Ransom option bugged? Kalguur Shipments

My first big shipment (2.4 million points, never sent more than 500k) was overtaken by the beach captain. I tried to fight him without looking up the fight, almost killed him but got 1 tapped by a cannonball.

I've now been farming gold for the last 2 hours (up to 160k) and the Ransom option is still greyed out, and I reeeeeeally don't want to lose a 2.4m shipment plus level 9 sailors.

Is this a bug or does ransom cost scale with size of shipment? If it does it really needs to show how much the Ransom is.

I have the same problem. When I have less than 50k gold, there's a red tooltip on the Ransom button that shows "Insufficient gold". If I have >50k gold, the tooltip goes away, but the button is still grey and I can't click it.

Yeah i've seen the same thing said in a couple different places on the internet, I didn't notice this myself but if that's the case it definitely seems bugged. Hope GGG can fix soon because I really want that shipment and workers back lol.

I was really hoping that the patch today would fix this, but we still don't have any acknowledgement of whether it's actually bug.