regenerating captains

[redCorsair]

might be a thing to consider that certains levels of difficulty are only playable with certain caracter setup (basic stats & perks),maybe you haven't found the right combination.
I'm playing on Corsair ( I don't know if it's lower than Admiral, I guess it is) and I often finding myself thinking/feeling like you , but the real result,in the end, is that I'm more excited by game difficulty, to find the right solution(the positive side of such kind of frustration).
While I do agree with almost any observation "Why register" made about the game I try to look at the positive side of the thing - the game is how it is(very frustrating at times) and no better (at least for now) but has some elements that I love and I'm giving my best to complete it (and see more of it) at a difficulty level that I find chalenging (yet allows me to advance) - so I go on and keep givin' my best shot.
Simply put it's interesting enough for me to keep me playing - I want to see as much as possible of it.If that wouldn't have been the case I would have looked somewhere else ,played something else and that's all.

 

[LordDrow]

Well, I will say this much. He's persistent.

Look, no game on the planet has been perfect. PERIOD.

This franchise has been around longer than most, with more releases, mods and additions that most western games EVER get. EVEN if they INCLUDE a toolset.

This game is going to get the same treatment by the dedicated group of players here that was applied to PotC. At that point, you can be sure MANY changes will be made to the game.

As to some of you complaints, well most of them have been addressed and admirably so by our community.

The one thing I will say, and has been said time and again. Even if you are playing one notch from the hardest difficulty in the game, expect things to be tough.

When you realize that again, this game has more difficulty settings than most games dream of, that should be some inkling that if you are playing at the top of the scale, things might be a bit ahem.... pun intended... Overboard!

And I play at the Impossible level. There are NO enemies that constantly regen. Eventually they run out of potions and then they die like every other NPC.

Cap'n Drow

 

[Croaker]

OP said he is 'level 1'

I can understand wanting a challege, but you seriously need to learn the mechanics of a game on easy before you start complaining about challenge. I just started my second game, where I bumped up the difficulty a bit, but even on easy I would sometimes get attacked by a group of 5 battleships. I could charge head on into them and die, but a smart pirate knows when to run.

Ok, back to 'regenerating captains'. You are level 1. Your fighting skill is going to be very low and you will have a poor weapon. You will be doing only about 10 damage per swing. By the time you have good fighting skill and a good weapon, you will be doing 100 damage per swing and 200-500 criticals. The fact is, you simply aren't ready yet.

So stop being a stupid pirate! Go wander around in the jungle and fight bandits until you have some skill. Don't forget, you can run away if things turn bad.

 

[freaker]

<!--quoteo(post=328834:date=Jun 15 2009, 03:58 AM:name=Why register)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Why register @ Jun 15 2009, 03:58 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=328834"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I have not seen this mentioned, so I'm mentioning it now. On "Admiral" difficulty I am frequently encountering enemy captains that regenerate health faster than I can remove it. About 50% of them. I waste a LOT of time boarding ships only to find out that it's impossible for me to ever win the boarding combat, due to this bug. And I do consider it to be a bug.

And that's another issue I have with this, which could otherwise be a very good game: there is WAY TOO MUCH breaking of the programmer's own rules on behalf of the AI in order to set the difficulty. Attention, programmers everywhere: if you can't handle programming difficulty settings without breaking your own rules, find a new profession! Make space for somebody who can. There are plenty of programmers who want your job. Go work at 7-11.

And sorry for the tone of this comment, but I spent over an hour wrestling with trying to get "registered" with this damn board. It seems the programmers of this forum software think that customer service emails should be sent with the Display name (only) and not the login name which is a pain in the ass when you forget your login name. And what's with all the security settings on this forum anyway? I would think that for games as unpopular as these are, fans would want to encourage participation on forums like this. Instead you give potential members a massive freaking headache? Whatever.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
the account activation is needed in order to prevent the registering of spam bots, which are something very bad(form personal expirience). So don't complain <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Account activation isn't even so much trouble. You get an e-mail, press a link and you're done. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />

 

[LordDrow]

Indeed, I can't see what difficulty there was to register. Seems to me just a reason to complain.

Cap'n Drow

 

[Fred Bob]

Now c'mere WR an' drink ye dis 'ere glass o' nice warm milk, matey! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> It'll do ye good! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />

 

[whocares]

Sordid, it's NOT "nightmare" setting, it is "ADMIRAL" setting. And that's NOT the hardest setting, it is 2 settings below the hardest. For God's sake, if you are gonna be such a dick at least get your smartass comments in order.

Now please tell me how I'm supposed to do the "blood" character on this difficulty setting, when in the very beginning I am forced to duel somebody with nothing but a rusty sabre that maxes out at 8 damage, while the opponent has several hundred health. And my stats are exactly what they were on character creation. The dude kills me with any attack that gets through including one shot from his pistol, and I have to hit him at least 50 times to kill him. I haven't even been able to get the dude down far enough to see if he goes into perma-regenerating mode, yet.

This isn't a "difficulty" setting, it is sheer stupidity.

The ship combat is WAY too easy in this game. My ship has NEVER been sunk, on any difficulty setting. It's WAY to easy to make money in this game. After the first week, I've always got more cash than I can spend. In ANY difficulty setting.

That's what I want to make harder. I don't care about thsi avatar combat. The implementation is awful. My guy moves like he has concrete blocks attached to both feet, the control system is unmanageable, the camera is disgusting and the I can't stomach the cheezy way they spawn you into shitty situations (usually facing a wall!) when the whole idea of tactical combat is that the player should be able to plan rather than just jerk-and-twitch react. I'd just as soon they took that aspect of gameplay entirely out of this product. They didn't do it well enough for it to be very much fun, even if it wasn't for all the AI cheats in place.

So, bottom line is... the things I want to be challenging, aren't. the things I don't care about, are. That's a problem. And now since I'm about done with thsi game (unless somebody can fix the difficulty, which I doubt since it seems to be hardcoded) then I'll bid you all adieu.

 

[Tahlendorf]

C'ya!!

 

[whocares]

PS to Croaker-


<i>OP said he is 'level 1'</i>

On Admiral difficulty, yes. Everyone starts new characters at level one, yes?

<i>I can understand wanting a challege, but you seriously need to learn the mechanics of a game on easy before you start complaining about challenge.
</i>

And you seriously need to stop making dumb assumptions. Just because I said I ran into this problem at Admiral difficulty while I was level 1, you assume that I just jumped into this game on Admiral setting? lol.

I think I mentioned that I played other difficulty settings pretty extensively, and that's why I cranked it up. The easiest one (Sailor, right?) I was making levels and skill-ups so fast I felt liek I was missing large chunks of the gameplay. Then I tried two up form that. Same problem. So I tried "Captain" which is in the middle. Same problem. Then I tried "Corsair" which is 2 up from Captain. Same problem. Then I tried Admiral. OK great, now my leveling has (finally) slowed down - problem is now I run into regenerating Captains that I can't kill.

<i>I just started my second game, where I bumped up the difficulty a bit, but even on easy I would sometimes get attacked by a group of 5 battleships. I could charge head on into them and die, but a smart pirate knows when to run.
</i>

Somebody who has this happening to him is telling me about learning how to play teh game before I comment on it? lol.

<i>Ok, back to 'regenerating captains'. You are level 1. Your fighting skill is going to be very low and you will have a poor weapon. You will be doing only about 10 damage per swing. By the time you have good fighting skill and a good weapon, you will be doing 100 damage per swing and 200-500 criticals. </i>

Dude, didn't you just say that you only now began your second game?

<i>The fact is, you simply aren't ready yet.</i>

Excuse me? I'm not ready to capture LUGGERS at level 1 or 2? What level are you, when you start capturing luggers? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="ohmy.gif" />

<i>So stop being a stupid pirate! Go wander around in the jungle and fight bandits until you have some skill. Don't forget, you can run away if things turn bad.</i>

No, you can't run away. Not when a pistol shot will instakill you. You really have no clue what I'm talking about, do you? Maybe you should try a high difficulty setting, and see what you think of it then. Just saying...

 

[whocares]

<i>The one thing I will say, and has been said time and again. Even if you are playing one notch from the hardest difficulty in the game, expect things to be tough.
</i>

It is TWO notches down from hardest, Drow. Your the second person in this thread to be talking about difficulty settings, and doesn't even know what the difficulty settings are called. What's the deal? Do all you fanboys just play on easy-mode or something? Single-handedly destroying whole fleets, taking screenshots and giggling your geek asses off the whole time?

 

[Sordid]

<!--quoteo(post=329759:date=Jun 17 2009, 12:22 AM:name=Why register)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Why register @ Jun 17 2009, 12:22 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=329759"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->And you seriously need to stop making dumb assumptions. Just because I said I ran into this problem at Admiral difficulty while I was level 1, you assume that I just jumped into this game on Admiral setting?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Given that you're complaining that the game is difficult on a high difficulty setting, that is not at all unreasonable. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I think I mentioned that I played other difficulty settings pretty extensively, and that's why I cranked it up. The easiest one (Sailor, right?) I was making levels and skill-ups so fast I felt liek I was missing large chunks of the gameplay. Then I tried two up form that. Same problem. So I tried "Captain" which is in the middle. Same problem. Then I tried "Corsair" which is 2 up from Captain. Same problem. Then I tried Admiral. OK great, now my leveling has (finally) slowed down - problem is now I run into regenerating Captains that I can't kill.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
There is a slider that allows you to change the rate of experience gain independently of the difficulty setting, you know.
Or rather you don't, apparently.

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Somebody who has this happening to him is telling me about learning how to play teh game before I comment on it?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
And quite appropriately so, given the fact that the type of ship you encounter is randomized and has nothing whatsoever with one's skill at the game.

<!--quoteo(post=329762:date=Jun 17 2009, 12:26 AM:name=Why register)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Why register @ Jun 17 2009, 12:26 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=329762"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It is TWO notches down from hardest, Drow. Your the second person in this thread to be talking about difficulty settings, and doesn't even know what the difficulty settings are called. What's the deal? Do all you fanboys just play on easy-mode or something? Single-handedly destroying whole fleets, taking screenshots and giggling your geek asses off the whole time?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This from the person who has failed to notice the big "Rate of Experience Increase" slider. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/24.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="24.gif" />

 

[LordDrow]

Hmmm, you really do seem to have a very skewed view of how to deal with other people, WR.

I'm quite impressed with your logic combined with your ever so witty expressions of disillusionment and distress over this game.

I'm happy that you feel such a need to lash out at anyone and anything that even calmly said things give you reason to be rude and snide.

Good for you!

Sadly I can't say that I agree with everything you say nor the way you play with others.... BADLY.....

I understand you don't like some of the things in the game, so either FIX it yourself(you do have access to the program directory), or wait for someone to do so on their own.

This version of the game is the best in the series stock out of the box.

If you've never played Seadogs, PotC or AoP, then you should give each of them a try right out of the box and tell us, NICELY how they stack up.

Cap'n Drow

 

[whocares]

PPS=Peter Blood on Admiral. Starting. Boarding frigate. Captain's Cabin. Go through door. Boom. One shotted by captain's pistol. Reload. Go through the door. Boom. One shotted, again. Reload. Go through the door. Boom. One shotted. Endless loop. You get he picture. Some smartass want to lecture me about the problem is that I haven't mastered enough fencing skills? There's a fencing skill that prevents me from being one-shot-killed from across the room before I'm even done loading into the zone?

I did manage to eventaully kill that guy whose finger I needed for the earlier quest. Took half an hour, for the one fight where I actually succeeded. No idea how much time altogether. And I went from 6 "medium weapons" to 23. Is that normal? I guess it might be! Because without those extar skill points I got during the fight I probably wouldn't have ever won it <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="ohmy.gif" />

Seems like this Captain's cabin on the frigate is a real game-killer though. Nobody else has tried this? Really? Not even the beta testers? Hmmm.

 

[whocares]

<i>I'm happy that you feel such a need to lash out at anyone and anything that even calmly said things give you reason to be rude and snide.</i>

Drow, when two different people decided to be assholes to me right off the bad, my obligation to be civil on this forum vanished. Sorry, buddy, but it isn't me who has the problem with being a jackass, its you fanboys. And no, smartass and condescending doesn't count as "polite". Not in my world. I don't care if you f**kers are 14 years old. That's why everyone hates 14 year olds, eh?

 

[whocares]

Sordid you ignorant slut,

<i>Given that you're complaining that the game is difficult on a high difficulty setting, that is not at all unreasonable. laugh.gif
</i>

Can you read? I'm not complaining about difficulty, I'm complaining that the AI does not use the same set of rules that the player uses.


<i>There is a slider that allows you to change the rate of experience gain independently of the difficulty setting, you know.
Or rather you don't, apparently.
</i>

The first thing I did when after loading this game up was move that all the way to the left. Didn't seem to make much difference on the easy settings. But maybe for people like you, gaining a level every 2 fights seems like really slow, man. Eh?


<i>And quite appropriately so, given the fact that the type of ship you encounter is randomized and has nothing whatsoever with one's skill at the game.
</i>

I have no idea what that means. I've never had the least bit of difficulty with the ship to ship combat in this game, on any setting, and the person I was replying to was saying he did. So I'm wondering why he feels it necessary to tell me I'm not doing it right? The extreme ease of naval combat is what caused me to crank up the settings in the first place. Anyone who thinks the naval combat in this game is hard is pretty fukin lame, dude. My dog could write better ship subroutines than this. Have you ever watched what the computer opponent actually DOES during sea combat? It's ridiculous. It's like they are programmed to lose or something.

<i>This from the person who has failed to notice the big "Rate of Experience Increase" slider. 24.gif</i>

This, from the person who thinks making level 5 in 3 hours is "slow"? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="ohmy.gif" />

Or does your uber self spend all his time making trade runs and carrying passengers? I suppose leveling might be pretty slow, if you only make points on navigation and trade, eh? Even on easymode, which seems to be all you can manage, mister "OMFG you are playing on NIGHTMARE!!!! WTF!?!?!?".

 

[Croaker]

<!--quoteo(post=329759:date=Jun 16 2009, 10:22 PM:name=Why register)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Why register @ Jun 16 2009, 10:22 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=329759"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->PS to Croaker-

And you seriously need to stop making dumb assumptions. Just because I said I ran into this problem at Admiral difficulty while I was level 1, you assume that I just jumped into this game on Admiral setting? lol.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


Ok, here is an non assumption. <b>You are a prick</b>.

You probably can't even buy a loaf of bread without insulting someone. Living life in your shoes must be a truely miserable experience.

Since you find fault in everything you see, go look in a mirror. Then please go kill yourself.

 

[veradin]

You know, <b>why register</b>, it's people like you that make the internet a miserable place. I've read your posts and I read the initial replies, and while I am 95% in agreement with your complaints about the game, I'm 100% in disagreement with your attitude and your perception that it's warranted. No one was an ass to you to start out with; they may have disagreed with your points, which unless times have changed is their right to do so. You seem to have a great deal of pent up frustration about the game which you are unfairly taking out on other people on this forum, and frankly I'm surprised they haven't IP banned you from posting after your many snarky comments. It's a tribute to their willingness to work with you and try to come to some understanding that you can still post here at all, and that's something to consider.

One other thing:

I found registration <b>incredibly straightforward</b> compared to about 80% of the sites I have forum accounts with, so I'm not sure where you're coming from with complaining it was overcomplicated. In fact, I registered in direct response to your claim to see for myself if your words carried some merit, and I really can't say that they do. Again, I think you're just really frustrated with the game (and rightly so) and taking it out on whoever you can. My advice is to get in touch with Akella and lambaste them for what is essentially just an Age of Pirates <b>expansion</b> with dated visuals that, in spite of years of development time, somehow has so many things wrong with it.


But enough of that. I will say that I quite enjoy the game aside from the numerous quest bugs, including the 'type in this trivia question to get this item' where 50% of the time they've actually misspelled the word you need internally. Found this out the hard way with the 'First Dutch Explorer to circumnavigate the globe', which is Oliv<b>ie</b>r van Noort, not Oliver van Noort. Also, they got the Grecian ship just plain wrong (it should be Trireme, not Trirere according to all the sources I've read), another source of some frustration on my part! Still, I've had a blast bringing my crew with me into caverns and activating those weird glowy spots to fight undead. Easiest way to get rich as far as I can tell!

Off-topic, but I was glad to hear you can actually add custom Captains to the game so I've been busy drawing some portraits for when I find a model that looks reasonably close to what I want. It's also good practice since I haven't drawn portraits in awhile.

 

[Thomas the Terror]

Hey, why register, watch your words, you are going to be banned soon <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> And that is extraordinary. The only 'people' who get banned are bots/spammers and a german kid called leon a.k.a. 125fffffffffff on youtube. Go talk to him. And if you find us pirate-geeks, you have come to the wrong place to whine. And why did you buy this game anyway if YOU aren't a so-called 'pirate geek'.


Just a little warning for you, I am the moderator that isn't polite towards ignorant gits like you, Pieter and Drow have been very nice for you! Go complaining on the, "My-ego-is-bigger-than-yours-and-so-is-my-brain-and-private-parts,-now-all-go-away-so-I-can-be-great! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />

 

[Thagarr]

Nathaniel 'Gallows' Cordel. Welcome aboard mate! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />