You will not have to start a new game with the next update to see the new stuff; I’ve got a technique that will automatically add the new characters/ships without a restart.

Oh, and I figured out how to fix that Deserted Beach mooring point and where you wind up on the worldmap in both Esmerelda and Deserted Beach on Cayman. It is fixable. I…[Read more]

The timing was perfect, as I have briefly gone through MK’s new additions, and just now got Orazio’s decks, so they will be included. Give me a little time, and the update will be coming shortly.

Thanks Orazio.

To clarify, calling evict every resource create slows things down, but that was only to test what ill effect it might have and whether anything needs rebuilt. Since it’s ‘managed’ only it doesn’t need rebuilt and has no ill effect other than slowing things when called every single resource call; that is what I wanted to verify. I will not call…[Read more]

OK, good news about Direct3D does not have enough display memory to perform the operation and using the eviction method — it’s safe. I called it before every ‘create’ resource call and it doesn’t ruin anything, just slows things down due to deliberately throwing out every managed resource that is intended to be reused for speed purposes. This…[Read more]

I took a look and a couple things to respond:

When you use Sail To for Deserted beach, your squadron is large and the ships get packed together close, so the icon you see is to trade with your companion, but you can still moor if you hit the ‘Enter’ key, then you should see the moor option. I did this with your game sailing to your Gold quest…[Read more]

I took a look and a couple things to respond:

When you use Sail To for Deserted beach, your squadron is large and the ships get packed together close, so the icon you see is to trade with your companion, but you can still moor if you hit the ‘Enter’ key, then you should see the moor option. I did this with your game sailing to your Gold quest…[Read more]

So not having enough weapons incurs a flat penalty?

Yes it does. So not a bug and you figured out the answer. Makes sense, as how would your crew defend themselves if they don’t have weapons? 🙂 You have to make sure there are at least as many weapon count as crew member, or a bunch of them die automatically without the enemy incurring any…[Read more]

So not having enough weapons incurs a flat penalty?

Yes it does. So not a bug and you figured out the answer. Makes sense, as how would your crew defend themselves if they don’t have weapons? 🙂 You have to make sure there are at least as many weapon count as crew member, or a bunch of them die automatically without the enemy incurring any…[Read more]

LOL, yeah, those cats are difficult to find. In my time playing, I’ve only ever found one random when looting a body after boarding. Given the circumstances vs. cereal, it may a good idea to look into the stats for those two items.

But, if you really want cats…and who doesn’t because of the rats, hook up with the female heroes you encounter.…[Read more]

LOL, yeah, those cats are difficult to find. Given the circumstances vs. cereal, it may a good idea to look into the stats for those two items.

But, if you really want cats…and who doesn’t because of the rats, hook up with the female heroes you encounter. Almost every one of them has a cat.

I will look at your game at some point. It might…[Read more]

-Inexplicable crash in my ship cabin (large type in the Deux Pont Battleship).

I may have fixed this. Got a similar crash while in the cabin and it turned out to be a bad pointer in the AI ‘follow’ logic of the fighter NPCs. Might have been your problem too. Found and fixed my particular error.

These will appear just time the first time you go to get them, but if you reload a savegame before getting these items (even outside of the house they are in), they will not be there. This means if you die in the fights, you are basically stuck and the quest is broken.

I think I have a method to fix this. Does anyone happen to have a couple…[Read more]

If you want, set up something to share your desktop, like gotomeeting and I can try to troubleshoot. There is only one mechanism that prevents the game from playing, with no errors and no crash, and that happens only if some various Buccaneer’s Reef or GOF ERAS pieces are taken out or changed. Out of over 1,000 downloads, yours would be the…[Read more]

If you want, set up something to share your desktop, like gotomeeting and I can try to troubleshoot. There is a mechanism that prevents the game from playing if some various Buccaneer’s Reef or GOF ERAS pieces are taken out or changed. Out of over 1,000 downloads, yours would be the first case that is preventing play if that wasn’t done, but I…[Read more]

If one downloads the original game, then the update.zip and applies it over the base, leaving all the original content as-is, the game works on WinXP, Win7, Win8 and Windows 10 if compatibility is set to WinXP SP3 and run as administrator for OS beyond WinXP.

But, if some Buccaneer’s Reef or GOF ERAS content is removed or altered, it won’t work.…[Read more]

Given what you just described, I have an idea what the cause might be. Is the Buccaneer’s Reef file still in your game directory? If it’s not there, put the file, exactly as it exists in the download, back in the game directory.

Well, those don’t show anything wrong. I suspect from what I see, you probably don’t get an error.log, but if by chance you do happen to have one, could you upload that too?

Since I don’t see anything in those logs, let’s also try a crash dump. If you have a 64 bit operating system, you will have to launch the 32 bit task manager. You can find…[Read more]

That link wants the decryption key. The easiest thing to do, is use the checkbox to copy the URL with the key added and give that link. Or, post the text of the decryption key in a message to me.

It’s difficult to say without some information. Have you tried enabling compatibility to WinXP SP3 and ‘Run as Administrator’ on the START.exe? Also, in the start.ini, enable the logging and post system.log and compile.log after a crash.

tracefiles = 1
tracefilesoff = 0

debuginfo = 1
runtimelog = 1
tracefiles = 1

From LAi_boarding.c, it looks like the current maximum it will use is up to n < MAX_GROUP_SIZE (which is 13), making the highest locators it will use to spawn characters as: loc12 and aloc12