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Well me hearties, you have been busy as lil' squids tew be sure. And I be readin things here abouts, upon why tis "Flag Raisin afore leavin Oxbay" be not workin right.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->The part where Malcolm advises you to fly a French flag is hidden away pretty well, and it's easy to miss if you cycle through the dialog too fast. I know it comes up when he talks about the spyglass, it may come up somewhere else.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Aye, this be true, if'n yew have bin playin thru these ere waters afore, tew be sure! But as it is a dialog that was part of the original game, yew cant be evicted him, an It has tew be stayin in to alert the majority of NEW ENGLISH pirates about the quests and to follow the story line.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It should be the last thing he tells you before he says goodbye so you never miss it. And he should tell you not to forget to raise the English flag before arriving at Redmond.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now this ere is a Much better idea tew be sure, haven't any of yew fellers bin doin any talkin with that funny lookin character near the docks in Oxbay about his weird looking shack, or any of them others with the new plant life spread around Greenford. In fact if'n yew be readin carefully <b>likes yew should have bin</b>, yew be noticein how thats was supposed tew be a <b>Tutorial abouts "Dialogs Creating"</b> put thar by no other than <b><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->that great creator of Props.....CouchCaptainCharles</b><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> So why dont we use them fine well meanin words and add a couple dialogs tew Bosun Malcolm's speech's and "Viola" we have our solution......and nothing got removed.....now thats clever, if'n I dew be sayin myself!!!
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I liked it better when it put you directly on the map and you avoided such issues. At least that's a lot easier for a beginning player to deal with. Experienced players should be able to sail out of port the way it is now.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Nope no good, this is what the "Stormy Start" was put into the game for. Now i'll be honest with yew fellers, since yew seem like such nice lads, and yew never fired on Old Long John afore.....(thats a good thing tew be sure) I never used that mod option meself, til lots of testin on the "Great CTD" bughunts of 2006....(April I think there abouts).....and I got tired of tutorial, and plus we had tew test other routes....so if'n yew dont want the tutorial, choose "Stormy Start".....But The game NEEDS the tutorial for less experienced players, and adding more clutter as in code, too make a runaround past the tutorial is wasteful and unnessessary.
<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Another thing: Malcolm advises you to buy silk and sandal. The problem is, silk is an import at both Oxbay and Redmond, and guaranteed to lose you money. Sandal is the best trade good on this route, with an average profit per unit of 43 with unmodified commerce stats. Gold comes in second, as Oxbay exports it and Redmond buys at normal price. But the profit there is only 10. The loss on silk is 58 per unit. This bugged me a lot in the stock game.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Aye this be a great point tew be sure agin, and this one as real meat on its bones! But like the first point.....the real answer be in changin the Dialogs tew reflect the new goods, and stuff in the Build. These are sorely outdated and have not been kept up like the rest of the story. I totally disagree with changin code, because that is why "some well intention stuff gets done and then causes major unforseen bugs for the rest of the game somewheres else"......and US!!! runnin around lookin for bugs is the results...and like others I am getting tired of chasin bugs, and reloadin the game all the time because we have forgotten what it is like tew be playin a fun stable game for ahwile!!! The Dialogs are there already, and they wont be leavin anytime soon, so use them wisely, not hack away at code doin endruns around things that first of all <b>Dont need tew be fuddled with</b> and secondly <b>have ways and means tew be escapin them in the first place</b>
I be thinkin, that hey! I'm a fairly New Scalleywag abouts ere meself, these be new waters tew be plunderin tew be sure......but I forget sometimes <!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->That there were others way afore me who created this wonderful build and added these mods tew make the game better than it was<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> and they had these same problems, and the same conversations....justs go back and read through some of the old threads.....a year ago....two years ago......anyway that is more than my two cents worth....No promises because I havent actually laid my hand tew it yet, but wanted tew add Dialogs tew kinda update these glarin changes, and might tackle that problem, which would be the smart way and the easiest.....because it NEEDS TO BE DONE ANYWAY........
P.S. <b>But please stop addin and changin code where it doesnt need tew be......I keep seein these changes, and ask myself....."HOW and Who would bother going into dialogs and changin that anyway......didnt need tew be done, so why?.....did it change itself?.....not blooody likely.........So who did it?, it didnt change on its own....but there is never an answer or reason....just got done....Like the Everret Gordon dialog changes.....he wasnt broke before? NO!....so who went in there and put those code changes there?, was it on purpose?, did it need to be added??...we have been frantically runnin down fixes for crew losses, and floatin people, flags mods....and all of a sudden somebody's dialog got changed......how come? Why? the game worked perfectly fine before without those changes, (damned if I can remember when, but it did!!) So how did he effect crew losses.....anyway new mods and addons need plenty of testing and bug fix'in tew be sure, but lets stop changin things that already work, and do not need fiddlin with in the first place, unless they HAVE to be</b>
P.P.S. Pieter: Jack Davidson, and Jason Maffettone have added or worked on new inventory stuff to be added to the build, and we all seem to approve back then, but were waitin for the next after 13 build.....they dont seem to be around as much and that I hope will change, we all have to run around a bit, but Dailogs and stuff will have to be changed anyways to reflect these new items.....First we were going to ask Maximus about adding slots maybe to accommadate these new items, somethin about a limit to them, and secondly are we still going to add these items after the stable build 13??
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