Peter Blood
Privateer
This idea has been suggested in the past in a previous thread, but it was left dormant for a while. For the next patch or beta, I had an idea that we rename the Turks island to New Providence and make the pirate fort there "Nassau." The reason that I am suggesting this name change is because, though Grand Turk was an important island in the colonial Caribbean, New Providence was by far more significant in a piratical sense. It seems odd that this is a pirate themed game and New Providence is rarely mentioned at all when it was the most important pirate town in the Caribbean following the destruction of Port Royal. It was the pirate capital of the Caribbean until about 1718 when Woodges Rodgers was made governor. We fail to recognize New Providence in this game and it may be crucial, in a sense of being inclusive to a broader range of pirate history, to add it as an island. SInce we can not create a brand new island north of Cuba (unless doing it the Mona method, which would take too much work), I propose that we rename the Turks to New Providence. It already has a pirate settlement there, so that takes care of historical accuracy in a limited sense. On the flip side however, the Turks is an accurately placed island in our archipelago (it being just north of Hispaniola in reality) and there would be a discrepancy in the actual location of the island in accordance to where it is in real life.
I personally think that New Providence needs recognition in New Horizons and it would be easy to change the name of Turks to New Providence in the game files. So now I am asking you, what ye all think we should do. Should we keep the location accurate Turks, or change the name of the island to the slightly northwestern isle of New Providence...an island that was a substantial part of piracy in the Caribbean. If we were to add a NP, the Turks would be our most appropriate culprit to fix such.
I personally think that New Providence needs recognition in New Horizons and it would be easy to change the name of Turks to New Providence in the game files. So now I am asking you, what ye all think we should do. Should we keep the location accurate Turks, or change the name of the island to the slightly northwestern isle of New Providence...an island that was a substantial part of piracy in the Caribbean. If we were to add a NP, the Turks would be our most appropriate culprit to fix such.