That bloody prurple pirate!!!

[KingLouisII]

Hey guys, I got a few problems with ships surrendering but I don't want to shut surrendering off.
#1) For the last 8-10 boardings, as I walk up to discuss terms of surrender, a purple pirate starts fighting the surrendered captain and kills him. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/duel_pa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":ixi" border="0" alt="duel_pa.gif" /> Now I'm stuck on this ship standing still with no way to move on. I have to load a previous game to start again which sucks sometimes beacuse I want that ship. I've lost at least 5-6 MOWs and SOLs due to this.
#2) Often when ships strike their colors I am no longer able to board them. This happens about half the time, mostly on mid-size ships, though I don't know if that has anyrthing to do with it.
Any thoughts? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/me.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="me.gif" />

 

[Jason]

Big Daddy,

I haven't hjad any of thsoe problems and I have been playing a lot. Do you think this might be in you settings somewhere? When you say stuck do you mean your character can't move a t all or that you can't get off the deck to the ransack screen?

Are the ships with struck colors that you can't board enemies you have been fighting, friendlies or neutral?

Congratulations on graduation!

 

[IncredibleHat]

1) This happens on occasion, not sure about the latest update (havnt had time to play it yet). We really need to add a check in the code that if at _ANY TIME_ the captain of that ship dies... you can now get to an 'exit point' to go to the plunder screen. This would at least help all of us who get stuck in the captains quarters, or on deck because a stupid crew mate killed the guy before you could talk to him.

2) This isnt really a 'bug' ... just a VERY misleading aspect of the surrender code. If the ship was not your enemy (not red), and if there are OTHER ships (not your own fleet) around that are fighting them, they may have surrendered to the other ship. In which case you cannot board them. This happens a LOT when you are neutral, and you sail into a battle between two nations... a lot of 'surrenders' happen, but none of them are boardable, as they were surrendering to each other.

 

[KingLouisII]

Thanks for the replies. I have just relized that the purple pirate is there every time I get on the large and medium modded decks. He fights on the starbord side of the ship when a battle is on. It seems he doesn't disappear like the rest during surrender. When the captian dies, I can't move at all. Which sucks because I really want to kill that pirate (alot!). I wonder why he attacks his own captain but doesn't kill me. (maybe one of mine?) <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />

As for ships striking their colors, I was refering to the ships I was battling. They strike their colors, I get close, but I can't board. like I said, this happens a little less that 1/2 the time. It's not really a serious problem, just an annoyance.
Thanks

 

[konradk]

That's behaviour of surrendering ships is misleading, but it helps to avoid messing the game. If boarding was allowed for every ship whole thing would be more complicated. For example, lets assume that Nathaniel, using his colors, enters battle between England and France. First, some British ship surrenders, allowing board icon. Later, some French ship struck colors, but close to surrendered British ship. If Nathaniel would want to capture French ship, he could sail close to her, but would risk capturing Englishman instead.

Alternatively, in Build 13.1 we could rewrite surrender mod to enable boarding any surrendered ship, but also allowing which ship to board if situation isn't clear.

pirate_kk