OK, we will make the girdles, gloves and boots as equipable, non-perk damage reducers. Will also have officers equip them if they don’t have the perk as well. Will change the officer selection to get the best cirass they have. Also, toyed with a gun formula for selection as well. What do you think of this order? It’s based on a formula, but…[Read more]

Given this whole scenario, rather than try to reorder the gun/cirass items in the ‘right’ order for character selection, it might be easier and wiser to just do similarly as blade selection, which is to weight certain gun parameters and in the case of cirass, simple strength and just return the best one; this is how blades work and we can do…[Read more]

Ha! I made that last statement about the officer opting for boots/gloves over Grandee without testing. I just tried and and sure enough, my officer equipped boots over the Grandee when I traded them the item.

Kind of hilarious though since the character I tried this with is Beatrice and when you give her a Grandee, her model changes to show the…[Read more]

LOL, I’m so silly. I assumed there was all sorts of fancy math algorithm to officer item selection. Hardly. There is a little bit of calculation for blades, but nothing for cirass or gun. I found the reason Dutch/Flemish cirass is chosen over Spanish and why a Beretta single shot is chosen over a double-barrel in GOF (I had presumed the…[Read more]

Hmmm, in addition, I suppose we could also think about adding the protective boots and gloves to an item that might be used without the cirass perk?

Since this is kind of related, itmname_cirass6 {Corsair Officer’s Girdle}. The description mentions, “In addition it requires no special training or experience to wear.” This gives the impression that it can be used without the Cirass perk, yet it can’t be equipped and does not offer damage reduction without such. Should the description be…[Read more]

Since this is kind of related, itmname_cirass6 {Corsair Officer’s Girdle}. The description mentions, “In addition it requires no special training or experience to wear.” This gives the impression that it can be used without the Cirass perk, yet it can’t be equipped and does not offer damage reduction without such. Should the description be…[Read more]

Orazio, I’m with you on this point. I also changed that image because it was a little too busy and the items displayed seemed to get lost among the rest of the image. I just changed mine to the old stock version. Yours is much nicer! I like what you did here.

Sure, I don’t mind…well, as long as it carries no further responsibility on my part to vanquish spammers or keep law-and-order…I’m lazy by nature (my running joke as I’m usually banging code, both work and ‘fun’, to all hours of the night) 😉

But I figure it might be more efficient if you focus on the planned improvements and I can certainly…[Read more]

LOL, I saw this post and thought, “Hey, why not take a look and see about this night thing?” So I found Night.c, and mucked with the shadow.density and sky.color argb call values by substituting extreme values of 0 or 255 to see what gives…I could find no discernible difference, so that ain’t it for sure.

Makes sense there is more to this,…[Read more]

I will reiterate about enabling logging and sending system.log, compile.log, error.log files upon crashes, as it is very difficult to figure the problems without them because it might be a case we can’t replicate all the variables ourselves.

I would also be willing to review any error files and perhaps even try running from a boarding save file…[Read more]

I will reiterate about enabling logging and sending system.log, compile.log, error.log files upon crashes, as it is very difficult to figure the problems without them because it might be a case we can’t replicate all the variables ourselves.

I would also be willing to review any error files and perhaps even try running from a boarding save file…[Read more]

I just created a new game as this character to check things out, and sure enough, I see the Letter of Marque in items, but you need to click the ‘Equip Item’ for the Governor Gen. to recognize such. Try that.

Oh I got the email, but the link it offered for authentication prompted a 404 error on the site.

I did log out, then try logging back in without WordPress, using the name/pass I had selected when signing up and it indeed works now.

One thing that has bothered me for awhile, and since I’m running out of issues I can resolve, I went back to an old COAS save and tried to figure out the Max Taylor problem. This has been a longstanding thing since the original game GOF (correction), and has not been rectified…well, until now.

Here is what every scene with Max looks…[Read more]

One thing that has bothered me for awhile, and since I’m running out of issues I can resolve, I went back to an old COAS save and tried to figure out the Max Taylor problem. This has been a longstanding thing since the original game, and has not been rectified…well, until now.

Here is what every scene with Max looks like:

Here is after my…[Read more]

Found a ship description problem for Batavia2. It’s missing, shows (null) when right-clicking for the tool-tip on the Ships screen and needs an entry in the common.ini file. I just copied the other Bataviaxxx versions:

RESOURCEINItextsrussiancommon.ini

string = Batavia2,”Old Dutch Handelsschip”

Ya know…as an aside, you mentioned lack of participation on this site. There might be a simple explanation for that.

I was unable to create an account because the activation link I was emailed did not work — got a 404 error when I clicked it. I sent a message through the contact message facility, but I’m wondering if you never got that…[Read more]

A new discovery…dammit! LOL. Commencing with the Blue Bird quest, I found something new…the Puerto Principe shopkeep won’t talk to me about it because of my reputation sitting at near zero, Bloody Assassin; it got a slight bump during the Dutchman quest saving the towns from sieges, but a couple of my crew loyalties were taking a hit since…[Read more]

So Galleon, you’re out hunting pirates, eh? Meet Mary Read and her chick army:

We eat sqaudrons of 4-5 class 3 ships for lunch 😉 Good luck!

And ModernKnight, you call the lower boarding decks an ‘improvement’? I still remember the WTF moment I had when I gained my bearings during the first couple boarding battles, immediately tried…[Read more]