um an addition to the "governor quest: find pirate ship." I have found out that when the pirate ship is not aviable to you right away (yer in port and sailed to all possible ships ye can, boarded and such, resulting in all traders/soldiers) it can be found when going to the map and actually start circling the island, while trying "exit to sea" and "sail to" every now and then. if no new ship is found, repeat and search the whole coastline of island this way. i found a dutch pirate ship, tasked at fort orange near port royal that way. As ye cant actually "sail to" over such a distance it was unaviable. i was able to "teleport" back via the trade ships however.
can any1 pls tell me how long it takes to be in a governors favor? i do missions for all of them, but not once has friendlyness gone up. or can ye only add friendlyness to 1 nation at a time? i'm trying to do this nondiplomat, i know that way is way shorter, but for now i still think it's fun doing governor jobs.
edit (31/08/2011) hope this is the right place for this. i didn't find this on the forum, only bits and pieces. wrote it from my own experience
Since a sharpe walkthrough is needed, here is what i did.
i hope my quest will end good as i raided the santa catalina pearl diver village before (non quest related, found it while searching for a cave).
this quest is noted in the log as: "Find where the pearl divers try their ply or so"
after morgans quest of killing law, i spoke again to him, so it acted as a normal conversation i guess, but he
mentioned i could find sharp at any brothel, where else would you find a pirate eh?
so i took off to speak to the miss in the brothel, she said he took off too willemstad. (i'm playing dutch, some1
shud verify if it always directs you to yer governor town). so, we have our heading... Willemstad.
update(first 1 of quest): I learned that sharpe took off to willemstad which is in Curacao.
I arrive at willemstad, only to find out there aint no brothel... trying to talk with every1 the same way you
track down Law didn't help either, tavernkeeper nor dockwatch knows anything. now what...
For sure asking EVERYONE is asking everyone. if ye land in a town just snap the first person wandering
about.He'll tell ye if shark is in town or not. if he left, get ye booty to the next place ASAP, this may take a
while tho, so i don't know wheter or not you could do this whilst doing merchanting to keep crew happy or not.
If ye think the distance is too long, save before mooring and ask ppl again. i don't know (being an impatient
soul) if you could save/reload this for him to actually be in the town.
Anyway. once ppl say Mr sharp is in town, save, search for a really fancy looking guy. this will be sharp, can't
miss him. dunno if ye gotta search tavern n such, i met him wandreing the streets. he will tell ye where the
divers are, and how long they'll stay there.
found some threads that say he can also have just left town, in that case you seem to be able to "sail to" his
ship, if yer quick enough, but i wasn't lucky enough to get this, dunno how it works. seems his ship on map has purple sails
Alright after this short search for info, we're of on a 10 day limit san juan-turks trip. Arriving in the
archipel of turks, exiting the map and mooring to said shore, the divers have left an quest was finished saying
i'll need additional info on where they'll be from Captian sharp.i was in time, log says, and even seen the
tartanes, but i couldn't board em when i reloaded, i just ate em with my ship-of-the-line. other tartanes
(pirates, random map encounter) could well be boarded before i ate em. guess we'll need some more brothel
searches to see if quest continues.*
the next time you meet up with sharp, he'll ask a fee for the info, as you are taking money from him. you can try
to lower this, but you'll risk losing friendship, i didn't try if you can actually track him down after closing
the conversation closes, me not paying. choose a meeting places with the pearl divers
*!!!!
Ok so here is how it is to be done. ye take a very fast ship, outspeed those tartanes, and when yer in boarding
distance these divers will give you a certain amount of pearls. so make sure that you filled your ships chest
with yer trashy weapons and potions, and empty your pockets since they don't plan on overloading you. Don't go to
your cabin when ye meet the tartanes, cuz else yer getting a conflict with thefact you ended your quest and it
total count is noted, whislt you can still add more pearls. (actual game update telling some error every 5
seconds... like the log update text. try if you like.). when you cant get any more tartanes, moor or go to map
and return for the log update and the pearl count.
repeat this quest whenever you like, as long as ye don't kill his spy.(other quest for sharp)