New Characters for GOF ERAS2

[modernknight1]

This topic is concerning the new characters that I have in development for the patch coming out in mid-late March.

I am dying to show you some of these characters. I didn’t show off the DeRuyter character because I found a better model to base him off of so scraped the old character.

I will show my work very soon, however I want to solicit opinions here of members on the new characters and get suggestions for additional I can put in for the patch release.

So I’m not totally “spilling the beans” yet because I have not showed off the new characters, but I will name the ones I am working on:

1. Admiral Michiel DeRuyter: Most famous Dutch Admiral in history with a noted record of destroying English and French ships and colonies in the Caribbean.
2. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester: Although a known wit of the Golden Age and a womanizing libertine rake, (made famous in the movie The Libertine and played by Johnny Depp), he was also a brilliant young naval officer in the second Anglo-Dutch war and served under Admiral Spragge.
3. Edward Spragge the Elder: famous pirate and Admiral in the Royal Navy. Dutch Admiral Tromp’s nemesis. Died in battle 1673 facing Tromp.
4. Captain Edward Spragge the Younger, pirate hunter and RN Captain of the HMS Drake – and Bastard son of the famous
Admiral Sir Edward Spragge (Tromp’s famous enemy) who took his name after his death in 1673.
5. Charles Vane: Famous Pirate Captain
6. Jean Bart: Famous Flemish Pirate. Although it cannot be proven that he ever came to the Caribbean some say he did. He was a famous Dunkirk Pirate who first served under DeRuyter. At one point he captured 80 English ships and was knighted by the French King. I wanted to give pro-French players a chance to play one of their heroes.
7. Edward Collier, one of Henry Morgan’s most important Captains
8. Alexandre Prouville de Tracy: French naval commander responsible for driving the Dutch from their lesser Antillies colonies in 1664. Fairly successfully as well.
9. Abraham Crijnssen: Able Dutch naval commander made famous against the Dunkirkers and ordered to the Caribbean to retake possessions raided by the French and expel the English from new colonies as well as Surinam which he did with great success.
10. Don Diego de Ibarra: Capable Spanish Captain and Admiral that served both in the Caribbean and Mediterranean in the 1660s and 1670s. Died at the Battle of Palermo fighting the French while serving as the Spanish commander in an allied Dutch-Spanish fleet.

So there they are for everyone to see.

Any other notables I should consider as additional characters???

Would love some input. Feeling very alone here these days.

MK

[Carlos]

Since im Portuguese, id like to suggest a portuguese buccaneer named Bartolomeo Portugues, AKA Bartholomew Portuguese.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeu_Portugu%C3%AAs
http://thecrimsonpirate.com/crimsonpirate.us/historicalpirates/BartolomeoPortugues.html

its a shame Portugal didnt have much of an impact alongside the spanish, french, dutch and english on the Carribean.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 9 months ago by Carlos.

[modernknight1]

Hi Carlos!

I had stayed away from that character because of his prevalence in POTC build mods/New Horizons. However, I think we could do up a completely different character that is historically correct and looks nothing like the other PA! character.

Do you have any visual suggestions on how you would like him to look/appear?

MK

[Carlos]

I dont have any unfortunately. Im no historian on 17th century clothing, sorry. Maybe use your imagination on the body, and try to give an aproximatation on the face features with the wiki picture? wish i could be of more help.

[modernknight1]

Ok got it.

I already know which model I will use. He will be awesome!

MK

[Carlos]

woah the enthusiasm! Now i cant wait to see the final result 🙂

[modernknight1]

I am adding another character. He fits too good not to – and there was another good officer model I wanted to texture and use.

Roemer Vlacq (Gouda, baptised 19 August 1637 – Toulon, 17 July 1703) was a Dutch naval captain, who blew up his ship to keep it out of enemy hands.

Roemer Vlacq, son of Anna Jansdochter Verrijn and Dirk Vlacq, a physician, apothecary and notary from Gouda, became lieutenant commander of Kits with the Admiralty of Amsterdam in 1671. In 1672, during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, he commanded the frigate Postiljon during the Battle of Solebay under lieutenant admiral Michiel de Ruyter. In 1673 he took part in all battles, commanding the frigate Brak. In 1674 he was commander of the transport vessel Opperdoes during De Ruyter’s expedition against Martinique.

In March 1676 he went to the Caribbean as captain of Huys van Kruyningen under commodore Jacob Binckes. On 3 March 1677 he was involved in the Action of March 1677. When the French boarded his vessel and threatened to overpower his forces, he blew up the ship. Most of the crew lost their lives, but French ships were damaged as well. Vlacq himself survived, although heavily injured and returned to the Netherlands in October of the same year.

At the end of the Franco-Dutch War Vlacq performed convoy services: in 1678 to the Bay of Biscay and in 1690 and 1691 in the Baltic Sea. In 1692 Vlacq was suspended for insubordination, but was rehabilitated on 14 February 1696 by stadtholder WIlliam and re-entered service with the Admiralty of Amsterdam. He once again went into convoy service.

Vlacq was injured again during the War of the Spanish Succession when a fleet of 110 Dutch and British merchant ships that he was escorting out of Lisbon with five warships hit a French five-warships flotilla under commodore Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon on 22 May 1703. During the ensuing Battle of Cap de la Roque, Vlacq sacrificed his warships in a successful attempt to let the merchant convoy escape. Vlacq’s 50-gun flagship, the Muiderberg was attacked by the 90-gun thriple-deckers Le Vainqueur and Le Monarque. Vlacq had lost an arm and shoulder and half his crew before surrendering the ship. The entire Dutch flotilla was destroyed. He was made a prisoner and transported to Toulon, where he succumbed to his injuries on 17 July 1703.

Roemer Vlacq was grandfather to Adriaan Roemer Vlacq, vice admiral of the Admiralty of Amsterdam.

[modernknight1]

So based on Stephane’s desires for more immersion with regards to character development in player alignment, Jeffrey has posed that it is possible to effect encountered characters with an already determined “good or bad” status based on random factors or historical knowledge of their acts and personalities.

So after a long discussion with Jeffrey on this subject I have made a list of all of our characters which reflects what I believe to be their correct character alignment within a Dungeons & Dragons style of personality definition.

Here is the list and I am open to discussion of any of the characters below and why I believe they should have the reflected and assigned alignments. RANDOM means the game will randomly determine the NPC alignment. Jeffrey has cautiouned that when this update is complete it will require a new game to take hold. MK

Peter Blood: Chaotic good

Nicholaus Van Hoorn: Chaotic evil

Diego Espinoza: Lawful good

Roc Brisiliano: Chaotic neutral (evil to Spaniards)

Jacques Cassard: Lawful good

Antonio de Soto Meyor: RANDOM

William Kidd: Lawful evil

John Morris: Chaotic neutral (evil to spaniards)

Eduardo Blomar: Chaotic evil

Michiel Andrieszoon: Chaotic good

Juan de Alarcon: Lawful neutral (evil to Englishmen)

Blaze Devlin: (RANDOM)

Bartholomew Sharp: (RANDOM)

Olivier Levasseur: (RANDOM)

Sir Robert Holmes: Chaotic Neutral (Good to Englishmen – Evil to Dutchmen)

David Marteen: (RANDOM)

Black Caesar: Chaotic evil

Bartolomé Charpes: Chaotic evil

Miguel Henriquez: Lawful good

Cornelis Evertsen: Chaotic good (evil to Englishmen)

Jeremy Pitt: Lawful good

Laurens De Graaf: Chaotic good (Lawful good to French and chaotic neutral to Spaniards)

Rene Duguay-Troin: Lawful good

Tavish Greaves: (RANDOM)

Nathaniel Hawk: (Random)

Samuel Bellamy: Chaotic good

Davy Jones: Lawful evil

Francois L’Olannais: Chaotic evil – REALLY EVIL especially to Spaniards

Erin O’Shiel: good

Mary Read: (RANDOM)

Anne Bonney: (RANDOM)

Anne Dieu-le-Veut: Lawful good

Beatrice Devlin: (RANDOM)

Jessika Jayontz: (RANDOM)

Jacquotte Delahaye: chaotic evil

Flora Burn: (RANDOM)

Manuel Ribeiro Pardal: Lawful good (Evil to Englishmen)

Alexander Dalzeel: chaotic evil

Claude Duval: (RANDOM)

Abraham Blauvelt: Lawful good

Willem van der Zaan: Lawful good

Henry Avery: (RANDOM)

Bernard Claesen Speirdyke: chaotic good

William Dampier: Lawful good

Bartholomew Roberts: chaotic good

Chevalier Michel de Grammont: chaotic evil (Lawful neutral to French)

Sir David Mitchell: Lawful good

Pierre le Picard: (RANDOM)

Woodes Rogers: Lawful good

Hans Sloane: Lawful good

Sterling O’Shiel: good

Jack Rackham: neutral neutral

Blackbeard: chaotic evil

Mateo Alonso de Huidobro: Lawful good (Lawful evil against Englishmen)

Robert Searle: chaotic evil (Lawful neutral to Englishmen)

Jan Erasmus Reyning: chaotic good

Blaz de Lezo: Lawful good

Lionel Wafer: chaotic good

John Berry: Lawful good

Christopher Condent: (RANDOM)

Benjamin Hornigold: Chaotic good

Cornelis Van de Velde: (RANDOM)

John Julian: chaotic good

Walter Kennedy: (RANDOM)

Jurriaen Aernoutsz: Lawful Good

Jelles de Lecat: Chaotic neutral

Jean-Baptiste DuCasse: (RANDOM)

William Phipps: Lawful neutral

John Strong: (RANDOM)

Jacob Binckes: Lawful neutral (Lawful good to Dutch)

Edward England: Chaotic good

Bart Redd: chaotic neutral

Abraham Crijnssen: Lawful good

Don Diego de Ibarra: Lawful good

Daniel Montbars “the EXTERMINATOR”: neutral evil – REALLY EVIL! especially to Spaniards

Jean Bart: neutral good

Michiel DeRuyter: neutral good

Charles Vane: Chaotic Evil

James Flint: neutral neutral

Edward Collier: neutral neutral

Edward Spragge: Lawful neutral

Alexandre Prouville de Tracy: Lawful neutral

Juan Corso: chaotic neutral (evil to French and English)

John Wilmot: chaotic neutral

William Beeston: Lawful good

Sir Edward Spragge: chaotic neutral

Bartolomeu de Portugues: chaotic neutral

Roemer Vlacq: Lawful good (chaotic evil to French)

Ned Lowe: Chaotic Evil – really really BAD guy! Evil!

Edward Davis: neutral good

Peter Cloise: chaotic good

Joseph-Antoine LeFebre de LeBarre: Lawful neutral

Stiofan O Siadhail: Lawful good

Phillipe Bequel: (RANDOM)

Diego Grillo: chaotic evil

Moise Vauquelin: (RANDOM)

Jakob Janssen Van der Bergh: Chaotic evil

Raveneau de Lussan: Lawful neutral

Agustin de Diustegui: Lawful neutral (Lawful evil to Englishmen)

Charles Francois d’Angennes: Lawful neutral

Laurens Prins: Lawful neutral

Mathjis Quars: Lawful neutral

John Coxon: chaotic neutral (RANDOM)

Jean de Estrees: Lawful evil

Thomas Drummond: Lawful good

Henry Jennings: neutral evil

Charles Swan: nuetral evil

Alonso de Campos: Lawful good

Mary Harvey: chaotic neutral (RANDOM)

Silas Scallywag: (RANDOM)

Morgan Adams: Chaotic neutral (RANDOM)

Thomas Whetstone: Lawful Neutral

Bertrand Vallo: chaotic good

Peter Beckford: Lawful EVIL

Antonio de Layseca y Alvarado: Lawful good

Pierre Blot: Neutral Neutral (Random)

John Halsey: Lawful neutral

Prudence Spitfire Stevens: chaotic good

John Bowen: neutral neutral (RANDOM)

Nathaniel North: neutral neutral (RANDOM)

Bernard Desjean: Lawful neutral

Stede Bonnet: Stupid neutral (RANDOM)

Daniel Johnson: chaotic neutral (RANDOM)

Andrez Pez Malzarraga: Lawful good

Amaro Pargo: Chaotic good

Nicholas Boes: Lawful neutral

Isaac Rochussen: Lawful neutral

William Credo: Chaotic good

Thomas Tew: Chaotic good (RANDOM)

Emmanuel Wynn: (RANDOM)

Alexandre Exquemalin: Lawful good

[Stéphane]

Thanks MK 🙂 , this could be really great to improve immersion and role playing for team building

According to the hero’s alignment you used to define them, i tried to transpose ADD settings to Aop2 to help a bit .. it could be something like this:

(Hero) (Man of Honor) (Swindler)

LG LN LE

(Honest captain) NG N (RS) NE (Shark)

CG CN CE

(Trusted sailor) (Scoundrel) (Bloody assassin)

[Stéphane]

Damn it, the post didn’t stay how i write it 🙁 … so to be a more readable:

LG: Hero
LN: Man of Honor
LE: Swindler

NG: Honest captain
N: Regular sailor
NE: Shark

CG: Trusted sailor
CN: Scoundrel
CE: Bloody Assassin

[Jeffrey]

Double-post from other thread as well.

I forgot to mention this about the recent update. But, my last update included this reputation change. Using the information MK and you supplied, I made a range for each RPG hero that they must fall within.

For a new game, all of them will be adjusted accordingly. If you load an existing game, all the RPG heroes that are NOT in your officer/companion list are reset (just that one time…first load and saved) to fit within those ranges. I didn’t change your existing crew/squadron, because you might be set playing things a certain way with those characters and I didn’t want to upset that.

Now be aware, even in the same game profile, if you load one save game and meet an RPG with a certain reputation, but then load a different previous (from before this new update) save of that same profile, that same RPG might be different in that game and won’t match because some of the characters are not restricted and have a wide random range that can be used. Since those are random, I can’t ever know what reputation number got picked fbetween two different saves.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by Jeffrey.

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