I've noticed lately when I return from my raid I still have 4 donated pirates left. But i'm 100% sure I used all available pirates. Problem with the bug is, I don't know what is causing it. And I haven't seen it at guild-mates. When I ask for pirates in chat it also says 4/10 pirates are already donated. When I find out more I will post it here. Fish
Hi Fish Eyed, My experience is similar, after tinking that I had deployed ALL guild ship pirates, I regularly returned with two (2) pirates still seen in the guild ship (Lvl3) I also notice that when donating pirates TO a guild ship, they occasionally come out of MY guild ship. But I think this is a reported bug already.
http://www.midoki.com/forum/index.php?threads/deployed-troops-not-removed-from-guild-ship.5229/ I put up a writeup there on exactly what causes it, and how it could theoretically be exploited. Hopefully they fix it next patch. But essentially, when removing pirates from your ship, it removes all of the highest level of a type of pirate, and thinks it got all of them, even if you had lower level versions on your ship as well. The reason pirates sometimes come out of your ship Ian is similar. When you donate pirates, it donates the highest level version of that pirate available. So if you donate a gunner, and have lv 22 in your tavern, but lv 24 on your ship, it will donate the lv 24 ones off your ship.