When you press F12 you see the name and level and Health of the person closest to you, or if it is closest in front of you. Here is for example the commandant in Havana compared to one of Oregons guards. Before your changes he had 400+ hp.

I tried the fight again and the enemies still have levels 180-230. Are they supposed to be that way after your changes too? The fight went way better than last time so I can well imagine something other being edited, but I don’t know what I should be looking for. Anyways, Dona Ana is once more out of the clichéd bad relationship. But perhaps…[Read more]

Thanks Jeffrey, awesome work. I look forward to trying it out.

I actually managed to win one of the times I tried the fight before, with character levels 180-230, taking up the position in the corner furthest from the stairs, so I don’t think it will be impossible now. That chimaera blade is wicked… I found the corner of the stairs too hard to…[Read more]

How should I send it? You can’t attach files to personal messages, can you?

You rock, Jeffrey. Yeah, I have one save from just outside the door, just before going in, and another save in Havana waiting for the waitress to have delivered the ring. Should I send them to you, and in that case how?

I have started the French nation questline on corsair level.

In the second quest, when the not really regretful governor lets you out of jail you are supposed to get your stuff back. That did not work for me. I tried again a few times and about half of them ended up the same, the rest worked. Is this a bug or are you supposed to do something in…[Read more]

With surrendering in mod options set to “surrender occasionally” I initially had little luck when trying to yell at the enemy to strike colours. Later in the game everyone does that, but after answering NO in the dialogue box. I changed the mod options to never surrendering but that didn’t change anything, so this is some bug related to…[Read more]

That did the trick for the buildings and vegetation but the islands are still lighted up. That is an older issue though, as far as I know.

Thanks for the quick help Jeffrey.

The new map looks very interesting, good luck with it.

I downloaded the latest version this evening. The loading times seem really faster than before, a huge improvement.

During the night, buildings and islands shine like in daylight, as well as vegetation. I remember the problem from before, but I think vegetation was not affected then. Is…[Read more]

Nice metaphore. But do you mean that there isn’t any slide rule, or slide rules, that govern the difficulty levels effect on the npc levels during boarding? Since they get much stronger with higher difficulty than with lower, all else being equal.

A mod vision I have for this game – but one I lack the skills to realise – would be to separate the…[Read more]

I’m not certain there is such a thing in this game LOL

Yeah, a fair point I guess. If we narrow it down to just NPC levels, is there a difficulty level where your 100 sea dogs are just as strong as the enemy 100 sea dogs in a boarding battle (captain skills and weapons and all other things being equal)?

Q: Is there any possibility of making your ships turn rate dependant on the speed? Ships spinning on the spot is sad (even sadder when it wasn’t implemented despite several rather similar games being published in the series). I know the issue was mitigated a lot by editing the ship ai so opponents spin much less but the players ship still can.…[Read more]

What difficulty should you choose if you want to have neither bonuses nor penalties because of the difficulty level, or at least as little as possible of those?

I haven’t tried the latest version but I had a similar problem with this mod downloaded sometime in june, maybe. Anyway, I found the following fix on the Pirates Ahoy forum (I know what you think of the staff there MK, but at least some of the users are much more helpful), posted by one Miguel Sanchez, which did the trick for me. I haven’t spotted…[Read more]

Thanks for the answers, good to know. I am a strong fan of giving the player more options to customize the experience so I of course support that idea of making it an editable option.

Since we’re on that subject, would it be possible to make at least some of the components making up the difficulty editable in a similar way?

Say that I would like…[Read more]

Hi and first hats off for the extensive work making this mod what it is, easily the best pirate gaming I have seen.

Jeffrey, what did you do to reduce the effects of competing hero captains? Is it perhaps even possible to directly edit the waiting time in stores (they bother me to the point of ruining the fun of merchant playing)?