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[Appleton]

Hi i'm new here, i'v been looking for a half-decent pirate game for a while. I played the original Sea Dogs recently, and thoroughly enjoyed it, but it got a bit annoying after a while due to the sheer 'oldness' of it. So i got this, and it's great. I'm struggling to get anywhere on it though, as soon as i come out of port, i get assaulted by poo loads of pirates, 3 class 6 at times, which is a bit pooish, as it stops me progressing. So any help on getting started so that i can stand on my own two feet would be appreciated, because i have had to restart the game around 6 times now.
A couple of other questions: there dosn't seem to be any general conversations about the game play here, like anyone just talking about what they get up to in the game, and tips for differant ways to play the game etc... where are they?

I think i know pieter from the virtual Sailor community, but i wasn't there for long so i don't think we got to chatting. If you need any help with the modding give me a shout and i'll see what i can do, got some modelling and graphic experiance under my belt.

 

[Short Jack Gold]

<!--quoteo(post=288123:date=Nov 7 2008, 04:22 PM:name=Appleton)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Appleton @ Nov 7 2008, 04:22 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=288123"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Hi i'm new here, i'v been looking for a half-decent pirate game for a while. I played the original Sea Dogs recently, and thoroughly enjoyed it, but it got a bit annoying after a while due to the sheer 'oldness' of it. So i got this, and it's great. I'm struggling to get anywhere on it though, as soon as i come out of port, i get assaulted by poo loads of pirates, 3 class 6 at times, which is a bit pooish, as it stops me progressing. So any help on getting started so that i can stand on my own two feet would be appreciated, because i have had to restart the game around 6 times now.
A couple of other questions: there dosn't seem to be any general conversations about the game play here, like anyone just talking about what they get up to in the game, and tips for differant ways to play the game etc... where are they?

I think i know pieter from the virtual Sailor community, but i wasn't there for long so i don't think we got to chatting. If you need any help with the modding give me a shout and i'll see what i can do, got some modelling and graphic experiance under my belt.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->What game version are you playing?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I indeed do vaguely remember a Virtual Sailor member with "Appleton" in his name.
Wasn't it "Jamie Appleton" or something? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />

Anyway, there's a mod in Build 13 that adds random ships around the islands.
This means that sometimes you might encounter big enemies.
But this definitly shouldn't be happening all the time.
You sure it happens each time you start a new game??? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/piratesing.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="piratesing.gif" />

There's a Gameplay & Tips subforum for the game, but there isn't much conversation there.
Reason being that we're all mainly just modding and I don't know if there are many people playing anymore.
The game's fairly old, so most things about the gameplay have already been said.
Except those things that still need improving, which we're trying to work on.
But things are going dead slow again; of course me being hardly available doesn't help either.
As you might not be aware, I'm away working on a cruiseship until half December and am very busy with that.

If you want to help with the modding, you would certainly be welcome to.
We never have enough modders, so you're most welcome.
Usually modder's just mod what they want, so just decide on something to do
and let us know if you need help in doing it. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/doff.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="doff.gif" />

 

[Appleton]

Well, it just seems everywhere i go i get mobbed by 3 class 6 pirate ships, which is hard since i'v only got a class 6 myself. I'm using version 13 of the build. Thanks for the welcome by the way <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" /> (what pirate is everyone playing now then)

 

[Pieter Boelen]

You can always turn on the ship class dependent on character level option thingey in BuildSettings.h.
I forgot the exact name of the thing.
Just have a look through that file in Notepad. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/doff.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="doff.gif" />

 

[Appleton]

Ah i didn't know that, might have to have a look at it. I think i'm going to start modelling some new models for pirates, it's a bit annoying having to fight 3 pirate twins lol. Might just copy and reskin at first until i have more time.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

For modeling, be sure to contact the other people working on character models.
Some major progress has been made, but we still didn't manage to add 100% new models.
We do have the program (Maya) and the tools for it though, so we should be able to. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />