Hi all,

after updating both today I get the message “failed to create program…”.

I have made some minor changes earlier and the game was playable until updated.

Rgds, Oldtimer

Bounty Hunters.

Hi all,

bounty hunters at sea, can they or their captains surrender? I have not seen that happen and I REALLY would like them surrendering now and then. So I could throw them overboard now and then…

BTW, the old printed game manual says that bounty will never disappear wholly but can decrease if player does good deeds. What…[Read more]

If it did “nothing” I suspect that you may have modified the wrong music_alias.ini. Check the start.ini for this setting:

aliasDirectory = Shanty

That value is the name of the folder for the music_alias.ini it will use.

RESOURCEINIShantymusic_alias.ini

Verify the folder indicated in start.ini is the same place for the edited file.

Not sure about that random guy showing up in the cabin…is there any way you have a save where this happened I could look at?

Also, even though MK and you found a workaround for the quest problem because of the “too fast” looting, I still consider that a bug and will see if I can either disable/delay the dialog and/or looting in the proper…[Read more]

I gave this a test and it only worked for the main menu. When trying to replace the music for sea battles it acted as though I did nothing. The strange thing was changing the alias in the config.exe worked, but modifying the individual music alias files did not apart from the menu music

That was exactly the problem, apparently I clicked “1” on my keyboard way too fast to loot the dead captain which then disrupted the script where I talk to the captive. Thank you, I would never have that figured out.
Then there is sometimes a man standing next to the captains chest who looks like a civilian, could you tell me his function? Unlike…[Read more]

@Modernknight

Looks like my ship was not damaged enough to qualify for light repair, had abt. 70% hull and 50% sail left.

THX for your attn.,

Oldtimer

Its in your ship GUI command tab that allows you to give commands to all of the ships in your squadron. So you can quick repair other ships than your own if your captain on that ship has the perk. There is light repair and quick repair. If you have them they will appear as a visual option left to right with others in the tab. For light repair it…[Read more]

That particular English Royal Navy blue squadron colors with the very small cross of Saint George canton appears in many paintings of actions between the English and Dutch in the 1660s through 70s. Here’s an example from the Battle of the Texel.
https://buccaneersreef.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/flag-proof.jpg

This has happened to me occasionally as well. It only happens when you kill the enemy captain with a fast combination and his body unintentionally opens for loot. (like one too many clicks that negate the walking to talk to the bride/groom). If you play through the battle again making sure not to click your mouse for any reason after the final…[Read more]

I just tried a couple of the Captive Groom quests and they worked out fine. Can you supply a compile.log and/or error.log when the dialog does not work and possibly even a save game where you’ve encountered the quest ship, but not yet boarded; a boarding save would be ideal?

Is the flag really supposed to be this grey? It looks rather odd like there is a texture missing and with the tiny english flag I thought something with the textures went wrong.

Hi all,

how do I activate an ability? I have quick repair, my ship is badly damaged and I do not see where/how to use that ability.

Rgds, Oldtimer

OK, understood. Seems a relation problem. I will see if I can reproduce for myself.

Mr. Jeffrey,

why I wrote abt. this is that in my playthroughs as pirate hitherto I was not told to “watch myself” as long as I flew Jolly Roger. Neither was I attacked at sea by common pirates, only GoF:s and now “Bold Privateers”. But here is something I saw recently, same playthrough:

– I changed from Jolly Roger to English and was…[Read more]

That English sail is correct and is supposed to contain a small cross in the corner; by design and accurate.

You can change flags when you grant yourself the perk to do so. Then on the “Ships” screen, you can click a flag icon to display all available flags and choose an option.

As for the chaser guns cutting holes in the front sails, the…[Read more]

When you say you are “accosted” in pirate havens, do you mean they attack you? Or do they simply stop you periodically to tell you to “watch yourself?” If they attack, there is some error somewhere in your relations that might need attention/fixing. If they just stop to tell you stuff all the time, that is normal and has always been that way…[Read more]

If you install the mod or Maelstrom with the Itch client (not using a browser or .zip download), it will unpack and place all the uncompressed files where you selected the directory. After that, if you launch the Itch client later, and I have updated some files, the Itch client will automatically detect which files were changed by me and only…[Read more]