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Stuck At Ammunition Barque Escort Main Quest.

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pirateman

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The french port keeps attacking me. Once I equip the french flag I can enter the port but once I leave the port with the french flag still equipped I get oneshot killed. Please help.

Edit: Game states I'm unrecognised
 
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"Unrecognised" in the interface screen is just an indication of your overall fame - you haven't done much in the game yet so almost nobody has heard of you.

That doesn't prevent forts from recognising you. Possibly the fort saw you under a hostile flag before you sailed to port. Or it may have seen through your false flag, unlikely at your current level of non-fame but not impossible.

You could go to the beach instead, then walk to town.
 
Grey Roger said:
"Unrecognised" in the interface screen is just an indication of your overall fame - you haven't done much in the game yet so almost nobody has heard of you.

That doesn't prevent forts from recognising you. Possibly the fort saw you under a hostile flag before you sailed to port. Or it may have seen through your false flag, unlikely at your current level of non-fame but not impossible.

You could go to the beach instead, then walk to town.
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The thing is. The quest man named Virgil Boon wants me to sail my ship to the port so I can escort him. It won't work when I go from the beach because he will ask me to sail it to port. I guess I may have to just grind a bit for better skills and better ship?
 
You could go to the governor and ask for forgiveness. This will cost you some money. If you don't have enough, you'll need to do a bit of grinding to get it. But you'd need to do a lot of grinding to get a ship capable of attacking a fort!
 
I'll try the forgiveness aproach. If that doesn't work I'll just abandon the quest line till I've got better stuff so I can atleast get out of the fort's range before sinking.
 
Can you upload a savegame from before you talked to Virgile Boon? I have an idea which I want to try out, which could solve this problem.
 
I could. But I've got 70 quicksaves in the folder and I can't tell which is the one I need.

Edit: I know which one it is in-game. But in the folder they're all named 'QuickSave xx'
 
I guess it doesn't really matter. I'll send them all. In the image below you can see the save file in question. I'll add a .7z file with my save games in the attachments.

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Thanks!

I had a look at some of the quicksaves. Starting from that quicksave, or from any of the next three to the right (various stages of your progress through St. Pierre), it seems that the fort commander has not yet recognised you. The problem is that you've moored at the beach showing your Personal flag, and France is hostile to you. The fort can see a long distance and doesn't bother if there's a big lump of rock called Martinique in the way. (Pretend there are spotters around the coast. :p) So when you go to sea, the fort spots your Personal flag at once and remembers you, so even if you then raise a French flag and sail round to the port, the fort knows you're not French and attacks.

You can't change flag while you're ashore. But you can change flag while you're on deck. So, starting from the beach, board the ship but do not go to sea, go to the deck instead. Then change your flag to French. Now you should be able to go to sea safely and sail round to the port.

Alternatively, go to the tavern and wait until night. Visible range is a lot shorter in darkness. You can then go to the beach, go to sea, the fort can't see you at that distance in the dark, so now you can raise a French flag and sail round to the port.

I tried all these myself using your savegames. If I go straight to sea in broad daylight and hoist the French flag, the fort still attacks when I get to the port. If I go to deck, change flag and then go to sea and sail to the port, I'm safe. If I wait in the tavern until night, go to the beach, go straight to sea, change flag and sail to the port, I'm safe.

Some of your savegames show that you've started the "Help the Boatswain" quest but have yet to finish it. If you've talked to Orable Caron about the boatswain, go through the rocks next to the harbour master's house. You should get to another beach with a boat under construction, where you should find a large black man named Fred Bob wandering around. He's the boatswain in question and a very useful man to have with you in a fight.
 
Thanks for all the effort you put into this. This time I've tried this on my most recent save and changed my flag in the middle of the ocean instead of near the island and they allowed me to enter and leave port. I'm very pleased with the results of this and wish to thank you one last time.

Oh and thanks for telling me about the boatswain, I'll check it out. Have a nice day!
 
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