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Changing Colours,

Jason

Jason

Buccaneer
Storm Modder
I thought we could change clors byu toaking to a hired officer. When I try to do that, all I get is the officer says I will tell the crew to raise British colors. Am I remebering this wrong?
 
Aye Jason I 'ad de same thing happen,der be a change o' de colors in de relations interface,'aven't tried yet <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
Well Skull, I ahve tried that and it worked but the Spanish ships I was facing did not turn hostile to me until I fired on them a couple of times.
 
Hmm interest'n,I'd be play'n around wid it next time an see if I get's de same thing <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
they dont turn hostile for me right away sometimes either, i guess it depends on your shooting and other factors like previous relations? and rep?
 
I've talked to a hired officer and raised the Portuguese flag and also the pirate flag with no problem. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" /> Dunno about the other flags, haven't tried them.
 
Cat, when I talk to the officer, my dialouge is, "bring down the colors, we are flying a new flag." His response is, "very well I'tll the crew to hoist British coloers" . At the time that is the falg I am flying and I am presented no choices.

Any ideas?
 
That is odd, since I have a choice when I talk to my officers... ??? Is the Euro version of this game different from the USA version? <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

Jason, which officer are you asking? Did you hire him in a tavern? Some of the `quest-hired` officers do not have the right dialog for you... You need to ask a `tavern-hired` officer.
 
Cat,

I agree it is odd. I am asking hired offices not quest officers and unless downloaded the euro version by mistake, i am playing the US version. I live in Northern Virgina.

What do we try now?

Thanks
 
ok y'all, <b>you can only raise the flag of a nation you are on good terms with</b>. pay for amnesty or talk to a diplomat to improve your relations with one of the empires; then you'll be able to raise their flag. this goes for talking to an officer as well as the international interface.

also <b>raising a flag has no effect on your relations with other nations or characters or ships</b>. your friends and enemies still recognise you personally, whatever flag you fly, so don't think you can piss the french navy off then raise a french flag to get away with it lol <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/happy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="^_^" border="0" alt="happy.gif" />

hope this helps...
 
Kieron,

When talking to a hired officer I get no flag options and my relations are neutral with all nations but pirates.

I can change colours in the F2 interface to any nation including priates but it is the hired officer dialouge I am concerned with.
 
<!--QuoteBegin-Rico+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rico)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Oh yes, and why can't we make a dialog option for the `quest-hired` officers to "Get a better uniform"?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->That is something that is "in the works". <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="icon_wink.gif" />
 
<!--QuoteBegin-Jason+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Jason)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Kieron,

When talking to a hired officer I get no flag options and my relations are neutral with all nations but pirates.

I can change colours in the F2 interface to any nation including priates but it is the hired officer dialouge I am concerned with.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


ah, ok, i <i>think</i> i may have found the problem... open PROGRAMDIALOGSEnc_Officer_dialog.c and do a search for the string "flagchoice". it should occur <b>twice</b> in the file. change both of these to something that doesn't have "flag" as its first four letters - for example, you could change them to "flgchoice" (without the "a"), or "xflagchoice".

see, when you choose to turn your colours it is supposed to go to a dialogue node called "flagchoice", from which you can choose a nation; you then go to dialogue node "flag0", "flag1", "flag2", etc etc depending on the nation you choose. instead of writing out all of those dialogue nodes one by one, there's a routine at the top of the file that traps any node beginning with "flag" and sets the appropriate flag, without going into the main `dialogue-node`-choosing code - but the problem is that it's also trapping the node "flagchoice", and interpreting that as "flag0" (i.e. raise british colours) which obviously it shouldn't be doing...

hope that works <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/happy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="^_^" border="0" alt="happy.gif" /> i shall see if i can't get this put into the next build update.
 
Well that is pretty impressive, Kieron. I will try it tommorrow.

<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
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