Much of what you write is standard COAS behavior and is unchanged for ERAS.

– There is a Portuguese NPC hero and Nathaniel Hawk that I come across at the tavern which keep telling me “I’ll just finish my drink and return back to the ship” but thing is I never hired them nor do I have them anywhere on my officer list

This is in the Bermude…[Read more]

Nice progress, good work!
Thanks for addressing all the issues.

I stopped playing yesterday to give my brain some break from dozens of hours of continuous play but here are a few notes on recent encounters:

– There is a Portuguese NPC hero and Nathaniel Hawk that I come across at the tavern which keep telling me “I’ll just finish my drink and…[Read more]

– Cannon firing is weird in ERAS 2. Sometimes you keep shooting and don’t make a single damage. I spent 4 hours last night trying to storm Fort de France in Martinique, and I just spent hours waiting for fort to break but in the end it didn’t so i left the scene. I used 12k powder and 12k explosive shots and after reaching 60% damage with 40% r…

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I posted the updates here this time, because it addresses several of your issues:

Tailor battle interface icon sizes based on actual screen resolution.
**If you only see 4 ships, you are probably using something like 800×600 and when we expanded both ships and fighter numbers from the original COAS, a lower resolution monitor will not display…[Read more]

Maelstrom updates

Feature to cancel dialog delay

Check for data error in Sea block calc

Sea raindrop performance

SinkSplash remove unneeded method call

Dynamic array correction

GetFPS function

Sails corrections

Correct 64 bit bias for underwater scenes

Fix no-cannon BI display showing full ready

Correct ship dead problem when assigning…[Read more]

Mr. Jeffrey,

I will try my hand at this. No hurry though.

THX for your attn.,

Oldtimer

Good day.
A few more issues I came across lately:

– When you board a ship, you lose an enormous amount of crew via musket salvo despite the other ship having less men. If you board an equal ship (eg. manowar vs manowar) then you both lose 150-170 men each. In smaller ships you still lose 150-170 but enemy loses 50-100. In very very small ships…[Read more]

Yes, that is the correct idea. Just an aside, remember to make sure there is a ; semicolon on the end of the lines, where needed, like this one:

float iLevHalfBonus, iLev1Bonus, iLev2Bonus, iLev3Bonus, iLev12Bonus, iLev15Bonus, iLev25Bonus, iLev35Bonus;

But, be sure to understand, changing the existing values, like iLev1Bonus will automatically…[Read more]

BUMPING AGAIN.

For good measure I meke another bump as per below:

Mr. Jeffrey,

my apologies for not noticing your reply until now. Anyway from the below:

– float iLevHalfBonus, iLev1Bonus, iLev2Bonus, iLev3Bonus, iLev12Bonus, iLev15Bonus, iLev25Bonus, iLev35Bonus
if (LowerSkillBooks) {
iLevHalfBonus = 0.5;
iLev1Bonus = 1;
iLev2Bonus = 1…[Read more]

EDITING .toml file

Hi all,

since this issue was recently mentioned by a poster I kinda bump my question from before.

I still run Win7 Home Pro 64 bits. Itch updates Maelstrom and ERAS correctly AFAIK but I cannot start either from itch, only from desktop shortcuts. AFAIU it`s the .toml file that needs editing, but how?

Rgds, Oldtimer

Yea it’s no big deal, but the duel thing makes becoming a millionaire way too easy! I scored 2.5 million on this one hero. ModernKnight also fell victim unfortunately…
On one treasure hunt, I got over 95 jewels which was sold at about 97k each, netting me more than 9 million in a single treasure hunt.
Such rare items also can be found on dead…[Read more]

LOL, yes, the NPC Hero duels. That insult feature was actually built into COAS, but was disabled. I recently enabled it again with an infamous Star Trek-inspired quote, instead of “Beta Test” in the dialog they used.

After enabling it, I thought it was too easy to dispatch them if you had a good pistol, because you both spawn at a fair distance…[Read more]

Thanks for all the clarifications.
I did investigate a little and here my notes on the last two mentioned:

– The radius for looting a chest in captain’s cabin after boarding enemy ship can mostly be achieved by going towards the right side, then turn and face left and then the loot chest can be stable without interruption from moving on to the…[Read more]

– Everytime I encounter bounty hunters in town, after killing them, I am declared as “Evading town alarm” and everyone treats me like a criminal, and once i come out of a shop etc. then guards start attacking me. I have to go to port screen then dock again for it to resume to normal.

The alarm system was redone to allow for a timeout if evade…[Read more]

Additional issues:

– This one is quite notable: when boarding a ship and completing the captain’s cabin, you have to move in a special direction in order to loot chests, otherwise when you click on space bar it could take you to next capture screen.
Therefore to loot chest you need the “hand” logo to appear on top and not the “unlock chain”…[Read more]

Yea perhaps that’s a workaround for launching, but I have no issues launching from Itch via Maelstrom app, and then clicking on ERAS config. I’m not a technical guy so I usually get lost when I try fiddle with my computer haha

Anyhow thanks for the update, hope to check it out soon. That means I don’t have to download anything right, on Itch it…[Read more]

The dialog delay was a recent request to prevent multi-clicks of the mouse to initiate a conversation causing one to accidentally blow past the first part of the dialog because the multi mouse clicks would still register and the first option was selected without being able to read it fast enough.

But, the default delay turned out too high, and my…[Read more]

Thanks again for feedback.
Yes it was me who posted on Itch, was not sure where to write.
But anyhow I did perform most of the mod settings, including realistic costs and weights, which is a bit challenging in terms of economy but hey there’s always more plunder 🙂

Regarding file directory I followed exact instructions as written on download page…[Read more]

Itch did not make it easy to have just one base Maelstrom.exe play all the games because they don’t have a support system to make them related, where perhaps the “mods” could be considered related DLC elements. So we kind of hacked around it, but it involves a bit of manual intervention on the user’s part; couldn’t find an easy way around that,…[Read more]

Good day everyone.
I just installed and began playing ERAS 2 on Itch, and I have some issues I wish to discuss in case I am doing something wrong and need to fix:

1) When I start the game via Itch, I click on Maelstrom from Library section, then it launches and I can see a big list of mods and their config. When clicking on ERAS 2 it just takes…[Read more]