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The manual mentions nothing about sail colors or Quest ships so below are the colors of sails you need to look for on the world map to find the Quest ships: (taken from a post by Scrogdog)

Orange = Quest ship you must fight

Green = Quest ship that you must talk to (no fight)

Purple = Non-generic quest ship

Gold = Golden Fleet.
 
Luke159 said:
Back to your companion, you could alway's give him a Brig but you would have to upgrade its speed at Bamuda, you might want to upgrade your owm Hull so you can take more damage, and perhaps your own speed if needs be. Now to the battle.
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Upgrade ships? I didn't know you could do that! Where's that button in the shipyard?
 
Here's a a few questions about items...

I see that alot of items (aztec/inca items particularly) give some nice stat benefits. Do they stack? If you have a statuette and an idol that both give +10 to authority, do you get +20 authority for having both? Do identical items stack? e.g., If I had two idols of quetzalcoatl, would I get a double stat benefit?

Also, do I have to carry the items around with me to get the benefit? Some of them are quite heavy, so I'd like to keep them in my ship's cabin if I can. (I assume I have to carry them.)

Lastly, I've seen items such as bowls or pots (and a leaky bucket) that say they can hold wine or water or 'large items'. Any advice on how to make use of that, or if it's even possible? Thanks.
 
Different items do stack (you will see the +s increase on your stat page). However, you will soon run into what I'm experiencing that your skills are high enough that the +s do nothing. Seems 100 is the max or at least interface does not show that you can exceed it. So if your authority is 90, you will only see benefit from holding 1 X +10 item (can confirm this by looking at the stats page).

You do have to be holding the items to receive the effect. Identical items do not stack. Officers can hold items also and receive their benefits.
 
Well now, as you can well imagine ye olde Rum Runner has a soft spot for the smugglers in general. But when the Governor asked me to do something about them, I decided to go ahead and reduce the competition, so to speak. No worries there. I set up the meeting, and used some cold steel persuasion to run them off- or through, as the case may be. Then another Governor catches wind of the deed and seeks my services in the same capacity. Ok, happy Governors will give me a little more leeway when I take certain liberties later on. Another meeting, more blood on the beach. Not a problem. Apparently my smuggler hunter reputation has grown yet again, as a third Governor has requested my help for his smuggler situation. Well, the smugglers aren't too pleased with me now, and certainly aren't going to let me set them up again. Can't get a meeting with them anymore, so can't complete the Governor's mission. So the tip would be, two smuggler illimination missions at most. Only one if you want to make use of smugglers in the future. Any other Governors asking you to deal with the smugglers have to be refused. Probably after some successful smuggling transactions get your rep with the smugglers back up, you can betray them again, but I haven't tried it to know for sure.
 
Do the Crystals skulls work alone or do you need all three? Because I've had some in my games and it doesn't show that I'm getting any stat bonus from carrying one or even two.
 
Officerpuppy said:
Do the Crystals skulls work alone or do you need all three? Because I've had some in my games and it doesn't show that I'm getting any stat bonus from carrying one or even two.
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You need all the three in one backpack to work. When you collect all the three of them you probably will not need them anymore but the good news is they work with companions too.
 
Rum Runner said:
So the tip would be, two smuggler illimination missions at most. Only one if you want to make use of smugglers in the future. Any other Governors asking you to deal with the smugglers have to be refused. Probably after some successful smuggling transactions get your rep with the smugglers back up, you can betray them again, but I haven't tried it to know for sure.
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You can always pay to the diplomats in the pirate cities to return your relations to normal (this workd even with smugglers).
 
I am not sure whether its part of JSCombined mod or not or anyone noticed it at all but the brackets beside enter on the keyboard can be used to change the in game weather and more importantly it can be used to speed up time.
If you press it three times in a row it'll fast forward by circa 3 or 4hours :onya

Or is it only possible after enabling debug window? :shrug
 
Greyfoot said:
I am not sure whether its part of JSCombined mod or not or anyone noticed it at all but the brackets beside enter on the keyboard can be used to change the in game weather and more importantly it can be used to speed up time.
If you press it three times in a row it'll fast forward by circa 3 or 4hours :onya

Or is it only possible after enabling debug window? :shrug
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Yuo can increase the ingame time from 2 up to 8 times depending on the location; as for the weather - this seems like a cheat to me:)
 
i got a cool a strategy i always use it cause i hate to use crew on my ships so i put zero crew on my ship and i do something funny when i board any ships but it always works with me here is the steps:

1st: get yourself a good gun and loads of bullets

then here what you do to face the whole gang that will attacks you wen you board a ship take them to one of the 4 stairs on the main deck so you will fight only one by one shoot the 1st with you gun and fight him a little with your sword till another one come to help him fighting you run to another stair on the opposite side and do the same till you will find your self fighting only one this will be easy for you as i think

(NOTE: take care of the ppl with guns cause they will finish you in 1 shoot so let them hit each other not you)

(NOTE: i never take a ship that i board it so thats why i use zero crew)
 
blackice said:
i got a cool a strategy i always use it cause i hate to use crew on my ships so i put zero crew on my ship and i do something funny when i board any ships but it always works with me here is the steps:

1st: get yourself a good gun and loads of bullets

then here what you do to face the whole gang that will attacks you wen you board a ship take them to one of the 4 stairs on the main deck so you will fight only one by one shoot the 1st with you gun and fight him a little with your sword till another one come to help him fighting you run to another stair on the opposite side and do the same till you will find your self fighting only one this will be easy for you as i think

(NOTE: take care of the ppl with guns cause they will finish you in 1 shoot so let them hit each other not you)

(NOTE: i never take a ship that i board it so thats why i use zero crew)
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This is the best style to use even with crew helping out, although i tend to run around helping my crew elliminate the enemy so that i can take easy victories without loosing too many crew members. I'm interested to know upon what difficulty do you play and what kind of ships do you target because its not as easy to board a MOW using this tactic with crew helping you out so on your own is going to be near impossible in less you kill as many crew members as you can before boarding.
 
Greetings,

I've been lurking this forum for a while and found quite some interesting tips to help me out on my journeys.
So now I found something that might help the community.
If you've taken a loan from the COAS moneylender and you eventually get out of the city without paying it back, eventually you will be transported to a temple (Sacrificial Temple) each time you enter certain buildings. If you don't have the sum needed to repay the loan, you won't be able to get out.
How to fix this? It's a bit tedious but it's the fastest way. Start raiding trading ships and take their crew as slaves and then sell them to the smugglers. Don't forget to stack up on food/weapons and ammo while you're at it since you cannot enter any shops.
Buildings that work:
Shipyard, Tavern, Residence, Port Controler.

Have a nice day.
 
As i recently used this method i thought that it is useful, and would like to give it as a tip.

Now, one of the more annoying things in the game are rats. They eat (or spoil) anything you can carry. Food, weapons, cargo. They are a REAL pain and very annoying.

Here's how to deal with them. You'll need some cash to get this done. Say, 30 to 50k, depending on how costly the prostitutes you like are. :)

Go to a brothel, the cheaper the better. Port Royale is expensive. I used the one on Martinique.

Find a lady inside and tell her that she is the most beautiful creature you've ever seen. If she tells you to quit the sweet talk, go to another lady. If she likes your flirting, note the name.

Now, go to the madame and tell her the name of this woman that you want. You then go upstairs for some rather silly moaning and a CENSORED screen. You must do this at least five times. DO NOT leave town during this sequence else the lady may leave the brothel. Instead, have sex, go sleep in the tavern and repeat. You will lose some reputation.

Beginning with the 5th encounter, speak with the lady after sex. Sooner or later (5-8 tries) she'll tell you that she has fallen for you and that she has information that may be important. She'll then tell you the location of a treasure that another captain/customer told her of. Write down the name, it will not appear in your logs.

There are four potential locations for this treasure. From just North of Peurto Bello to North of Belize. If you have trouble finding it, there's maps here at Pirates Ahoy that show where everything is. Or just ask me and I'll tell you. This could be considered mildly cheating - this is what all those in-game maps are for. So, use those if you want to play it straight.

Anyway, when you find the location look for the Rat God totem in a chest. There is nothing to fight at the destination - just and ungaurded chest. Sometimes on the beach, sometimes in the caves. Sometimes there might be another totem laying around too depending on location. As long as you keep it on you, the rats will never bother you again. :)

this can be done early in the game and is very important for merchant type players, but useful for others too.
 
I've got a nice tip. Maybe you know about it.

I was so pissed when every ship attacked me every minute I was sailing. I couldn't move from one island to another in peace. But I found a way to avoid being bugged. Just change your flag on your ship to a pirate one and all ships will be avoiding you and running away from you ;) When you are about to moor in a port, change your flag again to a neutral one, so that they didn't attack you.

Cheers mates!
 
Chujogram, actually it wont work againist pirates, somewhy they still keep attacking. Even if you would have King's Man of War and they would only have a war tartane, the captain would still go like "ARR! LETS SINK THAT HUGE ASS SHIP WITH 100 32LBS CANNONS THAT CAN INSTANTLY SINK US AT FIRST TRY!".
 
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