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    Best Settings on Modern Windows?

    Sorry cant help. I'm running PB fine full screen, on an old XP box, and thinking of moving it to a win7/64 bit build. I was wondering, after running the windows 7 compatibility wizard, did you try normal full-screen?
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    Sailing Simulator 5 & The Painted Oceans

    An old favorite of mine "Sailing Simulator 5". I haven't seen this mentioned in this thread. Its a pure simulator-no game. It seems the closest to any I've sailed. Anyone else? Ive also been testing (tacking, wearing, pts of sail etc)"The Painted Ocean" and seems very good.
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    Painted Ocean

    Thanks. I remember that one too. The "HMS Surprise simulator" works like a spreadsheet calculator . You change variables and it calculates force characteristics on the sails under different conditions and displays on a 2D graphic. I read that when " "Naval Action" was being developed they...
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    Painted Ocean

    I just stumbled on this post. The "Painted Ocean" is a wonder simulation. Its unfinished -but definitely worth a try . IIt's small DL and was easy to to install. Ive spent hrs with it already. In this sim you control the individual deployment of sails, masts, rigging, trimming of a...
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    Gameplay

    yes. possibly write an external program that builds a campaign then writes to a scenerio file that can be used by the game to play out the battles. Similiar to what you have described. manually using boardgame rules.
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    Gameplay

    I was thinking of how the scenario editor writes its data to the scenario file record. In most cases this requires hex editing the file.
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    Gameplay

    Does PBs campaign editor work in the game? Ive tried. with no success. When i try to load a test campaign, the script fails to load the initial ships. The games 3 campaigns don't seem to work well either? For me they usually fail by the 3rd mission. Fortunately, The game's single...
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    Discussion The Age of Sail series

    To clarify games: Age of Sail (AOS)(1996,Talonsoft) Age of Sail II (AOS -2)(2001, Akella) Age of Sail II: Privateers Bounty (AOS 2-PB) (2002, Akella) I was describing Martes's recent fine modeling work on this game to a friend when he remarked that he had tried the game (i.e. AOS-2) found...
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