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Two new ideas for POTC that I haven't seen yet!

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Cap'n Cornish

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Arrghh, greetings you bunch of barnacle chewing soundrels, I'm what they call new around these coves, and I've been avin some idears about modifying this ere game of ours some more so eres what I gota say to thee!

I've had an idea about creating more types of cannon amunition, firstly whether or not it would be possible to heat your shots, i.e. your solid iron balls and grapes and chain shot, so that upon impact they start setting things on fire, this way you could burn your enemies sails down alot quicker.

Also whether it is possible to create new types of cannons, firstly carronades, 64 pound carronades used in very short range but cause extreme damage, the victory had two mounted on the fore castle the french called them devil guns. and to go with this idea, whether or not you can add more than one type of cannon to your ship, i.e. typically your bow chasers and stern chasers were normally smaller bore cannons but longer range, like 8 pounders for example, then on your other guns decks you'd have differing cannons the smaller ones on the upper gun deck and larger on the lower, and if you have a large enough vessel two carronades on the fore castle (they fire in line with the beam of the vessel, like your typical broadside cannons) Also whether it is possible to create a new vessel called a mortar ketch, these ships had large single cannon and a few small bore normal cannons in normal position for self defence. This large mortar was in the centre of the ship that was around a bore of 100/108 pounds and was mainly used for shore or stationary target bombardment.

Whats possible out of these ideas of mine if they are at all and is any one interested in having a go coz i av no idea how to do it.

regards,

Cap'n Cornish.
 
Greetings Cap'n.

Unfortunately AFAIK it isn't possible to add more then one different type of cannon as the game engine can't really cope with it <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

I believe that it should be possible to add new ammo for the cannons but that would need a hell of a lot of coding especially to get the enemy AI to be able to change to and use the new ammo.
One or two people suggested changing the Bombs to something different like double shot balls and I briefly had a look at the code for the ammo but at the moment that type of modding is beyond my skills.

Similarly it is possible to add new type of cannon to the game, but that will also require quite a bit of modding to put into the game.


These are very useful ideas Cap'n and hopefully someone might endeavor to try to code these someday.
 
Great ideas, Cap'n Cornish, welcome to the site! <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" />
 
Hi Cap'n Cornish , as Sirus_Drake says I think it is not possible to have different types of cannon ( calibres ) in the ship , not in POTC ... maybe in the coming Pirates Of The Burning Sea we may have this feature !!
 
hmm kewl when will this Pirates of the burning sea be due for release? I've also had another idea for addition to the black smith for making the swords etc!

before i modded POTC with the build mod I had a thought when I was reading the blurb about the ruby in the items inventory. Something along the lines of making your hand stronger. Well I was wondering if perhaps maybe you could get the black smith to make custom swords, e.g. adding a ruby to the hilt etc, or changing the strapping on the handle to improve grip, and these change how your weapon works, e.g. a better type of leather strapping for the handel and your defence goes up fractionally because you can grip your sword better, etc. maybe adding other items like the jewels increase piercing, or buying a new type of metal and getting the black smith to create you a new blade for your sword increases the piercing or amount of damage you can do. Maybe create a metal alloy, one type of metal that increases damage, and one that increases piercing and combine their abilities to your sword. also the ability to get your blade sharpened to increase its damage as well! Another idea for the gun smith is to buy musket balls and gun powder because I find it quite strange how you seem to have a continuous supply of musket balls and gun powder in supply. maybe also you could improve your gun in the same manner that i mentioned for the swords. Is there also any way there could be new swords or guns added, as I would love to be able to use a blunder buss or a musket rather than a pistol at times for like shooting those damned highway men at long range.

what do you guys think?!?!

Also could someone tell me how to add items and maybe their abilities to POTC, with pictures etc. As I've had an idea for a different type of shop if you like as well or available items, maybe a Chandlers shop so you can buy charts and compasses to improve your navigation ability. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/keith.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":keith" border="0" alt="keith.gif" /> The shipyard isn't really a ship yard its the ship yards owners office, therefore it is the Ship Wrights office, is there any way you can change this? Also with the items that improve your skills can when you reach 10 on the left hand side in the skills menu that the items bonus for skills doesn't stop at ten and still keeps its benefits and goes above ten?

lots to think about, hehe lol but please can someone tell me how to add items and their abilities please as i want to add some of my own. regards,

cap'n Cornish. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pirate2.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p:" border="0" alt="pirate2.gif" />
 
Here's a link to a tutorial about adding items from the PotC WIKI:

<a href="http://robotsdontbleed.com/wacko/wakka.php?wakka=AddingNewItems&v=tfo" target="_blank">http://robotsdontbleed.com/wacko/wakka.php...gNewItems&v=tfo</a>

Might not be exactly what you're looking for, but it'll give you a good idea of where to start... <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" />
 
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