here's something funny...

[morgan terror]

fairly recently, i found this on a killed enemy captain in his cabin at the end of a boarding fight:

now what is that? i was completely unable of looting the item, so i left it alone, but ti does seem like an interesting idea for a feature. the question is, what kind of document would you find?

 

[Hylie Pistof]

I see those every now and then. No ideer what is supposed to be there.

 

[morgan terror]

it seems to be a fairly high-level item from my experience.

 

[xseanx69]

Never seen these document before in my life! They look really cool!
It could have alot of uses like: ransom( secret war documents ), treasure hideout, treasure ship going from, to, and when, etc

 

[morgan terror]

oh, now that would be interesting. i had considered treasure maps, but they're too easy to obtain already. a treasure ship, however, sounds really good, and doesn't even sound that hard to implement, since they'd be a quite similar to escort missions and events currently used in quests. you'd have information on a convoy leaving a specific island, maybe even a date on which it would leave (though that would seriously complicate coding, i'd think. and practicality), and would have a chance to intercept it. of course, where it would actually be going is another matter entirely. perhaps it would be easiest to just have them sail away and dissapear eventually. i think it would be more player-friendly if there wasn't a date attached, since you could just pick up the quest at any time or ignore it if you like once you arrive at the designated island.

 

[xseanx69]

And of course, the bigger the escort of the ship, the bigger the money.
Though insted of location, we could say that "the ship is departuring from the Archipelago" or somthing like that. And, I still think we should have a date attached because if there isn't a date, it's basiclly free money k

 

[Armada]

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It could have alot of uses like: ransom( secret war documents ), treasure hideout, treasure ship going from, to, and when, etc
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Now you're talking; those are some good ideas!
I especially like the idea of a treasure fleet... at least then we'd have an excuse to use pgargon's Apostol Felipe as a proper treasure galleon!
It sort of reminds me of Sid Meier's Pirates!, where you could encounter fleets transporting treasure or new governors, or escorting new warships.
It would be a great addition to have features like this in PotC, I reckon.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Nice ideas for the future, but I don't think we can make them a priority right now.
If anybody goes and do any coding, I'm hoping it'll be the Period Weapons mod.

Those documents are generally only used as quest items, but random characters shouldn't possibly be able to get those at random.
Looks like it's in the spot of the gold. Or had you already looted his gold by that time?

 

[morgan terror]

i'd looted the gold already, yes. at least i think i did.

i think it should not have a specific date attached, since the player has already went through the effort of boarding the ship, and there's only a slight chance that you'll find such documents. then there's the problem of actually catching the fleet, since it's most likely heavily armed, and it might even spawn in a location where you can't catch it before it sails out of reach. at the most, there should be a deadline before the mission expires. so basically, you have two months to arrive at the designated island to make an attempt to intercept the fleet, or it's gone before you get there. it would be easier to code as well instead of a specific day, and if it was a specific day, waiting on the island till it leaves if you arrive too early would be tedious.

 

[Black Bart]

Having looked at the screen shot, i just want to find a way to help reduce your gold! Maybe they are a letter from the inland revenue(IRS etc) about back payment of unpaid taxes?

 

[morgan terror]

the matter of gold is related to the findable weapons. that's a whole different thing that needs fixing.

 

[Armada]

Nice ideas for the future, but I don't think we can make them a priority right now.

In that case, I'll post the ideas in the "Ideas for the future!" thread. That way, they're on the back burner at least.

 

[xseanx69]

you have two months to arrive at the designated island to make an attempt to intercept the fleet

That is exsactly what I meant!
Well yeah, it's a great idea for the future, that will inspire alot of other ideas!

 

[Black Bart]

the matter of gold is related to the findable weapons. that's a whole different thing that needs fixing.

True that, some weapons prices are very high compared to their 'findability'. And I was pulling your leg out of jelousy of all your gold matey

 

[morgan terror]

but i'm not sure if you know what i meant. i'm saying that there should not be a specific day when it leaves. just a specific day when it's no longer catchable; you can catch it on any day before that.

but regarding my gold... it's not that uncommon for me to have over a million in every bank on every island. it's getting quite ridiculous.