Harbour battles! Cool!

Hats off and kudos to that man. Jeffrey are you Julian Jensen / Julian Lefay in disguise? LOL

Also noted in the vid: Still using that old animation for the “chicks”? The one with 20 wrist scratches per minute? Might have an updated file or two of the ani files for you to play with – with improved sidestep, faster running…[Read more]

Feel a right moron for asking but… how do you upload pics from your hard drive to post here? Not from the web, but from hard drive – ? I can’t figure out which function in the toolbar :/

Thanks for listening Jeffrey, and apologies if it adds to your already hard-pressed work load.

The newly introduced “equipment” for the NPC captains is also a big issue for me. It means, without even spam saving/reloading its easy to go from 5,000 money to 1-3 million. Just having a bit of luck (and its really not that hard) convincing a…[Read more]

Not bothered about 100% accuracy Orazio, but this is such a big step in a very positive direction and puts a huge grin on my face!

Feature request for the above “always busy” merchants and barmen/crew conundrum: Would it be possible to actually put the majority of these NPCs “At sea”? I know if i bring up the F10 menu, some of them are listed “at sea”…but they dont seem to be – ? Always in the pub, landlubbing scurvy naves! I wonder if it would be possible to code any extra…[Read more]

@ CaptQbert: it’s in your ‘options’ dude – “make skill books less powerful…” ON/OFF. “ON” reduces everything (in theory) to a 10% bonus. Switching to “off” gives you the full bonuses for each item.

Nevermind – Jeffrey beat me to it

I could kiss you guys!

(Not really – dont swing that way)

That brings back crystal clear memeories of the very first playthrough of AoP 1 – Caribbean Tale. And looking at the map…and feeling deflated. Sid Mier’s Pirates set a high benchmark for geographical accuracy in the West Indies for me, and I felt so let down when i examined Akella’s…[Read more]

@ Modern Knight of Nee

That’s a really fair assessment. The Early Spanish Galleons is a blast at low level, as is El Zabra. Maybe give it a price-hike for such a good class 6 then- ? But the Olandesa really does feel too powerful for a class 4. Its got better stats and performance then most class 3’s (!), so I am glad you are considering…[Read more]

@ Jeffrey

I couldn’t replicate the Olandesa one either on my second try. But try it after a battle, when a few cannons/ culverins have been knocked out. Thats when I experienced the Olandesa bug, post-battle, replacing culverins at the shipwright & upgrading them in the process. Hope that helps

Found “Matchlock Arquebus” in a playthrough. Equipped an officer with it and they wear it gunlinger style – ?! Is this right? Did a test and spawned in mushket and mushket1 via console. Tried equipping officers (that DO have “_mush” models btw)… and nothing – ! Its registering in their inventory but they are not equipping the 2 mushkets (sic)…[Read more]

Noticed these 2 ships suffer fron the ‘cannon bug’:

SHIP_FRIGATE_MB (“Frigatta Olandesa”)
&
SHIP_GALEON_SANTIAGO (“Early Spanish Galeon”)

Also – love both these ships but, they’re somewhat OP for their classes. Maybe nudge them up one class each respectively -?

@ Jeffrey

Thanks for explaining. That sounds a good compromise – the “gluttons for punishment” can just play on ‘impossible’ for realism and lock-outs, the rest can get some respite. I’m sticking at ‘commodore’ level thanks 😉

^ Bonus points, MOT, for the cool avatar (Loved “Monkey” when i was a tot!)

Out of the frying pan and into the fire,,,and back in the frying pan again…!!

Long story short: Out of the last temp accomodation (dont ask!), short stop in a “hotel (Hostel would be more accurate) in a really dodgy bit of Glasgow. And now currently residing in a…[Read more]

Quick fix till the ‘Governors’ do something about the trader/barmen reluctance to sell, if this is becoming a real issue for you 🙂


void…[Read more]

@ Jeffrey – that’s superb news about the texture flickering bug. I noticed it on first play through as Jan Willems, who starts with Armed English Merchantmen/BlackPearl. The dirty fix of quicksaving hasnt been working though, so there’s been a permenant backfacing texture on the deck. Wow! – ONE line of code. Kudos sir 🙂

Well finally took the plunge and installed latest ERAS version 2.6.7 (Farewell 1.5.7 compiled source – you were a worthy predecessor). I have to say I’m very impressed. In fact, I’ve been having an absolute blast!

Things of note:

The npc captains, if you “press” them into your service are somewhat ‘overkill’ with the equipment the have already…[Read more]

Here’s some short videos demonstrating the glitch. I’m using the French galeon rapide (La_Licorne1), which ALWAYS has this bug.

It seems to use the proper RESOURCETexturesShipsLa_Licorne1Hull1deck.tga.tx texture, but…

… {same path as above}desk.tga.tx texture is flickering over the top of it – !!

Link to vids

(KEY: !ryS34e8RaKVp7no1Q8vqRw)

Regarding these double/schizophrenic textures: I’ve noticed these issues on the previous dx9 compiled source build too. In my case, I notice it corrects itself immediately if you QUICKSAVE in the game…which isn’t really a solution, just an observation.

I haven’t got time tonight Jeffrey – but I could demonstrate the bug clearer with…[Read more]

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