I remember Coas I think you had to do the main quest first before a city became yours…

Correct. One of the nation questlines need completed before you can retain a town and appoint one of your officers as caretaker/tax collector.

I have long known some fights are near unwinnable, when playing on the higher difficulty levels as the original difficulty settings, when applied to the enemy generation, do not scale well, become super unbalanced, where the opposition far outranks you and often far exceeds your skill attributes.

One of the scenes I edited, due to that effect,…[Read more]

Do you have a boarding save from when you were about to sack the town after Fort Amsterdam destroyed? That would be helpful to determine the issue. If not, how about a save just prior to your attack and I will destroy it myself to see if I get the same result.

Althought it’s undoubtedly terse, probably missing some things, and would never fly in my ‘day job,’ for a decent change log, the UpdatesReadMe.txt does contain a rolling list of recent changes; I append some things as I go, so the most recent are at the bottom.

I have been notorious for lax documentation, and since this is a ‘hobby’ well, my…[Read more]

#1 Might be a good idea. I’ve also been a little bugged not knowing the stored ship stats when I review the list, contemplating a sale or extraction back into the squad.

#2 Another thing I’ve noticed. I think the game should be consistent. Either never auto-draw during the sudden conflict eruption, or always. The inconsistency is a little…[Read more]

The latest update is now available:

https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

ERAS2.8Update.zip

The core, base files (…7z.001-012) for 2.8 are being uploaded and will replace 2.6, once finished. But, if you already have 2.6, or 2.7, simply overwriting with the ERAS2.8Update.zip, will get you upgraded.

I think you are missing the rigging.ini update that goes along with the engine change for the new effect; it contains a couple adjustments, along with a couple new settings I added. Here is that same ship in my 2.6 version of the game:

Your RESOURCEINIrigging.ini should contain this:

[FLAGS]

; TEXTURE PARAMETERS
TextureName =…[Read more]

OK, now that I fixed the Low encounter where if either you, or your companion has the Sea Wolf, the log updates correctly, I just now noticed that the Jackman conversation was wrong too, in that if YOU have the Sea Wolf, he only checks your companions and if they have it… in this case, he offers you reward money for eliminating Low, but that is…[Read more]

You probably had an English patent? Since England is friendly with France, if you fire on French ships, your patent is removed, you see the ‘used item’ message and you are now considered hostile to the crown for firing upon their friends 🙂

Since you have a bounty with France, you should probably pay that off and avoid engagements with them…[Read more]

Yep, already with you on the log entry too. The criteria will adhere to the original intent that the crew and cannon number need to be fairly low. The log entry will now tell you exactly the criteria used, which will be a restriction on crew size and cannon number, explicitly written in your log, so you can use that information when looking at…[Read more]

True, the Zabra is certainly dangerous and can handily defeat ol’ Low in that brig. I think in order to better adhere to the difficulty this situation is supposed to present the player, I’ll make a function instead, with a select/case statement for ship type and restrict it to all class 7 and only certain class 6 ships (lugger/sloop…maybe…[Read more]

I found the problem. As ships have been added, there is a hardcoded ship index for what is supposed to be every ship class 6 or greater, in PiratesLine_q3_loginSeaWolf from reaction_functions.c. It is 22 at the moment, but looking at the ships.h, it should be changed to 76.

I fixed it for the upcoming update.

The description mentioning only when assigned to relevant officers is a holdover from COAS, that has never been changed, and is a bit misleading. Here’s how they work:

You can assign yourself the ship perk, and it will have effect, with/without any officer in the correlated position. So if you assign yourself ‘quick reload’ for cannons, it will…[Read more]

Cabins will be opened up for class 7 ships in the next update. It will be available for existing saves, so no new game required.

The crew party mentioned is being debated/considered.

Yes, the voiced greetings are simply a stock list of sound files, (the list is usually relevant to the character type), that are randomly selected and have no correlation to the dialog. In fact, that portion of the greeting code has no way of really knowing what is about to be said, so not easily changed.

However, the option you ask for to…[Read more]

Yes, that’s it. I noticed in my previous post, I confused things a bit. The problem with Des Moines is that it had ‘officer’ no plural as the locator group, but for your fighters to show, the model must have ‘officers’ with the ‘s’ for a locator group.

What I’ve found so far is that most of the inside model locations have no such group and that…[Read more]

By the way, I peeked at a few of the inside locations (houses, rooms, etc.) and it will still disallow your fighter officers from spawning inside for fights such as the ‘dinner party’ or Isabella scene because of the same problem that Des Moines had; there are no ‘officer’ group locators. Now Des Moines was a typo error in that it had ‘officers’…[Read more]

Thank you very much. I have Win7, without a problem, but now see that is 2008 redist, which I already have installed so of course I would not have the problem. I think the reason config.exe needs that is due to how it obtains the monitor resolutions, using a ddraw method, which is old/deprecated and is probably compiled with a point to an old…[Read more]

Yep, that adjustment to the locator file fixed DesMoines; the workaround is no longer needed.

However, there are indeed some locations that are explicitly set to not allow fighters (e.g. Panama route). That is handled by that function: LAi_LocationDisableOfficersGen

OK, that last post was wrong. I did some digging, and the real function is LAi_LocationDisableOfficersGen, but it doesn’t work for that particular shore because the locator definitions in the model have the wrong group name (probably a typo); it is a bug. I will fix the locator file and I bet it works without the workaround.

Give me a bit to…[Read more]