[Gnat]

Modern Knight,

Thanks for the response, very detailed and helpful– I appreciate the complexity of the task you all have taken on. I’m guessing from your description of testing PANQL that you don’t necessarily have to follow the Dutch, French, English, Spanish sequence of the original mod since you started with the French? Sorry about mentioning the 20th on Ship of Souls… I was just misremembering. I’m sure you’re right I need to check with the governor. Wouldn’t be the first time I missed a trigger in this game.

Somehow I still like COAS/GOF/ERAS best after a few playthroughs. I tried POTC, but the interface and GPU timing problems just made it unsatisfying. TEHO doesn’t look particularly different from ERAS, so I haven’t really considered it.

[Gnat]

Sorry, no answer on the golden quest… though I found the same reference to it as you.

I have two questions regarding ERAs 2:

1) Does PANQL (play all national quest lines) definitely work? I have the accelerate PANQL option enabled, but after finishing the Dutch quest line and getting a French letter of marque I can’t get the French governor to offer me anything– I get the same conversation about rumors that I’m allied with the Dutch. I tried going back to make sure I finished everything in the Dutch quest line, and I’m quite certain I did. I’ve tried boosting my reputation with the French, but that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.

2) Does the Ship of Souls quest definitely work? I was to the point where I was collecting cursed pearls, and I had one governor ask me to defend the port against skeletons. Since then, I have religiously tried and savescummed to try to get another governor to ask me to fight the skeletons after the 20th each month, but no offers.

Thanks,

Gnat

[Gnat]

Okay, new question. I’ve tried several “Pirate’s Proposition” quests in ERAS 2, and they haven’t worked like what I’ve seen previously in playing CoAS. I get a clearly specified location like “Ruin Beach by Pirate Colony”, go there, and then nothing. No battle on the shore, nothing. There are some ships from the country we are attacking in the vicinity, the pirate ship is still a companion, and if I let the time limit lapse the pirate captain comes after me demanding money, but I never can find the fight I have traveled to carry out.

I’ve only done a couple of these quests before, so maybe it’s possible there’s a version of the Pirate’s Proposition where you have to go back in the jungle or attack ships, but I’m not thinking that’s it. It’s looking like the quest trigger isn’t working for some reason.

Thanks,

Gnat

[Gnat]

My apologies if this has already been covered, but I have a hard time searching the site forum. I’m finding ERAS2 to be very stable and great, but the one thing that is driving me crazy is the pitch blackness of caves. I’m playing on a laptop with Intel graphics, so the default screen brightness settings are somewhat limited. The two caves I have been in so far I would just run into the blackness without realizing that I wasn’t going anywhere, or not knowing when I whether I was turning left or right. It makes the caves a bit of a nightmare. The gamma and brightness settings in the options are disabled, and I’m not seeing anything in config.exe. I don’t really want to screw with the system wide display options for all programs. Is there a workaround for the program?

[Gnat]

Okay, I figured out how to search the forum via Google and found Jeffrey’s earlier response on modifying the ambient light in caves. Will try it. Thanks and sorry.

[Gnat]

Ah, sorry to have mistaken that. I guess I’d only seen the land attacks, and couldn’t figure out the sea attacks. There’s always a point in the game where my reputation or something prevents me from getting further offers, so I don’t get many chances. Thanks again for all of your efforts, not just this.

[Gnat]

Thanks for the update on the cave darkness question. On the laptop screen I always have some problems because because the room is often bright, but this was happening at night so it was perhaps an issue with variations in display drivers. Figures were well lit, but the setting was very dark or black apart from the torches. Setting the ambient lighting to 0 seems to have done the trick in the most recent cave… though I haven’t been back to the exact caves.

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