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]

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]

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]

I don’t know why I bother putting these up anymore. Anyway – here are some of the additions in the upcoming huge patch. Yo HO Ho/Reese on PA! gave us his beautiful Peregrine Galley. There is a military RN variant with more guns rated as a small frigate and another with only a few guns that is a small English merchantman. Also the black Snow/Snauw…[Read more]

This has been a bad week for me gents. I lost a dog to cancer that I have had for 14 and a half years last Saturday. She was like a little Beagle daughter to me.

Still I have been keeping very busy to keep my mind occupied. I have been spending a lot of time with my other dogs taking them for walks and playing with them, etc. I am a dog person…[Read more]

Teasers of some of the new ships in the next update:

Thanks to Orazio for these great new…[Read more]

Oldtimer,

As the label “Historic” implies, they will be actual real battles that occured we are recreating. So when you open the DLC it will show you a menu of four battles. (Each DLC has four for $7 dollars) Then you can click on each one and read a historical narrative about what happened at the battle.

Then you can choose the option to start…[Read more]

Hello Oldtimer,

I agree about the consistency and you should understand that consistency is something that I have improved over time. Just look at speed and ship handling since 2013. Look at how much the scale has increased. Ships never had speeds below 10 in COAS and the old GOF mods. Now we have ships as slow as 6. I plan on scaling that down…[Read more]

@Vincent So I haven’t seen the last two POTC movies. I was unhappy with where the franchise was going.

I did really like the first one even though it was set in the completely wrong time – 1750. They have continued to attempt to bring out the old piratey stuff to include ship designs from the 17th century and mix them with the Nelsonian era…[Read more]

I’m gonna jump in here for a minute. Vincent, I love your enthusiasm Mate!

I just wanna mention a few things.

1st: We are all really busy. Jeffrey continues to AMAZE me! He had 104 items on our priority list a couple months back and he has it down to around 80 now.

…and we keep adding things to it. A conversation on Discord the other day…[Read more]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/49225014@N05…[Read more]

Hiya Vincent,

Well Jeffrey is planning to expand the flag texture even larger because I have found some more historical flags for our period I want to include. I LOVE correct historical variety and flavor. This was a time of NON uniformity. I think that is one of the reasons why I love it so much more than the later 18th century Nelson era that…[Read more]

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Stickied to top of thread:

EDIT: LOTS happening folks. Dennis who is our Discord group guy asked me to sticky the information about the Discord group here. Good discussions happening there and more activity than I expected. Here it is: https://discord.gg/Ps3zMtP

My thanks to Dennis for putting this together for us.

MK

Wow that looks really incredible Orazio! Perhaps you will get me motivated again with this. Jeffrey has my cannon mod nearly done and that is getting me happy again. Notice the new armilliary time pacer in the lower right of the screen in the game that I made. It replaces the old rotating bar shot from the mods and the old skull in the base game.…[Read more]

The barrels aren’t a bug. The fishing boats and fleets are my brainchild and Jeffrey has been making it happen. I wanted the barrels to mimic net buoys marking the places where nets are found. Notice that more fish are swimming around the barrels as well. Part of the idea here was not only more realism but also to have easy ships to go after or an…[Read more]

This is awesome! I promoted this on our MINDS page here: https://www.minds.com/BuccaneersReef

MK

So I thought I would share a little album from my recent adventure in “The Island of Justice” – the City of Abandoned Ships. This was great fun for me and only the second time I had ever played the quest – the first time clear back in 2009. Jeffrey fixed bugs and we came up with new log entries and dialogue entries to make the quest play much…[Read more]

Well Jeffrey would have to answer this. I would say yes on the surface though. The new MAELSTROM(TM) game engine is capable of running any of the storm series of games.

MK

Well it just so happens that in my current game at level 42 – after having completed the first half of the Morgan quest and the City of Abandoned Ships quest, I have just started the Dutch quest line. I have to travel again in a couple days but will be playing the next two days quite a lot. So if I run into this problem I am sure Jeffrey will…[Read more]

Jeffrey, You didn’t mention it in the update so I have to ask – did that last update also include all of those new ship skins/hull folders I gave you as well?

MK