I like it.

Lets put it on the list. I will add a topic to the open forums on our “One to End” list of priorities, ongoing work and changes, future work that is ongoing or will be ongoing and proposed work and ideas to consider.

This way people can see what we are working on and add to the discussion.

Obviously I’m not going to work on anything diplomacy related until I finish the other things I’m working on.
However, if you want to work on it – go with it brother.

My top priorities right now are:

1- the new nationality based promotions and titles code
2- Character index scrub and matching portraits complete
3- Finish and implement New islands and locations
4- Increase in fighters from 3 to 5 or 6

Also I am working on a new quest. The code examples from a couple of the SOFS/GIC patches have really helped me figure out how quests are properly done in COAS. So I have been trying to write my own by simply using the GIC code as a guide and changing one of the existing quests. If I am successful, more quests will follow.

There’s a lot of other stuff too and I’ve got it all written down on a yellow legal pad. I just need to transfer it to a forum page so everyone can see it. Once we build a new mod team, I can assign some work to folks that would like to help out.

If we knew if an English version of POTEHO is ever going to come out, then we could decide if we wanted to start modding that as well or transfer our modding over to POTEHO as the new flagship game mod.

MK

• This reply was modified 9 years, 10 months ago by modernknight1.

I am in Oklahoma right now and only have a little notebook with me. So I don’t have access to the game. I will in a couple more days though and then I will dig around a little and find it for you. You might find it yourself before then.

MK

Oh there was one more thing I’m working on that’s on the very top of that list I forgot. It almost made it into this mod and only has another hour or two of work required to finish.

That’s the cannon mod I’m doing that changes sizes to historical standards: 3,4,6,9,12,18,24,32 and 36 pounders. In addition, I’m changing the 48 pounders which are really a 19th century(last decades of the 18th century) British cannon size for their largest ships of the line on the lower deck and bow and stern.

They are being changed to 50 pounders which was a Spanish Bronze cannon size reserved for fortifications and the lower decks of the largest war galleons in the 17th century. Most of these guns were made in the foundries of Flanders. The largest culverine available will be the 24 pounder.

Large English warships will mount the 32 pounders, large Dutch and French ships will mount 36 pounders (the French bought 36s from the Dutch), and large Spanish Warships will mount 50 pounders. I have made the Spanish ships very slow. However they have the advantages of being able to carry more men and carry larger ordinance. Trade offs that are historically based.

MK

Awesome DT!!! Enjoyed it. I think you need to set damage in mod options to “Inbetween” then your ships will last longer so that you can get right up on them close. Perhaps you would see the boarding icon more often then because I just have no problems in my game at all with boarding. It works perfectly.

I sure wish some others would report on their experiences.

MK

I will have to take a look at that DLC. Thanks for sharing. Looks like they imported the Temple from POTC in there. In my efforts to bring new locations into COAS I didn’t only look at the GIC work on Corsairs Harbor I also looked at SOFS which uses POTC locations added to the AOP world. AOP and COAS are different from POTC in that there is no one map model of the world. The mainland is its own separate model and each island is its own separate model.

So by using coordinates I can place new islands wherever I want. In my test game I have the GIC/SOFS islands turned backwards and imported. It almost doubles the islands in the game and by turning them backwards they appear in places that mirror closely places in the actual Caribbean. The largest work was renaming the islands to match real locations and then modifying the worldmap texture to reflect the new islands names and ocean color(shallows) around islands. It has been a lot of work but I think it will be done this year.

All this to say that that DLC may give me some more location content. I already loaded a crypt and cemetery from POTEHO into one of the town locations and they work perfectly.

On the character above, I’ve already seen those and most of them are already in the game. I am not going to import any new characters besides the 15 new ones that are almost finished. A big problem of mine which I learned from all this character importation is that the character documentation classifies all characters and NPCs in several places and some types are listed separately so they can appear in specific types of encounters. I moved too fast without indexing each character properly at the time in all the places where it needed edited. So I made a lot of work for myself and its still ongoing work that takes a lot of time….especially matching portraits to each NPC.

I am at a location where I can work on stuff today so I will be adding a lot of content to the site and opening up another of the forums I’ve been working on.

Thanks for the enthusiasm!

MK

• This reply was modified 9 years, 10 months ago by modernknight1.

Glad its working for you now Dennis. Did you look at Latest Developments thread at the top of the page? I posted my commentary and answers on how you were treated over on PA! today. You did good.

MK

You should change it to “realistic” now then in mod options. That will apply Luke159’s RTBL settings which makes ships WAY harder to sink and makes you much harder to sink as well. I advise in the Read Me that when you are high level you should adjust that setting.

I’m glad you’re having so much fun with the mod though. I don’t know what the max bounty is??? There may not be a cap…

I’ve never played as a “bloody assassin” character before. I always try to be the “hero”. I may have to try it sometime just for fun. I’ve never fully played through the Pirate questline either which I still want to do. Hammerman777 played the whole questline through with this version though so I know it works.

MK

Did you move your bosun or drop an item/book that had boarding modifiers. Have you given your bosun any boarding items that increase his grappling abilities like the Bullhorn?

There are several things that go into this which is why I was asking the questions above.

– Position of ship and level of ship. If they have a high level you will need to scrape right up to them.
– Your boarding abilities and any items that modify these abilities
– Your Bosuns boarding abilities – because if you have someone in that position, his stats are going to be used for the engagements.

My bet is that the right number combinations will be generated in a future engagement and you will see boarding become easy again. It is different for every encounter. Like I said I will tweak the distance to experience numbers again to see if that helps, but I am not having that problem in my game which is why it is a mystery to me. I would like to isolate exactly what thing is preventing your boarding.

Remember what I said about the crash if it happens after you defeat the captain. The next play through of that same battle, DO NOT exchange any cargo with the other ship so that your weights are the same after the battle. I would bet that stops the crashing in that instance. I would like to know what ships are doing that specifically because I want to change their range of Z motion from weight – which is what I think is causing that specific crash. Its rare at least so the game is still very playable.

FYI I have had bounties on my head that high when playing as the Dutch. I sunk, captured or defeated so many English ships and squadrons/fleets that my bounty was well over a million and they would send whole war squadrons after me. The way I look at it is – excellent experience and potential for leveling up. Also you have the potential to get some really good ships in the process.

One thing you can try with your fighters is that before you go into a port, take them out of their positions so that you are alone. I can often deal with a whole group by myself when I am a high level character. Just so you know the next version of Eras will allow you to have 4 or 5 fighters instead of just 3 which will help in these types of situations.

I do enjoy the commodore difficulty. Definitely a difficulty only a very experienced player should use though.

MK

I’ve been in that situation. If it gets too bad remember that you can control a fleet of 8 ships. Also, you could always go find some more treasures and pay off the bounty.

I’ve never been able to fix the exploit in the Church missions, so it is still possible to get the Church quest to clear a cave of evil denizens, and then go back to get the credit. When you talk to the priest to get the credit for the mission and end it in the log, you can keep speaking to him over and over again that you’ve completed the quest during that single visit – and you will be a hero when you leave the Church with the best possible relations with the nation that particular Church is in.

Once you get through a complete nation questline you can take over cities. Then become a bloody assassin again and start taking over the Caribbean for yourself with a massive fleet of DOOM.

I’ve never actually taken over the whole Caribbean. This is something I am going to do one of these days. The closest I ever came was taking over half of the Caribbean cities for the Dutch.

MK

I think it is possible? We should get Hammerman777 to tell us. I will email him and ask him to comment.

In the next version of Eras there will be several new Islands that are Pirate havens.

MK

That is indeed something to shoot for. I think it might be possible if we adapt the same code in the Port Controller into the shipyard. However, the same issues would apply. So your crew would have to come off of the ship when its left for repairs. I would also have to figure out some simple code to add to give the game instructions on how much time would elapse per amount of damage repaired. It will have to be a simple boolean because I’m not capable of doing anything fancy here.

However, maybe we will get some more adept coders on board who are interested in working on our little game. Some of the guys I knew professionally were some of the best in the business and preferred old games.

@Belzburg, Welcome! Yeah you are right. However, let me assure you that all of the quests were played through by my beta testers with the exception of one. AUSTIN has NOT been tested by anyone for GOF ERAS2.

So its true in the Bluebird and Pirate Quest where you get the Seawolf that the quest will update as failed in the logbook. However, these quests can be completed by talking to the person that initiated the quests.

So the merchant you got the Bluebird quest from will end it when you tell him you couldn’t catch the ship – however, at least you can take the Bluebird itself and keep it or sell it.

On the Pirate quest, you can take the Seawolf, but when you talk to Jackman he believes its lost, so it updates as failed.

However, you can keep the ship. These two are the only ones I am aware of that have a defect. I have hunted a little and I think I have isolated the problem in Quests_Reactions. But I haven’t completely figured it out yet.

Anyway at least you can play the quests. You can find whiteboy and collect the 666 pearls and render the FD able to take damage and seize the ship for yourself.

You can achieve the COAS main quest now and the game won’t crash in the storm scene.

I have fixed most quests with issues from the first release of the mod. It is a very playable mod that will just get better as I continue to squash the little bugs left over. We are almost there.

MK