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    Pirates! CD Key Location

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    Choosing eras, skills and difficulty

    Your first game is automatically chosen for you (Apprentice, 1660) and represents a 'tutorial'. If you desire to jump into the frey at a higher difficulty level, simply start a new game, sail into a town, and abandon the game. When you restart a new game, it will offer you the option of...
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    Is the swordplay ridiculously easy for everyone else too?

    A few things increase the difficulty of dueling. 1. Play on swashbuckler. 2. Use the Rapier (fast attack, slow defense) 3. Get old. Having attained a fame of 130 on Swashbuckler, I can say it definitely put me to the test in my later years. Those younger `whipper-snappers` were...
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    What is "divide the plunder"?

    A few factors to keep in mind about divide and plunder (and general crew content) 1. The older you become, the less crew will join you. Watch your health, you will eventually be forced to retire. 2. Medicine and herbs can extend your lifetime, but again, your crew will be more likely to...
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    Capturing Towns

    There are several ways to attack a town, as well as results. 1. If you are terribly outnumbered, you cannot launch an assault from Land or Sea, however, you can sneak into town. 2. Upon rallying enough crew to challenge a town, you begin a Land Battle, wherein you must strategically defeat...
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    Anybody figured out dancing?

    Dancing with the Daughter In response to difficulty and distinction between daughters, higher difficulty results in greater 'margin for error' and the more attractive a daughter the harder she is to impress. If you dance with a plain daughter on Apprentice (the initial game difficulty level)...
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