Is it impossible to make deals with smugglers???

[Cpt. Jack Sparrow]

When i tried to sel something to a smuggler once, i ended up a shark food, because the french ship waiting for me after the deal. Now, my question is: Is it possible to make deals with smugler, without ending up as shark food?

 

[sampow]

I don't quite know the relevance of my technique, but I found if I led my officers down the beach away from the smugglers and told them to stay put, and then went back to the smugglers and performed the "transaction", I was never attacked by guards and we left in peace.

If I performed the transaction with my officers hanging around it seemed to be the case that the guards always found out and came barging in, and then we had to blast our way out to sea.

Maybe one of my officers was a spy!

It might also have something to do with your LUCK value.

 

[CatalinaThePirate]

Luck is incredibly important when dealing with the smugglers, yes... There is no other thing you could do to make your deal complete without getting sunk by the navy patrols...

Good idea, Sampow, to keep your men some distance from you when you complete the transaction - if you personally don't have enough luck but someone in your boarding party has better luck, your overall luck for the party will increase, and the exchange will go smoothly.

 

[Cpt. Jack Sparrow]

How do i tell my officers to stay? Im not playing with the build, because i didnt like some features in it <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ib012.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cry" border="0" alt="ib012.gif" />: ...

 

[CatalinaThePirate]

<b>Cpt. Jack Sparrow, </b>if you want to tell your officers to "stay" you need first to be talking to ONLY `tavern-hired` officers, because `quest-hired` officers (with the exception of Fred Bob) do not have this dialog.

You tell your officers to "Stay here!" - it is in their dialog optons when you talk to them. They will stay there until you come back to talk to them and tell them to follow you.

And like I mentioned before several times, there ARE WAYS to shut off the things in the Build that you do not like - so if you tell us what you don't like we can tell you how to turn them off and you can then play with the benefit of all the bugfixes that the Build has... Otherwise, you will have a `bug-ridden` game.

 

[loveless]

Luck be the key mate! I have a luck of ten an I ne'er been herassed by them dumb soldiers. Btw the ships that be waiting fer ye after the deals are strong ships wid very little mea aboard, makin' em easy prey fer a plunder lovin' pirate

 

[alan_smithee]

On this topic, by the by, I've been wondering: Do smugglers ever actually BUY anything from you, or do they just try and sell you extras of the contraband goods you already have? That's so retarded...

 

[Straydog]

They do buy. I have made millions by smuggling, so go for it. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="yes.gif" />