Sid Meier's Pirates: Who here has played it yet.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Aramis


Question: If you have a small crew, content or unhappy, will recruiting a larger number of "eager" recruits bring up the general level of happiness?

From my experience, no.

[Chemical Ollie]

I only played 1½ campaigns before I quit. While the game has a fantastic atmosphere, it gets boring after beating the max high score (-1) on 1st attempt. I played the original game too much.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris


From my experience, no.

this makes sense, because with recruitung a "Young & eager crew" is nice..the older salty vets know they are the ones whom will have to do all the hard work whence the ship gets under way

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
I only played 1½ campaigns before I quit. While the game has a fantastic atmosphere, it gets boring after beating the max high score (-1) on 1st attempt. I played the original game too much.

Did you beat Swashbuckler at your first attempt?

[Chemical Ollie]

No, but 2nd level. You should not be able to reach the highscore cap on any level on your first try, but I did in this game. That means it is to close to the original, they only upgraded the sound and graphics.

[Grandpa Troll]

back and forth makes me wonder should I or shouldnt I purchase the game

In most cases when it is like this..I dun buy it..but am still listening

Gramps

[Muad'Dib]

Question: If you have a small crew, content or unhappy, will recruiting a larger number of "eager" recruits bring up the general level of happiness?

Whenever you recruit a large crew the happiness level will drop by one (i.e. Very Happy to Happy, Happy to Content, etc.).

No, but 2nd level. You should not be able to reach the highscore cap on any level on your first try, but I did in this game. That means it is to close to the original, they only upgraded the sound and graphics.

Chemical Ollie, this game is nothing like the original. I'd played Swashbuckler many times on the original and on this version and let me tell you they are worlds apart. Swashbuckler on this version is extremely harder than swashbuckler in the original.

[Fake Boris]

Swashbuckler is tough, but after a few days I finally got the trick with swordfights. Just don't let the guy hit you first, or else you'll lose the advantage and be rapier-raped in two seconds.

[snoochems]

Just a question about tweaking the game via the .ini file.

Here is my current ini file:

[User Settings]
Gamma = 1.000000
KeypadStatus = 1
DisplayShadows = 1
TrilinearFiltering = 1
DisableShaders = 0
AdvancedLighting = 1
WindowWidth = 1600
WindowHeight = 1200
WaterDetail = 3
WorldDetail = 5
ObjectDetail = 2
MasterVolume = 1.000000
MusicVolume = 1.000000
SFXVolume = 1.000000
DanceVolume = 1.000000
IsSlowMachine = 0
MyName = Rose
CustomSail = ship_sail_emblem_lrg_pir.dds
CustomFlag = flag_pir.dds
3DAudioDriver =




Now, i have a kick arse PC (3800+, X800xt-pe, 1GB twinx RAM etc). I want all the settings maxed out.

Any suggestioins?

[Muad'Dib]

Halfway To 2 Million

Rich Man of The Sea update.

[appleciders]

This game seems pretty in-depth. Should I be considering it, or does the gameplay not hold up?

[Aramis]

My games have all had a certain sameness. I grew dead bored with the dancing stuff, and the fencing a while later.
Land battles held limited interest for me.
Only the battles at sea keep me intrigued. Should I grow bored of them, I shall regret getting the game.

[Grandpa Troll]

seems like this is a split..nothing great but does offer some redeeming entertainment value

[Jeje2]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll
seems like this is a split..nothing great but does offer some redeeming entertainment value

Yeah - this might be one of he best assessment sofar - just maybe a less negative and more neutral begining instead of "nothing great" would suite me better.

I do like it - but after finising my first game 1½weeks ago - haven't thoughed this one. (OK, been quite busy IRL too)

[Muad'Dib]

Closing in on 2 Million.

Like the orginial, I LOVE this game, despite its repetitiveness.

Note: Things to fix with patch.

Towns need to have more gold than an average of 6k for wealthy, 5 for prosperous, 2 for modest, or 1 for poor; especially when they have populations over 10,000.
Same goes for treasure ships. I really hate it when I capture one near a wealthy town and at most it gets me only 2-3k; and yet, with its capture, I knocked the town down to Modest or Prosperous.


Rich Old Man of the Sea update.


[Edit]
After almost 8 years, my 1,000th post

King me.

"Thank you, thank you verrry muuuch."