Increase fleet to 8 ships - working mod

[Peregrine]

First of all, thanks to all who have contributed to all the mods. I'm currently using GoF 1.2. and I appreciate all the hard work. I didn't have a chance to compare, because with AoP2 I loaded GoF 1.2 right from the start. Years ago I played PoC and AoP1. GoF is great, but I'm missing some things, like the ability to take over the colony after winning over the fort. I tried this once now, and all I could do is get ransom from the governor, but there was no way to kill him to assign my own governor.

Another thing that was really bugging me now was the limit of only 5 ships. With the ship selections now, it's kind of hard to part with my favorites. I did some research and found the solution. I found most of this on some foreign website (can't remember where anymore) so I'm not taking the credit for it, though it was up to 7 ships, and I increased it to 8 for now. I've played with 8 ships extensively now and found no problems at all (engine is crashing occasionally, but it was crashing just the same before I modified anything).

The directions are below. The only caveat is, when you try to leave your ships with port control, you can leave the first 4. Choosing anything after that makes the speak selection non-responsive. Even escape doesn't work. At that point you can only use F9 to load the previous quick save. Even after leaving and going to another port control, it only works for the 1st 4 ships. So I'm kind of stuck now when I wanted to use just the lugger to get Edward Law. Unless I sell few of my ships. I tried finding code responsible for that, with no luck. If anyone could figure it out, I'd really appreciate it.

Modifications to increase fleet to 8 ships:

Replace / add:

- Age of Pirates 2\Program\characters\characters.h :
#define COMPANION_MAX 5
with
#define COMPANION_MAX 8

- Age of Pirates 2\Program\battle_interfac\BattleInterface.c :
BattleInterface.ShipIcon.iconoffset6 = "70,710";
BattleInterface.ShipIcon.iconoffset7 = "70,838";
BattleInterface.ShipIcon.iconoffset8 = "70,966";
after
BattleInterface.ShipIcon.iconoffset5 = "70,582";

- Age of Pirates 2\Program\battle_interfac\WmInterface.c :
BattleInterface.wm_sign.iconoffset6 = "70,710";
BattleInterface.wm_sign.iconoffset7 = "70,838";
BattleInterface.wm_sign.iconoffset8 = "70,966";
after
BattleInterface.wm_sign.iconoffset5 = "70,582";

- Age of Pirates 2\Program\INTERFACE\ship.c :
replace the line containing
GameInterface.SHIPS_SCROLL.NotUsed
with
GameInterface.SHIPS_SCROLL.NotUsed = COMPANION_MAX - m + 1;
or if GameInterface.SHIPS_SCROLL.NotUsed doesn’t exist
simply add it after
GameInterface.SHIPS_SCROLL.ListSize = m;


- Age of Pirates 2\Program\INTERFACE\store.c :
FillScrollImageWithCompanionShips("SHIPS_SCROLL", 5);
with
FillScrollImageWithCompanionShips("SHIPS_SCROLL", COMPANION_MAX);

- Age of Pirates 2\Program\INTERFACE\hirecrew.c
FillScrollImageWithCompanionShips("SHIPS_SCROLL", 5);
with
FillScrollImageWithCompanionShips("SHIPS_SCROLL", COMPANION_MAX);

- Age of Pirates 2\Program\INTERFACE\ColonyCapture.c
FillScrollImageWithCompanionShips("SHIPS_SCROLL", 5);
with
FillScrollImageWithCompanionShips("SHIPS_SCROLL", COMPANION_MAX);

- Age of Pirates 2\Program\INTERFACE\cannons.c
FillScrollImageWithCompanionShips("SHIPS_SCROLL", 5);
with
FillScrollImageWithCompanionShips("SHIPS_SCROLL", COMPANION_MAX);


Image below shows only 7 ships because I was currently making modifications in my fleet and got rid of one.

 

[Peregrine]

Coincidentally, does anyone know how to fix this? One of my ships is missing a thumbnail in all scroll lists. Additionally, text describing type of the ship near thumbnails is vertically aligned to center, with large spacing between lines, making the type of this particular ship overlay the class of the ship. If the vertical alignment was set to bottom, and line space is minimized, all could fit nicely.

 

[dirtnap08]

Have you completed any of the national or pirate quest lines? I believe you can't capture cities for yourself until you do. I'm playing GOF 1.2 and that was the case for me.

There will be an extra dialog option when talking to the governor to take the city for yourself. Then to assign one of your officers to governor position, place him/her as a fighter and talk to them in the residence.

Thanks for the extra ship code for this version. Will try it out soon.

 

[Peregrine]

Have you completed any of the national or pirate quest lines? I believe you can't capture cities for yourself until you do. I'm playing GOF 1.2 and that was the case for me.

There will be an extra dialog option when talking to the governor to take the city for yourself. Then to assign one of your officers to governor position, place him/her as a fighter and talk to them in the residence.

...

Aah.. that makes sense, yeah, I haven't yet. Thanks a lot!

 

[Peregrine]

Well, looks like increasing the fleet to 8 ships has been covered in this thread, too:
http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/8-companion-ship-max-mod.18737/
Though I never found it until now. Files there are probably not compatible with GoF 1.2, so the codes above will at least allow you to manually modify your files.

Looks like modernknight1 was working on an update but never finished. His post #7 is showing the same concerns I have. So if you want more ships but don't mind loosing some functionalities as mentioned in his post, this will work for you.

 

[priatnia]

Why do I think there is GOF 2.0.7 or even above ?!

 

[Peregrine]

There's GoF 2 beta, but I'm not crazy about some of the changes there. I think I'll stick with 1.2 for now.

 

[priatnia]

If you make an update, make it to a newer version, I suppose you would like to have of these 8 some new ships included ?!

 

[Peregrine]

no idea what you're talking about. The instructions above are to be manually applied, and therefore would work in any version, with or without other mods.

 

[modernknight1]

Yeah I have it working almost perfect in GOF Eras2. The port control glitch still sometimes occurs but I fixed the mission problem and all the dialogue and interface issues that remained with five ships - they all show and reflect 8 ships in all the germane dialogue and pictures now. You still run into the problems of ditching additional ships if you take a quest that requires you to escort other ships, but that problem still existed even when you could only control 5 ships.

In an aside I experimented with 10 ships even... however it was too much work to hex vector map the new interface pictures for the new ships into a second row of images - and the command issues start getting sketchy and ungainly as well - especially in busy harbors. I have added working ship clutter in my mod as well so you could see a dozen ships at anchor or moving about the harbor besides your own.

Eight seems perfect to me.

Sorry I didn't package this into a mod fix update that's separate, but my time is consumed with getting this mod done and then moving across the country. Perhaps when things settle down I will take some of the features I incorporated into Eras and make them separate mods.



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