Sorry guys, this has been a problem I’ve been meaning to fix forever. I can tell you with confidence that it at one time was a much larger problem than it is now – and that there are only a hand full of ships left that have this issue. I would guess less than 10.

I would also bet that because Jeffrey has adopted this to his to-do-list, it will…[Read more]

I was out camping in the woods for awhile, but I’m back.

Yours was the ‘fast battleship’, correct? I’ve seen this problem before, but had not yet looked into the reasons yet. My first glance at your ship, I think it may be due to a mismatch in the ship definition in the Ships_init.c file and how many cannon locators are in the model; the cannon…[Read more]

So I am very excited to report an update. The talented modeler Yo Ho Ho has indeed given us his ships for the game!

I encouraged him to enter these into the modeling contest and hope he will.…[Read more]

Well, I’ve been mostly quiet, but busy for sure…and not to worry, the hiatus from here was for work on this and I think you will find it worthwhile. I admit, I have not done much for features in the actual game most of you will notice, but that will likely change in the near future as I’ve finally gotten the improvements in the back-end of this…[Read more]

So just to follow up, this is a topic on the ships we need in the game. If you would like to talk about any of these or have good examples or pictures or information you would like to contribute on this subject – feel free to comment.

The only forum rule I will impose on this is NO FANTASY SHIP discussion – unless its to make fun of them. I won’t…[Read more]

The answer to your last comment is: YES you are correct!

The answer to your first question is: No you didn’t do or say anything wrong. I PM’d you just as you were posting this but will reiterate here – I think it best not to even post there any longer. Simply PM the people you need to communicate with. Best to let him eat static. This will bother…[Read more]

I am actually thinking of making this even more realistic. With the exception of pirate ports, you will have to go to see the port controller first before proceeding to the merchant. In our future cities I think we will have more than one merchant as well. In Spanish cities there will be no option BUT to proceed to the port controller FIRST. In…[Read more]

There are a few ships with this problem, but there is usually a way to work around it. You will need enough free hold space for the cannons you wish to purchase.

Buy the size you want, then in the cannon change interface screen, you need to click the row of the new size in the lower right of the screen to highlight that option, then Fix All. It…[Read more]

I remember someone posting/telling me about this bug from COAS, so it’s been around since the beginning.

I took a look and found the problem. I fixed it and will post it in my next update upload. I will notify when I do that.

OK, after some review, I suspect those of you still having the locked services after changing to #define PGG_TASK_MITIGATE 110 might be playing higher than difficulty level 1.

I found that I also use the difficulty level of the game (sorry, I forgot about that) to figure the service locks, and higher difficulty levels reduce the mitigation. So…[Read more]

If you see the ‘grow up’ dialog, that usually means you are not commanding a ship class within one of Blood’s ship. I believe he starts out with the Arabella, which is a class 3 maybe? So before talking to him, make sure you are commanding a class 4 or better.

If that’s not the case, and you are within one class or better, you may have upset…[Read more]

To be fair, the always busy was a side-effect of so many NPC characters and not really an intentional add; by putting so many characters in, the original feature to lock services became much more noticeable because COAS only had a handful of characters.

At first, the discussion became, “well, it’s kind of realistic,” so nothing was done. After…[Read more]

Sorry, I have to go on a short trip and will be back by Thursday. I have been working on new stories and announcements for a site update/refresh since May but they are not all finished yet. I am about 98 or 99 percent done so I would say to watch for a complete site refresh with new stuff by Friday or Saturday at the latest.

We have incredible…[Read more]

Dennis, The short answer is that I don’t know yet.

I have had a really bad year. I lost one of my favorite dogs a few months ago. The death of my nephew last month has made things REALLY bad. I almost just quit all of this altogether. I know a couple of you I talked to privately thought I was going to. But I am not.

Why??? Because this has all…[Read more]

Call me a glutton for punishment but I actually enjoy the food shortage problem and it gets worse the higher the difficulty you play. If you have a small fleet no problems, but if you’re commanding large capital ships with huge crews, you would have had immense issues with military logistics in the 17th century Caribbean. I was just reading about…[Read more]

Great news!

The occasional texture flickering was specific to DirectX 9 and I guess it’s a change in some default behavior that was different than DirectX 8. After much searching and experimentation, I isolated the cause and I have a version where the flicker is gone! It was due to ‘backfacing’ textures getting blended into the forefront. The…[Read more]