I agree with Stéphane, that most likely you have the option to ‘reduce skill bonus’ turned on. I think that the default is to reduce the bonus, so it will limit each item to +10. If you turn on ‘stack’, then you will probably see the true described bonus for each item.

There doesn’t appear to be anything wrong. I tried several times, and could get pearls every time. However, it is difficult with those ships you have. I prefer something much smaller and faster. The Dog of War (or a similar smaller/fast ship) is my favorite choice for that mission. Make your companions use grape shot (short range) and stay…[Read more]

There doesn’t appear to be anything wrong. I tried several times, and could get pearls every time. However, it is difficult with those ships you have. I prefer something much smaller and faster. The Dog of War (or a similar smaller/fast ship) is my favorite choice for that mission. Make your companions use grape shot (short range) and stay…[Read more]

Send me a save from before approaching the Pearl ships and I will take a look.

A few small bug fixes, but one concerns a potential crash. Included:

Fix font sizes on SKILL table for ship/captain change assignment screen
Fix Camera bug (first person) when companion sinks last ship in a pirate quest
Fix dialog/follow bug at completion of passenger quest in tavern

The crash was a lucky/accidental finding. I was in first…[Read more]

Several things.

Each cannon can be damaged upon loading the gun. If your cannon skill is low (or your gunner officer), the more likely it will be damaged on load and that is why they sometimes explode on the next firing.

Also, they can be hit by opponent fire and damaged. That damage depends on how far away the shot was fired, and the type of…[Read more]

Slight misnomer. Caymen is a new/add, Fort-de-France in Martinique is new as in completely changed. That is the French colony that is new in the sense it is bigger and totally changed from the original.

Cats seem pretty rare to find. I only remember one time finding one on a looted body after a boarding fight. There is also a rat god idol item. I think taking the mission for the Pearl Diver colony will get you one of those. There are some rat god idols in the Lost Ships City.

For a cat, you could always start as one of the female characters,…[Read more]

Rats don’t eat gunpowder. We fixed that ages ago. They only eat perishable goods. Also if you find a cat your rat issues are over. So there is more than one way to prevent rats now. That compass I made from original 17th century compasses. That’s why there’s all of the unique symbology on the face. When you’ve become an old salt in this game you…[Read more]

Oh one more special request for Orazio. On the other two deck frigate_mb could I get a texture map that will allow me to decorate the ship better – especially the stern. Also a flag pole for that ship would be great as well!

MK

I don’t see how this would ever ruin any questlines. The merchant dialogue is different for receiving cargo so he will always accept your cargo. If you are short because of rats that’s part of the challenge – I try to buy extra when I can if its perishable goods. In the questlines where you have to deliver goods, the merchants will not refuse you…[Read more]

OK, looks like that still give a 10% chance. This will make the chance for them to lock a service zero:

#define PGG_TASK_MITIGATE 110

It won’t be immediate. You have to wait for the effect, because any currently ‘locked’ services you will have to wait until they reopen (usually a few days to a week…’game time’) as it only affects when the ‘task’ for the NPC is decided upon at the beginning of the decisions; once they are ‘locked into service’ the time has to be waited out as…[Read more]

Orazio my friend- YOU ARE SO AWESOME!!!

THANKS!

I have SO many plans ready for you that I have taken pictures of with a digital camera. I just need to get them up on my FLICKR page and start a topic here on ship plans. Excited to see what else you come up with! Still working on that other stuff to get to you. Sorry its taking me so long. I work…[Read more]

Thanks for the feedback Chris. I really appreciate it.

So to address a couple of things…

As to the merchant availability, as Jeffrey said we discussed it and tweaked it down, but I like it like that. Why? REALISM!!! People do not consider that trading was a difficult thing back in the day. Sometimes captains had to wait for weeks to get the…[Read more]

Hello Jackson,

Thanks for the interest. You are certainly a rare bird to comment on my historical research endeavors. Few seem to be interested sadly. Until I am actually published myself, (beyond magazine articles, military journals and academic conference competition papers) I am right there with you as an amateur historian. Hopefully…[Read more]

Hello Jackson,

Thanks for the interest. You are certainly a rare bird to comment on my historical research endeavors. Few seem to be interested sadly. Until I am actually published myself, (beyond magazine articles, military journals and academic conference competition papers) I am right there with you as an amateur historian. Hopefully…[Read more]

…there are so many characters in the game, it is very difficult to get into the store and sell goods, hire crew, etc without the NPC being busy with other customers. Its especially hard in the beginning when you are doing government tasks that are time limited; finding the smugglers in 2 days, wait 4-5 days till smugglers can see you and I’ve f…

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I have good news and bad news for you.

The good news is that the other day, I had uploaded a new base set into a private section on Mega, and had not yet put that into the public folder. I just did that and a new set is available.

The bad news is that would mean a whole new download and that time it takes. But, it might not result in a corrupt…[Read more]

I just started a new game to test another issue, and I will use that game to try and recreate your problem, by finding a set of ships to board and see if this happens to me.