JohnTaylor
Landlubber
Greetings, I've been attempting to play POTC for a week or so now, and I can't seem to get much done successfully. I'm about to give up the pirate's life (which would be a shame since it looks and feels magnificent) despite feeling there's a real gem here. Anyhoo, I have a few questions for the more experienced players:
1) I had 75,000 gold pieces onboard ship when my crew demanded their monthly pay, yet I was unable to pay them. Do I have to be carrying their pay with me (in my personal inventory where I might lose it in a fight)?
2) Everytime I talk to the shipwright, it seems two days passes according to the text in the upper left corner? Is this correct?
3) Once I forgot to transfer Nathaniel Hawk from the ship I was selling to the other ship I owned, and found out that he could no longer board at all even though I still owned one ship. I had to buy Hawk a gunboat, transfer him to the frigate I intended to keep, and only then was I able to board (and sold the gunboat at a loss). Was that what you would have done?
4) I thought I'd do a couple of quests before doing what I wanted but the Governor of Redmond keeps assigning them right away. Can I say I'll do it, and then not do it for months? Without failing the quest?
5) I must be missing it but how do I order an allied ship to "follow me"?
6) I donated money to the church to raise my reputation from iirc a "scalawag" but nothing happened to my reputation, I remain a scalawag. Do I need to empty my meager stash?
7) Really frustrating incident: I'm supposed to convoy some troops to a cave to recapture Oxbay from the French. I leave the harbor at Grenford with my ship and the transport, but we're never able to go to the World Map. I guess that's because there are enemy ships within gun range yet I NEVER see them with my fine telescope and they're not firing at us. I can "sail to" (the text tells me "it took twenty minutes") the enemy and look for a fight but they outnumber us and outclass my ship. I tried sailing at "fast time" for half-hour (my time) but never could enter the World Map. What should I have done? Should I be looking at the text in the upper left corner and saying "Oh, enemy ships are out somewhere. Best wait some more on the dock?"
The last 7) incident really is depressing me. I sail and sail and look and look, no enemy in sight but I can't jump to world map. I get frustrated after a real-time hour of fast sailing at 10x speed but no luck.
After 11 days of trying to play POTC, I can't say I've had much fun. When does the fun start? signed...The Soggiest Sailor.
1) I had 75,000 gold pieces onboard ship when my crew demanded their monthly pay, yet I was unable to pay them. Do I have to be carrying their pay with me (in my personal inventory where I might lose it in a fight)?
2) Everytime I talk to the shipwright, it seems two days passes according to the text in the upper left corner? Is this correct?
3) Once I forgot to transfer Nathaniel Hawk from the ship I was selling to the other ship I owned, and found out that he could no longer board at all even though I still owned one ship. I had to buy Hawk a gunboat, transfer him to the frigate I intended to keep, and only then was I able to board (and sold the gunboat at a loss). Was that what you would have done?
4) I thought I'd do a couple of quests before doing what I wanted but the Governor of Redmond keeps assigning them right away. Can I say I'll do it, and then not do it for months? Without failing the quest?
5) I must be missing it but how do I order an allied ship to "follow me"?
6) I donated money to the church to raise my reputation from iirc a "scalawag" but nothing happened to my reputation, I remain a scalawag. Do I need to empty my meager stash?
7) Really frustrating incident: I'm supposed to convoy some troops to a cave to recapture Oxbay from the French. I leave the harbor at Grenford with my ship and the transport, but we're never able to go to the World Map. I guess that's because there are enemy ships within gun range yet I NEVER see them with my fine telescope and they're not firing at us. I can "sail to" (the text tells me "it took twenty minutes") the enemy and look for a fight but they outnumber us and outclass my ship. I tried sailing at "fast time" for half-hour (my time) but never could enter the World Map. What should I have done? Should I be looking at the text in the upper left corner and saying "Oh, enemy ships are out somewhere. Best wait some more on the dock?"
The last 7) incident really is depressing me. I sail and sail and look and look, no enemy in sight but I can't jump to world map. I get frustrated after a real-time hour of fast sailing at 10x speed but no luck.
After 11 days of trying to play POTC, I can't say I've had much fun. When does the fun start? signed...The Soggiest Sailor.
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