Hi all,

did anyone do a playthrough using only direct sail and no worldmap,sail to
How viable and fun is it whats the best options for it (arcade/tactical sailing,realistic weather on/off)
Do I get enough events like encounters and storms etc

Also Jeffrey could it be possible to give commands for friendly ships to follow not just defend and how…[Read more]

Oh, and almost forgot the next most important step, that makes it totally not worth the effort…then, for every other use of DLG_TEXT_BASE[xxx] that is higher than the removed lines, you have to adjust their number lower for whatever number of lines you removed from the .h before them…either by 1, 2, 3, however many prior to the original number…[Read more]

I don’t know, I didn’t write it.

I can guess…

The original was written in Russian and someone translated to English. Perhaps a particular Russian phrase that has subtle differences in that language, translates to pretty much the same English phrase that is essentially the same each time, so that’s what was done.

Is it necessary to keep them…[Read more]

Why the texts in ProgramDialogs do repeat themselves? Like in one line it says ‘Yeah, alright’ and some lines forward it says it again (sometimes it’s more than 4 times), so is that really needed?

@Jeffrey, Megaprime

Gentlemen,

THX for you help. I will be travelling for abt. 10 days from now without comp and net access. So I will come back to the issue when I am home again.

Rgds, Oldtimer

Don’t use the paths I put in my post. They were just an example because I do not know where you selected Itch to place your files.

Open notepad.

Navigate to Historical ERAS II in Itch client. Near the “Open” button at the bottom of the screen, click the little gear icon to “manage”. Click Manage, Open folder in explorer. At the very top of…[Read more]

Mr. Jeffrey,

the Maelstrom ERAS shortcut has Place: DirectX9_32bit so your Target and Start in will not work there as they are 64-bit.

My working desktop shortcuts are from the 64-bit folder and look like this for Maelstrom:

– Target:…[Read more]

If you changed a shortcut on your desktop that works, but the Itch client does not work, it is because the Itch client uses the shortcut in its own directory and you have to change that to match what you did on your desktop shortcut. For example, if you decided to put the game on the E drive:

Find the Maelstrom directory you installed the engine…[Read more]

Alright when you open the toml file you see a bunch of paths just like shortcuts you only need to edit 2 line and that is under “Config Eras 2”
Config ERAS2 is at the bottom

I show you my path as an example:
[[actions]]
name = “Config ERAS 2”
path = “DirectX9_64bitConfig.exe”
args =…[Read more]

No, the problem is that I do not know how to edit the thing. Reading instructions is one thing, understanding them another completely. And I installed ERAS module by itch.

Rgds, Oldtimer

Alright I think I got the updates working, I had to Install the historical eras module through Itch not just the engine

Sorry for the stupid question

You can edit the toml files via the windows notepad if that is the problem

Well,

I saw that the client has put the latest Maelstrom update in the right folder as a whole so there were 2 of them. It says that the path is wrong or missing IIRC.

I deleted the old one and edited the paths so I can start the game from desktop but not the client. Or rather I can start it but not play anyway. What I think is that I need to…[Read more]

And dont forget to edit the shortcuts “start in” path so that it points to the gentlemen of fortune module folder(the main game files)

Its all in the pdf im just parroting what it says

There should be a Maelstromsetup.pdf in your maelstrom engine directory which explains it very well
You should stick with the folder names found in the pdf pictures for simplicity
In short there are multiple shortcuts in the engine directory (these are the ones the Itch app uses)
Find the ERAS shortcut and eras config example and edit it to point…[Read more]

Hi,

I cannot start via the app. When I try it shows a table to config a lot of games but I cannot do it. So what has gone wrong?

Rgds, Oldtimer

Hi,

The itch app does not seem to update the main game files even when i choose which version to install
Do i need to do a specific thing for it to work? I can launch the game through the app

Mr Knight,

those are nice muscle cars indeed. BTW, the ships are OK…

And now for something different, after last updates the annoying presence of NPC heroes at taverns their country is at war with has increased. AFAIU it should not be too hard to code it so that they do not unless they have a trading license in their inventory or extreme…[Read more]

Mr. Jeffrey,

it seems to be a different freeze problem, yes. The game freezes after going from world map to 3D-sailing when at harbour fairway, shore anchorage and/or when in battle. No of ships involved does not seem to have much influence.

I never experienced freezes connected to spyglass use.

THX for your attn.,

Oldtimer

I wonder if you are talking about a different symptom? The “freeze” I fixed with FMOD was fairly rare, usually involved use of the spyglass, or travel from/to worldmap. The game would hang, permanently, unresponsive.

Is that what you experience, where the game is permanently stuck? I was able to reproduce this eventually, but usually took me…[Read more]