how do u change the ship u start with and the money

[blimey]

guess read the heading

 

[Sirus_Darke]

In the PROGRAMCharacters folder of your POTC installation there is a file called characters_init.c

Open this with Notepad and search for the word Blaze
All of the starting characteristics for your character are listed under here.

Look for the ch.money = "1000"; entry and change the 1000 number to whatever you want (I believe that there is an upper limit in the amount of money you can have before your game crashes but I've not yet reached it)

Just under that there are a number of lines like:
ch.Ship.Type = "Frigate2_" + ENGLAND;
Find the one that says ch.Ship.Type = "Lugger1_"+ ENGLAND; // PS - SHIP_LUGGER_ENGLAND; and add // to the beginning of it you "comment" it out.
Then remove the // from the ship that you want to start with.

If you want the Xebec Barbarossa then add ch.Ship.Type = "Xebec3";
If you want the Mefisto then add ch.Ship.Type = "Frigate_sat" + PIRATE;

 

[NathanKell]

Nit: that would be "Frigate_sat_" + PIRATE;

Also, you can't uncomment the other lines; they're for the old ships backend. You will have to change the lugger line as Sirius_Darke says (to "Frigate2_"+ENGLAND; or "Xebec3"; or "Yacht1_"+FRANCE; or "Manowar1_"+ENGLAND; etc.)
The old SHIP_XXXXXXX_NATION calls won't work.

 

[blimey]

oh and thx but this vice city mod is really annoying is there any way 2 turn it off. if there isnt i can play with it but sometimes wen i doing a quest and talking 2 the person, some idiots come and kill me. 8)

 

[NathanKell]

Yes. It's been mentioned about a dozen times already, though. 8)

Open PROGRAMLandEncountersLEnc_Monsters.c
Look at the top, at all the defines.
Turn down the bandit chances, if that's what you want to reduce. Set them to 0 if you don't want any.

 

[blimey]

cheers

 

[rancor]

ye forgot to say that the character_init.c is not in just program/characters it's in program/characters/english right ? well you can play SHIP_BLACK_PEARL thats fun you are a skeleton at night on sea. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

 

[NathanKell]

That's if you
1. Have a European version of the game
2. Have not installed a big mod (i.e. the build) which makes your version the US one.