I am all about including user contributed content as long as it looks correct for the ERA. I was going for a Captain Hook or Bartholomew Redd flavor with the screen. Sorry about the empty item block in the upper right. That is only an experiment I am working on in version 9 of the game….same test version with the new islands and new fighters.

I…[Read more]

Actually, Those screens look pretty good to me corresponding with time. The things that bother me that I have been working on is the glowing land mass at night when everything else is dark and the light decks with no shadow when everything else is dark. Hopefully the new sky boxes and substitute mask files I am working on will help this and spread…[Read more]

Given this whole scenario, rather than try to reorder the gun/cirass items in the ‘right’ order for character selection, it might be easier and wiser to just do similarly as blade selection, which is to weight certain gun parameters and in the case of cirass, simple strength and just return the best one; this is how blades work and we can do…[Read more]

Ha! I made that last statement about the officer opting for boots/gloves over Grandee without testing. I just tried and and sure enough, my officer equipped boots over the Grandee when I traded them the item.

Kind of hilarious though since the character I tried this with is Beatrice and when you give her a Grandee, her model changes to show the…[Read more]

LOL, I’m so silly. I assumed there was all sorts of fancy math algorithm to officer item selection. Hardly. There is a little bit of calculation for blades, but nothing for cirass or gun. I found the reason Dutch/Flemish cirass is chosen over Spanish and why a Beretta single shot is chosen over a double-barrel in GOF (I had presumed the…[Read more]

Hmmm, in addition, I suppose we could also think about adding the protective boots and gloves to an item that might be used without the cirass perk?

Since this is kind of related, itmname_cirass6 {Corsair Officer’s Girdle}. The description mentions, “In addition it requires no special training or experience to wear.” This gives the impression that it can be used without the Cirass perk, yet it can’t be equipped and does not offer damage reduction without such. Should the description be…[Read more]

Since this is kind of related, itmname_cirass6 {Corsair Officer’s Girdle}. The description mentions, “In addition it requires no special training or experience to wear.” This gives the impression that it can be used without the Cirass perk, yet it can’t be equipped and does not offer damage reduction without such. Should the description be…[Read more]

Orazio, I’m with you on this point. I also changed that image because it was a little too busy and the items displayed seemed to get lost among the rest of the image. I just changed mine to the old stock version. Yours is much nicer! I like what you did here.

Great! No other responsibilities required. I take care of the spammers. There are a lot of them too. I have had a lot of outsiders want me to open up the site to adds as well but I really wanted to stay away from that. I don’t feel it would attract more people and would probably annoy some that are here already.

That’s awesome that your game is…[Read more]

Sure, I don’t mind…well, as long as it carries no further responsibility on my part to vanquish spammers or keep law-and-order…I’m lazy by nature (my running joke as I’m usually banging code, both work and ‘fun’, to all hours of the night) 😉

But I figure it might be more efficient if you focus on the planned improvements and I can certainly…[Read more]

Jeffrey,

Thanks!

I haven’t yet uploaded the sourcecode. Gonna try tonight. I got really sick the last couple days and have mostly been in bed sleeping. Would you mind if I gave you higher site status – moderator or keymaster? I would love for you to get all of the error reports I have been getting and would like to share them with you easier. I…[Read more]

LOL, I saw this post and thought, “Hey, why not take a look and see about this night thing?” So I found Night.c, and mucked with the shadow.density and sky.color argb call values by substituting extreme values of 0 or 255 to see what gives…I could find no discernible difference, so that ain’t it for sure.

Makes sense there is more to this,…[Read more]

I will reiterate about enabling logging and sending system.log, compile.log, error.log files upon crashes, as it is very difficult to figure the problems without them because it might be a case we can’t replicate all the variables ourselves.

I would also be willing to review any error files and perhaps even try running from a boarding save file…[Read more]

I will reiterate about enabling logging and sending system.log, compile.log, error.log files upon crashes, as it is very difficult to figure the problems without them because it might be a case we can’t replicate all the variables ourselves.

I would also be willing to review any error files and perhaps even try running from a boarding save file…[Read more]

I’m working on it. Its all in the weather files and skyboxes and their corresponding location mask and shadow files. The next patch will have more new skyboxes. Are you talking about how it is too light on ship decks sometimes? I am missing some files in that instance.

MK

Thanks Blas!

Yeah I think a lot of people may be missing that they have to click to equip the letter of marque to make it work. I think I added that to the “read me” file.

On the large ships. This was meant to give you options. I do not know how to give the character a higher level at the beginning of the game. So I give you the ship that they would have had…[Read more]

Yeah I think a lot of people mis that they have to click to equip the letter of marque to make it work. I think I added that to the “read me” file.

On the large ships. This was meant to give you options. I do not know how to give the character a higher level at the beginning of the game. So I give you the ship that they would have had…[Read more]