Trustworthy,
I have as yet been guilty of neglecting to welcome you to the site. Sorry and Welcome Aboard! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" /> Did you bring Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous and Kind with you? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" /> (Sorry, I do this a lot... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/oops3.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
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My favorite picture in my head is still Fred Bob doing the Quaker Exploit and looting all of the chests while a battle ranges all around him. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> I'm a little bit embarrassed to admit that I too knew that you could loot your own ship during a boarding action. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/oops3.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
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I've discovered a fairly nutty thing to do; I will engage from the world map into a battle between two nations where I have neutral relations with both of them.
I have found that you can either watch the ships fight each other, it takes a while for them to sink each other, that, or they eventually sail away from each other, or, I will shoot at the rigging and sails of the various ships from First Person Deck View.
As long as I don't hit the hull of the ship, no one fires back at me and I maintain my neutrality with both nations.
My new goal is to knock out all of the sails on all of the ships without anyone firing back at me, but I haven't been able to do it yet. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
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