Look for the treasure in the cave "grotto,,?" first.
kill pirate leader with left and right mouse button run around and dont let him hit you 10 in fencing recomended, wait for 2 weeks
talk to captains, after that the relation to the pirates are good,
butt all others are pissed off on you. if you take a colony set a new govenor from your crew,
After battles when you se a padlock on screen push F2 and release one of your officers to assign him for a ship or colony,
its the button to the right for assign captain or govenor
i think he should be good at, leader gunner defence dont now if so..
a officer you hired from isla mona tavern mabey works best,
make sure your colony have money and build it up if you se
fortcrew numbers are unrealistic high and other strange reload and take another colony
in my version nevis is screwed up, and officers on my other ships cant sail the ships. or hit a sitting duck,
also if you have planks on your ships they are starting to build more planks instead of repairing the ship...!
try to take a french colony build a church go in there talk to the priest and pay money to him
"Voila" the french are happy and thery friendly..
God Luck