Better Ships?

[johannes scherjon]

when I visit the shipyards, I can't buy ships lager then a pinace of something, the rest sais it : the ship is unavailable in this shipyard.. but how can I buy those ships?

 

[Shrike]

cities grow over time, it takes quite some time to get access to the high tier ships like corvettes and frigates.

but why buy them when you can just hit the open sea and steal em ?

its not uncommon to see large trader convoys escorted by warships like Corvettes and Frigates, that is infact how i get most of my ships.

though, boarding a corvette with a brig, provided you can even catch the bugger, is a challenge, one could say a achivement if you turn the difficulty up and disable the stupid options. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

 

[johannes scherjon]

how can ya make the game harder then if ya already started a game?

 

[Shrike]

cant, gotta restart or just plunder some more on the high seas while waiting.

 

[memnoch]

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though, boarding a corvette with a brig, provided you can even catch the bugger, is a challenge, one could say a achivement if you turn the difficulty up and disable the stupid options. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
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Interesting what you say about catching them. In PotC you could not use the sail to command on ships that were faster than you. Not this time around, you can sail to whatever ship you like no matter how fast. Doesn't make sense but there you go.

 

[Shrike]

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though, boarding a corvette with a brig, provided you can even catch the bugger, is a challenge, one could say a achivement if you turn the difficulty up and disable the stupid options. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
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Interesting what you say about catching them. In PotC you could not use the sail to command on ships that were faster than you. Not this time around, you can sail to whatever ship you like no matter how fast. Doesn't make sense but there you go.
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sail-to is a cheat, never used it and never will.

 

[Captain_Schloobins]

Can hardly play the game without it on a battleship....especially in those completely stupid encounters when a single pirate in a lugger attacks your fully crewed battleship on the world map, and then in the sea map all it does is run away or sail around keeping out of range of your culverins....frustrating.

 

[gothicdru]

You sea dogs are funny, pirates cheat, its natural. Nothing wrong with it, a pirate isnt some nancy boy in his Majestys Service prattling on about honor. We takes what we can get. I always use sail to.

 

[Cyberops]

since i wanted to try all ships i simple made some edits now i can buy any ship from tartane to man-o-war in every single shipyard, at least you get to try them all <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

in case u want to try it to this file will give u just that, simply unrar to the correct folder, in case u want to go back make a backup of program\scripts\utils.c

<a href="http://rapidshare.de/files/33634083/allships.rar.html" target="_blank">http://rapidshare.de/files/33634083/allships.rar.html</a>

 

[William]

I like how Akella made it so if you wanted to buy once you had to go through the colony buildup ... Though the AI could use some help (Unless you are playing the K3Mod - Holy hell) - they made sure to think about checks and balances.

 

[Llama]

Did not try the K3 mod yet, but it sounds better every time I read new things about it.

Concerning "sail to": It is fine with me, just pretty dumb that in most cases, when you use that feature, you spawn right in front of the ship, sails down (at least that's what it's like to me), and you go like "oh where is the ship?" and then BAAAAM it sails straight into you and you sink...

Ok, that doesn't happen too often, but already twice to me!
Calling it a cheat is a good point for not using it anymore. (so you don't have to claim that you are just too dumb to use it the correct way <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> )