Feedback and Opinions on GOF ERAS2 2.6.0
- This topic has 69 replies, 14 voices, and was last updated 7 years, 2 months ago by
.
-
-
So I decided to launch a new topic because I am a little frustrated in the lack of feedback we are getting. We have been getting RECORD days on the Reef with 400 plus visitors a day and between social media and the website my Historical Articles are getting literally thousands of LIKES. This is a first. We have never had this level of traffic before – its AMAZING! The mod has been being downloaded consistently between 54 to 65 times a day for the last four days and has been up for over a week now. So with hundreds of people playing we get virtually no feedback. I hear negative reports which are not even on our own site: http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/gentlemen-of-fortune-eras2-2-6-0.28319/
Jeffrey responded over there as well as someone else who is favorable to us and I don’t know who they are. I suspect I know who it might be and I just want to say thanks to that person for posting over there.
Frankly after looking that thread over I don’t think its even legit. I don’t think it is crashing as this guy reports. That guy A.H has never been interested in COAS at all. I think this was planned in order to divert and Google Yoink traffic over there from people who do web searches for our mod. It’s quite amusing to me actually that they would resort to this low form of desperation because they aren’t producing anything these days and their own traffic has been at a trickle for sometime. People will find and play the better offering regardless of their cheap tricks. LOL Also its rather suspicious and surprising to me that this topic is even being allowed when in the past any such topic related to us would be met with immediate hostility and then closed or deleted.
My response to this tactic was to post a promotional plug on their Facebook page. We will see if it stays. If it is deleted then I know I am right about this suspicion.
Anyway, I would really like to hear from you folks about this. Jeffrey is working on a 64bit version and he has also truncated the colony files like the ships. Because of this I am developing entirely new looks for the towns. Dutch towns will look distinctively Dutch, Spanish – Spanish, etc… We are almost ready to test it out! I have also included a bunch of new Hull4 skins in the latest dump to Jeffrey because we have been planning a new Version release in just a couple more months with a few additional colonies included and new crypts and cemetery scenes as I covered in the latest announcements.
My thoughts are that if we don’t receive any feedback or comments from you folks, then I won’t bother breaking my back to get this new version out to you in the next month or two. We will just keep it between the modding team members for testing and release it in six or eight months from now to the general public — or whenever we get all of the new stuff finished.
Comments please. I don’t care if they are negative even – although complements are always appreciated. Thanks! MK
-
-
-
Your welcome, MK 😉
I have not had any problems until now, no crashes whatsoever, but I have not been in too many sea battles and I generally dont do quests on “Impossible” difficulty.
The main reason they are not closing / flaming or editing the topic, is because first, as Jeffrey has mentioned, he has what they want. And it wouldnt be beneficial in their effort to loose that link to the graphically improved version of Jeffrey. Its kind of a hostage situation for them. THey HAVE to play nice to get somehting out of it or they might aswell not bother at all. But Pieter seems interested and so he doesnt delve into the matter and represses himself from taking any major action that could be viewed in a bad light.
What they ARE doing though, is:
1) Divert: They are diverting traffic as you mentioned towards their site since they cant completely black this mod out, see how theres no front page topic about it, even though they review all things related to pirate genre regardless of quality or background.
This shows they still are not “on our side” but rather play the “status quo”. I say we should just hang in there and see where this will lead to, its entertaining to analyse it for sure.2) Distract: They are actively derailing the topic to make it a mush of information in a sense that the main topic is becoming irrelevant and lost in it like in a “chatroom”.
3) Divide: They are trying to produce a mindset towards this “product” in a way that it looks unfavourably and maybe a waste of time if you would go that far. But just putting it into an unfavourably light is seemingly enough for them.
A big HEADS UP and a TOAST to our magnificent mod team who managed to bring forth this what one could only describe as unparralleled art. Anyone who enjoys this genre can be glad that we are actually able to enjoy this together and that it was not scrapped. A true gem among the existing game modifications and I think I say this in the name of all that that that this mod brought many a fun gaming night and still continues to entertain us even though the concept stayed more or less the same. I toast to the mod team with a mug filled with protein shake.
-
Thanks for the sentiments Dennis. It appears we were correct about that topic over there. It was just a BS trolling tactic. I think its funny how they can troll us – but do it from the safety of their own website. I didn’t realize such a thing could exist LOL! It just went downhill fast and when people tried to bring it back on topic (in a civil manner I might add) they were accused of “Ganging up” on the guy who started the topic and very obviously had no real interest in the subject/object of his own topic, comments and questions in the first place. This is about as creepy, slimey and backhanded as one could get, but the tactics of PA! and the continually snake-like Boelen – who always tries to play dumb and magnanimous at the same time (which doesn’t work for him) – don’t surprise me at all anymore. BTW – Hollywood called Boelen – they say keep your day job – they do have B movie part for you if you want it as a creepy Hotel manager in a really bad porno.
They deleted the Facebook post I put up like three times in a row. I also went on a little rampage through their MODDB pages posting the same plug for the new mod on a bunch of topics/products. They think they are so smart and cute but all they did was kick an ant hill, and at the same time showed the entire community how they roll. People aren’t as dumb as Boelen thinks and this tactic was not good for them. If they thought they were coming from a position of moral superiority at all, they lost what little shreds of dignity they may have had remaining in that place to those few who may have still thought they possessed it. I would pose that even the more reasonable long time members in their ranks are questioning their behavior at this point.
So back to the topic. My friends two of you E-mailed me last night. I promise I will answer back. Also people always apologize for contacting me via e-mail. PLEASE DON”T APOLOGIZE! I don’t mind at all if you contact me direct. In fact I noticed it wasn’t on the ABOUT US topic and will put it there. Also here it is for others: [email protected]
So I have been told the membership signup page is not working at all now. I am sooo pissed at Go Daddy! I promise I will call them AGAIN about this. In the mean time please go to Word Press and sign up for a free account there. Then use those credentials to sign up here. That WILL work for you until I can get this problem fixed.
So here’s a couple of things to try. Make certain you look at my Tweaks and Tips topic HERE
Make certain that you have Jeffrey’s latest UPDATE file applied and then make certain that you Open your game folder, RIGHT CLICK on your START (ini) file (the start icon), then press Properties. Press the compatibility tab. Then check the box “Run this program in compatibility mode for:” and select Windows XP (Service Pack 3). If this won’t work for you try selecting another option from the same menu and see how that works for you.
Sometimes Anti Virus software interferes on some peoples computers. Also some of the windows background programs sometimes interfere. I shut down all AVG and Iolo programs running when I play the game. I also push Run and type in services.msc then scroll down the menu and make certain that Windows Update is turned off/disabled. I HATE Windows Update – it borders on malicious software IMHO. It runs whenever it wants to. It has ruined things for me in the past. The reason MAYA stopped running last year on my PC was because of update. I turn off all of the superfluous windows programs that I don’t need. I only use them when they are useful to me. My game runs great when all of this stuff is off. Make certain that when you do these things I describe above that you are OFF LINE. Disable your router for safety. I use Win7 premium with the Developers toolkit. If you’re running Win10 then I am sorry you are SOL (Shit out of Luck) as we used to say in the Army because you can’t turn off many of these things.
It’s always helpful when you provide bug feedback if you tell us a little about your specs and OS. Thanks folks and I will get back to your e-mails personally.
MK
-
-
-
-
-
Thanks for the kind comments J and welcome,
Everything here has always been free and anything can be used by us as long as its not for profit and credit is given. Rules of the OSP basically.
However, we are licensing the new engine and as we get even more advanced capability built in – planning a possible foray into development for a different version of the game that will have no existing third party or original franchise resource content. So it would be a completely new game with all completely new stuff. That new theoretical version would possibly be on STEAM and would be a “for profit” effort.
MK
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Ha ha. I disabled rats too. I found a setting in the _mod file. I don’t think rats eat gunpowder! I also reverted to the default translucent compass so I could see the ranges of my cannons. I get what you’re going for but I get annoyed by little things like that. I interpret the compass/map as the captain being aware of his surroundings and the ranges of his cannons. Thank you for keeping this great game alive with your mod though! So many great things in it, and such an improvement over GOF.
The one feature I would like to see (which I believe was in one version of GOF) would be the ability to climb the rigging and sit in the crows nest. When sailing in first person mode it can be hard to see where you’re going behind all the sails.
-
-
-
One more question: in the ReadMe is says there is a new French colony added. I found the new pirate settlement on Grand Cayman but I can’t seem to locate the new French settlement. Where can I find it?
-
-
-
-
So I have a suggestion dunno if its possible to mod it in
Now we all know how big of an Einstein is the ai in this game like for exapmle i would like to save one of my heavily damaged ships she is already in wind direction telling her to sail away and she turns right in to the enemy fleet against the wind (just for maximum effectiveness)what if we could somehow give direction orders like go east northeast follow that ship keep in line etc that would make managing a fleet from complete clusterfuuck to playable
I know it isnt exactly a rare idea (im fairly certain you guys already thought about this) im just curious if it is somehow possible or too timeconsuming to make
-
-
Call me a glutton for punishment but I actually enjoy the food shortage problem and it gets worse the higher the difficulty you play. If you have a small fleet no problems, but if you’re commanding large capital ships with huge crews, you would have had immense issues with military logistics in the 17th century Caribbean. I was just reading about Hendrickszoon’s 1626 expedition and that he put his fleet in at Porto Cabanas and sacked the little town there specifically in order to take its supplies (food and water) for his ships before blockading Havana Cuba.
For my book research I have been taking many notes for sometime of the passing ships stopping in Hispaniola and Tortuga to trade with the local bucaniers (meat smokers) to resupply their ships.
You know I think I will ask Jeffrey if it is possible to trade with some of the guys you see wandering on the paths in island interiors who sometimes have items for you to buy. Perhaps we could expand that so that he could sometimes sell you food and rum – simulating the natives and boucaniers that would often resupply ships in those times. I think that is very doable and it would require effort on your part to go find those guys.
Occasionally I have been successful in getting food from ships in convoys by simply trading with them – usually they wont sell their food however.
We will definitely be changing some things about food rum and in the future water and grog in further game development still to come. Food should still be scarce in many places – there are still places where you can often find it in fairly large amounts. I try to keep my food on small ships at about 300 to 400 and on large ships at 600 to 700.
A technique I use when I have fleets is to keep what I call a “COW SHIP”. This is a ship with a large hold and durable enough that it can withstand a little bit of battle. At the beginning I often use a fluyt for this but later on maybe a Flota Galleon or other larger ship with an even larger hold – sometimes an Old English great bark or Indiaman. The purpose of that ship is extra supplies and excess cargoes taken from ships that I can’t sell off if the merchants are too busy and I need to move on about my business. I NEVER sell food unless I only have one ship. I offload excess food onto the cow-ship in case I need it later. Cumulatively over time this can amount to a lot of stored food. I have even filled ships up with this excess food when I put other favored ships into storage that I wish to keep for some later adventure or purpose.
Using these techniques I have never run out of food – ever – and I love playing with fleets in my gameplay style.
Holy crap I love this game so much!
MK
-
-
-
Thanks for listening Jeffrey, and apologies if it adds to your already hard-pressed work load.
The newly introduced “equipment” for the NPC captains is also a big issue for me. It means, without even spam saving/reloading its easy to go from 5,000 money to 1-3 million. Just having a bit of luck (and its really not that hard) convincing a powerful NPC to join forces. Instant class 3 or 4 ship.
Thats not the issue though. Why would say, that
orange haired freakCornelius Van de Velde, upon deciding he was going to join up with a previously unknown Captain (the player) suddenly give him access to all his personal belongings? “Oh, here’s that Order of the Golden Fleece medal – worth quarter of a million – for you my new friend. Oh and you can have this Order of Saint Louis Medal too. Chest of jewels anyone? Cool 100 grand…all yours mate!” – ??!If a player knows how to access Officers equipment…you go from nought to sixty in seconds gameplay-wise. That, in itself, ruins the sense of gradual progression. Its like instant ANTI-GRIND! The new product from Buccaneers Reef! Just wipe it on your save and WHAMO!! – No more grind! You can take his class 3 and upgrade it several times and still have money to boot. “Now, where’s that next NPC sucker who’s going to give me some loot? Oh look, there’s four of them in the bar….” And another 4 have appeared since you last left port…
It’s just not cool, baby 😉 WOULD GETTING RID OF THE MEGA-BUCKS ITEMS ON NPCS EQUIPMENT LISTS BE A POSSIBILITY TOO? Does the Modern Knight NPC need an entire collecton of all the high level swords ready and available for the player to potentially access from the off? Or the high ranking medals on a lot of the commanders? Anything worth more than 10 grand really.
Please dont take any of this the wrong way, I pure respect you guys and absolutely appreciate the sh*tload of work you have put into ERAS. Just stating my honest experiences from playing and the little niggles that I find.
I also found this boarding issue previously with refusing the NPC’s quest, fighting his cronies and finding his ship impossible to board. You fixed this? Haven’t tried it lately, but I’ll have to give it a go now. Nice one, mate 🙂
{NB: notice multiple edits – do I write coherently when in “rant mode”? – Nope! :)}
-
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
by modernknight1