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Death after leaving Oxbay early on

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sbbc_dreamer

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Hi gang,

I'm now playing the regular missions with post build 12 - my first experience with it after finding it on these boards - and am having some difficulties. This is the mission where I've found Tobias and we're about to leave Oxbay with the french captain dude. After we sneak past the guards at the front gate of Oxbay and run down the dock, and after killing off what looks to be about 8 guards that follow us onto the dock, we take to the water. A huge battle is taking place between the english, french, and pirates and I take the opportunity to pass on by. Unfortunately this comes at a high cost as my hull is down to about 30 to 40% afterwards. I get clear of the mass of ships and get the compass bing-bong ok signal then hit the button to go to sea. It starts to load up then about a second into the loading process I get a death video of one sort or another. I've tried this three times so far but keep dying for no apparent reason. Is this intentional? Have I done something wrong?

Thanks!

Martin
 
Uh? That's real weird. I suppose the amount of enemies near Oxbay port is messing things up. For all I know, you should be able to properly get out and I really don't know why that happens. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/modding.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":modding" border="0" alt="modding.gif" />
 
Ok, if you're using post build 12, then you might be getting fire damage from the enemy cannon fire.

If you don't extinguish the fires using the "C" key (you must have basic ship defense as a special skill), you will eventually will sink.

What I don't know for sure is if that would happen if you didn't put out the fires, but managed to make it into sea mode.

That is, does the game count the fires as still raging, in sea mode, just as it does starving crew if you didn't have enough food on board?
 
Don't know about not putting out the fires before sea mode as I always put the fires out. However, I have noticed if you are in a battle and your ship catches fire and it is RAINING, I let the rain put the ship board fire out. That way I can continue firing my cannons etc. This seems to work, at least it works for me.
 
Nope, fires are all out. I did indeed have a few while escaping but they were quickly extinguished with C. I just tried again and this time there was a good deal of rain, a strong following wind, and only the three harbor guardians in the form of the french fleet. I got out with about 80% of my hull intact and I still die when I go to sea mode. Perhaps I'll try sailing in 30x speed to Redmond without going to sea mode.

Martin
 
You can't sail to other islands in sea mode. Why don't you try sailing to Greenford first? Maybe repairing your ship would do some good? But this bug is really weird; you're defenitly not supposed to be sunk upon entering the map. You didn't swap any ships, did you? Swapping ships or transferring between ships tends to sink one of them; probably the most annoying bug ever. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/modding.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":modding" border="0" alt="modding.gif" /> Do you have more than one ship with you anyway?
 
At that point in the game you can only have the french ship, all others are waiting in Redmond, I think.
 
I think I found out the key. A few times I sailed a ways away from the colony and eventually all of the french ship struck their colors as they went to anchor. At that point I can go to sea mode and it's just fine. Until then, nada. There's been no ship swapping and I only have the one. Regardless, I'm past that and have just taken over a dutch manowar!

Martin
 
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