Dennis, The short answer is that I don’t know yet.

I have had a really bad year. I lost one of my favorite dogs a few months ago. The death of my nephew last month has made things REALLY bad. I almost just quit all of this altogether. I know a couple of you I talked to privately thought I was going to. But I am not.

Why??? Because this has all…[Read more]

Call me a glutton for punishment but I actually enjoy the food shortage problem and it gets worse the higher the difficulty you play. If you have a small fleet no problems, but if you’re commanding large capital ships with huge crews, you would have had immense issues with military logistics in the 17th century Caribbean. I was just reading about…[Read more]

Stéphane,

No you don’t have the 64bit version yet because Jeffrey and I are still testing it out. Very soon though I am sure.

The basic difference is that WAY more memory will be immediately accessible by the game. This means faster game play, no lag, and no texture degradation. This is a big deal. Just Jeffrey’s conversion to DX9 native from…[Read more]

TOOL is not a modeling program, but a model manipulation program. It allows you to cut models up and add new pieces or build a scene or add to a scene in the Storm engine games. I am updating our own tutorials page this morning because in getting you this information I realized that most of the Pirates Ahoy! links are now dead. They obviously…[Read more]

There are actually quite a number of ships that were ported into the game with rotational problems with the mizzen spanker/boom and/or lateen yards/sails rotation with the wind direction. Many of them are backwards.

Each one has to be modified in TOOL to change the rotation. It is a time consuming process and someday maybe someone will undertake…[Read more]

Well I am glad you like the cannon sounds. I hand selected and created many of them myself. Many are from real guns. I am a former artillery officer with a lot of experience with antique guns, so have a good idea on the realism.

A upcoming mod is changing them yet again. The 28 pounder is not as good as some of the other sounds and that was on…[Read more]

What ships come up for sale is determined in the ships utilities file. I am very stingy about what ships come up for sale. Think about it, 1st through 3rd raters would have not been super common to begin with in the 17th century Caribbean. Those were basically King’s ships owned by the state – not something which would have been commonly for sale.…[Read more]

What ships come up for sale is determined in the ships utilities file. I am very stingy about what ships come up for sale. Think about it, 1st through 3rd raters would have not been super common to begin with in the 17th century Caribbean. Those were basically King’s ships owned by the state – not something which would have been commonly for sale.…[Read more]

That master and commander sound clip IS indeed being replaced in a sound mod I am still working on which will have crews talking through gun drills in their native languages including the words “FIRE” “FUEGO”, etc. I’ve spent a lot of time recording movie clips in foreign or translated movies over the last couple years with this mod in mind.

The…[Read more]

Jeffrey and I discussed your idea this morning Chris,

So it is possible, but I am putting strict limitations on it. So I am still working on a long term mod that changes all gun sizes, performance and type. Hopefully this one will be done in a couple of more months. I keep putting it on the back burner. You guys are about to get a new skins pack…[Read more]

Thanks for the comments and Welcome Megaprime,

The game is far from perfect, but an awesome experience and we are constantly working to make it better.

As to the Royal Fortune being overpowered, indeed it is especially after upgrade. People are always worshipping the Queen Anne’s Revenge, but Robert’s ship was one of the truly great pirate…[Read more]

Rats don’t eat gunpowder. We fixed that ages ago. They only eat perishable goods. Also if you find a cat your rat issues are over. So there is more than one way to prevent rats now. That compass I made from original 17th century compasses. That’s why there’s all of the unique symbology on the face. When you’ve become an old salt in this game you…[Read more]

Oh one more special request for Orazio. On the other two deck frigate_mb could I get a texture map that will allow me to decorate the ship better – especially the stern. Also a flag pole for that ship would be great as well!

MK

I don’t see how this would ever ruin any questlines. The merchant dialogue is different for receiving cargo so he will always accept your cargo. If you are short because of rats that’s part of the challenge – I try to buy extra when I can if its perishable goods. In the questlines where you have to deliver goods, the merchants will not refuse you…[Read more]

Orazio my friend- YOU ARE SO AWESOME!!!

THANKS!

I have SO many plans ready for you that I have taken pictures of with a digital camera. I just need to get them up on my FLICKR page and start a topic here on ship plans. Excited to see what else you come up with! Still working on that other stuff to get to you. Sorry its taking me so long. I work…[Read more]

Thanks for the feedback Chris. I really appreciate it.

So to address a couple of things…

As to the merchant availability, as Jeffrey said we discussed it and tweaked it down, but I like it like that. Why? REALISM!!! People do not consider that trading was a difficult thing back in the day. Sometimes captains had to wait for weeks to get the…[Read more]

Hello Jackson,

Thanks for the interest. You are certainly a rare bird to comment on my historical research endeavors. Few seem to be interested sadly. Until I am actually published myself, (beyond magazine articles, military journals and academic conference competition papers) I am right there with you as an amateur historian. Hopefully…[Read more]

Hello Jackson,

Thanks for the interest. You are certainly a rare bird to comment on my historical research endeavors. Few seem to be interested sadly. Until I am actually published myself, (beyond magazine articles, military journals and academic conference competition papers) I am right there with you as an amateur historian. Hopefully…[Read more]

Well I guess I can’t say I am too surprised especially after hearing about the private message play by play – which I am certain I only know half of the whole story.

It’s interesting that Mr. Boelen would take the stance he has, but in my mind he has kind of been backed into a corner.
He is a victim of himself – his own personality. You told me…[Read more]

Well I guess I can’t say I am too surprised especially after hearing about the private message play by play – which I am certain I only know half of the whole story.

It’s interesting that Mr. Boelen would take the stance he has, but in my mind he has kind of been backed into a corner.
He is a victim of himself – his own personality. You told me…[Read more]