06-01-2005 21:55									#241
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Nikolai

Pirate can't die or be killed.

	06-01-2005 22:08									#242
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Ack! Don't bold names like that, I thought I'd mistakenly clicked myself into the Mafia thread.

	06-01-2005 22:23									#243
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quote: Originally posted by Muad'Dib Jeje2, If I'm going to be your poster-boy, you better update that section. Here's my latest screenshot of the Rich Old Man of the Sea.

THX,
updated.


Do you disagree?


I retired after 22 years with poor health. Last loot ovar ½milj dubloons on a five years sailing mission. Had max fame points at that time. Wnat to try in my next game work with a smaller mainship (Had SotL from very early on).

Also didn't really take cities with a crew smaller than the town - want to have more strategy behind my thinking.

Also I'm not so very conviced of SotL superiority - it takes even with a full crew pretty darn long to fire once (This is obviously so that one the target doesn't get a full sider on one blow and sink imidiately.

And it took a couple of hours to update my list here too

	06-01-2005 22:45									#244
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quote: Originally posted by Muad'Dib Nikolai Pirate can't die or be killed.

I thought so.

Kass:

	06-01-2005 23:12									#245
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quote: 4.3 The different swords

When you parry with the cutlass, your opponent will be distabilized, allowing you to strike back. When you parry with the rapier, you avoid the hit, but you are somewhat distabilized.

The cutlass strikes slower than the rapier.

These are the differences I'm quite confident about, but I could be wrong, these are based on personal unscientific observations.

	07-01-2005 04:08									#246
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Jeje2:

Just some comments about ya list:

1.1: What's so hard about dancing? You get a visual cue from the girl, on apprentice the key flashes on screen, and there's only a small set of combos. And those combos are further made easier by going into categories. A girl dances with these combos: easy, medium, easy, hard. Sorry, but I disagree with the hardness issue.

1.4: You'd expect to start from the begining with the flirting if a new Gov/Daughter came along. Don't see a problem with this.

2.1: I don't mind maps with no coastline. It's easy to figure out where they are due to the "Search north of Gibralter" comment. Just go to the town it's near, and start from there. I don't know if you people use it, but the eyeglass is FANTASTIC! I can find any treasure within 15 mins of starting from the city.

3.2: There's a couple of trainers around that assign hotkeys to move to those cities. Anyways, once you've been to the city you should remember the easiest/quickest way to it from landmarks.

4.1: I can only see one problem. If you move at a constant speed and the opponent varies, then this situation may occur: old, poor health, longsword, no upgrades, versus good opponent who on screen is too fast to react to. You'd lose every time.

4.3:
Longsword: Slow, does +1 steps of damage when hitting.
Cutlass: Medium speed (fast to defend), good at defending, don't stagger when parrying.
Rapier: Fast attacking, stagger when parrying (but lightning quick with parry-attack combos).

6.1: Sloop is another ship that shouldn't be available till 1620.

6.3: A lot of things determine ship speed. A full crew means you can go full speed. A minimum crew, or crew spread thinly through the fleet means slow speed. Remember, your fleet only goes as fast as the slowest boat. Damage decreases your speed, drastically! Upgrades also change your speed.

7.1: I believe if you're good enough to keep the crew happy for 15 years, you should be allowed to. This IS an open-ended game after all. As you get older, you're fighting gets slower anyways, so on swashbuckler it does get harder to win.

8. With scoring, I think you should get 1 fame point for each 100,000 gold captured by you (in total, not current level). This would give an incentive to finish all the quests, go for the criminals and blow everything out of the water. Also, it'd give a "true pirate" with no national standings a way to score.

9.1: What's wrong with the info? Sure, there's a bug when if you capture all the treasure ships sometimes the bar will still give info on it, but there's nothing wrong with the info. *shrug*

	07-01-2005 18:09									#247
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Jeje, yeah I disagree. As Dale said above, as long as I can keep THIS crew happy, why not keep going until I'm too slow to win a swordfight.
Remember, this is my best cruise todate. My shortest, I could only manage about 80K before they became so unhappy I had to divide plunder.

	07-01-2005 21:59									#248
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How do you keep your crew happy for so long?

Playing at as swashbuckler, I can't keep them at least content for more than 20-24 months.

Most of my plunders are divided at anywhere between 60 and 100k.

Also I find that very large crews (like 300+) are next to impossible to keep happy, even after you pillage wealthy capitals.

	07-01-2005 22:10									#249
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quote: Originally posted by Muad'Dib You will not get a piece of any Lost Cities map if you dip your wife until you defeat Montalban at his hideout. If you haven't defeat him there and you dip your wife, she'll give you a clue to his whereabouts. After you defeat him at the hideout, only then will your wife give you a piece of the map when you dip her.

False, I did get a piece of the map without having defeated Montalban at his hideout.

	07-01-2005 22:20									#250
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Yeah, me too.
Got first peace when brought my wife-to-later-bee back home in my last game. (Well actually have finised only one game sofar )

	07-01-2005 22:26									#251
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quote: Originally posted by Oncle Boris How do you keep your crew happy for so long?

Simple ansver: you don't

My last voyage was about 5 years and most of the time my crew was unhappy - even though I ended up dividing over ½milj dublons in the end.

But no-one left me - they just stayed unhappy (300+ crew)

	08-01-2005 02:14									#252
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quote: False, I did get a piece of the map without having defeated Montalban at his hideout.

Question: Was that your 1st piece or 2nd piece??? I started another game (I'm still playing also the Rich Man of the Sea game) and did get a piece since it was my first piece. However, my 2nd dip of my wife only got a clue to Montalban whereabouts, not a 2nd piece to map.

quote: How do you keep your crew happy for so long?

quote: Simple ansver: you don't

I don't know what to say as to why I''ve been able to keep them happy so long. I do have a theory though: A happiness threshold.
I think after you've crossed a specific monetary amount you can keep a large crew provided you recruit only when they are Very Happy or Happy, never when they are Content.

	08-01-2005 02:19									#253
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Makes sense Muad'Dib

Thanks for the feedback

	08-01-2005 03:37									#254
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quote: Originally posted by Muad'Dib I think after you've crossed a specific monetary amount you can keep a large crew provided you recruit only when they are Very Happy or Happy, never when they are Content.

Question: If you have a small crew, content or unhappy, will recruiting a larger number of "eager" recruits bring up the general level of happiness?
I'm still getting my feet wet with this game, and I've got a really small crew running out of Barbados and attacking anything Spanish. I'm looking to make a bundle on ships and goods and find a better ship than the sloop-of-war I've got. But the crew's unhappy, and I don't want to divide the loot yet.
So would a bunch of noobies help?

	08-01-2005 09:47									#255
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quote: Originally posted by Aramis Question: If you have a small crew, content or unhappy, will recruiting a larger number of "eager" recruits bring up the general level of happiness? I'm still getting my feet wet with this game, and I've got a really small crew running out of Barbados and attacking anything Spanish. I'm looking to make a bundle on ships and goods and find a better ship than the sloop-of-war I've got. But the crew's unhappy, and I don't want to divide the loot yet. So would a bunch of noobies help?

Great point..I am wondering myself

GT

	08-01-2005 11:58									#256
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quote: Originally posted by Aramis Question: If you have a small crew, content or unhappy, will recruiting a larger number of "eager" recruits bring up the general level of happiness?

From my experience, no.

	08-01-2005 17:11									#257
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I only played 1½ campaigns before I quit. While the game has a fantastic atmosphere, it gets boring after beating the max high score (-1) on 1st attempt. I played the original game too much.

	08-01-2005 20:59									#258
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quote: Originally posted by Oncle Boris From my experience, no.

this makes sense, because with recruitung a "Young & eager crew" is nice..the older salty vets know they are the ones whom will have to do all the hard work whence the ship gets under way

	08-01-2005 23:27									#259
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quote: Originally posted by Chemical Ollie I only played 1½ campaigns before I quit. While the game has a fantastic atmosphere, it gets boring after beating the max high score (-1) on 1st attempt. I played the original game too much.

Did you beat Swashbuckler at your first attempt?

	09-01-2005 00:25									#260
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No, but 2nd level. You should not be able to reach the highscore cap on any level on your first try, but I did in this game. That means it is to close to the original, they only upgraded the sound and graphics.

	09-01-2005 00:44									#261
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back and forth makes me wonder should I or shouldnt I purchase the game

In most cases when it is like this..I dun buy it..but am still listening

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	10-01-2005 13:10									#262
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quote: Question: If you have a small crew, content or unhappy, will recruiting a larger number of "eager" recruits bring up the general level of happiness?

Whenever you recruit a large crew the happiness level will drop by one (i.e. Very Happy to Happy, Happy to Content, etc.).

quote: No, but 2nd level. You should not be able to reach the highscore cap on any level on your first try, but I did in this game. That means it is to close to the original, they only upgraded the sound and graphics.

Chemical Ollie, this game is nothing like the original. I'd played Swashbuckler many times on the original and on this version and let me tell you they are worlds apart. Swashbuckler on this version is extremely harder than swashbuckler in the original.

	10-01-2005 16:31									#263
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Swashbuckler is tough, but after a few days I finally got the trick with swordfights. Just don't let the guy hit you first, or else you'll lose the advantage and be rapier-raped in two seconds.

	11-01-2005 06:39									#264
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Just a question about tweaking the game via the .ini file.

Here is my current ini file:

[User Settings]
Gamma = 1.000000
KeypadStatus = 1
DisplayShadows = 1
TrilinearFiltering = 1
DisableShaders = 0
AdvancedLighting = 1
WindowWidth = 1600
WindowHeight = 1200
WaterDetail = 3
WorldDetail = 5
ObjectDetail = 2
MasterVolume = 1.000000
MusicVolume = 1.000000
SFXVolume = 1.000000
DanceVolume = 1.000000
IsSlowMachine = 0
MyName = Rose
CustomSail = ship_sail_emblem_lrg_pir.dds
CustomFlag = flag_pir.dds
3DAudioDriver =




Now, i have a kick arse PC (3800+, X800xt-pe, 1GB twinx RAM etc). I want all the settings maxed out.

Any suggestioins?

	11-01-2005 14:30									#265
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Rich Man of The Sea update.

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	12-01-2005 05:33									#266
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This game seems pretty in-depth. Should I be considering it, or does the gameplay not hold up?

	12-01-2005 05:39									#267
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My games have all had a certain sameness. I grew dead bored with the dancing stuff, and the fencing a while later.
Land battles held limited interest for me.
Only the battles at sea keep me intrigued. Should I grow bored of them, I shall regret getting the game.

	12-01-2005 05:54									#268
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seems like this is a split..nothing great but does offer some redeeming entertainment value

	12-01-2005 11:13									#269
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quote: Originally posted by Grandpa Troll seems like this is a split..nothing great but does offer some redeeming entertainment value

Yeah - this might be one of he best assessment sofar - just maybe a less negative and more neutral begining instead of "nothing great" would suite me better.

I do like it - but after finising my first game 1½weeks ago - haven't thoughed this one. (OK, been quite busy IRL too)

	12-01-2005 14:25									#270
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Like the orginial, I LOVE this game, despite its repetitiveness.

Note: Things to fix with patch.

Towns need to have more gold than an average of 6k for wealthy, 5 for prosperous, 2 for modest, or 1 for poor; especially when they have populations over 10,000.
Same goes for treasure ships. I really hate it when I capture one near a wealthy town and at most it gets me only 2-3k; and yet, with its capture, I knocked the town down to Modest or Prosperous.


Rich Old Man of the Sea update.


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