In ERAS the realistic setting doesn’t govern the ships showing up from different periods in ports battles or shipyards. The realistic setting governs what you will find in shipyards and relegates the selection to smaller ships. If set you will almost never see larger warships at shipyards.

I have personally set the encounterable ships in game by…[Read more]

Just uploaded a whole bunch (over 80) new screenshots on my Flickr page. Many of these show off some of the new improved/reworked and reskinned ships that will be in the next Loyalty patch and our commercial version. My thanks to Maltacus as I used many of his skins. Probably about one third of the new skins are from him. I’m especially proud of…[Read more]

QUOTE “Just out of curiosity, what happens if you have conquered the city before talking to Morgan? Will he not be there or his doors locked?”

I don’t know??? Good question.

So I will just say Maltacus that I have never taken Port Royal in all of these years playing the game. If anyone has I would like to know. One time I even made a video…[Read more]

Sorry I have been extremely busy and it took a couple of days for me to respond…

Well I am excited about the new project Orazio. I would offer that I have many good resources I can provide in reference. I have maps and illustrations of the city and fort layout from the time provided by both an amazing copy of “The Burning Fen” from 1686 and…[Read more]

Well I can’t move the conversation from the other topic to this one right now, but I can cut and paste my comments from our other discussion here to continue the discussion. MK

From other topic…

I agree with much of what you say. However, I look at it slightly different. Privateers were often very organized and with commissions issued from the…[Read more]

Unfortunately when I try to move the topic I am prevented by a window blocking the option toggle to change it to the other topic. Not to worry, Ian tells me he is putting final touches on the new website and I will be reviewing it with him to launch the new website in a few more days. He says once the final decisions are made I we pull trigger…[Read more]

Some more screenshots from me: Ran into the massive Soleil Royale in a French port. Also here are some shots of the new small Pinnace/Snauw Orazio recently finished with my new skins…[Read more]

I agree with much of what you say. However, I look at it slightly different. Privateers were often very organized and with commissions issued from the highest authorities and with a lot of money backing them, often their ships were very formidable. Just look at the Dutch character Isaac Rochussen in our game. A real historical privateer who became…[Read more]

Thanks once again for a truly interesting narrative! I always love reading about your experiences and the very creative way that you bring them to life Maltacus!

Now here’s a little picture of me going up against an entire Treasure Flota I encountered at the tip of Cuba bound for Havanna. Stupidly I attacked and lost two of my best ships and…[Read more]

Thanks once again for a truly interesting narrative! I always love reading about your experiences and the very creative way that you bring them to life Maltacus!

Now here’s a little picture of me going up against an entire Treasure Flota I encountered at the tip of Cuba bound for Havanna. Stupidly I attacked and lost two of my best ships and…[Read more]

I think its a little unrealistic to expect Gentlemen of Luck to possess First Rates of any nation. I have left them a little on the “WILD CARD” side on purpose though so that its possible to get almost anything although they still will usually pick from the baseline of mostly craft that your top of the line cut throats would have been able to get…[Read more]

Thanks for finishing that one up! It looks grand! Love the extra details as always. Those things always distinguish your work as an Orazio creation.

I have all kinds of plans for it. I have lots of images I have been collecting for my book over the years of pirate and merchant craft from the mid to late 17th century.

This one is interesting…[Read more]

That is a great all around fix. Jeffrey has just amazed me this last two weeks with all of the numerous fixes he has made. BTW I love that ship too. Hard to find though….LOL

MK

…continued.

As far as sweeps are concerned. YES I have been dreaming of that for a long time. I’ve even created a way in my mind that it could work.

Three primary sweep models would be built – small – medium – and large. Each would have animation applied.

Any ship that historically had sweeps (oars) would have the appropriate sweep .GM…[Read more]

Extremely busy at the moment but wanted to step in for a few minutes to say I like the idea of a collaborative effort on the long term fix.

However, if we are going to do it I would like to consider everything. Hulls were still blown forward and had to be steered even when all sails had been shot away. Sailors are very familiar with their boats…[Read more]

Hey Maltacus,

Love the portraits. You should post the mod here. There is that thread called member created mods or something like that. I would like to see your edits to get the ships from spinning. I hope you realize that this is something I myself have already been working on for a very long time and I have already made it MUCH better in that…[Read more]

Oh Dude! Wow! Yeah that’s exactly what I’m talking about. Nice work.

However, before we can build that stuff we need the magic editor. We will find someone who is not too expensive who will build us the sacred shrubbery.

It has already been done even. If you look at Mett’s videos for the Russian Secret Beach work, they already have one derived…[Read more]

That does look really good Orazio. Yeah I do think a hanging sprit-sail would be a good addition to that model – excellent suggestion.

You are correct – many sculpture were gilded or painted with a heavy yellowish marine paint that weathered for a long time. However, many ships that had higher construction budgets like rich merchantmen and…[Read more]

I agree on all things you desire and we are working to make much of that happen. You may have already noticed that you might run into a lot more thugs in the jungles and a lot more bounty hunters as well. Because you can command up to 6 fighters Jeffrey and I thought that the encounters with thugs/outlaws should be much more challenging the more…[Read more]

Welcome to the Reef Antiscamp!

Yeah Vincent has some good videos. Thanks for taking the time to introduce yourself. By the dates you can see you’re the only one in the last year to do so. Glad you’re enjoying the open world. We have big plans to expand that world and add more depth in the way of both new locations and new questlines.

Right now…[Read more]