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Groggsy

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I took my first ship last night (a pirate one at that) but I didnt get any money from it. I got all the goods and weapons etc.. but no hard cash. Is there something I'm not doing right? After winning the melee on the deck I tried opening the locked chests laying around the deck. All I kept getting for my troubles was pain as they hurt me everytime. I gave up on them.. but is that where the booty is located?
Or was i just unlucky that it was a rubbish pirates ship? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bounce.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":b:" border="0" alt="bounce.gif" />
 
Hi Groggsy - I'm new here too and just captured a nice new brigantine myself. I found with the chests that you need to be persist with trying to open them, it can take `2-3` attempts to get them open. You will often find health potions and weapons or artefacts in them, haven't found any gold yet though. You can also make cash by selling the captured ship and its goods when back in port plus the weapons/artefacts you found in the chests - this usually at least pays for repairs/crew pay/ rum/wheat etc. so that you can go out and capture something bigger <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/duel_pa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":ixi" border="0" alt="duel_pa.gif" />
 
Dunno if this is specificly for the build (can't remember), but I went out, sank about 20 ships in a row (maybe i should set the game a bit harder :p) and I got a lot more gold then what i started with. Offcourse u get money from the people u kill in the build, but not as much as what I had after that hunt.
 
Hmm.. I tried and tried with the opening chests and got nowhere. Is it luck or some other skill you need to increase to open the things? I've tried about 5 times in a row on several occasions (i'm very pig headed that way).. but had to draw the line when i started to run out of health potions and still had some scrappin' on the decks to do!
Its so unrealistic though I think - you should be able to blast any lock open with a trusty flintlock, of which i have many!
 
Heh, Groggsy, some of us have tried blasting away at a chest with a pistol, and amazingly it seemed to work. I am sure it was just coincidence, but the chest opened on the very next try! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_eek.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shock:" border="0" alt="icon_eek.gif" />

LUCK is what you need to help you get through those chests - it also helps when you are trying a smuggling run, or dealing with other unscrupulous characters. I try to add to my luck RIGHT AWAY when I start the game, because I KNOW it will help me along the way.

Also get as many of the items that enhance your luck (the "lucky ring", the cross, &tc) to help up that important level...

Something you also might do, as Nathan suggests, is to tweak the mod in BuildSettings.h - I do it to take out the explosions, which I really hate... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/razz.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":razz" border="0" alt="razz.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> You might find it easier to survive opening chests if you don't have it exploding in your face all the time! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yes" border="0" alt="yes.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

Hope this helps! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />
 
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You did get money, it shows in the log report when you captured the ship, but not on the transfer screen. That might be something worth improving.
 
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You did get money, it shows in the log report when you captured the ship, but not on the transfer screen. That might be something worth improving.[/quote]

Log report? Where do i access this? As far as i know its a bit limited in the history of your character and the only thing i can see that relates to this is the Quest book entries.
Ah... I notice on the top left of the screen whenever you do something such as gain experience or kill someone it briefly shows the various related stats there. Is there some way of reading this when say you have more time? It appears only for a few seconds so i cant take all the info in. I take it this is the log you were referring to? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />
 
You can set TRACEALLLOGS to 1 (in BS.h) and set tracefilesoff to 0 (in engine.ini).
If you don't want to start a new game, you'll have to edit the console.c file to say, before the final logit() line,
TRACEALLLOGS = 1;

and then load your game and hit F12.

Then all Log calls will be dumped to compile.log
 
Gave up after 5 trys?
I usually open a chest in my 10th one, I have a relic that astoundingly lowers my luck to 0 :/
I don't worry though, its always good to get additional experience <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
Sell that relic <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":yes" border="0" alt="yes.gif" />
 
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