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My to-do list for the holiday

Pieter Boelen

Pieter Boelen

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I thought I'd tell you what I've got planned to do PotC-wise for the Christmas holiday:
- Make potions VERY rare and mostly replace them with the less effective bandages. Perhaps we can even make leeches more common and mixtures less common.
- Finish my <a href="http://www.s31clan.com/privateftps/pietersmods/ships.htm" target="_blank">ships list</a>.
- Define nations, appear years and disappear years for the ships.
- Write the code for appearance and disappearance for ships.
- Update the Curse of the Black Pearl quest.
- Finish my First Contact quest rewrite.
- Try and fix the GiveShip2Character function some more.
- Make shotguns, banger clubs and bronze knuckles unused by random characters.
- Add the old, retired Captain Vanderdecken to the abandoned Hispaniola Buccanneer camp. He will sell ships with CanBuy = false and CanCounter = false for a very steep price. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
- Add Clint Eastwood (Captain Dan's blaze skin) to the house in the QC jungle with a shotgun and some dialog:<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->*Player enters Clint´s house in the middle of the jungle*
*Clint turns around and lifts shotgun*
"Go ahead, make my day"
"I just want to ask for direct....."
*boooooooomm*
"Hehe, sucker."<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If you have any (useful) suggestions on above to-do list or if you have got a simple thing to add, please post below. I'll see what I can do. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
Hopefully I can finish most of this for inclusion in Alpha 8 soon.
 
i sure hope you get those things done. all of them sound like great improvements.

i've got stuff to do myself too, although it may not be very relevant.

*finish building topsail schooner model:
-add stays to masts.
-make fast top gaff booms.
-make sails.
-search for some proper cannon hatches.
-find even more rope.
-make possible running rigging for fore topsail, allowing for proper hoisting of the yard with a winch.
-testing trials in high winds.
-improve model if nessesary and fix it.
-take picture and upload it to forum.

that is actually taking a very long time. i'm busy with it for three days already, it's looking pretty nice already.

*convert topsail schooner into bomb ketch:
-remove foremast.
-check building plans.
-rebuild forecastle into bombard cannon platform, add custom-made cannon(s).
-add main course with clewlines.
-add two main topmast staysails.
-strengthen hull. (?)
-re-rig main mast rigging. (most ropes are attached to the foremast and needed to be unraveled from it first)
-take picture and upload to forum.
-destroy it! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dev.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":d:" border="0" alt="dev.gif" />

*finally get back to work on PotC:
-make notes and screenshots as i go.
-convert screens to JPG.
-flip them the right side up and re-save.
-upload to photobucket.
-create new entry. (all this will likely take at least 4 hours total)
-find new writing paper.
-start all over again later.

*finish crapload of schoolwork those teachers so kindly game me for the holiday. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="<_<" border="0" alt="dry.gif" />

*stick other half of huge sea puzzle on cardboard. (which is taking at least a week by now)

*clean up ship-component-filled room.

*finish reading 'gypsy moth circles the world'. (good sailing autobiografie)

*go to theatre for school twice.

*other:
*continue learning to captain a ship in puzzle pirates:
-save for own ship.
-start pillaging once i can navigate properly so i can get my promotion.
-open a shop.
-start working on swordfighting skills!
-continue to work in the captain's shipyard to help with building our war fleet.
*make appointments with friends. (funny that this should appear under 'other')
*possibly following course from Heretik in modelling:
-send PM.
-get programs.
-start making new kinds of ships.
 
Me?

Well i just have to upload my Ghost Corvette and updated Cursed Corvette. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />
 
that's a SHORT list. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile2.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":))" border="0" alt="smile2.gif" /> don't you have anything else to do? like blow up some ships?
 
1. Merge Pieter's and Maximus code into one <u>working</u> piece.
2. Finish Capture Colony mod.
3. Remove as many bugs as possible.
4. Make upload.

BTW:<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->- Add Clint Eastwood (Captain Dan's blaze skin) to the house in the QC jungle with a shotgun and some dialog<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Does that mean player have to <i>kill</i> Clint Eastwood to get shotgun? Oh no, he's a positive character; I'll try to think about some small quest which would make it without killing him...

pirate_kk
 
For the Clint Eastwood thing: I just want to have the shotgun available somehow as an easter egg. I don't really care how. I'm going to put Clint Eastwood at the house on QC, but it'd just be temporary until somebody comes up with something better. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yes" border="0" alt="yes.gif" />
And Vanderdecken will allow you to buy those ships that otherwise you can never get.
 
<!--quoteo(post=227116:date=Dec 22 2007, 03:55 PM:name=Morgan Terror)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Morgan Terror @ Dec 22 2007, 03:55 PM) [snapback]227116[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->that's a SHORT list. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile2.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":))" border="0" alt="smile2.gif" /> don't you have anything else to do? like blow up some ships?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Nope. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":no" border="0" alt="no.gif" />
 
Some very nice stuff in the list, Pieter.

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Try and fix the GiveShip2Character function some more.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Found this goodie in NK.c and it worked fine (at least with the WW and BP). Out of curiosity, what´s to fix there?

Oh, and thanks to all involved for your hard work! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="me.gif" />
 
I'm using that function to give ships to the player during the new, rewritten main quest. But if I give the player a tartane, usually the ship has more cargo than she can hold, resulting in a crash on the changing of the day on the worldmap. Not good.
 
<!--quoteo(post=227147:date=Dec 22 2007, 05:51 PM:name=Pieter Boelen)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pieter Boelen @ Dec 22 2007, 05:51 PM) [snapback]227147[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I'm using that function to give ships to the player during the new, rewritten main quest. But if I give the player a tartane, usually the ship has more cargo than she can hold, resulting in a crash on the changing of the day on the worldmap. Not good.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Not good at all. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":no" border="0" alt="no.gif" />
 
Someone's busy. I'll be playing through the main quest (Build 13) to get a feel for how to balance gameplay. Lots of moving parts to experiment with and this is time intensive stuff. Plus...fun. And I have the attention span of a very diligent fruit fly.
 
<!--quoteo(post=227619:date=Dec 24 2007, 07:10 PM:name=Rum Runner)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rum Runner @ Dec 24 2007, 07:10 PM) [snapback]227619[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I'll be testing Build 13Final for bugs and wreaking general mayhem in a schooner!<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

My favoritest little ship. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/danse1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":dance" border="0" alt="danse1.gif" />
 
mine would be my pirate designed fast schooner. but back on topic now, i haven't forgotten my captain's log. right now i'm just playing the game and making lots of notes. i'll post a few entries later, which might be tomorrow, or over a week. i have no idea.
 
Well... I'll try to finish rigging <i>Interceptor</i> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
Awesome! I'll be very much looking foreward to that! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/danse1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":dance" border="0" alt="danse1.gif" />
 
i'm almost done with the list concerning my lego ships. just have to upload the pictures.
 
I hardly even started on my list. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/modding.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":modding" border="0" alt="modding.gif" />
 
Longer though. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/whistling.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wp" border="0" alt="whistling.gif" />
 
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