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Guide My own tactics/Tips for beginners

Ambrose LeGaillard

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I want give some help for those newatPotc, then I will explain my own stile of game and tactics onsea, for every PotC new player.

TUTORIAL- after have taken the new crewmembers in tavern, I ask to the owner about someone that need to be escorted elsewhere, then, afterIhave taken the positive or negative reply,I come back to the shop to ask about cargo to move. I get all the opportunities before Oxbay is invaded, and avoid to go at loanshark, becauseI dislike to be indebted at the start;

SAVE AFTER OXBAY IS CONQUERED- this allow you to restart a new game without doing the tutorial, and, if you have some cargo to move elsewhere, or a ship to escort, you can do easily from this point and gaining your first piastres in an easy way;

FIRST ESCORTS - with a modest Lugger you can't find cargo to move, then go to every isle and ask in tavern until you find some merchant in need of an escort, and you will gain good piastres. Do this until you are capable to take a better and larger ship.

MOVE CARGO - the best for gain with cargo is to have a large and capable ship. Usually I choose Barques, and when i become more rich, Fluyts;

SKILL PTS AND ABILITIES: depends your stile.The better choice is to start placing 2 pts onSailing and take Storm Helmsman ability,then atnew levels,start to choose at your pleasure following your idea about the character.

(to be continued...)
 
If you want a bit more action to start with, look at all doorways near the Oxbay shipyard. One of them leads to a dungeon. (Save game before you enter!) Or you can jump into the water at the port, swim round the corner and find a cave which is the back entrance to the same dungeon. You might want to invest some skill points and abilities in fighting before you do; if you survive the dungeon, you'll probably go up a level or two and can then put some points into Sailing and Storm Helmsman. You'll also be richer and have a nice sword!
 
Do loansharks really will hunt you down now via bounty hunters if you don't pay your dept w/in the deadline period? I remember the last time, I think during the beta 2.3 and or 2.5 back then, everytime I borrow money from different loansharks, no one's try to get me when I don't pay my dept. hehehe :D
 
There IS code for that, but I have no clue if it works. I don't think it does.
I wonder if it worked in the stock game; that is not a mod-added feature.
 
Nah...it doesn't work in the stock game too. It say that the loanshark's gone bankrupt or somethingxD the second time around so you also can't deposit some money for profit now.
 
Must have been one of those unfinished features then. There were quite a lot of those due to the rushed release.
In fact, they had clearly planned a whole separate storyline with Danielle Greene as the main character.
There are still traces of that in the code, but hardly enough to work from if we'd have wanted to finish it.
 
Oh Ding it! That would be perfect for female players!:facepalm
Dang..whatever happened to akella:facepalm and yeah it sure is good if they left enough codes/etc. to be worked on.I'm sure it's finished with a lot of cool new stuffs by now.
 
If you read also old interviews from the days it was still to be Sea Dogs 2, it is very clear that the makers of PotC had every intention of making it truly good.
There are also still many traces in the code of all sorts of features that were apparently planned but never got through in the final version.
The rush-job based on the Disney movie tie-in surely didn't help. Though if it were not for that, I may never have purchased it those ten years ago.
 
Sincerely, this PotC also if has something better than original Sea Dogs, meseem not a grand thing.

Grey, I will write about nice bones bags inanother place. This is worth of a post.
 
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