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    Solved Realism with Health, Potions, Stamina, etc.

    How about having the "wounded" player and sailors repair health only by visiting the ship (ship's doctor or surgeon) or a similar establishment in a colony? Is there a way to slow down the rate of regaining health on the red indicator bar? As a matter of fact, how about adding a "medicine...
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    "Realistic" shiprepairtime in shipyards

    Charles, Thanks for all the changes you've done for POTC, much appreciated! I wrote on another thread about limiting the horizontal traversing of the port and starboard cannons- is there a way to keep the target cursor at 90 degrees to the length of the ship (I practice this anyway in the...
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    Build 11.99e (unofficial Build 12 alpha fer testin')

    Great job on 11.99. I especially like the Gunboat, use it when I start out and work my way up (love them swivels). Keep the lingering smoke clouds after firing the cannon, adds to the feel of the game. Don't particularly care for the changing weather in the midst of a battle (especially...
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    Can this be done for Build 12?

    Was wondering if the following could be implemented into Build 12- 1. Blank out data when using spyglass. I prefer just the circle with black borders, works fine for me (I tried messing with telescope magnification, computer dumped). Can spyglass magnification be increased to say 15x or 20x...
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    Game Crashes? Try this...

    ADDED- I was still having some crashes after changing graphics to 640x480x16. After reviewing the internet, I found this topic which seems to have worked (game hasn't crashed the whole day). Go to Start/Control Panel/System then click on the Advanced tab up top. Then go to the Performance...
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    Get rid of crew on deck?

    Have Build 11 and enjoy it enough (when the game doesn't crash). However, the high rez crew is ok, but I really dislike the constant moving around. Anyway to get rid of them by modifying or deleting a file? Yours, Mike
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    Swashbucklers

    Since Akella's pirate games are geared towards fantasy rather than historical fact, I guess we're going to have to put up with the lack of realism. They haven't made many changes in the towns guards... For instance, it would be great to be able to control a portion of your party as in...
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    The Difficulties of Researching the Time of 1650 to 1750

    No problem Captain P! My current area of study is William Augustus Bowles, privateer of the 1790's/early 1800's and "Director General of the Muskogee Nation". There isn't much in any local library about him, but I have found some great info on him in the state library online. Heck, he even had...
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    The Difficulties of Researching the Time of 1650 to 1750

    I have to admit that the internet has helped me immensely over the years doing research. Many of the sources I use include estate inventories, wills, and so forth on geneological websites. Other records are available off the net include journals from various websites (do a title search, the...
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    Pirates Didn't Buy Ships

    The only pirate I've read about who actually bought a ship was the "gentleman" Stede Bonnet! <a href="http://www.piratesinfo.com/biography/biography.php?article_id=31" target="_blank">http://www.piratesinfo.com/biography/biogr...p?article_id=31</a> Yours, Mike
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    Game Crashes? Try this...

    Okay, after many hours of frustration with POTC, I think I've found a solution. After visiting the Intel website, I read through the tech info for the graphics card. It suggested that I try running the game at 640x480, High Color, 16 bit. Well, whaddya know, so far the game hasn't dumped in...
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    engine.ini or options file is missing ?

    This game is about to get the deep six... After another .dll error (the game still ran), I got a crash and when rebooting, go this error- No 'module path' key in engine.ini well, guess what, nothing in the engine.ini folder! So, if anyone can post the content so I can copy and paste in...
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    Pistols!

    Most naval pistols were large caliber smoothbores, therefore the HP should be quite high at close range. For example, I own a Charleville Model 1777 reproduction that fires a .69 caliber ball. I've shot it using 25 grains of FFg powder, and the kick was pretty bad (about as much as a .44 mag)...
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    Blue screen, and pherhaps a hint where to look?

    I had a similar problem, only my message included ialmdd5.dll. I downloaded a driver off the net, which didn't seem to work. Restarted the computer as directed in safe mode, defragged, `un-installed`, reinstalled, then ran Build 11 and updates (and deleted former saves). However.... I did d/l...
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    Should I sink this game?

    Just when I thought it was safe to go back into the water... The game froze while on land trying to gain access to my ship... reloaded and later crashed during a sea battle (after sinking three French ships). Anyway, the nice blue screen gave me a ialmdd5.dll error listing and told me to...
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    Should I sink this game?

    Got the game to run smoothly after going into PROGRAM/BuildSettings.h and tweeking the fog option to zero, and the coast raiders and traders also to their lowest settings. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="8)"...
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    Should I sink this game?

    I am having much the same problem as Cwineman. After downloading some new drivers, I'm still having the game crash during cut scenes (graphics are set to low, screen res 800x600x32- could this be a problem associated with the sound files?). I have noticed a lot of lag when there are many...
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