I am not 100% certain, because I haven’t fully traced everything that’s happening, but I do have an educated suspicion about why there is an increased delay from vanilla when going to Worldmap. There are several things that happen when switching that mode and one of them is to compute the various quest updates for the NPCs. Every one of those…[Read more]

I see no reason to split the item images at this point. I had forgotten that Orazio provided both reduced size and compressed item images, but there was a decent discovery in both his and my different approaches. What I found is that ideally, they do need to be resized to, at maximum, 512×512. But they don’t need the further compression to…[Read more]

I see no reason to split the item images at this point. I had forgotten that Orazio provided both reduced size and compressed item images, but there was a decent discovery in both his and my different approaches. What I found is that ideally, they do need to be resized to, at maximum, 512×512. But they don’t need the further compression to…[Read more]

Thanks Samir for the kind words.

I don’t like dredging up the past either. However, with the very latest events at PA!, it has occurred to me more than ever recently that I can never escape from this past unless some kind of change occurs.

Using simple IF ELSE logic what are my options?

IF THE CURRENT SITUATION REMAINS THE SAME;

1. QUIT all…[Read more]

Interesting, I am surprised there was no evident FPS improvement. Do you recommend we implement this method regardless?

NEW MOD IDEA:

Just had this idea last night while I was dreaming. Shows you just how badly this game is addicting to me when I actually dream about being in the game. LOL Yeah I know pretty bad…. WARNING WARNING – loser…[Read more]

Sounds like you’ve put some good time and effort into checking all the options. This is good information and I appreciate your review of the tools you’ve tried. Given your rave review, I will have to check into Inno.

Unrelated, but don’t you just love when you find a software tool that contains really nice features and does exactly what you…[Read more]

Hello Greg,

Welcome to the Reef.

Thanks for the kind words.

As far as HoO is concerned I have to agree from what little I can glean from their open discussions. At the beginning of the effort I myself disagreed with their chosen name. Hearts of Oak: Conquest of the Seas. Far from being a title about a game that might have awesome pirates and…[Read more]

Samir,

Thank you for the interest and enthusiasm. I appreciate the work – I really do! Thanks for the effort and I am certain we will eventually proceed with something in the vein you are thinking about. Let me ask you a few questions.

1) Does this also include the tweaks you have been collecting from Jan Marten on Pirates Ahoy! ?

2) Also is…[Read more]

Samir,

Thank you for the interest and enthusiasm. I appreciate the work – I really do! Thanks for the effort and I am certain we will eventually proceed with something in the vein you are thinking about. Let me ask you a few questions.

1) Does this also include the tweaks you have been collecting from Jan Marten on Pirates Ahoy! ?

2) Also is…[Read more]

Samir,

Thank you for the interest and enthusiasm. I appreciate the work – I really do! Thanks for the effort and I am certain we will eventually proceed with something in the vein you are thinking about. Let me ask you a few questions.

1) Does this also include the tweaks you have been collecting from Jan Marten on Pirates Ahoy! ?

2) Also is…[Read more]

Samir,

Thank you for the interest and enthusiasm. I appreciate the work – I really do! Thanks for the effort and I am certain we will eventually proceed with something in the vein you are thinking about. Let me ask you a few questions.

1) Does this also include the tweaks you have been collecting from Jan Marten on Pirates Ahoy! ?

2) Do you…[Read more]

Samir,

Thank you for the interest and enthusiasm. I appreciate the work – I really do! Thanks for the effort and I am certain we will eventually proceed with something in the vein you are thinking about. Let me ask you a few questions.

1) Does this also include the tweaks you have been collecting from Jan Marten on Pirates Ahoy! ?

2) Do you…[Read more]

Samir,

Thank you for the interest and enthusiasm. I really do! Thanks for the effort and I am certain we will eventually proceed with something in the vein you are thinking about. Let me ask you a few questions.

1) Does this also include the tweaks you have been collecting from Jan Marten on Pirates Ahoy! ?

2) Do you realize I am still working…[Read more]

Hey, nice work Samir.

I have Advanced Installer (freeware), but have not packaged the DX8/DX9 projects yet. I wonder it it would shrink it to a similar size as your Inno. I like that icon and maybe should borrow it for the source compilation start.exe?

But since you’ve already done this for the original ERAS and with the other work folded into…[Read more]

Sure thing. I found no sig feature for my account, but will just copy/paste one in every post.

I feel pretty stupid not realizing the Release version was not executing the same as the Debug version. They are both compiled from the same source and I would play the Debug, thinking the Release would execute similarly. All along the save feature…[Read more]

Frustration! But finally resolved.

I thought the save-game was solved, but turns out that it was because I was running a debug compile. Every time I compiled for release to upload, apparently the fix wasn’t working the same. I mostly test the debug builds because a crash .dmp directs to the exact source line of the problem. Just yesterday, I…[Read more]

<sigh>

Yet again, the DX8 and DX9 compilations will need to be re-downloaded if you are using them. I found a save-game crash! Been a long time for me. But I fixed it and it’s available.

I also found a glitch in the sea-speak that is very minor, but an error was logged for outside array boundary of ‘rumors’. It was an error from the GOF 1…[Read more]

Yes I am aware of this. It is fairly rare and only happens at sea. I think it may have something to do with the sun texture. It only happens at certain times of day when the light begins to dim into evening. Also as Samir said it only happens on one side of the ship at a certain angle. The reason I think its the sun is that usually that’s the…[Read more]

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen the camera go black during day at a certain angle before.

I have seen a case where at a certain night time hour, everything goes black and it’s impossible to see in town. I think it was back when I was mostly playing GOF 1.2. I had only seen it a couple times, and it was before I started looking into code to fix…[Read more]