<b>Version 1.3 now available for download from this thread (compatible with Aug 21st Pre-build).</b>
v1.3 comes with a shiny new winRaR installer. Simply unzip/unrar in the main POTC directory and the files will go to the correct places.
Although, would you believe it - we can't upload .rar files here. Okay, the file is now CALLED .zip, but you'll want to rename it to .rar once you've downloaded it.
Blimey, these things are never simple, are they?
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Arrrrr...break out the rum, me 'earties, I be back on these shores once again. Back wi' a foul temper and one of those new fangled things which yer sticks in people ter make 'em bleed...a vengeance, that be the one. Arrr!
Now, as ye may recall, I was always a fan o' Cp'n Charles' Stormy Start mod. When last I beached on these shores, I had meself plans ter tweak it, by a' makin' it 'arder...and by the Devil's own hand, I've proud ter say, me hearties, that I've made good on my word.
So gather round, shipmates, and I'll tell ye a dark tale. Now, every pirate 'as a beginnin', see? He don't just pop into place aboard a great ship and call 'imself Cp'n, oh no. Can yer tell me how a pirate starts out life, seadogs? Wha'? Storks? What d'ye mean, 'storks' yer scurvy cur? No, damn yer eyes, that wasn't what I was a meanin'. Now don't you look at me like that, didn't yer mother ever tell yer about...yer don't mean yer askin' ME ter explain?
Oh, bleedin' eck! Well, when a mummy pirate and a daddy pirate love each other very, very much...arrr, I saw yer laughin'. Ye be a' havin' me on! I've a good mind terl keelhaul ye fer that, yer bilge rat. Well, since yer brings up the matter, when a daddy pirate finds a wench of a mod just a cryin' out fer a tweakin', ye ends up with a brat left behind wi' a terrible start in life who be meaner, tougher and four times as 'ard.
So, here ye have it, me 'earties: <b>Cp'n Diamond's Bastard Whoreson of a Stormy Start mod.</b>
What be the story of it, ye asks, as might well ye do? Well, on Cp'n Malcolm Hatcher's last voyage afore he retired, he passed his ship on ter his stinkin' novice o' a first mate, Nathaniel Hawk. On a nearin' Oxbay, these terrible dark stormclouds descended upon the ship, the whole place was a lit up wi' St. Elmo's fire, the crew were soilin' emselves left, right and cent'r. There was a great flash o' lightning, a terrible cannon roar o' thunder and then suddenly, nothin' happened! But it happened suddenly, mind.
Then all o' a sudden, a thumpin' great stinker o' a wave crashed o'er the bow, tore off half the prow and swept several o' the crew overboard and straight to Davy Jones' locker...what der yer mean ye've heard all this afore? Avast, ye scurvy curs, I'm a gettin' to the best bit...
For a downtrodden piece o' filth of a sailor, barely fit to swab the floor o' an outhouse, was swept off amongst them and, ter his relief, he clung ter a piece o' driftwood fer three days and nights until the storm washed 'im up on dry land. Arrr!
He woke up in rags, lost and wi' nowt to 'is name but a couple o' stones he'd picked up from the beach and an old spyglass that he'd a' strapped ter his belt, cracked and 'alf broken in the storm. No money, no survivors, no nothin'. His on'y savin' mercy was the storm havin' wrecked half a dozen ships round the island, and 'is beady eyes a spottin' a smuggler's fishin' boat 'alf smashed 'gainst the rocks off shore.
Wi' this boat, "Captain" (insyrt name 'ere) would be owner o' all he touched, iff'n the owner weren't a' watchin' and master o' the best boat afloat o' the Spanish Main, providin' all the others were in port.
Will ye take the challenge, me 'earties, and start as a true pirate starts, wi' nothin' but the shirt on yer back, the sea beneath yer feet and a pittance o' contraband and supplies that weren't a washed overboard on the dead smuggler's boat? Arrr, I hoped ye would...and if ye wouldn't, ye breath o' bilge water, why are ye readin' me thread? Avast with ye, and good luck to those who'll proudly fly their tattered sails and say "Aye, I took Cp'n Diamond's challenge head on, spat 'im in the eye and lived ter tell the tale!"
Good luck, me 'earties. Ye'll be a' needin' it. Arrr!
###
Now...there be a couple o' snags. First, WinZip is playing silly buggers and won't let me save path information. Its fairly obvious where the files should go - if in doubt, search and see, but you'll have to put them in the right places yourself. Since this isn't really ready for general release, I figure that's no great problem.
Second, while it goes hand in 'and wi' the Stormy Start mod, it goes together like a match wi' gunpowder fer some o' Maximus' mods, and yer lucky if the least that 'appens is that yer eyebrows get singed.
I've put in a couple o' workarounds, allowin' ye ter select the Tartane and the Brodyaga (bum) skin from the character selection, and removed yer bonus skill points when ye gets washed ashore. If ye have the Ammo mod, ye'll notice that ye no longer starts wi' any gunpowder, since that's the only way ter stop yerself starting wi' a whole boatload full o' the stuff after me changes, which is bizarre (Arrrr!) fer a ship wi' no guns.
So, it ain't finished...but it be workin' wi' no bugs that I can notice fer the time bein'. Its just a bit o' a one-way ticket, iff'n yer catch me drift, wi' the only way in or out ter be cuttin' and pastin'.
#### CHANGE LIST ####
Designed for use as with normal Stormy Start mod. Using this mod without selecting the Stormy Start option in a New Game will lead to a very bizarre starting situation in Oxbay. You've been warned.
Ability to select bum skin and Tartane2 from the selection menu.
In fact, whatever ship you choose, you end up with a Tartane, you scurvy cur...what else did you want this mod for?
Starting goods: 2 wheat, 1 rum, 2 (contraband)
Starting equipment: Fists, (random) stones, scratched spyglass
Starting money: 0 party, 0 personal
Starting skills: None, plus all stats set to 1
Damage to ship: Heavily damaged hull, heavily damaged sails
Number of crew: 0
Gunboat and War Tartane values increased to prevent instant buying via a generous loanshark
Tartane values reduced to prevent trade-in bonuses for the above
Minimum crew for Tartane and Tartane2 set to 0, so now you can re-enact Jack Sparrow's infamous arrival, alone on a sailing boat slowly sinking underneath him...Arrr!
CCC's Survival mod altered, to remove the infamous Tartane repair trick (as noted by Diamond last year, although KK has since made it irrelevant) and to allow ships to be royally pranged. +50 hull and +5 crew no longer apply...its now possible to be utterly stranded.
Cp'n Malcolm Hatcher should make a reappearance at Oxbay, if yer wants to slay him fer his part in gettin' yer shipwrecked in the first place.
<b>PLEASE NOTE that this mod is not selectable.</b> Until I've found a more sensible workaround for the AMMO mod and the character selection mod, its necessary to comment out or supercede several lines of code. As a result, it should only be used with Stormy Start for the time being. It isn't unfriendly to Maximus' mods in-game, but it doesn't start you off with gunpowder, etc.
### Bugs fixed ###
Captain's Cabin no longer contains 1,000 gold, potions and cracked spyglass (so no cheating!)
### Files Changed ###
This works with the current Pre_build (as at 17th August). It may not be friendly with future build updates until the mod is made selectable.
Seadogs.c
Both_reaction.c
Ships_init.c
character_init.c
###
Finally (last, but definitely not least), a good hearty vote of thanks to CCC for writing the mods that mine is wholly and shamelessly based upon.
v1.3 comes with a shiny new winRaR installer. Simply unzip/unrar in the main POTC directory and the files will go to the correct places.
Although, would you believe it - we can't upload .rar files here. Okay, the file is now CALLED .zip, but you'll want to rename it to .rar once you've downloaded it.
Blimey, these things are never simple, are they?
==============================================================================
Arrrrr...break out the rum, me 'earties, I be back on these shores once again. Back wi' a foul temper and one of those new fangled things which yer sticks in people ter make 'em bleed...a vengeance, that be the one. Arrr!
Now, as ye may recall, I was always a fan o' Cp'n Charles' Stormy Start mod. When last I beached on these shores, I had meself plans ter tweak it, by a' makin' it 'arder...and by the Devil's own hand, I've proud ter say, me hearties, that I've made good on my word.
So gather round, shipmates, and I'll tell ye a dark tale. Now, every pirate 'as a beginnin', see? He don't just pop into place aboard a great ship and call 'imself Cp'n, oh no. Can yer tell me how a pirate starts out life, seadogs? Wha'? Storks? What d'ye mean, 'storks' yer scurvy cur? No, damn yer eyes, that wasn't what I was a meanin'. Now don't you look at me like that, didn't yer mother ever tell yer about...yer don't mean yer askin' ME ter explain?
Oh, bleedin' eck! Well, when a mummy pirate and a daddy pirate love each other very, very much...arrr, I saw yer laughin'. Ye be a' havin' me on! I've a good mind terl keelhaul ye fer that, yer bilge rat. Well, since yer brings up the matter, when a daddy pirate finds a wench of a mod just a cryin' out fer a tweakin', ye ends up with a brat left behind wi' a terrible start in life who be meaner, tougher and four times as 'ard.
So, here ye have it, me 'earties: <b>Cp'n Diamond's Bastard Whoreson of a Stormy Start mod.</b>
What be the story of it, ye asks, as might well ye do? Well, on Cp'n Malcolm Hatcher's last voyage afore he retired, he passed his ship on ter his stinkin' novice o' a first mate, Nathaniel Hawk. On a nearin' Oxbay, these terrible dark stormclouds descended upon the ship, the whole place was a lit up wi' St. Elmo's fire, the crew were soilin' emselves left, right and cent'r. There was a great flash o' lightning, a terrible cannon roar o' thunder and then suddenly, nothin' happened! But it happened suddenly, mind.
Then all o' a sudden, a thumpin' great stinker o' a wave crashed o'er the bow, tore off half the prow and swept several o' the crew overboard and straight to Davy Jones' locker...what der yer mean ye've heard all this afore? Avast, ye scurvy curs, I'm a gettin' to the best bit...
For a downtrodden piece o' filth of a sailor, barely fit to swab the floor o' an outhouse, was swept off amongst them and, ter his relief, he clung ter a piece o' driftwood fer three days and nights until the storm washed 'im up on dry land. Arrr!
He woke up in rags, lost and wi' nowt to 'is name but a couple o' stones he'd picked up from the beach and an old spyglass that he'd a' strapped ter his belt, cracked and 'alf broken in the storm. No money, no survivors, no nothin'. His on'y savin' mercy was the storm havin' wrecked half a dozen ships round the island, and 'is beady eyes a spottin' a smuggler's fishin' boat 'alf smashed 'gainst the rocks off shore.
Wi' this boat, "Captain" (insyrt name 'ere) would be owner o' all he touched, iff'n the owner weren't a' watchin' and master o' the best boat afloat o' the Spanish Main, providin' all the others were in port.
Will ye take the challenge, me 'earties, and start as a true pirate starts, wi' nothin' but the shirt on yer back, the sea beneath yer feet and a pittance o' contraband and supplies that weren't a washed overboard on the dead smuggler's boat? Arrr, I hoped ye would...and if ye wouldn't, ye breath o' bilge water, why are ye readin' me thread? Avast with ye, and good luck to those who'll proudly fly their tattered sails and say "Aye, I took Cp'n Diamond's challenge head on, spat 'im in the eye and lived ter tell the tale!"
Good luck, me 'earties. Ye'll be a' needin' it. Arrr!
###
Now...there be a couple o' snags. First, WinZip is playing silly buggers and won't let me save path information. Its fairly obvious where the files should go - if in doubt, search and see, but you'll have to put them in the right places yourself. Since this isn't really ready for general release, I figure that's no great problem.
Second, while it goes hand in 'and wi' the Stormy Start mod, it goes together like a match wi' gunpowder fer some o' Maximus' mods, and yer lucky if the least that 'appens is that yer eyebrows get singed.
I've put in a couple o' workarounds, allowin' ye ter select the Tartane and the Brodyaga (bum) skin from the character selection, and removed yer bonus skill points when ye gets washed ashore. If ye have the Ammo mod, ye'll notice that ye no longer starts wi' any gunpowder, since that's the only way ter stop yerself starting wi' a whole boatload full o' the stuff after me changes, which is bizarre (Arrrr!) fer a ship wi' no guns.
So, it ain't finished...but it be workin' wi' no bugs that I can notice fer the time bein'. Its just a bit o' a one-way ticket, iff'n yer catch me drift, wi' the only way in or out ter be cuttin' and pastin'.
#### CHANGE LIST ####
Designed for use as with normal Stormy Start mod. Using this mod without selecting the Stormy Start option in a New Game will lead to a very bizarre starting situation in Oxbay. You've been warned.
Ability to select bum skin and Tartane2 from the selection menu.
In fact, whatever ship you choose, you end up with a Tartane, you scurvy cur...what else did you want this mod for?
Starting goods: 2 wheat, 1 rum, 2 (contraband)
Starting equipment: Fists, (random) stones, scratched spyglass
Starting money: 0 party, 0 personal
Starting skills: None, plus all stats set to 1
Damage to ship: Heavily damaged hull, heavily damaged sails
Number of crew: 0
Gunboat and War Tartane values increased to prevent instant buying via a generous loanshark
Tartane values reduced to prevent trade-in bonuses for the above
Minimum crew for Tartane and Tartane2 set to 0, so now you can re-enact Jack Sparrow's infamous arrival, alone on a sailing boat slowly sinking underneath him...Arrr!
CCC's Survival mod altered, to remove the infamous Tartane repair trick (as noted by Diamond last year, although KK has since made it irrelevant) and to allow ships to be royally pranged. +50 hull and +5 crew no longer apply...its now possible to be utterly stranded.
Cp'n Malcolm Hatcher should make a reappearance at Oxbay, if yer wants to slay him fer his part in gettin' yer shipwrecked in the first place.
<b>PLEASE NOTE that this mod is not selectable.</b> Until I've found a more sensible workaround for the AMMO mod and the character selection mod, its necessary to comment out or supercede several lines of code. As a result, it should only be used with Stormy Start for the time being. It isn't unfriendly to Maximus' mods in-game, but it doesn't start you off with gunpowder, etc.
### Bugs fixed ###
Captain's Cabin no longer contains 1,000 gold, potions and cracked spyglass (so no cheating!)
### Files Changed ###
This works with the current Pre_build (as at 17th August). It may not be friendly with future build updates until the mod is made selectable.
Seadogs.c
Both_reaction.c
Ships_init.c
character_init.c
###
Finally (last, but definitely not least), a good hearty vote of thanks to CCC for writing the mods that mine is wholly and shamelessly based upon.
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