My experiences with playing the newest Modpack

Rad · Oct 8, 2005

Are you kidding me Screwface ? What I am writing above? Logbook or questbook it is the same thing. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ib012.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cry" border="0" alt="ib012.gif" />

Pieter Boelen · Oct 8, 2005

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rad @ Oct 7 2005, 11:38 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>I found this setting sails and set my favorite red sails. It is good tweaking. Maybe it could be somehow extended a litlle in the future. Once I have seen ships with dark green sails. It was green frigate with this dark green sails. It looked nice. Thanks Pieter.
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GREEN sails? I didn't know there were green sails in the game??? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/piratesing.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :shock

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rad @ Oct 7 2005, 11:38 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>I still miss many ships in the shipyards that I have known form the past. Please, How could I open my shipyards for all the ships? I donÂ´t like those resctrictions what about appearing of those ships concerns.
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Sheck the PROGRAM\Ships\init_ships.c file and see if you can do something about the nations. Also: Please note that not all ships are available at the same time. Sometimes a shipyard just doesn't, for example, have a MoW available. But next time you visit, it might be there again.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rad @ Oct 7 2005, 11:38 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Do you know anybody the quest "The Saga of the Blacque family" at Falaise de Fleur? I tried to play it somehow in the past and now too but I donÂ´t know how to proceed. This blond girl tells me that her father is ill and that I will hear about her family sooner or later or something similar. And this is all and every time I am not able to find out anything elese.
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In Falaise de Fleur port, there is a man called Milon Blacque (I think). He's an old man standing still and he's the Blacque's father, hoping that his son will return once. His son is walking around in Redmond town, near the townhall.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rad @ Oct 7 2005, 11:38 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>In my logbook appeared finding two treasures one at Tursks and the second at Cuba. I tried to find them but it seems to me they donÂ´t work yet. Or am I mistaken?
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I haven't tested it myself yet, but for all I know, it should work... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

Hmm. Don't know real much about the rest of the bugs. Sounds weird. Wished I could do something about them. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="

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Screwface · Oct 8, 2005

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rad @ Oct 8 2005, 11:24 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Are you kidding me Screwface ? What I am writing above? Logbook or questbook it is the same thing. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ib012.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cry" border="0" alt="ib012.gif" />
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I know it is the same thing, that was not what i would to say rad. I just said while the quest entry is like an "unfinished quest" entry in logbook (or questbook), you haven't found the tresure chest <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :shrug

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Doober · Oct 8, 2005

Mine froze as I was attempting to moor. The loading screen came up for the landing spot at turks, but just hung and never loaded. It does seem like a really neat quest though, so I hope someone can get the bugs worked out! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="

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Rad · Oct 8, 2005

Hi, all. Pieter, could you try to answer all my questions? There is so many problems and even new ones that I already though I will abandon the game but I will stay here yet.

How can I switch off those mod of destroyable cannons without I would remove all the mod of realistic cannons? Or if I want to retain this function how should I repair them without paying every time for all the new cannons? For example I have destroyed 4 cannons. The only possibility is to buy the same new ones but I always pay for all 42 cannons about 80 000 gold again and again. Did you understand me? I thought there will be some button in the shipyard and I will buy my 4 new cannons and will replenish my armament by that but nothing similar donÂ´t exist here. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/modding.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :modding

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Pieter Boelen · Oct 8, 2005

I really don't know, I'm afraid. I think I already answered everything I know how to answer. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="

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CouchcaptainCharles · Oct 8, 2005

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rad @ Oct 6 2005, 12:07 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>I had rather in my mind if you or anybody else couldÂ invent some further tipps-off or informations or anything else which would be funny or something similar ir will be good, nothing more. I know it isnÂ´t easy but some people are talented for something like that. If I would have some idea I would send it to you. And if I would have some idea for a PoTC larger quest who would be able to realize it?
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Thanks a lot for your offer, but sorry, I am already drowning in halffinished mods and concepts. And there is a lot of debugging to be done, as you know from your playtesting Due to lack of sparetime I already quit all other forums and games, and still there is much more on my plate than I can swallow.
Basically you are right, PotC could certainly do with more interesting dialogs and storybased quests. Cat excelled there with the Fred Bob quest, but she also is short of time lately. So I'd say we lack (wo)manpower, not ideas.

But with PotC being opencoded you don't need other people to realize your ideas, you can create your own dreamgame yourself <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :yes

" border="0" alt="yes.gif" /> You don't need any special knowledge or ability (I had none when I started). All you need is stamina, patience and dedication. If you are interested have a look at the tutorials in the WIKI. For a storybased quest you mainly need charactercreation and dialogs, and that is not that difficult. And you can always ask for help here, we are not a closed-shop group for "elite" modders only, we encourage and support newcomers by openly sharing work and knowledge, limited as it is <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="

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Regarding your idea with more hints and variations in the streetdialogs: if you are willing to tackle that I can deliver a lesson how you can add more dialogoptions. Just say I will and off we go. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="

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Rad · Oct 8, 2005

Thanks CCC for your willingness but I really donÂ´t want to start with it. I donÂ´t have time and mood for that so I will better continue to play what you all will create. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/buds.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :drunk

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Admiral Lord Nelson · Oct 8, 2005

Does anyone know how to get rid of the white flag pirate in the redemont jobs?

Screwface · Oct 8, 2005

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Doober @ Oct 8 2005, 01:19 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Mine froze as I was attempting to moor. The loading screen came up for the landing spot at turks, but just hung and never loaded. It does seem like a really neat quest though, so I hope someone can get the bugs worked out! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="

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I found why your game froze up at this point. That's because i have forgotten to include the FOAM files of this shore (sandy point i suppose) in my last modpack <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/modding.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :modding

" border="0" alt="modding.gif" /> I will soon upload a new update with this files and some other stuffs.

Thanks for this information Doober, without your bug, i will never see that these files was missing in the new islands modpacks because personnaly i had these files in my game directory so my game doesn't freeze up at this point <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :cheers

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Doober · Oct 9, 2005

<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :cheers

" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" /> Yay! I was useful in some small way! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :cheeky

" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" /> I can't believe how great the new island mod is and with all the stuff you guys are putting in, it just keeps getting better and better. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bow.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :bow

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Swindler · Oct 9, 2005

<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hi.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":gday" border="0" alt="hi.gif" />!

Great mod, that additional islands. And especially the treasure quest (although I first thought, it's not completed, because the first three times, the chest was empty). I'm looking forward for an update!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Screwface @ Oct 9 2005, 12:35 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>I found why your game froze up at this point. That's because i have forgotten to include the FOAM files of this shore (sandy point i suppose) in my last modpack <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/modding.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :modding

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I encountered that too, but the game freezes not completely, it just takes some minutes until it goes on. The same happens just now with the "Saving Toff's daughter" quest, when you go to the pirates ship: game freezes for some minutes. Does anybody know, if this could be a related bug?

Another one with the new islands: After having now three Manowars, I thought: let's raid the pirate settling on the small island besides Hisponiola. But I wasn't able to shoot at the forts from third person mode. Just no reaction on the [space]-bar. I don't know, if that's caused by the new islands mod, because that also happens sometimes during normal sea battles: make/strike sails, afterwards firing at 3rd-person-mode doesn't work until you have once fired in 1st-person-mode.

Cheers!

Rad · Oct 9, 2005

Hi, Screwface. Are you the one who creates these islands? They can be really good in the future. If you will update this islands somehow can I would correct them in my game without I had to play the game from the beginning or reinstall all the game ? When the shop on Cayman Island works already so all those future shops should be included into the trade book. But it could be done it with Nathan and other modders because the good balance of the trade is very important and delicate matter. I like to smuggle. As I wrote already above after my installation of these new islands some unpleasant video bug appeares on my computer. Very often Nathaniel starts to fly above the ground in the space and is drifted somewhere and all the picture will become distorted. In this case I must use the travel icon and replace him somewhere else but sometimes it doesnÂ´t work and I must load the game. I am curious if anybody encounter such problem now. Could you create any completely different towns in the future not as a compilations of the old ones? It would be great. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :facepalm

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Screwface · Oct 9, 2005

Sorry Rad, i would like, as you, some completly different new towns, it would be so great but personnaly, i'm a coder, not a modder so i can't create new towns but if someone could do that, i will be happy to integrate his new towns in the new islands mod <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/william.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":will" border="0" alt="william.gif" />

For your video bug, i can't help you, i never saw this bug and i don't think it is caused by the new islands mod. It looks like more as a video card bug or perhaps a dirext X bug.

At this time, i haven't found how to integrate the new shops in the trade book <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bookish.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":mm" border="0" alt="bookish.gif" />

For now, and i know it is very sad (for me too), you'll have to start a new game each time that there is a new islands mod update. It is because there is a lot of "new locations", characters and shops who are added so all the game have to be intitalised like at the beginning.

Swindler, if you have found an empty chest the first three times, it is not because the mod is not completed, it is only because you had badluck three times.... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :no

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Swindler · Oct 9, 2005

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Screwface @ Oct 9 2005, 12:30 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Swindler, if you have found an empty chest the first three times, it is not because the mod is not completed, it is only because you had badluck three times.... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :no

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Thanks, Screwface! I found out in between <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :wp

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Pieter Boelen · Oct 9, 2005

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Screwface @ Oct 9 2005, 12:30 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Sorry Rad, i would like, as you, some completly different new towns, it would be so great but personnaly, i'm a coder, not a modder so i can't create new towns but if someone could do that, i will be happy to integrate his new towns in the new islands mod <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/william.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":will" border="0" alt="william.gif" />
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In the SLiB mod, there are some recoloured town models. They still have the same model, but different colours, so they'll at least look slightly different. Maybe you could use those as well? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Screwface @ Oct 9 2005, 12:30 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>For your video bug, i can't help you, i never saw this bug and i don't think it is caused by the new islands mod. It looks like more as a video card bug or perhaps a dirext X bug.
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I don't know if it has anything to do with this, but I encountered some random puffs of smoke hanging at Falaise de Fleur Octopus Bay. I had neevr seen that before and haven't got the slightest idea where they came from. After some time, they disappeared. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :shrug

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Screwface · Oct 9, 2005

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pieter Boelen @ Oct 9 2005, 11:48 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>I don't know if it has anything to do with this, but I encountered some random puffs of smoke hanging at Falaise de Fleur Octopus Bay. I had neevr seen that before and haven't got the slightest idea where they came from. After some time, they disappeared. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :shrug

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I had a bug too on octopus bay pieter. The cliff wasn't textured when i went on shore and curiously, i have fixed it by..... installing an older version of my video card drivers... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :shrug

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Pieter, I'm very insterested by the SLib town model, could you ask me where and how i can get them ? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/william.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":will" border="0" alt="william.gif" />

Pieter Boelen · Oct 9, 2005

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Screwface @ Oct 9 2005, 01:15 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>I had a bug too on octopus bay pieter. The cliff wasn't textured when i went on shore and curiously, i have fixed it by..... installing an older version of my video card drivers... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :shrug

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Computers! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/modding.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :modding

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Screwface @ Oct 9 2005, 01:15 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Pieter, I'm very insterested by the SLib town model, could you ask me where and how i can get them ? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/william.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":will" border="0" alt="william.gif" />
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You can get them from the SLiB <a href="http://legend.seaward.ru/links.htm?uselink=54" target="_blank">download page</a>. You should get install_twn.rar and resource_town_c.rar . The resources are in the second file, the first is the installer file. If you try to install it on top of an installed SLiB mod, it'll generate all the required .GM models for the new towns. Hope you can get it to work.
Warning: It'll be real large once you're done. I once tried to make a .zip file including all the SLiB mod's new files, but it turned out over 300 MB. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/piratesing.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :shock

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Rad · Oct 9, 2005

All the time I am encountering the problem that make me sad very long time. When the regular boarding takes place when enemy didnÂ´t gave up I can only fight on the deck. After killing all the enemies and replenishing two chests must be pushed spacebar and you proceed into the under deck and fight further. When I started to play this new version it worked several time in the game and I was really happy because this problem persisits in several Builds. But after some playing in the course of classical boarding, after my winning on the upper deck when I try to push spacebar nothing happens here and I canÂ´t do anything about that only load the game. Are you encountering similar problem? If anybody could remove this unpleasant bug I would be very glad. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="

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And Pieter I will try this towns but first I have to download the Rar. I donÂ´t use it several years already because almost anybody uses Zip rather. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :facepalm

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Pieter Boelen · Oct 9, 2005

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rad @ Oct 9 2005, 03:08 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>And Pieter I will try this towns but first I have to download the Rar. I donÂ´t use it several years already because almost anybody uses Zip rather. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" :facepalm

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I would recommend not doing so. It only works with the Russian mod. It won't do you much good on the Build.

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