Love the AI improvements you’re working on! I’ve never sailed with a fleet before, mostly because I’m kind of a solo guy – that, and I don’t want to pay for repairs and whatnot for more than a single ship (my current tier 5 vessel is a good one, but I still have to work pretty damn hard to pay upkeep every month!). However, this is a major…[Read more]

Nice addition to the lineup, always nice to see more female pirates added to the game.

Aware of that one too, but other ship obstacles are handled differently than islands, so that particular problem is still something that needs work. But at least we’re much better off than before.

Still looking into some of the other common problems. Then perhaps start adding some better battle tactics too…

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You ever go to sea from port, in say a place like Bermudes, and if you’re not paying much attention, after a few seconds you hear that CRUNCH, as one or more of your companion ships decided to make a U-turn and crash into the shore? Breaking a mast, doing some damage…irritating, right?

Well, that’s another one gone. Shouldn’t ever…[Read more]

Slow down, Oldtimer 😀
I’m just creating one single cabin for yachts (though maybe it can be assigned to other small/medium ships as well, I’ll see).
I’m not going to model the interior of an entire ship.

I’m not sure about functional pipes, they probably require a custom animation so you can see your character smoke them. Anyway, it’s not a…[Read more]

I’m not 100% sure, but I don’t think all the missions need to be completed for one town mayor and can be several. The number is random, between 5 and 10 for when he will offer you the LoM.

First, it looks like you may have the original game, mixed with this one. The fmodex.dll skipped and the 59 loaded lead me to surmise this. Don’t do that.

Remove: start.exe, config.exe, the modules folder and fmodex.dll, and any other .dll files from your game folder, then copy the EngineUpdate.zip stuff back into the game directory. Your…[Read more]

What are the symptoms after you attempt launch? Anything?

Some things to try for troubleshooting:

Is the Buccaneer’s Reef file in the same directory as start.exe?
If the game is in a subdirectory of Program Files or Program Files (x86) set it to Run as Administrator
Make sure the start.exe is set to Compatibility Mode for Win XP (right…[Read more]

You need to have at least one unit of contraband, on any ship in your squadron (they are red items in the store). After accepting the mayor mission, go to the tavern (or to the store first and buy at least one contraband; you need it for the correct smuggler dialog to show) and speak to the smuggler and tell him you want to sell. They will…[Read more]

As far as I know, the only reason for a LoM, is to engage a national quest line. I can’t think of anywhere that it provides any benefit, other than that.

If you attack any ships your base nation (regardless the flag you currently fly, but your base nation that you started the game) is at war/unfriendly, it does no harm toward any nation that is…[Read more]

Yes, I enabled sea foam, but there are some hours of the day where the definition values cause that repeating pattern and they look terrible. I still need to figure those hours out and adjust them so they look more random, like some of the other hours that actually turned out quite nice.

In the meantime, you can turn it off. In start.ini, look…[Read more]

Doing a search, it seems error 1935 can have many causes and many solutions.

Try starting the Advanced Installer Service. If that doesn’t work, go to your Control Panel/Programs, note your C++ runtimes, uninstall them all, then you have to download and install them from Microsoft’s site, in order from oldest to newest.

The worst resolution…[Read more]

I think side by side problems are usually caused by VC runtime issues. Try either reinstalling, or uninstall/reinstall of the VC++ runtimes. I loaded the 2 it should need, based on what was used to compile, at:
https://mega.nz/#F!jl1zjSaC!CdBYterMnYkhdEbQy9rQKg

vcruntime.zip

A more luxurious cabin for yachts you say? I may have the inspiration now! I’ll work on something.
The models you are referring to are Yacht1 and Yacht2 right? Are there any other yachtes?

That sounds like a nice feature. I can’t promise anything soon, but I think the idea is a good one and will add it for the ‘to do’ list of things/features we plan to add to the game.

I’m currently working on a really nice surprise feature right now, that is taking precedence over any other right now.

Can you do me a favor and make sure you get the latest update, then continue playing? My intent was if you toggle that option, they should still gain experience, but no longer ‘steal’ the services from you.

However, just prior to the last update, I did find I made a mistake in the part of the code for testing that option where I did…[Read more]

I honestly didn’t even want to engage, but it’s gone too far for me…and I’m a pretty easygoing guy. Takes quite a lot to set me off. This is similar treatment I remember at PA!, where self-professed ‘experts’ continually spout out nonsense, without any firsthand knowledge or experience, but more often based on a preconceived bias, that they…[Read more]

The latest update contains some of the fixes discussed over the last couple weeks. It also contains:

Brand new cabin from Orazio, for the small class 7 ships

Officer loyalty tweak, where if an incompatible officer/companion (with a different alignment than the captain), that decides to overlook some of your bad/good acts, contrary to their…[Read more]

The second part of that problem, they attack after accepting the bribe, is part of the other seaspeak flaw I found about the DontRansackCaptain attribute. There is another attribute .AlwaysEnemy that should also be queried, that wasn’t there. For now, I disabled the ability to accept a bribe, or surrender for enemies that are created with those…[Read more]