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[punch999]

Lost relatives dont you just go to the city and bang they are there?

[bruno]

Originally posted by ucwmike@Jan 9 2006, 11:56 PM
Also to answer a few questions, you need to be in a city in order to save the game (click space and click on the mirror area)

And the game does work in windows, contrary to popular belief. I have a windows ME pentiam 633 (kinda old), game runs fine, except sometimes on startup of the game the computer just goes on standby.No DOSbox needed.

yes you need to be in a town to save the game. And yes you have the game was made to windows, because the first version of the game don´t work in win. :whistle:

[Old School Gamer]

Lost releative can be found when you receive a piece of the map when you defeat an EViL Duke. When you have an idea where the X is located on the map, seach/dig in that area and EUREKA! One member found. :w00t:

I don't really like pirates gold. I think it's the worst of all three version of the org. priates. After 3 or 4 plunder & divide you are too old to continue playing. BLAH. :ranting:

[Chuck the plant]

The recent upload of the original Pirates! brought me back to this gem here (still got it on CD at home :bleh: ).

I do have a slight problem, though.
When I run the game in DosBox, it's LAAAAME. I mean, it's really slow. Everything takes forever. I know that the game ran a lot faster when I was still able to play it without DosBox under Win98. I also know that DosBox does take up a lot of CPU-Power, but all the other games I got here are running fine so far (or maybe they're also slow and I just don't notice because I don't remember them running faster once... :blink: ).

I set the CPU-cycles to some 18000, I turned them down to some 1200, I skipped up to 8 frames, nothing brought any change. Any idea?

[swiss]

could probably VDMSounds help out a bit? I noticed speed issues with other/newer games in DOSBox aswell ... VDMSounds made things quite good for those games

If your PC isn't that fast, then raising CPU cycles won't bring much. For emulation speed of 18000 cycles you should have around P4 2.4Ghz, maybe somewhere around 2Ghz for 12000 cycles.

[Wolf Thug]

Edit by punch: Don't be a behind wipe and stop posting in every topic I do to insult me.

[Chuck the plant]

For all those people with problems playing the windows-version: A software slowdown-program works miracles! k:

[laiocfar]

Some tip that i learned by the hard way.

1 - NEVER, never save when u enter a city by land... it causes to lost your ships when loading and only dividing the plunder let u a sloop where u left your fleet.
2 - The medicine skill give u more years of playing is the best one
3 - To take hard defended city u need the at max half of the garrison on land attack, the forts destroys any ship, evade them.
4 - In other Pirates, the treasure fleet only can be captured in ports. Here do that last is a big mistake. Better(but harder) to take many galleons with 20k each than the fleet anchor city that must give you 50k-80k.
5 - Rescuing familiars give u maps to treasures of 100k.
6 - Married guys are not for interest to other womans so better to be alone until near the end. It will be easier to porsuit the treasure fleet.
7 - Leo, me, is your god and got all the awnsers, vote the reds!!!


A question: how do to make the bardmaid give u the fleet or train locations? It could be done but i don´t know how, and its a way to be marriend and chasing that fleet.

Originally posted by laiocfar@Jan 18 2006, 05:18 AM
A question: how do to make the bardmaid give u the fleet or train locations? It could be done but i don´t know how, and its a way to be marriend and chasing that fleet.

It's very hard - you have to visit her a lot and have a high reputation (eg. notorious/infamous). Also I think it's a waste of time if she immediately doesn't take a liking to you (eg. when you can reply a drink and some company the first time you meet her). The Wit and Charm skill is a big help here, but since it's just about the only thing it's good for I don't take it. Also don't forget that captured pirates can tell you the location of silver train/treasure fleet.

And skill at Medicine does allow you to play longer, but Navigation makes you sail faster and thus shortens your voyages. Personally, I still prefer Swordfighting because it allows me to take on insane odds and win (my greatest success was capturing a Pirate Hunter's War Galleon - about 200 men - with only about 30 crew on my side! It was on journeyman level, though.)

Also I agree on not saving when going to land, once I even ruined my save game that way, because the game insisted I had no ships!