
Added my wife, Magnagallina, to the credits as a game designer. On top of her amazing character design work (such as Patriot-chan's latest dialog sprites and full-on designs for Mr. Attorney & Shinnecock-chan), she's workshopped and tested countless gameplay ideas with me for months.
Dr. Apetrots, voiced by the talented Johann the Butcher, has been added as a recruitable specialist! You have to meet some certain requirements before he sends you a letter.
Stephenson the Lookout has been added, allowing earlier identification of ships during random encounters.
Wanda the Navigator provides a doubling of rolls as you attempt to escape ships in aforementioned encounters, if needed.
Merchant ships can sell the player a little cargo here and there again.
Dumping cargo no longer counts as selling an item for purposes of calculating player-caused market crashes. This might still not fix the issue fully, but good to check.
Inn Merchant shouldn't boldly offer zero stock for sale.