The ship has sailed without some of the crew! Now the risk will be greater and as the captain put it "the reward will be more !!!" Yet the crew knows that a share is a share ten men or twenty it is still a share! Now if the loot be div up equal shares to the crew then yea the less the more ! The other problem is the risk of shares going out to those that get hurt and like loose an eye, hand, leg or all three! With less crew the more frighten well do with less, and the chances for one to get hurt can be high if one is tired from all the extra work and with less frighten men . No don't get me wrong i was just thinking. Being a pirate no matter what else is still being a pirate and what a life it is.