Crew training require more sugar than capacity

Why do I unlock crew members I can't train? The sugar required to train them is more than my capacity. Lvl 17 Capacity = 250000, Felix lvl 12 = 264000, Sinklair lvl 9 = 267500, Burnice lvl 8 = 310000, Blastian lvl 9 = 395000, Dr. Buzz kill lvl 9 = 495000.
How am I supposed to rank up when I can't train any crew members?

 

Clearly there are many crew members you can still train - perhaps the ones you didn't list above? Train them, increase your captain level and you'll be able to train listed crew members more again.

 

All the others are first unlock at lvl 18, 19 and 20.

 

You said you can't train Felix, Sinklair, Burnice, Blastian or Dr. Buzzkill at the moment.. What about Bhurt, Mortimer, Swift, Isak and Brock? When you go through them all, I'm sure you will find some training you are able to do. They are definitely not "first unlocked" at lvls 18, 19 or 20.

 

Bhurt lvl 13 = unlock lvl 18, Mortimer lvl 13 = unlock lvl 20, Swift lvl 13 = unlock lvl 19, Isak lvl 13 = unlock lvl 19, Brock lvl 13 = unlock lvl 20

 

Either use pearls to make the difference or use the overflow. Or a bit of both.
Overflow trick:
Complete a quest that has a high sugar reward but don’t redeem.
Max out sugar through battles.
Buy a common and level it up once to take you under your max sugar.
Redeem the quest. Your sugar balance should now be above max.
Start the training, if you are still short use pearls to make up the difference.

This only works once to get you over the sugar cap. You cannot redeem a quest if your already over it.

 

But surely this is a bug in the game that need to be fixed?

 

I am not saying it’s not a bug and shouldn’t be looked in to.
Just trying to get you a work around in the time being. They changed the way that you level from when I started the game to add in game xp after fights so I have only ever had the lack of sugar capacity, not the cant train anyone as I still have some low level captains to level.

 

It’s not a bug, it’s there on purpose to tax your pearls, and get people to spend.

If you don’t want to spend pearls, then you might hit it by overflowing your sugar. Otherwise, you’ll just have to train something else until you unlock more capacity.

 

Like I said... I can't train any crew members at the moment and how would spending pearls help me. The only thing I can get is 100% refill, but that's still only my capacity which isn't enough to train any of them?

 

You can use pearls for a train up on a crew member. It will take into account of what you have sugar wise before calculating the value of required sugar as pearls that are missing.

The sugar overflow by @Craigjnoble was introduced by the dev's so it's not a bug and was introduced to help support the fuller utilisation and mitigate of sugar wastage. See announcement thread [Patch Notes] v 2.5

So to clarify based on your current captain level, all crew members are capped and the sugar requirements are in excess of your maximum storage?

Is this also the case having looked at overflowing your sugar?

 

Yes. If I use overflow I can train Felix lvl 12 and Sinklair lvl 8 as you can see from the numbers earlier mentioned.

 

Be one for the Dev's to look at in that case as you ought to be able to continue training your crew members without the need to pearl/overflow. I suspect the experience earned from the matches early game could have thrown off the training aspect a bit.