Ahoy Mates
Badger here, back again after my annual re-installation of "PotC", modded to loveliness thanks to the ongoing efforts of the folk here at "Pirates Ahoy".
For a while now though I've been staring furtively at a young pretender to the throne, in the shape (as you must already have guessed) of "City of Abandoned Ships" and this time around it has come closer than ever before, to securing a purchase and usurping the pride of place previously occupied by its older brother. This I'll admit is in no small measure due to the fact that I could now get it for a mere fifteen of your squids!!
But still a niggling doubt remains and keeps the wind from my sails. It's possible that some of you, the older ones, the uglier ones with whiter whiskers and altogether fewer teeth, might remember me from posts long past and possibly even my terrible shyness of all things technical and by extension, any game which might be riddled with game breaking creepy crawlies and/or copy protection which might try to make me cry!
So at the risk of rehashing old topics which I sure have been well covered in the past, but which my time limited dabbling in "search" failed to bring up many of, might I just bend your ears long enough to ask you a few questions, from a fifty week land lubber, who is now considering where to spend this years fortnight at sea. (You know there's always the possibility that the right ship would keep me out there longer.
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Starforce: Does it or Doesn't it?
This fella has always made me very nervous (as again a few of you might already know) in that anything that breaks..I can't fix! But I did take the gamble with "Black Shark" and not only did I have no problems, but that newest version of this notorious software was virtually invisible to the Badgers eye.
One of the thread I found in "search" seemed to be suggesting that only the Russian version of "CoAS" has it in any case, but can somebody clarify this? Or if it is there, is it the shiny new version being used and is anyone here actually having any problems with it?
Patches: Should I or Shouldn't I?
"Search" found me a thread which indicated (or seemed to) that the official patches are now up to 1.3, although a quick check on "Gamershell" revealed none at all.
Should I be going for patches or heading straight to the safe port of mods and if so which is the mod fer me? Arghghgh! Sorry... I was bound to slip into pirate speak someplace in this post, there now it's out of my system. I promise. Reading between the lines, am I right to suspect that the mods and the original quests might be in some way mutually exclusive?
Well I guess that's it as I've already taken up too much of your valuable sailing time. It's nice to be back on the seas again and even contemplating a new adventure. Hopefully I'll be able to rely on you salty sea dogs to help keep my doubloons where they belong and ensure I avoid a dose of the scurvy.
All the best
Badger
Badger here, back again after my annual re-installation of "PotC", modded to loveliness thanks to the ongoing efforts of the folk here at "Pirates Ahoy".
For a while now though I've been staring furtively at a young pretender to the throne, in the shape (as you must already have guessed) of "City of Abandoned Ships" and this time around it has come closer than ever before, to securing a purchase and usurping the pride of place previously occupied by its older brother. This I'll admit is in no small measure due to the fact that I could now get it for a mere fifteen of your squids!!
But still a niggling doubt remains and keeps the wind from my sails. It's possible that some of you, the older ones, the uglier ones with whiter whiskers and altogether fewer teeth, might remember me from posts long past and possibly even my terrible shyness of all things technical and by extension, any game which might be riddled with game breaking creepy crawlies and/or copy protection which might try to make me cry!
So at the risk of rehashing old topics which I sure have been well covered in the past, but which my time limited dabbling in "search" failed to bring up many of, might I just bend your ears long enough to ask you a few questions, from a fifty week land lubber, who is now considering where to spend this years fortnight at sea. (You know there's always the possibility that the right ship would keep me out there longer.
)Starforce: Does it or Doesn't it?
This fella has always made me very nervous (as again a few of you might already know) in that anything that breaks..I can't fix! But I did take the gamble with "Black Shark" and not only did I have no problems, but that newest version of this notorious software was virtually invisible to the Badgers eye.
One of the thread I found in "search" seemed to be suggesting that only the Russian version of "CoAS" has it in any case, but can somebody clarify this? Or if it is there, is it the shiny new version being used and is anyone here actually having any problems with it?
Patches: Should I or Shouldn't I?
"Search" found me a thread which indicated (or seemed to) that the official patches are now up to 1.3, although a quick check on "Gamershell" revealed none at all.
Should I be going for patches or heading straight to the safe port of mods and if so which is the mod fer me? Arghghgh! Sorry... I was bound to slip into pirate speak someplace in this post, there now it's out of my system. I promise. Reading between the lines, am I right to suspect that the mods and the original quests might be in some way mutually exclusive?
Well I guess that's it as I've already taken up too much of your valuable sailing time. It's nice to be back on the seas again and even contemplating a new adventure. Hopefully I'll be able to rely on you salty sea dogs to help keep my doubloons where they belong and ensure I avoid a dose of the scurvy.
All the best
Badger
Will be keeping a weather eye open for the postman 
irates: Akella (Restored by Officerpuppy)
