First of all, I have good news: Both my Basic Safety and Marcom-A trainings are finished now. I have already got my Basic Safety certificate previous week. I am awaiting the results of the Marcom-A exam now. But I have basically finished all work for school now, so I'll be having plenty of time for PotC now. During the next couple of days, I will try to get up-to-date on the latest news on the forums. I will also go and put together a modpack update with the latest fixes sent to me. After that, I will start the serious work on Build 13.
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I have tried to summarise all bugs reported since the previous weekend. I posted that list at the bottom of this post. Please check if I have missed any bugs that were reported.
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Inappropriate crew loss occurs only when you board a ship using the the F3 key and there is no fight on deck.
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Yep. Still needs fixing.
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Sometimes your officers don't board with you. This seems to occur in the second or third boarding of a muliti-ship engagement.
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I think that's fixed with the latest update.
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Sometimes a ship will strike it colors and when you board there is a fight on deck as if they hadn't surrendered. This happened with the English friage off FDF.
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Might be fixed now. Please tell me if you encounter this again.
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People are still speaking Russian when attacked with thrown objects like the the poisoned knife.
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I'll check it.
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There are too many cryllic spellings in ship names and Concieaco is showing up as Conci3aco. If at all possible we should get these language issues resolved before we release build 13.
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It's not a bug, per sé. It's caused by the Russian font being used. We can fix it either by replacing all cyrillic characters with regular ones or by using a different font for the non-Russian game mode. I think the second option is best. Pirate_KK was working on that, but it might take a while before he's got it done. I think I'll go and try to help him. It might be nice to have that fixed for Build 13.
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Occasionally ship cargo loads exeed their capacity.
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Hmm. That's odd. I'll put it on the buglist.
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been busy and havent been keeping up, but has that pirate crew on nation ships boarding bugs been solved?
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I think that has been fixed, yes, but I'm not entirely sure.
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But what got me was the english I could not board her which is fair but surely she should have put her english flag back up as I saved her from the pirate in end.
Belive it or not I went back to port repaired up and when I went back to sea, seen she still had a white flag up.
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It's not really a bug, but it IS odd. The flag being re-raised simply isn't coded in yet. I think it should be added though. Makes sense.
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3) The Antiguamap.tga.tx (attigua loading screen) seems to be missed.
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You must have missed an update. It IS in one of the updates somewhere. I think it's in the 70MB file.
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first off, I found the crew losses way back when we just finished testing and finding CTD's that plagued us at the time. But YOU did not identify those right away because they were not apparent at level 35 which you start at. These are crippling to a brand new game with @60 crew members and a half leaky, French Shot up, almost sinking, lugger, trying to find his way to Redmond without hitting storm.......at this point in time Im almost ready to go way back to build 12, to find and enjoyable game, so any attempt at fix "would be most welcome"
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We have attempted a lot of fixes. So far, they have not worked. Now I have more spare time, so I'll see if I can do anything or can get Maximus to do anything.
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I am in a fight I hit O to search dead body and for some reason the guy who is not dead, die's as it seem's I am searching his body, I am then also able to search his then dead body after. So I search his body 2 time's one alive and one dead.
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How can you search a dead body from somebody who isn't dead yet? Does this bug occur more often? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
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Possible bug 6/18 I may not be paying attention but I haven't noticed any enemy war ships sailing to attack me on the map.
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Nothing was changed there. As far as I know, it is hardcoded and we couldn't change it even if we WOULD want to.
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Also, I haven't had a fire on board for a long time. Has the the firedrill been turned off?
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Nope. It's still turned on like usual.
<b>BUGLIST:</b>
- Inappropriate crew losses upon boarding a surrendered vessel (doesn't matter if the ship surrenders on first boarding or if the ship surrendered on-sea beofre boarding)
Question: Does it also occur if the ship surrenders during boarding?
Example: You fight on one deck, then the ship surrenders?
According to Hook: <i>mchr.ship.crew.quantity = boarding_player_crew;</i> should be commented out
Info: <a href="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5586&st=1500#" target="_blank">http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/index.php...86&st=1500#</a>
- People speaking Russian when being hit by a throwing object
- Cyrillic characters displayed as Russian characters
- Occasionally ship cargo loads exeed their capacity
- Santiago: You cannot land; the anchor shows up, you get the sound but nothing happens
- Havana: There is no one at the shipyard and no tavern keeper shows up
- Havana: store seems to be working fine, altough once when I went back there it wouldn't let me buy anything in the cargo interface
- Santiago: Brea Roca could not load his dialouge
- Windrose is still swapped
- Shipyard in St. Martin Dutch's town has some problem, after sell or repair ship always have a CTD.
- When I escorted a ship if this runs out of rum or wheat then my rum and wheat expired too fast.
- Spygladd flags are messed up
- Boarding a ship you have already captured: VERY odd bug.
Request: Can anybody confirm this?
- Dialogs not working for the women before the Douwesen governor's residence
- Unable to change colours by talking to an officer
- Reputation loss during boardings (probably caused by enemies having no weapons due to the bladedamage mod)
<b>Ideas for Post Build 14:</b>
- When a ship surrenders, but the threat to the ship is sunk/captured, have the ship re-raise her own flags. Then you can save an English fleet from a pirate attack. Would be nice if you get a rep + for it as well.
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