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

[Muad'Dib]

Treasure Ships

How to find them (exception: Spanish Treasure Fleet):

Since reaching the million mark for the 3rd time, I've had to rely on rich shipping. In doing so, I've noticed a few things about Treasure Ships.

1) They start and travel between Wealthy & Prosperous ports.

2) The more wealthy ports you have of any nationality, the greater the frequency in which they appear.

3) The closer these ports are to one another, the greater your ability at bagging one. Example. I had Port Royale, Santiago, Tortuga, & Port-de-Paix all English and all wealthy ports. In a blink of eye (so to speak), I bagged 4 English Treasure ships (East Indiaman) in the Windward Passage. Two were escorted and two were not. Which brings me to...

4) Escorted Treasure ships carry more gold than non escorted ones. Around 9300 in gold was the most I captured. Escorted ones are usually more than 6K. Non escorted ones are between 3 & 5K.

[Grumbold]

If anyone is still playing, you might want to know that a patch has been released for the US version. Hopefully it won't be forever before it appears for the rest of us, then I can try dancing one last time or admit defeat and shuffle the game off to the cardboard box of rejects under the stairs.

[Aramis]

And the patch addresses what issues?

[vovan]

Gamespot also has some sort of "Pirates Theme Pack", which contains new sails and flags and such things... At least that's what the description says. I forgot to reinstall Pirates after my hard drive died a month ago or so and I don't have the CD with me right now, so I can't tell for sure yet. Also, these things don't seem to on the Pirates website at www.atari.com/pirates... Either that or I didn't look for them good enough...

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Aramis
"We may be in a hallucination here, but that's no excuse for being delusional!." K.S. Robinson, 'The Years Of Rice And Salt.'

Very good book

[Alex]

I've installed the patch (I have the US version of the game) and I can say that it really improves the dancing part... Now it's not impossible to win the ladies's hearts on the higher difficult levels.

Here's a complete list of fixes and changes from the readme file:

[FIX] - Privateer crash where they had an invalid "home" and could not return.
[FIX] - Return NumLock state to whatever it was prior to game start.
[FIX] - Montalban map unaccessible from arrows.
[FIX] - "Terminator guy" player character on Intel graphics chipsets.
[FIX] - Crew will no longer be seen swinging from ropes in dueling when eliminated.
[FIX] - Treasure replay lists 1000 less gold.
[FIX] - With rank, no bounty appears in status screen.
[FIX] - Wrong color shirt in promotion replays.
[FIX] - Just because it annoyed me, all occurrances of "Treasuer" in log.cpp have been changed to "Treasure"
[FIX] - Barmaid - men in settlement.
[FIX] - Load/Save button enabled in port after loading arrival save.
[FIX] - Landmarks can disappear when two maps share same one.
[FIX] - Treasure map - no X.
[FIX] - You can still view treasure map after retrieving treasure but before returning to ship.
[FIX] - Wrong ordinals for PC in top ten pirates list and retirement screen.
[FIX] - Landmarks spawn under cities/not visible.
[FIX] - Leaving Panama/Gran Granada jail leaves player stuck.
[FIX] - Can't reassign left and right for nav (keymap.ini). Or SeaBattle, for that matter.
[FIX] - Player can walk off the right edge of the map when on land.
[FIX] - If lost relative mission and Montalban mission both enabled and you complete the relative mission, the Montalban mission button is not visible on the menu.
[FIX] - Bartender resets upgrade at shipwright.
[FIX] - Reefs did not damage player's ship in SB.
[FIX] - Camera clip in dance (Spanish ballroom).
[FIX] - Treasure fleet respawn issues.
[FIX] - Possible crash when trying to access one of the functions of DirectX before it was initialized.
[FIX] - Sea Nav: Port, Negative -2420 soldiers appear.
[FIX] - When firing grape or chain shot at the end of a ship battle, the sounds continue to loop in sailing.
[FIX] - Timing of dance help flash is earlier.
[FIX] - Land Battle exploit.
[FIX] - No food/no mutiny exploit.
[FIX] - Top 10 Pirates in wrongly named ships.
[FIX] - Water geometry not updated properly when scaling changes.
[CHANGE] - Sped up land battle animations.
[CHANGE] - Bar duels now more difficult - based on rank.
[CHANGE] - Dance rating modified by difficulty.

The patch is ONLY for the US version of the game.

[vovan]

Originally posted by Alex
[FIX] - "Terminator guy" player character on Intel graphics chipsets.

Anyone have a screenie of how that one looked?

[Dis]

anyone still playing this game?

I want to buy it. I was hoping the price would come down more by now. But it usually takes a couple of years after release for games to be fairly cheap.

Fry's has it for $39.99, I'm thinking of buying it. That's probably the best price I'll get for another year. I'm just worried I'll get bored of this game too quickly.

[Jon Miller]

I bought it

haven't even opened it yet...

JOn Miller

[Barinthus]

It's on my wish list as well as NWN

[vovan]

Dissident, it all depends on how good you are with open-ended games... Did you play the original pirates? If so, did you like the game? did you get bored of it quickly? Did you play and enjoy such games as SimCity and the Sims? These games are similar in the sense that they don't give you an explicit goal to achieve, but let you set your own goals. If you don't get bored by that quickly, then you'll like this game too. Otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it, because it does become tedious if you don't set your own goals and role-play it a little bit.

BTW, nice avatar.

[asleepathewheel]

i missed that a patch was out. will have to have another go or two at it.

game is great fun, but essentially was the same game over and over for me.

[Dis]

Originally posted by vovan
Dissident, it all depends on how good you are with open-ended games... Did you play the original pirates? If so, did you like the game? did you get bored of it quickly? Did you play and enjoy such games as SimCity and the Sims? These games are similar in the sense that they don't give you an explicit goal to achieve, but let you set your own goals. If you don't get bored by that quickly, then you'll like this game too. Otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it, because it does become tedious if you don't set your own goals and role-play it a little bit.

BTW, nice avatar.

never played the original pirates.

[DrSpike]

Pirates is not as open ended, or boring, as the Sims. Wash your mouth out young Vovanism.

[Dinner]

Pirates was fun the first time through but the replay value just wasn't there.