Well, they may seem to be the same but with realistic turned off you’ll generally encounter ships with higher classes meaning that most of the time you’ll get outclassed, and when you find a stronger encounter they will have fewer ships in the fleet, so to summarize, realistic encounters makes things fairer because for instance if your ship is…[Read more]

During some uploads the game crashes, I was wondering how to best configure Maelstrom, both the mod and maelstrom I installed it from the client and therefore always updated

Maelstrom Update

Change navigation AI…rewrite

Fix *DATA array copy

Data AttributesClass fixes

FastArrayFind function added

Screen resolution change for Xinterface

STRCOLLECTION fixup

Memory leak…headgear check

Fix possible dupe of music call, was also cause of heap corruption within FMOD

Fix occasional battle music mixup after fight…[Read more]

Aye, checked and I did get a Gunner’s Quadrant from one of the captains I defeated. Thank you for the explanation I was confused for a bit

It is a feature of some of the Gunner bonus items; if you or your gunner have one of these items, the reticle changes to indicate that different shape and now you aim it directly at the ship that you want to fire, instead of needing to aim the upward trajectory to account for gravity. Now, you aim straight at the target and the guns will…[Read more]

Good afternoon, I encountered another strange thing. This reticule is shaped like a T rather than the horizontal line I’ve seen. I cannot figure out what caused this. Has anyone ever seen this happen or know a way to avoid it? If I load an older save it is the normal reticule, but I cannot figure out what happened

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Thanks!

Through some experimentation, I was finally able to replicate the stuttering ship on the world map; the only way I could cause that was by using fullscreen and VSynch at the same time. I do not yet know what to do about that. All other configurations (e.g. windowed + VSynch, without VSynch, etc.) seem to not produce that problem.

Falling masts…[Read more]

Hello, I’ve been getting this odd stuttering on the map. Weirdly, if I enable recording my framerate increases and the stuttering goes away. This happens even if fraps is not running. Here is video
https://youtu.be/A9cZwrgocSU
I also noticed an AI ship accidentally ram its counterpart, and its mast fell off. I knew falling masts were removed so I…[Read more]

THX for your attn.,

Oldtimer

I had a huge bounty before I completely understood the system and even though I killed them and captured their ships, they never quit chasing me. I had to speak with the Pirate Diplomat to finally get rid of my bounty.

I’m wondering, how does Realistic Ships Encounters affect the spawns on the map? I think I noticed the smaller pirate sloop…[Read more]

Well, after reinstalling both it works, so probably something went wrong while dl-ing the update.

Rgds, Oldtimer

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.