Having news travel at a realistic pace would be cool (good idea, Ians!), and could lend another sense of time scale to the game. In addition, it probably would make sense for smaller ships to shy away from you when you have a much larger and more powerful ship – a sloop attacking a 2nd-rate lineship is pretty much suicide for the sloop, so why…[Read more]

AS I said in an earlier post, I think perhaps an officer’s wardroom on the player’s ship would be a good idea – as I mentioned before, it could even just be the cargo hold, though I’d prefer to have a simple room with (maybe with some bunks) that has enough room to move around in and is shared between all the different ships. All I want is a space…[Read more]

Lots of good ideas from you(and not only) here but I disagree on not being able to have a ship that is both superfast and supermanouverable. You can, think of torpedo boats and similar.
The trade off here should be sensitivity to damage. Glass-jawed punchers is what we would get.

Interesting idea, Oldtimer, and I kind of like it. My objective…[Read more]

It’s great to hear that, MK! Can’t wait to see all the new things in the update! All of this looks absolutely STUNNING already, can’t wait to get my hands on all this new stuff and play the game with it!

Keep up the awesome effort, guys! We really appreciate what you’re doing here!

So, checking the event log, I fixed my issue – turns out all I needed to do was update my Microsoft.NET framework. Below is a link that talks about how to solve the issue, I only needed to perform steps a-c to get config.exe working properly on my computer. In addition, I installed the 2008 C++ runtime, so that might have helped as well, not sure.…[Read more]

Thanks for the quick response, I’ll do that.

Good to hearthat the feedback is appreciated, MK! Can’t wait to get my hands on the new update, it’ll make an awesome Christmas present!

Question for the technologically illiterate one here; how do I access the event viewer? I’ve never heard of such a thing before. Would really help, since I have problems with Config.exe and this might just fix it.

Thanks.

Oldtimer, you can buy a ship without trading in your current one to get it – now let’s see if I can explain how, since I kinda suck at that. So, when you go to buy a ship, there should be a vertical menu on the far left of the ship purchasing window, with an arrow at top and bottom. All you have to do is use the arows to scroll the selection box…[Read more]

You don’t have to worry about extracting all of the .7z.xxx files when installing the game, Jack. When you’re extracting the game to install it, you only need to extract the first file (ERAS2.6.7z.001), and that will install the content from the other 11 .zip files. Then extract the update.zip and copy/overwrite it to your game files, and then do…[Read more]

That’s an interesting idea I hadn’t thought of, Oldtimer, and it certainly makes good sense. After all, I’ve read the book, so why do I have to keep carrying it around just to remember how to use my new skill boost? Items like medals and such should still need to be carried around, but I do agree that it would be very nice to have all skill books…[Read more]

The cat and some skill items working when placed into the ship’s chest would be great to incorporate if you ask me – it reduces the amount of weight you have to carry around yourself (though the main reason I want that kind of functionality is to keep my inventory more streamlined). Also, why do you have to carry ship skill enhancements all the…[Read more]

Thanks for the advice, MK, I’ll try that. I need to upgrade my AVG to a paid account anyway, so I can use that once I get the cash.

Still can’t access the config utility on my gaming computer, which is very odd. I’ve installed both the Jun2010 runtime and the DirectX update in the game files, but it just won’t work. I know that it works on my laptop (without the engine updates), but it won’t work on my gaming computer for some reason. I initially copied the downloaded .zip…[Read more]

Very nice. Increasing the number of verts used in character models, especially by that much, really helps to make the character models look much nicer – is it possible now that we’ll be seeing many of the original in-game models replaced by newer ones of this higher quality level? That’d be pretty cool if we could do that for future releases.

On…[Read more]

Hot damn, that ship looks AMAZING, MK. The stern decoration came out really well also – love everything you’ve done with this! Can’t wait to get my copy of the new release and take a look at all the new content!

From what you said, I’m led to believe that this is a new ship being introduced in the new version, is that correct? Also, just out of…[Read more]

If itch works, then that’s great. I suggested Steam because while it would be a solution to the download issue, it’s also pretty mainstream, and therefore might be a good way to advertise our game to the wider public – something I think we’re all interested in doing. If it requires payments to host the game, though, I fully understand that it…[Read more]

Well, I tried installing the latest runtime, and it still doesn’t work. So you may need to put your files up as a download I can try. I’ll go from there.

right, I’ll try that. If it doesn’t work, I’ll let you know.