps in unpaid bills) but in this case I... can't really see what use being filthy rich would serve the story.
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Mostly it mean that Taylor can buy a ship, which mean if we end up not getting the Going Merry, we aren't going to enter the Grand Line in a dinghy.

Well that and I like munchkinning abilities for get rich schemes on principle, so doing this is enjoyable for me.
 
RavensDagger said:
Does the amount of money Taylor have matter? I mean, more is always better (weeps in unpaid bills) but in this case I... can't really see what use being filthy rich would serve the story.
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You can have the marines misunderstand it and think her to be some kind of mastermind genius who managed to steal a fortune right under their nose without them even knowing how she did it, they only know that it is somehow connected to the pearl industry.
 
[X] Skill: Queen Administrator's Best Buddy
[X] Physical: Speed


Its hilarious how most of the votes aren't being picked up at all
 
[X] Physical: Endurance
[X] Skill: Queen Administrator's Best Buddy

Play to our strengths and prevent us from being too squishy. Need that brute rating when we inevitably throw away our other arm for the advantage in a big fight. We have Lancer's luck and need his battle continuation (already have enduring the pain now just need to actually survive the blow).
 
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