Really appreciate the kind words Marty. It’s really very nice to hear after so much silence for so long. I don’t even know what to say except thanks.

I feel like the dog who has been experimented on his whole life in a cage and suddenly is let out in the grass – and his reaction with his first experience of what grass feels like on his feet.

MK

No one is more unhappy or disappointed about how everything has gone than yours truly.

I could write a long diatribe of how I feel and what I’ve thought about doing and why things are where they are, but I don’t really think at this point anyone cares or would read it anyway.

Yeah Jeffrey is sitting on a bunch of content I gave him a year ago -…[Read more]

I have been having the same issue as well. There are several other serious problems when getting to advanced level and playing multiple national questlines (PANQL). I also have a Flying Dutchman that keeps spawning after I kill it and sell the ship. It comes back even after making it vulnerable and taking the ship – it doesn’t want to die.…[Read more]

TEHO is worth a playthrough but is very frustrating just starting out – on a closed quest stairstep beginning (although I’ve heard that’s changed since I played last). The main thing I don’t like about TEHO is their very limited ships choices. The ships they have are very nice – but so few.

MK

Frankly I see very few edits to your weather system. You say you spent hours on it – well I spent months on it.

I did a massive overhaul of the weather in ERAS2. This is why you see much lighter CORRECT tropical colors – much less fog – much less rain – way different skies – many more wave types – and much more translucent see-through water in…[Read more]

You have to fight them between the 10th and 20th (not after the 20th).

Gosh I’m sorry Gnat, there are so few interested in this game these days that we don’t advertise are development often.

To answer you questions. 1) NO – PANQL is not currently active in your version of the game. HOWEVER, its funny that you mention this because Jeffrey and I have been in the process of finishing it to work for the last couple of…[Read more]

Not to be an ass but this almost seems like Noob question.

Haven’t you seen the many screenshots I’ve posted showing me fight the Spanish treasure fleets. Frankly that is one of my favorite missions and in ERAS2 Jeffrey and I made it so it is possible to face up to 50 ships in the treasure fleet.

There’s even a button on the dev console that…[Read more]

I fully realize this website is outdated. I spent thousands on trying to build a new one and got swindled by someone I was assured could do the work and would be helped by his older brother who was one of Twitter’s original developers. He was not up to the task and just gave up. That’s what I get for trusting family recommendations.

I have a…[Read more]

I use all of the old modding tools in the old standard bundle – I haven’t got sophisticated enough to learn anything new. https://buccaneersreef.com/forums/topic/ship-modeling-and-modding-tutorials/

I don’t change the meshes. I just reuse all of the hundreds of existing models and sometimes might change their heads out for one with a hat or no…[Read more]

I knew a few characters were taken by the Russians but do those mods allow for the game start date to be different depending on character and for them to have a correctly named historical vessel and equipment at the beginning like we have in ERAS. To my knowledge we are the only game that offers the specific start dates, ships and equipping. Old…[Read more]

The characters are one of the MAJOR features of ERAS and so when they are taken out and offered somewhere else I feel like its stealing ERAS Mojo away. The old GOF team who put together 1.2 (that I was a part of) never cared about my vision of where I wanted to take the mod. They had their own vision. That’s why we split up and started doing our…[Read more]

Also I have a new female character I’ve been working on – but have run out of historical personalities and fictional ones as well. Any suggestions? Should I just make something up or am I missing someone I don’t know about? MK

Sorry I overreacted. I’m just frustrated at how invisible we are. I’ve tried all kinds of things, and thrown away a lot of money and time, but we remain hidden away and only a very small group of people actually know about us or even like what we’ve done. I started out trying to make my perfect immersive pirate universe – and I should be satisfied…[Read more]

You know it sometimes feels like I have no voice – and no one realizes what I’ve worked on or what I am currently working on. Sometimes I get inspired and have the time and put out massive amounts of stuff…. and conversely sometimes things happen or people to crappy things to me or disappear and that makes me just stop working on anything for a…[Read more]

I am totally with Old Timer here. I have always preferred Dynamic as well. In fact I can tell you that I have never done a thing to modify tactical sailing in any way from vanilla. If you like the way I’ve gradually changed weather effects and the wider spread of speed and turning of ships, I want you to know that I have continually been tweaking…[Read more]

I saw the pictures you put up on the other post https://buccaneersreef.com/forums/topic/about-maelstrom-and-updates/

I loved that ship when I watched the series. I would love to have that model in the game. However, do you have a copy of the model and permission to use it? That’s the question. I can make an inquiry as well. I have several…[Read more]

First, it does work because I just tested it.

Second, you can still capture cities once you get to the place in the Morgan questline where he tells you to go do your own thing for a while which allows you to do a Nation questline. Once the nation questline is complete you can capture cities anyway.

Third, its very forgiving. Jeffrey and I did…[Read more]

“My God the Ships” I love it! Thanks for the compliments.

Welcome Korinthian and I am glad you are enjoying the experience.

So some things to consider. I have carefully looked at the trajectories for years and the simulation is accurately depicting them. The windage tollerances (blow-by of propellant) of that era meant that the flat…[Read more]

So I finished the ship. It turned out pretty good. The screenshots turned out kind of dark. Anyhow, here’s a few.…[Read more]