Losing Colonies To The Enemy

[fry]

Basicaly i'm just wondering how strong if ever can a colony succesfully defend itself from attack/siege?Basically i'm getting tired of going all the way across the frigen map against the wind,take a colony,build it up and then get a message one of my other ones across the map is under siege so I go and save it while another one is being sieged across the map again making it impossible to save both.Also I thinks it's rather stupid that for example I took all the spanish coloies,then I get a message one of mine is under siege by spain.Granted just because all thier colonies are gone in the carribean doesn't mean that spain would give up,but as a naval force for the time being(the rest of the game) they should be finished.Just now I had three colonies get attcked and all gave me 14 days or less to save them,well as you all know it can take 14 days to move 6 inches on the map,much less save 3 different and spread out colonies,I mean whats the point in hiring a mayor,upgrading my buildings and fort if they can't atleast sometimes take on the smaller forces.At the very least they need to make it so it's as hard for the npc to take a certain level fort with a certain garison as it was for you to take it from them,I mean i've gotten attack messages and shown up only to find 2 corvettes and a war galleon,sure they are strong ships but that fort put a hurting on my 3 MoW's.Anywho to get back on point can/do the colonies ever defend themselves successfully? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/modding.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="modding.gif" />

 

[PirateSam]

for the colony to be able to better defend itself u have to concider few facts :

- level of the fort ,
- number of garirson troops and ,
- skills of the mayor ( fencing , defence , accuracy and cannon ) .

What i did is after I capture a colony i assign a mayor with good leadership skill cuz that help the colony to develope faster then i upgrade the fort to at least lvl2 , however , it is still can be defeted so i wait like a month time before i go capture the next coloney .

U did well , try having yr colonies close togather so u can sail in short time to defend any and give them time to develope before u start taking other's ..

 

[Ropblad]

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the problem is that when you doing the main quiest you have to capture them all

and about the fort lvl it gives you more time to defend the colony

 

[fry]

Thanks for the replies but I still say phewy to that,or am I the only person who thinks it crazy that a fort and town who is most likely going to be slaughtered anyway would fight to the last man and woman(see I included you!).I'm seriously gonna have to look into this when and if I ever seem to finish the game. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="<_<" border="0" alt="dry.gif" />

 

[Stowaway]

Sorry Old Thread

I agree with the OP about colony defense and development. Its one of the main reasons I quit the game a few years back.

I was wondering if any patches or mods have fixed these issues? (ex. more developed ports/forts defend themselves better/longer) Is the game worth reinstalling? (will it ever be?)

 

[Stowaway]

Sorry Old Thread

I agree with the OP about colony defense and development. Its one of the main reasons I quit the game a few years back.

I was wondering if any patches or mods have fixed these issues? (ex. more developed ports/forts defend themselves better/longer) Is the game worth reinstalling? (will it ever be?)

*Bump*

No news in over a year. Too bad. If properly patched, modded, and fixed, AoP would be a decent game. Instead it has been a major dissapointment. I recently bought CoAS and, although it has many improvements over AoP, it does not have as good of naval combat and is just as buggy. Unless the modders can do something with these games, they are not worth my time. I am utterly sick of how the pc gaming industry can rip-off its customers like this, selling broken and half finished products to people, and not even bothering to follow up with any form of decent support or patches. If it were not for modders, I wouldn't even bother purchasing and playing computer games anymore.