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Frequency of encounters

Sofus

Landlubber
Are there anyway that you can make encounters with big ships like MoW and warships more rear??... i think its way too unrealistic that you can encounter `4-6` MoW's in one battle... especially since it happens quite often
 
Well, for once, you could go to the shipsint.c file and set refship.canencounter = false. Then you´ll never come across that particular ship in a chance meeting, only when they are intended by a quest to show up.
Perhaps it also depends on difficulty level, playing at Journeyman, I´ve never come across more than one Man of War in a fleet of War ships.
 
well... so far what i experienced was that the bigger ship and the higher lvl you got, the bigger ships you encounter... meaning that if my charector is lvl 20 and i sail a MoW, i hardly ever encounter anything else then MoWs and battleships
 
it's just very strange to encounter about all 1st rate SoW's in the world in one battle <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
There´s not much you can do about it, except perhaps not use one yourself or to take them out the way I described above. As with most games, as you get better equipment, so do your opponents.
 
One thing you can do is edit the `high-rank` versions of the encounters (in encounters_init.c, the lines Enc_AddClasses(.....) )
so that the max(or min, depending on your way of thinking) class is lower/higher (i.e. instead of classes `1-2`, classes `1-6` even at rank 14). That way they'll still be pretty random.

Also lower the chance of the big encounters (rEnc.chance or .skip or whatever).
 
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