Great anecdote of your criminal past Schiavonna. Laughed my ass off you book clepto you! LOL I actually admit to stealing library books when I was a kid. I would only do it after I had looked at it many times and realized that it had not been checked out by anyone else in years. I even waited for months sometimes just to see if someone – anyone…[Read more]

Interestingly enough this project is years old. I tried to add ships in harbors that you could see sailing away while you were walking around in the colony. I also wanted small ships at the jetty right next to the docks rather than just the little jolly boat. Actually his majesty Chancellor Fuhrer Grand Mof Boelen from PA! was helping me with…[Read more]

That is SO AWESOME Orazio!

Have I mentioned lately that your work and Jeffrey’s breakthroughs are the ONLY reason I still work on this?

You guys are my only inspiration. Truly! Thank you, this looks amazing. Guess I might finally just shelve Kris Woods nearly completed model cause yours looks better!

How are you coming with that other little…[Read more]

Good luck with this effort. Sounds like a lot of work. There is one very knowledgeable member who communicates with me regularly via email from French Canada. I think he would enjoy such a translation. Phillipe from PA worked on Ackmod and used to be a member of the GOF mod team there. He was instrumental in helping me figure out how to port new…[Read more]

I know that most people don’t appreciate my attempts to make this world into more of a period simulation. I am always looking to the future and what I hope this will all be a year from now or two years from now. The merchants refusing to trade was always there, but it didn’t work until Jeffrey fixed all that bad spaghetti code. I liked the “new”…[Read more]

Glad you like the model. Sounds like with your explanation she would be right at home in Rick and Morty’s adventures or tooling around with Dr. Who as well. Love Rick and Morty but the whole time travel thing just aint my cup o tea.

So….

Helen….

Tavrel?

Robert E. Howard anyone? Anyone here heard of him?

Anyone care?

Anyone appreciate…[Read more]

Ah yes. I think I know the book.

Is it “A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer – The Life of William Dampier”

ISBN 0-425-20037-X (pbk.)

By Diana & Michael Preston

Published in 2004 by The Berkeley Publishing Group

That IS indeed a good read. I read it not long after it was published. I felt like some of the…[Read more]

OK Maltacus, Jeffrey and I have discussed it and based on your comments and Oldtimer’s questions about why certain ships are not available we will be adding what ships can be bought to my cannon mod. Bermuda sloops will only be found in – wait for it – BERMUDA! LOL

Good idea on the ship coloring guide. Yes – that sounds like a fun project along…[Read more]

OK a couple comments to let you all know that we take all of your input seriously.

Christoph’s question on grapeshot is very well founded – as a former Army analyst and someone who used to play with simulated damages solutions, he is absolutely correct. So I asked Jeffrey if we could make it more difficult to eradicate the last 10 percent of…[Read more]

Thanks for the offer Michiel,

Yeah I stand corrected on the location of the archive – I think I knew that, but just wasn’t thinking. Never been to those particular archives before – I’ve just read stuff from them that other people have copied. So I will throw together a list of documents I would like copies of (obviously not entire documents -…[Read more]

Jeffrey,

The update will also have all of the new ship AI stuff (not running into land, each other, and tacking against the wind) that I have been testing – correct?

I just wanted to add that we are also adding members to the loyalty update who have been participating lately. Thanks for your participation.

I have been very busy – but new…[Read more]

YEAY!!!

One of our members who wishes to remain anonymous has told me who the author of the AWESOME and extremely well researched stories about Helen Tavrel – IS.

His name is Keith Taylor.

Here is his Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Taylor_(author)

I guess its no surprise at all that he is a great devotee and admirer of…[Read more]

I don’t think everyone realizes what a huge deal this is!

Jeffrey has reworked an immense amount of the NPC and enemy ship AI so that they will act MUCH MORE REALISTICALLY!

– Ships no longer run into each other,

– Ships don’t run into land masses.

– Ships will retreat under the protection of fort guns if part of their faction.

– Ships…[Read more]

Love the narrative and screen shots Maltacus! Very entertaining.

So just so you know, there is a mod option available in your Mod Options interface window to click “realistic ships” available at shipyards which gives you much LESS of a choice in the variety of ships available to purchase.

Jeffrey and I have been discussing my cannon mod in…[Read more]

Love the narrative and screen shots Maltacus! Very entertaining.

So just so you know, there is a mod option to go to realistic ships available at shipyards which gives much LESS of a choice in variety to purchase.

Jeffrey and I have been discussing my cannon mod in detail and he has said that everything I want to achieve is very doable – to…[Read more]

Hello Michiel,

Never be sorry for contacting me about historical research or historical subjects of the pirate kind – because this is one of my passions and I am always reading and researching and learning more. I am always happy to talk about these things!

Well I am continuing to research Van Hoorn and am finding some very interesting…[Read more]

I do declare,

why ever do you suppose someone would do that Jeffrey?

What could their motive be?

hmmmmmmm…

MK

There is also an anim viewer utility that some Russian devs/modders made (for SOFS I think?) which will actually allow you to see the texture on the character in the utility which GM viewer does not (it only shows them on ships).

Also remember because PA! has had a tendency in the past to hide or move topics/links, I made our own place to get the…[Read more]

I’m glad you enjoyed it.

Let me tell you that Jeffrey just amazes me continually. When I tell him how ships should behave and what they should and should not do – he finds ways of building new rules into the code to add AI to the mix so that they do as I ask.

They almost seem smart now. Wait until you see all of the changes complete because…[Read more]

Well I guess I need to take a look at that VOC Escort Frigate again because she was never supposed to get 28 pounders. The largest she was supposed to mount was 16 to 24 pounders. I will edit appropriately. Usually when I’ve seen these ships they usually are rated around 7500 hit points so I think that is a rather exceptional ship. That’s the…[Read more]