@ Vincent, You might want to consider getting an optimizer utility. I’ve used a bunch of different ones over the years. NVIDIA themselves used to have a great one. The one I use now is embedded in my paid full AVG suite and is called Turbo mode. If its a good one it will allow you to tune and tailor what things/programs/services will be…[Read more]

Update almost complete. One more day until full download goes to Jeffrey. I have to travel north on the 6th so this is my last day to get the last little things in this batch of stuff – ITS HUGE – and I hope people realize how many hundreds of hours have gone into it and the sacrifice of one of my best friends in the process who I would never have…[Read more]

Ran into these while doing some research on Spanish websites. HOT HOT HOT!!!

MK

https://static.vix.com/es/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/btg/curiosidades.batanga.com/files/famosas-piratas-mujeres-1.jpg?itok=pZewHyWa

https://ugc.kn3.net/i/origin/http://i.imgur.com/D42mWsk.jpg

Alexander,

Thanks! If only there were more like you. Much more would have been completed long ago.

MK

Its funny because Jeffrey and I had already discussed this very thing in just the recent past. Part of what our legal team has done is quantify what is public domain and what is our owned content. This is why future packaging of our gaming offerings will be in two part downloads. The new MAELSTROM game engine itself and all of the exclusive self…[Read more]

MY FRIEND IS GONE

My friend is gone. No good-bye or farewell – he’s just gone. About a year and a half ago I came home to my house in Louisiana from a long trip to Idaho to find a surprise. I have been traveling and going back and forth between the two states a lot the last several years – living many months at a time in both locations. Idaho is…[Read more]

Just put up a whole bunch of new screenshots. MK

Here’s how I feel about this screenshots…[Read more]

All new ships are completely integrated and all new textures/skins are finished. Only a couple of more characters left. Here is a list of the new characters and here are some teasers.

Jeremiah Basse

Nicolas de Larraspuru : (I used Basil Rathbones face) This guy was a real actual assassin who worked for the Spanish crown and the Inquisition in…[Read more]

Awesome work Orazio as always. Your work continues to inspire me to do more and do better. Thank you for that!!!!

I have been working away myself on the update which has grown three times in size from my original intent.

I got especially crazy with two of the sterns on the Frigate_MB. I created two new variants since you stern mapping – Besides…[Read more]

Well here we are again on MK’s lonely screen shots thread. Here are some for those who remain interested of some of the new ships. This new update has a larger more diverse pallet of ships than I have offered in years. Three times more than I intended – and some of these are my best work yet.…[Read more]

Nice! Meant to comment earlier. When we get the new website up and running we will be able to better promote these types of things I think.

MK

Jeffrey has an update for the lighting issues. I haven’t tried any of this new stuff yet because I am hard at work on the newest patch with lots of new stuff (almost finished). Hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

Ah yes – I never got around to reading it that second time. Perhaps I should – considering that their faces are so clear to me these…[Read more]

Also totally unrelated, welcome Zauberberg. I am also a Fritz Lang fan. Although I like Metropolis (1927) the best (especially the reworked version with the Freddy Mercury songs). However, Man with a Movie Camera (1929) (from your avatar) is widely considered to be one of the greatest documentary movies ever made.

Here’s links for those who might…[Read more]

Damn good catch once again Jeffrey!

I haven’t had the boarding issues at all, but enough people were complaining about it, that I knew there must be some issue. I can’t wait to test this out, but I have vowed not to play the game until I have the upcoming limited release patch finished. SO MUCH new content in here! I can’t wait to play it myself!…[Read more]

WOW I was so sorry to see that there are fires at Multnomah Falls. What a tragedy. Damn it will take years for all of that beauty there to grow back. I am so glad we went over there a few weeks ago when we came out to see you. I took a bunch of pictures of the bridge. I will put some of them up on my flickr soon.

Yeah, I have started calling…[Read more]

Ha! Look at what I found tonight mates. I just ran on to this one completely by accident and clicked on her. For years my sons and I have had a term we have used to describe hot chics that aren’t real – “CARTOON HOT”. Used in a sentence… “Damn, that chic is CARTOON HOT!”

So tonight I give you CARTOON HOT PIRATE CHIC in the rigging.

WE have…[Read more]

Some screenshots of development. Jeffrey has enabled the game so that I can give every colony unique textures regardless of towns sharing the same models. Curacao is almost done, but I am not gonna show it yet. For tonight though some of Bodden’s Landing……[Read more]

Isn’t that AWESOME! THE ALACRANES REEF! YES!!! DeGraaf’s hide-out is just right around the corner for us and I have all of the buildings and huts picked out. I just sent Orazio the texture that I believe will cover those blank islands.

Now here’s one thing from me. I will throw more in the screenshots thread and update thread in just a minute.…[Read more]

I talked it over with Jeffrey tonight and decided not to reveal the map behind the map which shows where all of the colonies are which Orazio has built this masterpiece to as a guide. This way none of you will be disappointed if we can’t get all of them in place as we desire.

I never intended this to be a dead accurate rendition from the get go.…[Read more]