Ammend rule “Army of Monkeys” (or “Army”) so that the text:

Every Sunday at 0:00 AM, captains must pay their army by paying n squared gold where n is the size of their army. If a captain does not have enough gold to pay off their army, their army size is reduced by one until they have enough gold to pay off their army.

Is changed to:

As a weekly action, Captains may pay n squared gold where n is their Army Size. Every Sunday at 0:00 AM, each Captain who has failed to complete this action during the previous week gets er army size reduced by DICEX where X is er current Army Size at that time. If this happens, that Captain’s Flavor is set to “Bitter”.

And the sentence that reads:

At any time, a captain may reduce the size of their army by any amount, provided it does not go below zero nor become a non-integer value.

Is changed to:

At any time, a captain may reduce the size of their army by one, by paying 2n - 1 gold as a severance, where n is the current size of their army, provided it does not go below zero.

Once again arthexis proposal but with n^2 payment. I’ve made another change as there should be a way to reduce an army, but if someone has not enough gold it won’t help anyway.
Credit goes mostly to arthexis