Someone also noticed FPS drops during storms, that also improved if foliage was disabled.

Does this same thing also occur around other parts of the South American continent, like Belize?

Also, instead of disabling, does reducing the foliage quality help?

I’m trying to figure out if is the specific foliage patch just around Maracaibo, and also…[Read more]

Edit: I suspected that foliage was causing the problem and I was right. Turning it off will make fps run smooth. So I guess no foliage in that part of the Caribbean.

I’m having considerable fps drop when sailing close to Maracaibo and the other southern parts of the Caribbean. It’s strange because the game works so smoothly everywhere else, and I haven’t had any game crash since I started playing it a few days ago.
My specs:
Intel Xeon E3 1270 3.4GHz
AMD Radeon R9 270x GPU 2GB DDR5
8GB DDR3 RAM

I was thinking also how nice it would be to have this music in Eras mod. It’s music from an old pirate game called Cutthroats: Terror on the high seas.

It’s been 2 years since I last time played Eras Mod. For the first time now I’m playing it on the Maelstrom engine and I have to say that I can’t believe what this modding team has done with an old game that still happens to be the best sailing and pirating simulator on the game market. Thank you for this wonderful work!

Change data of player ship.

Mr, Jeffrey,

Following your instructions above I could change my ships data, but no longer.
This is the code change:

void ExecuteConsole()
{
RealShips[sti(Pchar.Ship.Type)].TurnRate = 16.07;
}
But now nothing happens after pressing F4.

What`s wrong?

Rgds, Oldtimer

Hi all,

an idea in connection with this is inclusion of Moslem slave hunters who are known to have raided N. American coast in our period of time.
Could be a new questline actually. Fight them or maybe side with them…

Rgds, Oldtimer

There was an error before with the Fast Armed English Merchantman I think, the mercantile clone of the English scout frigate, that was related to rigging textures missing. It might be the same case here, worth to check out at least.

What’s the ship called in the ships_init.c?

Enemy recognition, again.

Sailing for Spain I join a battle between Portugal-Pirates. Portuguese flag is neutral, Pirates hostile. I decide to help the Portuguese.
While manouvering to a good attack position I come close to the Portuguese and they open fire upon me. Why? They are flagged neutral all the time.

Rgds, Oldtimer

I can make a note of that ship, but I won’t be able to fix it because I don’t know modeling and we seem to have lost our only ship modeller a short time ago. But I will record the problem and if anyone ever comes along with an ability for that type of work, they can take a look at it.

As for performance, there are some periods of slowness when…[Read more]

Not the Armed English merchantman but the Armed english trader. Its missing some of the rigging.

Hello everyone! I notice that some of the rigging on the ships are missing and was wondering if there was any way of fixing it? Specifically on the armed english merchant. And I’m experiencing some fps slow downs. I have a decent pc, well decent enough to be able to run this game, and was wondering if there was any way to fix this or help it.

Thanks for the kind words. I have been working on a GREAT DEAL of new content for the last two years that I haven’t yet shared. So there is a lot coming down the pipeline. Others have asked about donating as well. I procured a Patreon page but have not yet hung any content there – so I just need to finish it.

Just lately we seem to be getting…[Read more]

Interesting conversation. I had a discussion of this on one of our Youtube videos where I talk about dumping slaves at shores so they can escape. I go so far as to dump a little food as well for part of the immersion – getting into the role play. I believe I talk about this in the old features here in an article I wrote about “gamesmanship”.…[Read more]

I wouldn’t be completely sure about that. I mean, in the time period slavery is not regularly looked down on as morally repulsive as it is today, it’s more of a power struggle between hardcore abolitionists and hardcore slavers and slave traders, and a lot of levels inbetween. Releasing slaves might be seen as merciful by, say, the towns…[Read more]

Hmmmm.

But shouldn’t releasing prisoners improve one’s reputation at least? There are several missions about freeing NPCs from slavery in the game. Maybe you could make it so that the self-dialog option gives a slight reputation boost?

The question is of course: how much reputation boost for how many released prisoners? (Relative to the number…[Read more]

There is currently no option to simply release slaves, but if you are playing a character that does not want to ruthlessly kill slaves, or sell them, this is what I do for those types of character roles:

Go to a port/mooring spot on shore.
Open the character GUI interfaces, select the ship.
Scroll down to the slave cargo line, then…[Read more]