I see.

My current fix allows those other heroes to continue taking delivery missions, yet still allow you to negotiate goods while that happens by eliminating the ‘busy’ factor. The only way for the other heroes to collect money (in order to upgrade their ships and such) and also progress levels and experience. Without that, any time you later…[Read more]

I have not had these cuirass/weapons problems with other characters, but have not played as Nathaniel, so this might be a problem with that specific character. I will start a game as Nathaniel and give myself those items to see if I get the same problems. If I don’t, I may need you to send me a save. I will notify you about whether I need a…[Read more]

I will need a save file to check this out.

First, if you have boarding saves enabled, you should have a save file created when you tried to enter the fort/land troops. Do you get the same hangup/freeze if you load that save then try to ‘board’ the fort again? If you do, send me that save file.

If you don’t freeze there, I want you to destroy a…[Read more]

Not sure, but I’m certain it could be done.

What upgrades were performed? I can put together a procedure to do the same upgrades you did, without cost, that you can run with F4.

I held out hope that the first option would do it, without replacing the whole ship. Too bad that didn’t work out. But, if you really want to upgrade again, but without the expense/hassle, we can probably do another console to make that happen; seems fair since you already performed the upgrades and shouldn’t have to duplicate the effort.

There…[Read more]

Hmmm, a novel? Contrary to that ‘other’ reaction in ‘some places,’ we don’t respond with essentially a TL;DR, I actually enjoy reading lengthy thoughts. I will respond to some of them.

1. The mind-boggling number of quests/side quests. Indeed, this has been the topic of conversation between MK and myself and he is of similar mind. In fact,…[Read more]

Probably the Mod Option for realistic spyglass. Load your game, then Esc to show menu. Select Options, the lower right of the next screen Mod Options.

At the top, is Realistic Spyglasses…make sure it is Off. Accept. Now, the best spyglasses should show the details you are looking for.

Maya Link with export plugin:
https://mega.nz/#F!O4lX0QRY!uD7AEuyTgJa5iZRZIHRICg

GM Viewer and Instructions too.

Yep. It’s up:
https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

Update.zip

After you copy over the files, load a save, and then use F4 key. You should see an “Operation Successful” in the upper right message. Then try to remove/fix your ship’s cannons. If it doesn’t work, you may have to replace your current ship with a replacement of the…[Read more]

I got it figured and fixed. Let me package this up and get it out.

It required another cannon locator added to the model (one was missing). You will now end up with 2 more cannons on that ship as there are really 32 per side in the model, instead of the defined 31 in ships_init.c. You will have to get the new model, then run a console.c fix to…[Read more]

I was out camping in the woods for awhile, but I’m back.

Yours was the ‘fast battleship’, correct? I’ve seen this problem before, but had not yet looked into the reasons yet. My first glance at your ship, I think it may be due to a mismatch in the ship definition in the Ships_init.c file and how many cannon locators are in the model; the cannon…[Read more]

Well, I’ve been mostly quiet, but busy for sure…and not to worry, the hiatus from here was for work on this and I think you will find it worthwhile. I admit, I have not done much for features in the actual game most of you will notice, but that will likely change in the near future as I’ve finally gotten the improvements in the back-end of this…[Read more]

There are a few ships with this problem, but there is usually a way to work around it. You will need enough free hold space for the cannons you wish to purchase.

Buy the size you want, then in the cannon change interface screen, you need to click the row of the new size in the lower right of the screen to highlight that option, then Fix All. It…[Read more]

I remember someone posting/telling me about this bug from COAS, so it’s been around since the beginning.

I took a look and found the problem. I fixed it and will post it in my next update upload. I will notify when I do that.

OK, after some review, I suspect those of you still having the locked services after changing to #define PGG_TASK_MITIGATE 110 might be playing higher than difficulty level 1.

I found that I also use the difficulty level of the game (sorry, I forgot about that) to figure the service locks, and higher difficulty levels reduce the mitigation. So…[Read more]

If you see the ‘grow up’ dialog, that usually means you are not commanding a ship class within one of Blood’s ship. I believe he starts out with the Arabella, which is a class 3 maybe? So before talking to him, make sure you are commanding a class 4 or better.

If that’s not the case, and you are within one class or better, you may have upset…[Read more]

To be fair, the always busy was a side-effect of so many NPC characters and not really an intentional add; by putting so many characters in, the original feature to lock services became much more noticeable because COAS only had a handful of characters.

At first, the discussion became, “well, it’s kind of realistic,” so nothing was done. After…[Read more]

Great news!

The occasional texture flickering was specific to DirectX 9 and I guess it’s a change in some default behavior that was different than DirectX 8. After much searching and experimentation, I isolated the cause and I have a version where the flicker is gone! It was due to ‘backfacing’ textures getting blended into the forefront. The…[Read more]

I apologize for the delay, but I was away, on holiday for awhile with the family. No work, and much play!

Yes, I reduced the waiting to some extent, but it is still there. It is also possible to eliminate the wait entirely. I will probably make this an editable mod option on the ‘Options’ screen in the near future, since you are not the first…[Read more]

One last thing with the 64 bit, preventing release, was that the 32 bit save-games were incompatible and would not load properly for the 64 bit executable, and vice versa. Since a file-write/file-read of certain data types are a different byte size between the two platforms (e.g. 4 bytes for 32 bit, 8 bytes for 64 bit), the mismatch caused…[Read more]