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First of all, I just want to say what a great looking site this is. I was really impressed when I logged in and signed up.
While I haven't played every pirate game that's ever come out, I've taken a little interest in it recently and it's been a lot of fun. I played PoTC almost to the end. Got to the point where I had to fight the Black Pearl, but my ship was pretty beat up when I started and I didn't have enough firepower or skill to take it out. And I was too lazy to restore before the temple and build my fleet up again. The game was very enjoyable and the graphics are just stunning.
I ended up selling all my assets except for a Sloop and retired in the quiet coves of Falaise de Fleur.
Being a big fan of Sid Meier, a couple of months ago, I caught wind of the upcoming Pirates! release and while waiting, picked up a copy of Port Royale 2 which I hoped to satisfy me until the Pirates! was to be released. It's a fun game, but unfortunately I didn't have enough time to get very deep into it before Pirates! came out in November. Unfortunately, Pirates! had the same release date as World of Warcraft and that game has consumed a ridiculous amount of my free time. I want to get into Pirates! as well, but I have a couple of issues which are keeping me from sailing the high seas.
When I've had time, I've spent reading the manual although I'm probably just over halfway through it at this point. I didn't play the original pirates so I really had no idea what to expect. Open ended games are cool, but I'm just not sure even how to begin in this one. I can't remember a strategy type game I've ever purchased that didn't have some kind of tutorial. This not only helps you learn the interface, but also kind of gave me direction as to how to get started. In this game I have no idea. I realize the game is open ended, but I still feel like there's things I should be doing either from an exploration sense or from a military sense and I'm just totally lost.
The second thing that's keeping me from getting it going is my computer(s). I have a gaming laptop that I loaded the game on. Since a lot of the game mechanics use the numeric keypad, this presents a problem. My desktop PC would run the game fine, but I have the LE and that DVD (or any DVD) doesn't want to load. I can't even Explore it. CDs in the drive work fine. I tried copying the files to 2 CDs and installed from there. Everything worked fine, but as expected, whenever the desktop looks for the real CD, it can't find it. And since the computer won't recognize the DVD, I basically can't play it on my desktop. Anyone know why a DVD player would recognoize a CD, but not a DVD? I'm 100% positive it's a DVD player. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
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Anyway, a lack of game interface is also keeping my trying it. It's hard to fight when all you have are arrow keys although it's easily winnable at the easiest level.
That was kind of long, but I wanted to introduce myself as well as bring up these issues. This really is a great looking site and I look forward to coming back here to bother you veterans with my questions and hopefully help people with the limited skills I have.
Lyf
First of all, I just want to say what a great looking site this is. I was really impressed when I logged in and signed up.
While I haven't played every pirate game that's ever come out, I've taken a little interest in it recently and it's been a lot of fun. I played PoTC almost to the end. Got to the point where I had to fight the Black Pearl, but my ship was pretty beat up when I started and I didn't have enough firepower or skill to take it out. And I was too lazy to restore before the temple and build my fleet up again. The game was very enjoyable and the graphics are just stunning.
I ended up selling all my assets except for a Sloop and retired in the quiet coves of Falaise de Fleur.
Being a big fan of Sid Meier, a couple of months ago, I caught wind of the upcoming Pirates! release and while waiting, picked up a copy of Port Royale 2 which I hoped to satisfy me until the Pirates! was to be released. It's a fun game, but unfortunately I didn't have enough time to get very deep into it before Pirates! came out in November. Unfortunately, Pirates! had the same release date as World of Warcraft and that game has consumed a ridiculous amount of my free time. I want to get into Pirates! as well, but I have a couple of issues which are keeping me from sailing the high seas.
When I've had time, I've spent reading the manual although I'm probably just over halfway through it at this point. I didn't play the original pirates so I really had no idea what to expect. Open ended games are cool, but I'm just not sure even how to begin in this one. I can't remember a strategy type game I've ever purchased that didn't have some kind of tutorial. This not only helps you learn the interface, but also kind of gave me direction as to how to get started. In this game I have no idea. I realize the game is open ended, but I still feel like there's things I should be doing either from an exploration sense or from a military sense and I'm just totally lost.
The second thing that's keeping me from getting it going is my computer(s). I have a gaming laptop that I loaded the game on. Since a lot of the game mechanics use the numeric keypad, this presents a problem. My desktop PC would run the game fine, but I have the LE and that DVD (or any DVD) doesn't want to load. I can't even Explore it. CDs in the drive work fine. I tried copying the files to 2 CDs and installed from there. Everything worked fine, but as expected, whenever the desktop looks for the real CD, it can't find it. And since the computer won't recognize the DVD, I basically can't play it on my desktop. Anyone know why a DVD player would recognoize a CD, but not a DVD? I'm 100% positive it's a DVD player. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />Anyway, a lack of game interface is also keeping my trying it. It's hard to fight when all you have are arrow keys although it's easily winnable at the easiest level.
That was kind of long, but I wanted to introduce myself as well as bring up these issues. This really is a great looking site and I look forward to coming back here to bother you veterans with my questions and hopefully help people with the limited skills I have.
Lyf
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