I will have to look up a couple of these, but I do know the answer for a few of them right now.

Q: Does it matter which flag I fly during propositions? i.e should I be switching to a pirate flag before I raid the beach or convoy in question?
A: I don’t think it much matters. If you engage open-sea, when close enough for recognition as a threat, your flag automatically turns Pirate anyway. When doing a shore-based attack, the fight is automatic, no matter what flag. I think the reputation among nations is solely determined by how many soldiers you personally kill, or ships you fire upon/sink (officers and companions that do it for you, don’t count against you). In fact, if you don’t want to risk a nation reputation drop, and your officers/companions are stacked with skill books, armor, cool weapons, great ships, you can sit back and let them do all the work and nothing will count against you. Order them to board and loot the ships, and don’t fire any shots yourself. No points against you! Of course what fun is that? LOL

Q: is there any penalty for turning down propositions in the tavern?
A: I will have to look this one up.

Q: is there any penalty for agreeing to talk but then not showing up?
A: Kind of…if you agree and don’t show up, the other captain’s relation to you goes down slightly. When it reaches a certain point, they will stop asking you and also, if you ask them to join you, they will refuse. I made a slight change to this where there is still a small chance for them to agree to join you if you deliberately ask them, but only to a certain point and if too low, they never will. MK and I discussed changing that further to always allow some chance, so expect further changes to this where they may still approach you, based on some scores.

Q: can i give my maps to my navigator, or was that a New Horizons thing?
A: I don’t know what giving maps to a Navigator does in New Horizons and I don’t think it does anything in this game. If it is a treasure map, I’m not sure it works if you are not holding it…I will have to look.

Q: do skill books work on your crew if you put them in their inventory?
A: Yes, the skill books increase your officer/companion skill points.

Q: do things in the cabin chests carry across when I transfer ships?
A: Yes, ship chest transfers to any ship you take control.

I will get back to you for more definitive answers on the ones I am not sure.

Q:What are the percentages next to skills?
e.g Leadership 79% (+76) 24

A: The percentage you see is how often, when that skill is used to calculate and determine a result, it is helping you. In your case, when Leadership is used to determine a course of action, your score has favorably helped you 79% of the time.

Q: What does f4 do?

A: F4 runs the console.c program, which I often use to test various things. I try to comment out everything in there, but if your ship is changing, I suspect it is probably still running a test I was doing with one of Orazio’s new ships, granting it to my main character so I could check it out. The console.c is useful for an end-user like yourself, to correct some things with an override to a bug’s misbehavior, manually re-init some tables, etc. Typically, best to avoid it unless you specifically alter what you want in the console.c code execution with proven code.

Hey I just have a quick quick question in regards to purchasing ships; is is not possible to find a class 1 or 2 ship for sale at the shipyard?
I’m a level 27 atm, 100 navigation, but I believe I’ve only seen a class 3 for sale twice, and that was back like >5 levels ago. I don’t think I’ve seen a class 2, and I’ve defiantly never seen a class 1, at least in this mod. I thought I remember vanilla AOP2 selling class one ships and they are sometimes even available for sale at the start of the game

Does ERA’s only sell up to class 3 ships in the shipyard? Sure if you capture a 1st rate and sell it id expect to be able to buy it back, but do they ever show up for purchase on their own?

Edit: I just saw for the first time a class 2 for sale, so im assuming all classes will eventually so up for sale. I guess my question is, what determins when the higher class ships show up? Is it rank, navigation skill, or a combination of the 2? At rank 27 and 100 navigation, IMO i feel like I should have seen a 1st class by now

Im not really sure how the Fort assault manages resources for example I have the landing troops ability and I want to have all of my crew weapons should I have weapons on all my ships or only on the flagship as the game stacks the crew of the fleet on my ship during an assault

I have a little question.

When my skills reach 100, do the books in my inventory still useful?
For instance, my navigation skill is at 82 now, and I have a boost of 18 provided by books and trinkets. When reach 100, the books will add nothing at all. Will they still be useful? Will I do more damage with my pistol having a skill of 100 and a book adding 30?

What difficulty should you choose if you want to have neither bonuses nor penalties because of the difficulty level, or at least as little as possible of those?

Well I can’t give you a good answer on that Maltacus.

If I had to describe in a visual way why – I would say it is because this game is like a bunch of slide rules cludged together.

If there was someway that we could freeze your level to say 15 and you would never progress beyond that – then I could quantify what you ask to some degree.

However, as you get higher and higher level, the game causes your RPC to become almost GOD LIKE IMHO.

This is another reason I like the higher difficulty levels, because once you’re at level 35+ on Sailor difficulty, you can sink ships with a single broadside of hotshot. You can kill opponents with one or two strokes of your sword.

You know that might not be a bad idea for a mod. A static toggle that allows the player at a given time to change and lock his level to a lower level than what he currently is. From there the lock would not allow him to level up. He could go back in when he wanted to and toggle the lock off and advance once again. Hmmmmm Interesting to consider. Jeffrey? Thoughts?

MK

• This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by modernknight1.

Ok, I’ve searched around and could not find a resolution to this question (or possible bug) regarding the ‘Industrial Espionage’ missions. I’ve done a few of these with no probs but last night I could not complete one.

I was asked to steal the blueprints for a new corvette from Basse-Terre, thus:

1. I go to BT, sneak in at night and sleep until morn in tavern
2. In the morn, sneak over to the shipyard and go into the room with the guard
3. Wait until night time (I waited until midnight) and go into the room where the shipyard dude sits at his desk (he is gone as expected)…
4. When I try to grab the blueprints, I cannot! They are there on his desk but there is no hand icon or way for me to pick them up….and I have tried every corner of his desk and even all over the room for a hand icon but nothing.

I also tried other methods with no luck (bribed the guard to leave door open next day, killed the guard, opened all chests in guards room, left ship yard, rested and came back a few days later, left the city, got on my ship, sailed around, came back and sneaked in again and still no hand icon).

The quest still shows as active in my log book btw.

I pulled up F11 to see if there was something I could do there (advance quest line?) but I have never used the Dev console and did not want to mess my game up (yes, I clicked X to exit). 🙂

Any specific help on what I can do to complete this quest via an F11 ‘cheat’?
Or did I miss something obvious?

Thanks guys,
CQ

I’ll need to double check if the hand icon shows up when the shipyard dude is there but I don’t think so. Will test tonight and go from there. Thanks MK!

• This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by Capt Qbert.

Well it shouldnt actually be that way. Its been a long time since I did that quest by staying in the other room till after midnight, …but you used to be able to steal the plans that way also.

MK

Ok, just 1 question today captains…

When I give my officers books & items to increase their ship skills, how do those stack up?

Specifically, I gave an officer whom I was going to assign as captain of a captured ship a book with +10 Nav and 2 items as well (one with +10 Nav and the other one with +30 Nav IIRC). So that would = +50 Nav, but when I check him out after assigning him to his ship, it only shows +30 Nav to his Navigation skill. Is it supposed to be this way or am I missing something/is this a bug?

Tnx guys!
CQ

• This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by Capt Qbert.

@ 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

• This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by Schiavonna.

Ok, another Q…

I found an ‘Armillary’ while looting some bodies last night and it gives +10 to ‘Intellect’. Huh, what is this?

I can’t find any reference to an intellect skill or ability for your character (or any effect this may have on him when in his inventory). Is the Armillary an item planned for the future or a left-over from the early days of this game?

Just super curious about this item and if it usable? …thanks in advance for any info!

CQ

• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by Capt Qbert.

I have started the French nation questline on corsair level.

In the second quest, when the not really regretful governor lets you out of jail you are supposed to get your stuff back. That did not work for me. I tried again a few times and about half of them ended up the same, the rest worked. Is this a bug or are you supposed to do something in the dungeon, like walk to a crate or barrel or something to get the items back?

On the third quest, five (I think) spaniards accompanied the commandant in his so called dinner party. They had rank 180 and 380-400+ hit points… That feels totally absurd. Is the quest supposed to be that way, with some kind of spanish demigods in that house while the rest of the town is held by common humans?

Ok I screwed up somewhere. The Shopkeepers keep telling me to come back tomorrow over and over. Is it Rep?

How can you change it so that fighter officers are always coming with the captain? Someone managed to do so with the des Moines beach which was an excellet change.
I think it is a pathetic feature, utterly unrealistic and improbable that someone would suddenly decide to leave the bodyguards behind when going into the most suspicious situations imaginable. I’m not saying it has to be changed for everyone but it breaks my game for me, so I would really appreciate any help in finding out how to edit that.

Hi all,

agree with Maltacus abt. fighters coming along with the skipper. IMO at all times.

Is it possible to buy a ship without losing your current one, spare officer present?
If yes then how?

Another thing, char relations: Pardal hates Speirdyke yet invites him to joint action. There are many more examples like that. Challenge to a duel should be more realistic and immersive, man vs man or ship vs ship.

I`ve played enough to submit a extensive Christmas wish list but will wait until Holidays are over. Just one very labor intensive wish: all ships to one scale to get realistic size differences between them.

Merry Christmas all,

Oldtimer

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Oldtimer.

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 in that menu to an empty slot (the one with a parchment look and a ship drawing, IIRC), and then buy the ship you want – it will then be placed into the empty slot, giving you two ships in your now fledgling fleet! Let me know if that helped, will ya?

As for other matters, I agree that in many cases a captain’s fighters would come with – but I can also see it causing problems unless certain things get overhauled. Most caves – in particular the ones that have lots of halls and few rooms – would NOT be capable of hosting multiple characters in a useful fashion; they’d just get stuck in front of or behind you, and be utterly useless. Building interiors may be a bit better, but definitely not by much, and I absolutely HATE having fighter officers appear in my cabin (not only does it crowd up space and make moving around difficult, but it’s not very realistic to have them in your CAPTAIN’S CABIN all the time – it’s called stalking, and that’s bad, m’kay?). In the end, we would probably have to see some big overhauls for interior spaces before fighters can really tag along as something more than a major annoyance.

I do like the idea about character relations affecting what other captains tell the player in taverns, Oldtimer, and would also like to add behavior changes dependent on that relation level as well – some people really don’t like each other, so it makes sense that they would tend to challenge someone to a fight instead of offering work. You can also have NPCs who dislike you greet you with more hostile language, and act in a less helpful fashion overall as well.

I, too, am building up a bit of a wishlist, but I want to play the new update for a bit before finalizing it.

WOW! Feedback! Amazing! Love it! Keep it coming.

So I’ve been traveling and just arrived at my destination this evening. So I am just now seeing this and just now getting Jeffrey’s combined update. I will test it tomorrow so that we can get it out to everyone for a Christmas present.

SO yeah just as Vincent stated, as long as you have a spare officer that can take over as captain of a new purchased ship, you never have to give up the one you have. I know the interface isn’t always intuitive, but once you get used to it, it is like second nature.

Second on officers being with you all of the time, this just isn’t possible for so many of the questlines without ruining the challenge. Jeffrey opened it up so that on beaches and places where the fights were damn near impossible, fighters make things much better. We can entertain case by case circumstances, but I enjoy a good challenge and once you get good at swordplay (find our tutorial) you can own whole groups on your own once you’ve leveled up a little. In fact I find that this game makes you “God Like”. Jeffrey and I discussed adding a toggle to options that allows you as a player to max leveling. So if you never want to go beyond level 15, you can set it there and that’s is where you will stay.

On the ships, I have to tell you that this is one place where I will be hard to budge. Their set up and classes have been determined after a great deal of thought and play (hundreds of hours) and it was not done lightly – but deliberately with great forethought.

Consider that our ship class system is not meant to reflect some sort of codified British navy class system of the 18th century.

Certainly the 17th century saw the beginnings of organized naval classification, but it was far from standardized or set in stone. In some cases (especially on the high end) the ships do conform to a sort of naval ship classification, however, I looked at this system as not just one of historical or capability classification, but also a system that could allow for better game balance both in encounters and in what players are allowed to play without penalties when.

Certainly the penalties are imposed to reflect that your player can not yet control that “CLASS” of vessel yet, however, when we examine the vessels in the lists, each has very deliberate strengths and weaknesses with regards to crew size, cargo capacity, speed and armament. Usually if it seems that a ship is too low of a class for its capabilities, examine it further. Historically was that type of vessel common and easy to handle? Is it unusually slow or can only mount small ordinance and house a limited crew? Suddenly that 50 gun ship doesn’t look so great when we see how small its guns are or how slow it is or the smallish crew compliment for its size. All of these things were taken into consideration.

I am always willing to consider moving ships around if one has a good reason. In fact, you will notice a few moves in the update because of player input. In addition, I continue to make new better skins all the time. I can always add another version of the same ship as a different class with different numbers and a slightly different appearance. This has already been done with several ships. This is not unrealistic in any way when we look at the wide range of capabilities present in historical ship examples given us in so many different sources of documentation. I myself have a soft spot for class 5 and 6 ships. love our variety and am always on the look out for more ships.

Looking forward to those wish lists fellas!

Thanks

MK

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by modernknight1.

Merry christmas to all!

MK, it’s nice to see the feedback is appreciated. I know you have felt a lot of dissapointment at the lack of interest in the mod.

About the lone captain issue; I would like to point out that as I said I am not pressing the point that you should include fighter officers all time in the official release, but please tell people like me and Oldtimer how you did it when you added fighter officers in the des Moines etc – its a request for modding advice rather than implementing. Then we can mod our own versions to our liking and everyone gets the most out of their own gaming.

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!

Hello everyone,

I haven’t seen the question posted anywhere (or maybe I haven’t looked hard enough), so I’ll just ask it here.

I saw a post from Jeffery in the Bugs forum; he’d posted a picture of his character (Jacquotte Delahaye I think), but with a different outfit on.

If possible, how can I swap outfits on my characters?

Eventually a bunch of characters will have more outfits. My first attempts at character textures were very amateurish and I am reworking a bunch of them now that I have got really good at this. So the Hans Sloane texture (Dr. House) with the white hair is getting a complete overhaul because so many don’t like him.

There were almost several other characters that made it into the update that I almost have finished but they will have to wait. We are working on SO MUCH NEW STUFF!!!

Eventually I hope to have new breastplate outfits for all of the female characters and many of the main male characters.

Each outfit is a whole different texture for that same model – that takes time gents.

MK

Hi all,

I promised feedback and ideas after holidays but I think I will do it after playing with the upcoming new ver. Seems like a better idea.

What I am very interested in is stowage chests on ships without cabin. Why? Well, I would like to make a playthrough with such a ship. I am a dedicated single SMALL ship player.
If adding chests to these is not doable, then perhaps you could leave items for safe keeping with port control, moneylender or tavern, for a small fee. These items could be lost if the city in question is sacked.

Another thing, ability to take crewmen along with you after mooring. A shore party as it were. Perhaps via the “think aloud” function while onboard.

Rgds, Oldtimer

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Oldtimer.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Oldtimer.

Hi all,

a question abt. perks:

– they work, according to description only when relevant officers are appointed. But,

– what abt. player perks like, player has increased speed, navigator does not. Will the ship benefit from increased speed anyway or?

Same but regarding NPC officers in players crew?

Rgds, Oldtimer

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Oldtimer.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by Oldtimer.

@ Jack,

Thanks for the enthusiastic comment. We are pretty proud of our work and its just going to get better.

MK

This might qualify as a bug, but is also the reason for my asking; whenever I perform an upgrade on a ship, be it hull integrity through to cannon size, the sails change to the really moldy looking ones.

So, is it possible to change what type of sails my ship uses?

How do you initiate a duel/brawl in the tavern? It’s mentioned in the vanilla game manual but apart from the sellers of fake treasure maps I have never understood how you challenge people to a duel. When you threaten insulting patrons the tavern keeper always threatens with calling for the guards and nothing more happens.

OK WOW! So this discussion on sails threw me for a loop. An ugly moldy texture should not be appearing on standard ships. Sure I have some patched ones (a new black one in the update which looks much more realistic which I just did a few weeks ago in fact) – but this texture you mention is not in my game. So I got thinking and then I realized just based on your description of it – what happened.

Its an old one I imported a LONG time ago in testing new things out.

When Jeffrey was doing the texture rewrite for the entire game to make ALL our textures more efficient, many textures that were duplicates were thrown out. The game reads textures both from the Resource/textures/ file AND the RESOURCE/textures/Ships file. So after we talked about it on the phone we verified that that ugly one you guys hate was accidentally used to overwrite the intended one as the standard sail texture. Sorry very much about this – they both had the same name you see.

Jeffrey has already made the fix and the old one is back in place. Maybe if more people would actually post screenshots I could have caught this AGES AGO!!! It was not happening in my game you see because I never replace my resource content in my running test version because most of the new RESOURCE and texture content come from ME – I am the source.

Again sorry – this would have been immersion destroying for me. I wish I had known about this back when it first started to happen.

FIXED in the update!

MK

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by modernknight1.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by modernknight1.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by modernknight1.

Good morning, I wanted to ask a little question about a topic that is breaking my mind. The issue is that the vast majority of the time I talk to a smuggler, he tells me that he can not meet because he has other businesses and almost always (90% of the time) I fail the mission of the governors. My question is if there is any way to kill the smuggler even if I do not meet with him. I also mention that sometimes when speaking with the clients of the taverna they tell me that X person is going to meet with the smugglers in a specific place, but as before, it happens very rarely. Please help me with this problem.

The mod that I have installed is the Moderknight’s GOF: Privateers & Profit mod # 2 Version 2.7.0 the golden age.

Sorry for the tag, didn’t know it

Hi all,

started as pirate, paid up for peacing out with France. France is neutral on the nations screen, but their forts and ships still attack me. I`m also attacked by city guards. Sometimes I see a message: France has identified you as a threat. Why is that?

BTW, I fly English flag when I try dealing with France.

Rgds, Oldtimer

You know this gets me thinking…. dangerous I know. Wouldn’t it be great if we could base the hostility factor on “FAME” points rather than nation flag. Certainly if you have a good reputation with that nation, you can sail right into the port provided you fly a friendly/neutral flag. However, even if you ARE a pirate, if you just haven’t done anything to distinguish yourself yet or become famous at a low level, even if you do sail into a hostile port, as long as you are flying their flag, no one cares – because you are a “nobody”.

It would be cool if we could add a fame scale along side the reputation functions.

MK

Hi Buccaneers,

let’s see if I get this posted after modernknight1 (thanks for that) changed something in my profil.

Sometime in these games (ERAS, COAS, TEHO…) I like to simply do trading and enjoy the life at sea :)))
This is not quite easy because of the pirates and military patrols, what a surprise :)))).

What I never find, may be it exists here, is a possibility to join a regular trading convoy, to have some more protection.
Something like when traders ask me in the tavern if they can join me and I am the protector, but the other way around.

Is there a possibility like that?

Cheers

In my latest game I noticed that the other captains don’t gain levels when competition is turned off in the mod options. I don’t have the very latest update but the version before that.
Is this a bug or is it a consequence of competition being turned off? I think they gained levels before even with competition disabled.

@Jeffry: So obviously this feature realy doesn’t exist. Also I am happy you think it is a good idea. If you want I can propose to formulate, how could think it should work. I kind of pre-work/thinking, without knowing if this is possible to implement. Let me know. Cheers

Another question regarding “The letter of marque”. I read, that the letter of marque is the entry for the national question line. To get a letter of marque you have resolve tasks from the gouvernor. So far so good. Is there anything else, any advantage linked to the letter of marque? Or in other words. If you don’t want to go for the national quest line, is it worse to get a letter of marque? Do I have any advantage of that?

Thanks. I am not sure, but it could also be, that there is reputation drop if you attack without LoM. I attacked a group of dutch ships and after have sink one of them my rep decreased.

Anyway another question. I took a task from the Gouvernor of St.John to kill some smugglers with 3 days. I sailed around the island, I ran around in the jungle and couldn’t find anything. I controled ships I found near the port…. I have no clue what I have to do.. any hint, idea ?

Thanks Jeff.

Coming back to the LoM, I am asking myself how many jobs I have to finish before I get the LoM offered and if the jobs should be done with one Governor. What I mean is. If I would have to finish 10 jobs successfully, is it 10 in total independent which governor (of course from one nation) or do I need to finish 10 jobs for one governor?

What to do with money? I know a bit of a strange question, but I realized, that over time, especially when you have better ships and officers it is not that hard to get more and more money. But for what? I am sure there are many ways to spend your money in game, but also many hidden ways. What else can I do with my money, as buying ships, goods ? Is there a point in getting more an more money? Buying house? Buying titels? Buying a plantage……

@Jeff: I know you find it a good idea and may be you want to put this to your internal list (without any expectations of course)

I quickly put together, how I could see a trade convoy feature to work.

————————–
Entering the port masters office and in one
of the commuication options with the port master there is new option to ask for upcoming trade convoys.

–> Offering 0 – 3 upcoming convoys within the next 5 days ( or less)
with target cities of the same nation, but may be not on the next island.

–> I decide for one convoy and sign in and I have to pay a certain fee
(I could also see, that you join in as protector ship and get money paid)

–> The day when the convoy is leaving, I have to jump one my ship in the harbor
and I have to sail to the convoy outside of the harbor. I have to get to the flagship
and report there.

–> Then the convoy starts! Now I could see 2 options, depeneding on what is easier to achieve.

1.) I get an information screen, that the convoy is on it’s way and if nothing happens,
I will find myself in the target port. If the convoy encounters enemies or storm, the game puts me and the
convoy into the action.

2.) Or I can see the convoy moving over the map (without having control over it)

————————–

I have a question to the more experienced guys. When going for a higher level when starting a new game, which game elements are going to change? I guess see fights, melee combat, …

But also leveling, getting experience…? And what else is changing?

Thanks

When you fence; do you gain experience/personal skill points based on the total damage you inflict or the number of hits you make?
Is it better to inflict 10 hits dealing 10 damage each instead of one hit dealing 100 damage, experience-wise?
Does the same apply for pistols?
When you play cards or dice, how is experience gained? Is it the amount of money spent, or gained, or is it the amount of cards and dices bought, or amount of games won or played?

Does some of the weapons like the Neptunus sword have a hidden feature or its just like any other sword with just plain damage?

Hi again, I am a bit confused about my reputation. My reputation is going done and I am not aware of doing something wrong. Now my question: Does the reputation of my officers have an impact on my reputation? So if I have swindler and scoundrel in my team, does this have an effect on my reputation as well?

I don’t even have any officers and my reputation went down to bloody assassin just for defending my ship and the cargo and searching corpses and chests.
Don’t know what’s considered bad with doing that; nothing has changed after getting a patent.
Would think it’s a bit off balance since being good would mean to let them board and kill you.

Which are the characters with weird attack animations like Davy Jones?

CONSTRAINED HEROES.

Hi all,

the above works on new game only. Should I enable this from start screen options before creating a profile or can I do so when a new char is already done, before first save?

Rgds, Oldtimer

Hi all,

why do bermuda sloops and petite luggers not show up for sale at shipyards?

Rgds, Oldtimer

Is there a way to respawn the dead citizen of the LSC? In the fight against the Casper clan some of them got in trouble when I did too much noise, so in the recruiting part, I just cant end because there’s not enough alive.

@ Oldtimer

Find this line in ERAS\Program\scripts\ShipsUtilites.c

FillShipParamShipyard(NPChar, GenerateStoreShip(SHIP_TARTANE), “ship1”);

…and change to:

FillShipParamShipyard(NPChar, GenerateStoreShip(SHIP_PINK), “ship1”);

Your ‘petite lugger’ will ALWAYS spawn in shipyards now.

NEXT, go to the line under it:

iTest_ship = rand(14);

Dont touch that, but the line immediately after it – this one:

if (iTest_ship == 1) FillShipParamShipyard(NPChar, GenerateStoreShip(SHIP_WAR_TARTANE), “ship2”);

Change that to:

if (iTest_ship == 1) FillShipParamShipyard(NPChar, GenerateStoreShip(SHIP_BERMSLOOP), “ship2”);

Now there is small chance of a bermuda sloop spawning each time at shipyard from level 1.

You can swap them around if you prefer so it looks like this:

FillShipParamShipyard(NPChar, GenerateStoreShip(SHIP_BERMSLOOP), “ship1”);

iTest_ship = rand(14);
if (iTest_ship == 1) FillShipParamShipyard(NPChar, GenerateStoreShip(SHIP_PINK), “ship2”);

– If you’d prefer the sloop to always spawn.

N.B. That very first line in the original code –

FillShipParamShipyard(NPChar, GenerateStoreShip(SHIP_TARTANE), “ship1”);

…Always spawns that ship 100% of the time – or whatever ship’s codename you put in there. Everything else after that line is set to random spawn, so sometimes it spawns, sometimes it doesn’t.

Quicksave when you enter shipyard for the FIRST time and check the ships for sale roster, then reload your save. You’ll notice different ships available after reloading several times. It wont update if you have accessed it before – the game saves the most recently visited shipyard roster/list and will then stick with that particular “load-out” of ships till you visit another port. This process repeats itself with each port and shipyard you visit. Hope that helps

Hi all,

after installing latest updates I noticed that a fully loaded ship with low nav skill is so slow in 3D-mode that fighting becomes almost impossible. World map speed seems to be unaffected.
When I chucked the cargo overboard the speed increased significantly and it was possible to fight.

In ships interface these different speeds showed up so I`d like to know if this is a WAD or not. I can email a save if someone is interested.

AFAIR it wasn`t like that before.

Rgds, Oldtimer

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Hi all,

IIRC there is a merchant who acts like a fence and buys off your goods irrespectively of your rep. So no need for Honest Face perk. Do I remember correctly and if so, who is he?

Rgds, Oldtimer

There is a new feature here now. If you’re told the shop keeper is too busy which happens when there are other competing captains in port – you will now see an additional dialogue available which allows you to threaten the shop keeper or ask him basically – “do you know who you’re talking to?” If you are a nobody, he will blow you off. If you have a decent level and reputation (low or high – bloody assassin or hero) he will make an exception for you and allow you to trade. If you make the threat as a hero, your reputation will take a ding.

Aaron

Hi guys, excuse my English, I wanted to tell you that I highly appreciate your work and have made this game wonderful, I was wondering if it were possible to have a translation of the game in Italian, I thank you in advance and again congratulations for the work done.

Hi all,

how do I activate an ability? I have quick repair, my ship is badly damaged and I do not see where/how to use that ability.

Rgds, Oldtimer

@Modernknight

Looks like my ship was not damaged enough to qualify for light repair, had abt. 70% hull and 50% sail left.

THX for your attn.,

Oldtimer

Bounty Hunters.

Hi all,

bounty hunters at sea, can they or their captains surrender? I have not seen that happen and I REALLY would like them surrendering now and then. So I could throw them overboard now and then…

BTW, the old printed game manual says that bounty will never disappear wholly but can decrease if player does good deeds. What deeds and to whom, if so?

IIRC though, someone stated that if you kill enough bounty hunters they will be scared of you and leave you alone. Is that true?

Rgds, Oldtimer

Hi all,
Is my fisrt time playing ERAS 2 2.8 and I was surprise when I find out that there is a New portuguese faction in the game, so my question is.
Where I can find the portuguese colonies??

Thanks.

Another question that I have is that every time I start a naval battle in the game, I can’t stop seen my crew dying faster than the enemy’s crew ship, even if I use grapes shots and he is using bombs, my crew die faster than his crew and it’s quite frustrating.
Anyone know if there is a way to solve this??

I’m playing ADMIRAL difficult BTW.

We are planning to implement multiple stores in several of the larger colonies. Curacao and New Middleburg Surinam (which is not in the game yet) will each have a Portuguese store and trader that can give Portuguese missions. We will probably put one at Port Royal Jamaica and Cumana as well.

MK/Aaron

Repair statue.

How does it work? When on PC person, on Carpenters person and/or when in ships inventory(chest)?

Rgds, Oldtimer

Has anyone ever gotten this random quest called The golden fleet? I have been playing COAS/ERAS for years and I have never bumped into this quest, but I saw it on a website:

(thanks to 2ndMate from Pirates Ahoy! forum)

The quest start on the 1st day of the Month.
Depending on the Month given by Barkeep or Drunkards.
On the 1st day,
The ship will sail from Town X,
The ship gather their goods.
Now they will transfer the goods to Town Y,
The destination.
This ship can be intercept near Town Y on Sea Mode.
The the ship/convoy has Yellow sails in Map mode.
I have intercept the fleet, All of the fleet are Class 1 Ships.
Manowar, SOTL and Battleships
They carry a full load of goods.

https://sites.google.com/site/skodacoas/home/random-quests/golden-fleet

Sorry, no answer on the golden quest… though I found the same reference to it as you.

I have two questions regarding ERAs 2:

1) Does PANQL (play all national quest lines) definitely work? I have the accelerate PANQL option enabled, but after finishing the Dutch quest line and getting a French letter of marque I can’t get the French governor to offer me anything– I get the same conversation about rumors that I’m allied with the Dutch. I tried going back to make sure I finished everything in the Dutch quest line, and I’m quite certain I did. I’ve tried boosting my reputation with the French, but that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.

2) Does the Ship of Souls quest definitely work? I was to the point where I was collecting cursed pearls, and I had one governor ask me to defend the port against skeletons. Since then, I have religiously tried and savescummed to try to get another governor to ask me to fight the skeletons after the 20th each month, but no offers.

Thanks,

Gnat

You have to fight them between the 10th and 20th (not after the 20th).

Modern Knight,

Thanks for the response, very detailed and helpful– I appreciate the complexity of the task you all have taken on. I’m guessing from your description of testing PANQL that you don’t necessarily have to follow the Dutch, French, English, Spanish sequence of the original mod since you started with the French? Sorry about mentioning the 20th on Ship of Souls… I was just misremembering. I’m sure you’re right I need to check with the governor. Wouldn’t be the first time I missed a trigger in this game.

Somehow I still like COAS/GOF/ERAS best after a few playthroughs. I tried POTC, but the interface and GPU timing problems just made it unsatisfying. TEHO doesn’t look particularly different from ERAS, so I haven’t really considered it.

TEHO is worth a playthrough but is very frustrating just starting out – on a closed quest stairstep beginning (although I’ve heard that’s changed since I played last). The main thing I don’t like about TEHO is their very limited ships choices. The ships they have are very nice – but so few.

MK

Ship upgrades.

Hi all,

wanted to upgrade speed of my chaloupe. Exorbitant materials count plus
c. 160 000 gold. How are upgrade cost calculated?

BTW, I upgraded some larger ships with heavier cannon and improved manouverability. Their cost seems acceptable. IMO the effect on manouverability is too high, one gets more than one paid for(sic!), like an improvement of 8-9. Totally unrealistic.

Recalculating upgrade costs per ship type would be too much work I suspect but perhaps classwise(1 – 7)?

Rgds, Oldtimer

Smugglers have bad business sense!

They attack to rob me now and then though I am friends with them. That`s lame… After some successful deals these attacks should terminate.

Rgds, Oldtimer

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Dear devs,

upgraded ERAS yesterday and would like to know if there are new and/or reskinned ships added. I see some I do not recognize and they look gorgeous!

THX awfully for your hard work and dedication!

Rgds, Oldtimer

Winds stop blowing…

After a couple of latest updates wind speed when entering 3D-sailing falls below 3 on next change and stays there no matter what. If that is by design then it is a very bad change. Battles in particular become boring.
Playing on Admiral if that matters.

Rgds, Oldtimer