Landlubber needin help!

[khookie]

Ahoy there ya scurvy sea dawgs!

Actually in my 2nd day of gaming and am loving every swashbuckling moment of it. Just need to clear up some questions though.

1. I know there is going to be an obvious answer to this but how in all that is salty and sandy do I get rid off Officers? I know you can remove them from positions but then it just makes them 'passengers'. Must I make them fighters and then tell them to piss off? I don't want them to babysit a boat at Port Control, I just want them to leave. I've gone through your forums and I don't see any answers. (Hence that's why I think it's got obvious written on its forehead and staring at me when I look at the mirror.)

2. I will likely have to restart the game (vanilla) because I messed up the P.I.R.A.T.E system while selecting my attributes. I'm at Level 9 now and I still can't shoot a canon straight while in 1st person sailing mode. My Canoneer is pretty fair with 70-ish in aiming and 60-ish in canons. Is he training my sailors right? I'm shooting when the crosshairs turn red but my balls seem to be falling short. Do i have to compensate for the trajectory arc or what? If I can't shoot then I won't level up fast enough.

3. I managed to capture a Man-O-War (unfortunately no victory jig emoticon) but at my current level it's just a collosal hood ornament parked in some port. Does My Nav skill or my Nav's nav skill determine my ability to sail it? I know he contributes to a percentage though. I managed to get a ship of the line but not meh not impressed. Need some advice on what ships to get as my playstyle is kinda haphazard in the sense that I want to shoot ships more than board them.

4. My personal skill and that of my officer's are screwed up because for a very long time I thought it only pertained to me and not each individual. Having said that, are the skills accumulative like if my Carpenter had a skill point and I placed it in 'navigation something', would it stack with my actual Navigator's to get more speed? Any benefit if that carpenter also has pistol skills although he'll never see battle?

5. If Leveling up is different from getting skill points then how do I attain either in a controlled fashion? Currently I'm just sailing and fighting (boarding only cos my Canoneer is blind.) and selling contraband stuff.

I need to these burning questions answered to enjoy the game better. I haven't even done any big quests yet. My reputation is a 'Swindler' but I don't care cos I can use the Diplomat later to buddy me up. I'm just amazed at the amount of content I've yet to discover since reading this forum and I can't wait. Just contented to Sail around a bit first.

Thanks

 

[Thagarr]

Ahoy khookie, welcome aboard mate!

Have a look at THIS post mate, it should answer most of your questions a lot better than I can.

 

[skodarap]

Ahoy there ya scurvy sea dawgs!

Actually in my 2nd day of gaming and am loving every swashbuckling moment of it. Just need to clear up some questions though.

1. I know there is going to be an obvious answer to this but how in all that is salty and sandy do I get rid off Officers? I know you can remove them from positions but then it just makes them 'passengers'. Must I make them fighters and then tell them to piss off? I don't want them to babysit a boat at Port Control, I just want them to leave. I've gone through your forums and I don't see any answers. (Hence that's why I think it's got obvious written on its forehead and staring at me when I look at the mirror.)

You can always assign them as fighters and go to cave or dungeon to fight skeletons...on lower levels they usually die if they are poisoned...just summon skeletons by stepping that light and let them fight. Well, that's how I get rid of officers I don't want anymore

2. I will likely have to restart the game (vanilla) because I messed up the P.I.R.A.T.E system while selecting my attributes. I'm at Level 9 now and I still can't shoot a canon straight while in 1st person sailing mode. My Canoneer is pretty fair with 70-ish in aiming and 60-ish in canons. Is he training my sailors right? I'm shooting when the crosshairs turn red but my balls seem to be falling short. Do i have to compensate for the trajectory arc or what? If I can't shoot then I won't level up fast enough.

I think when you're shooting in 1st person mode it ignores your cannoneer skills and it only uses yours, so it might be better to do auto-aim until your skills gets up.

3. I managed to capture a Man-O-War (unfortunately no victory jig emoticon) but at my current level it's just a collosal hood ornament parked in some port. Does My Nav skill or my Nav's nav skill determine my ability to sail it? I know he contributes to a percentage though. I managed to get a ship of the line but not meh not impressed. Need some advice on what ships to get as my playstyle is kinda haphazard in the sense that I want to shoot ships more than board them.

In F2 menu, go to characters, and right click on navigation skill - you'll see the requirements for each class of ship (I think it's navigation 95 for class 1 ship, but I'm not sure). As for that shooting more than boarding thing, I don't know, I usually go for fast ships that turn fast, but I'd reckon it would be Heavy Galleon (class 3) -> Warship (class 2) -> Battleship (class 1) --- I left out Man-O-War, since it can get really expensive maintaining it and food can be a real pain to obtain.

4. My personal skill and that of my officer's are screwed up because for a very long time I thought it only pertained to me and not each individual. Having said that, are the skills accumulative like if my Carpenter had a skill point and I placed it in 'navigation something', would it stack with my actual Navigator's to get more speed? Any benefit if that carpenter also has pistol skills although he'll never see battle?

Well, navigation skills of officer that's assigned to navigators position have effect for example. That can be seen with "buff" skills like "foresight" or "quick turns". Also, there is personal skills for officers called "multitasker" and "jack of all trades" that makes possible to assign them on more than one officer position, so if you intend to assign your carpenter also as fighter, than he'll benefit from those fighting/shooting skills.

5. If Leveling up is different from getting skill points then how do I attain either in a controlled fashion? Currently I'm just sailing and fighting (boarding only cos my Canoneer is blind.) and selling contraband stuff.

Not sure what exact numbers are, but it think it's something like this (someone correct me if I'm wrong or way off) - gaining personal/ship skill points is affected by gaining levels in skills (same as rank), I think you get rank for every 15 levels gained in all skills, and personal/ship skill point for every 10 levels.

I need to these burning questions answered to enjoy the game better. I haven't even done any big quests yet. My reputation is a 'Swindler' but I don't care cos I can use the Diplomat later to buddy me up. I'm just amazed at the amount of content I've yet to discover since reading this forum and I can't wait. Just contented to Sail around a bit first.

Thanks

Oh and diplomat can only fix your reputation with nation (seen in nations tab in F2 menu) if it's hostile or you got bounty on your head, but he can't fix your personal reputation.

Hope this helped,

Cheers!
-Skoda

 

[khookie]

Thanks for the help. Will be seein ya soon! :gday

 

[mobucks]

For straight cannon battleing id go with some sort of frigate. a fast one.

And i forget but on the bigger ships i think there is a crew's quarters you can go into and fire officers in.