There is a new feature here now. If you’re told the shop keeper is too busy which happens when there are other competing captains in port – you will now see an additional dialogue available which allows you to threaten the shop keeper or ask him basically – “do you know who you’re talking to?” If you are a nobody, he will blow you off. If you have…[Read more]

the issue of hostiles seeking assistance/relaxing in enemy taverns. I suggested this before and Mr. Jeffrey said IIRC it was a fairly simple coding.

Simple to code, just difficult to find where it was going wrong. But, I think I might have found it and updated again today.

Keep in mind, any of them that are default Pirates will still go…[Read more]

** Maelstrom Update **

x64 bit FMOD update to version 2.00.05 – 10/09/2019 Studio API minor release (build 105402)
x32 bit FMOD update to version 1.10.17 – 10/09/2019 Studio API minor release (build 105386)

Resume music fix for last position

Headgear positioning file

Crash fix in case of missing text message file

** ERAS 2 Update **

Bury…[Read more]

PM sent…

Not sure if I’d call it a bug…just depends on your perspective of things.

If you are inside the tavern of say, Tortuga, and look out the window, you can see where there “should” be an ocean view, but it was just a black void where the water should be. It’s small, and most people probably don’t notice.

Anyway, that is due to the fact that…[Read more]

We’ve actually had a discord for awhile…devoidbrah set it up on his own for us. The link has probably been buried a bit here. Invite was posted on one of the YouTube vid comments though:

https://discord.gg/5S7sr5q

Maelstrom Update

x64 bit FMOD update to version 2.00.03 – 08/02/2019 Studio API minor release (build 103912)
x32 bit still using FMOD 1.10.15 because that is the latest version that still supports WinXP

Multisampling change for AA

Fix “glower” for mouse movement (see POTC/NH menu)

Remove formatted text message string limits

Fix AIFlowGraph…[Read more]

LOL, no joke. I figure there will be some complaints about those….hehehehe. There is an option to disable it, BTW.

Glad you chimed in…I remember your videos mentioning the annoying light flicker during certain hours/angles. We’ve all seen it, and after many attempts, and my claims in past updates where I tried to address that, but…[Read more]

We talked about this on YouTube awhile back. Sent you a PM.

There might be some particulars about when nations are all allies/neutral that, or some other facet that I will probably need a save (preferably if you have one just after you destroyed a fort and can’t board) and trace through some attributes and other elements to determine the cause because I’m not really sure. We’ve not done anything…[Read more]

Hi Marty,

Interesting. You’re treading on new ground as far as my experience goes. As long as I’ve played this game, the replayabilty factor is so extremely high that I have done a bunch of things this year I had never done before. I have still never played the Spanish quest line and have a character all ready to do so now. I plan to video my…[Read more]

LOL, should have kept quiet about it. Live it up now, but since I know about this exploit, it’s going on my “list.”

I thought there were already mechanics in the game to prevent that when we expanded the shipyard capability to 3 locations. But I see now that is only “after” the upgrade is complete; it obviously does not prevent starting them…[Read more]

The musketeer problem is something that has been a common problem when the character is granted a different weapon and that specific character’s animation does not cater to anything other than the musket, so it can’t load with a different weapon. ERAS has logic where they choose their own weapon, so I’m wondering if this guy chose a different…[Read more]

I don’t actually look at it that way. I look at it as if you take their money, you besmirch your own honor because of what they did. I never take the money unless its very clear its my only way out because I am heavily damaged and/or undermanned. Instead I always say no and demand surrender.

Once you have a decent reputation and have a…[Read more]

There are many, many things that affect reputation and from the looks of things, not all of them are intuitive or even consistent, if you ask me.

But, a short list, for the general idea…

Your personal reputation will go up if you do nice things for citizen quests (rescue husband/wife, find friend/deliver message), rescue woman in jungle from…[Read more]

Thanks.

Question 1: The flicker is not just you. I’ve noticed it and so has MK. I’ve looked into it various times before, but never narrowed it down. But, I tried again, and I finally found what causes it…it is a feature for the sun, not a bug, and only affects some hours of the day. I think the darker atmosphere of COAS made it less…[Read more]

Not too much trouble. If you want to try your own for test:

Using file explorer, navigate to RESOURCESoundsMUSIC

Create a folder and call it SMPirates. Put all your converted music files inside the folder.

Navigate to RESOURCEINI and create a folder called SMPirates. Copy everything inside the COAS folder into your new SMPirates…[Read more]

OK, turns out I was wrong about the fort damage problem. Someone else tried Belize fort and it turns out you can’t do any damage to that fort at all; I tried in my own game and the claim was correct. I suspect that the problem you had with Martinique, though only “partial” is similar.

So, I troubleshoot and find that it is only certain forts…[Read more]

Yes, you could add dialog like that.

Then, in the dialog.h file, change the top to add how many extra dialog lines

string DLG_TEXT_BASE [240] = {

If you add 3 more lines at the bottom, then add 3:

string DLG_TEXT_BASE [243] = {

“This is the last line in the current file”,
“This is line 1 added”,
“This is line 2 added”,…[Read more]

Sorry I somehow missed this…but Marty just supplied me save with similar problem and I was able to fix this. If you still have this game going (but probably had to abandon due to the relation problems), try the update.