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  1. Desric

    Forts and firing

    I think the problem here lies with the manual aiming, not cannons or ship skills. When you manually aim at a ship, wait for the aiming reticule (cursor) to turn red, that's when the cannons are aimed at the ship's hull. If that doesn't work and your aim and cannons skills are both at 100, just...
  2. Desric

    Soleil Royal

    Maybe it's best to just have an enemy capture the ship and you can take it right back as soon as you get the chance. Since you'll fail the quest, you might as well just start on the pirate quest line since the Soleil is the best part of the entire French quest line. It's so sad that you aren't...
  3. Desric

    Higher Abilities

    Sounds good. Thanks again.
  4. Desric

    Higher Abilities

    That's what I was looking for. Thanks. I'm gonna have to play around with the generator files too and see what I can make out of em. It seems pretty interesting. By the way, this is kinda off topic, but how do you add the lines of code in the separate window within the post?
  5. Desric

    Higher Abilities

    I know about preset stats for specific classes already. I'm talking about increasing the maximums for all characters and NPCs to add a bit more depth to the game. It's a bit too one-sided if I just give all the bonuses to my characters. I'm trying to get the skills past 100. I plan on doubling...
  6. Desric

    Higher Abilities

    In the base game all the PIRATES abilities are set at a max value of 10 and skills (nav, aim, luck, etc.) are set at a max of 100 and I wanted to increase those maximums to see if it would add a bit more of a challenge. I remember seeing it somewhere while looking through the program files (I...
  7. Desric

    DryDock

    I got this problem too once. It's a logbook update when you come across a ship from one of the "Captive Groom" or "Kidnapped Bride" quests. For some reason, the update appears in it's own separate logbook entry under the heading of "Dry Dock". Even if you've already upgraded you ship and the...
  8. Desric

    Question about the Austin Quest

    It's a good quest if you manage to complete it early on in the game. Austin's loot is actually pretty decent compared to the others.
  9. Desric

    my game gets very laggy after midnight

    I have the same problem. I read somewhere that turning down the sea detail helps, but I tried that and it didn't do much (if anything). I noticed that if I'm standing in the port at night I can move around just fine, but as soon as I point my character in the direction of my ship, the lag starts...
  10. Desric

    National Allegiances

    From what you describe, it is somewhat accurate. France and Holland were allied against Spain and England (who were also allied at the time) some time before Queen Anne's War in the beginning of the 18th century. England and Spain had a peace treaty towards the end of the 17th century. If you...
  11. Desric

    I have find a spy

    I don't usually get the dialogue option until after I've talked to a few of the people in town unless I find the spy right away, which actually happened once. The genius was standing right in front of the governor's door. Either way, I always save right before I accept one of the governor's...
  12. Desric

    Question about some of the 1st class ships

    Punitive squadrons are very good places to find the really heavy first and second class ships like the MOWs. They show up on the 3d world map as the largest ships sailing around (about 1.5-2x the size of your ship). It will also take time for the game to generate the MOWs. Since they're such...
  13. Desric

    Having more ships

    The crew's experience plays a big role too. You could have a captain with 100 in all stats with all the ship abilities, but the ship will just be a floating target if the crew is full of a few hundred shore loafers.
  14. Desric

    has anyone yet captured city without doing questline?

    From what I've read, you can only pillage cities until you complete a nation's quest line. After that you can capture them.
  15. Desric

    92lbs cannons

    Since the Soleil always gets grouped up on in the French quest line, I gave her 92-pounders to beat off all those galleons. It's not legit though since I had to add them in the Ships_init file. It is very good motivation to capture the Soleil once I'm done with the quests though.
  16. Desric

    Capturing Colonies

    I remember that in AoP: CT you could fire a few salvos of grape shot at the fort before boarding/landing to soften up the enemy forces. Does that still help out here or is it just a waste? I haven't really tried capturing many cities yet, but I always let a few grapes fly into the fort by habit...
  17. Desric

    [HELP] The three crystal skulls

    I can confirm that I did in fact find all three skulls in CoAS. I went through the quest again with a new character and all three were still there. All three are located in the same place (Chad Capper's chest). I found the item drops in the initItems file, so everything in there is exactly as it...
  18. Desric

    Cannon Fire

    Maybe there could be a separate command for telling your crew to fire at will (like the forts) vs firing a full broadside (like the ships do now) at anything in range. Maybe you can turn this on/off like the run/walk toggle by holding shift and clicking to fire.
  19. Desric

    What's with rum?

    One thing to note too is that if your ship is overloaded beyond max capacity, even with double rum rations, your crew morale will slowly begin to fall until you get closer to your normal crew size again.
  20. Desric

    NPC Reputation

    I've been trying to figure this out myself. I still haven't found what lines of code affect the officer's reputation and I haven't found anything on how to change it in the forums, so if there's a unique officer I know I'll want to hire later on, I just made a few copies of the officer in the...
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