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    Noticing Graphics Changes?

    Could just be due to different camera angle too. The first angle is lower, showing the horizon, while the latter is `top-down` looking at just the sea. Damn I can't wait to get in there and sail around! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bounce.gif"...
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    Something Esquemeling bad to you?

    Exquemlin was real enough, not a pen name for Defoe as the first post suggests. Another reason his work came under early fire was because of his very public dislike and disapproval of Henry Morgan. He felt that Morgan (And was probably right) had cheated most of the buccaneers out of their...
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    Pirates! Community Dilemma

    I'll be doing a fansite for sure. Sometime between now and the game's release. The focus will be on custom skins, quests, etc.
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    RELEASEDATE: Nov 16, 2004 !!!!!!

    Don't be so gullible my friends...you all know that the first date given is NEVER the date it ends up being. Typically for a reliable company like Firaxis, take the original date and add two, maybe three months. For slightly shadier companies, go ahead and tack on 6 months or more. Then...
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    The New Designer Diary....

    Yup...it's what I hate about the Akella games. Buccaneers have been known to capture galleons with little more than a piragua. This is true, but was RARE as all hell...in fact there's only one or two recorded incidents. I should have been more in clear in that no pirates captured and kept big...
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    The New Designer Diary....

    In <i>reality</i> no pirates ever captured, captained or commanded anything remotely close to a war galleon in size anyway. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
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    The New Designer Diary....

    The ability to clothe yourself without having to do so thru reskinning would push this game from impending legend into the stratosphere of "BEST THING EVER". <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0"...
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    The Difficulties of Researching the Time of 1650 to 1750

    Yeah the internet is good if you know what to look for and where to look. Beyond that I peruse lots of used & rare book shops, and scour the bibliographies of the books I have to locate further sources. And yes, I do spend a good bit of money on books. You have to, to build a suitable library...
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    Read Captain Blood online

    Methinks the game will have precious little in common with the book... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/diomed.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":dio" border="0" alt="diomed.gif" />
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    Capt. Blood Character Design Sketches

    No, his books were not illustrated. But they are firmly set in reality, no fantasy `soft-focus` world there.... If that is our character, why does he wear riding boots? Does he enjoy a morning prance about the deck of his ship on his wee lil' pony? <img...
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    Finding Facts on Ship Types, DO NOT TRUST GAMES!

    I collect literature on all aspects of life at sea in the `17-18th` centuries, and I can tell you exactly why these companies don't use it in their games: because it's hard to read and unless the person has a real passion for discovering this stuff like I & some of you do, they won't make it...
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    Capt. Blood Character Design Sketches

    Uhhh...I'd love to know what history book Akella pulled those costume designs out of for the Capt. Blood characters....oh wait excuse me...what was I thinking?? Of course....Akella pulls things outta their collective arses, not books. Jimminy! Those uniforms look more like something the evil...
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    An Old Post I Wrote

    Mark me old shipmate, the vision of you removing a shoe and slapping it on the desk to prove your point has me laughing out loud. Thank you my friend, I needed that! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":lol:"...
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    Land battles a la Gettysburg!!!

    A 2 month vacation CR? Must be NICE! Cheers to 'e <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cheers.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="cheers.gif" />:
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    Land battles a la Gettysburg!!!

    Something else I've read that excites me greatly is regarding land battles. (Yes you can land your rowdy troop of desperate thieves and plunder towns!) Anyway, Sid said that the land battles will be a tribute to his Gettysburg game. Meaning that the land battles will be RTS style, with the...
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    Rethinking Realism: SD/POTC Not so Bad

    Well said Quinn! Keep in mind that it's been confirmed that in pirates! you will be able to: make custom sails import your own music reskin your character Thus is stands to reason that other mods will be HIGHLY possible and plausible. I can't friggin wait.
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    Am I Seeing Things? (Whales?)

    Uh... there is no fish as big as a whale. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/diomed.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":dio" border="0" alt="diomed.gif" />
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    Am I Seeing Things? (Whales?)

    Nope, definitely a pod of whales. Look at the lateral fins. And the distinctive snouts. Humpbacks! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
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    Pirates of the Caribbean 2

    Keith Richards will not be joining the cast. Here's hoping they instead have the great Maureen O'Hara play the role of Jack's mum. It's too bad Anthony Quinn is no longer around, it would have been very cool to have him reprise his classic pirate characters from the 40s and 50's.
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    Small Changes You'd Like

    I'd love to start up a McHale's Navy mod for PT Boat. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />
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