First let me thank you for all the great work, I love this game and I have last played it years ago, basically I forgot it exists and thanks to you I can enjoy it again.

First thing I found is a bug with the english flag it looks like this:

English Flag

I think the texture is not streched over it properly.
Can I change the sails? I think there might be that option, or was that another mod?
Quite a few characters spawn with katanas, probably because blade32 was previously the strongest medium blade, I kept the katana from the blue bird captain but changed some of the blades in the reaction_functions.c.
I downloaded Maelstrom with the itch client but downloaded and installed the game manually (eras 2 is the best / biggest mod right?) but there seem to be auto updates for the game itself, how do I activate them?
During the Peter Blood quest, the doctor failed to spawn in the tavern a few times, I had to reload that a lot. Also the doctor model does not look very pretty, it could be changed back to the old model.
The Blue Bird when it is loaded full is way too deep in the water, the waves go above the upper Deck, that looks a bit strange, I changed the refShip.SubSeaDependWeight to 0.2 to make it look a bit better.
During going through that file some of the numbers of other ships seem to be all over the place, some class 5 ships are extremely strong, some class 4 ships have extremely big holds (class 4 “Mermaid Grief” 6250, class 5 “Apostól Felipe” 5250) and some ships have exceedingly big boarding crews, class three “Dutchship” has a max crew of 600 and a boarding crew of 714. I know you can load more sailors on a ship than the maxcrew but still. Those ships are boarding nightmares since I play on admiral difficulty.

Thank you for reading the wall of text 😀