ThePfeil

"You sunk my SOL!" or

I wish people would stop voting for nationality of a ship, rather than the ship and shipclass itself...what good is the umpteenth 1st rate just because it's Dutch, British, Spanish, Portuguese, US or Micronesian, when the whole rest is a big gap? Fairly sure the final shiplist of this title will have almost every nation that ever took to the seas in those ages, repesented properly.

I know that Akella's Age of Pirates titles had the possibility to trade slaves with the "cost" of increased food consumption. I'm torn about the issue, if slaves are to be "just another good on the list of tradeables", I don't see the point of having them at all. If their major impact on the economy of the overseas settlements however would be reflected properly, I could see it implemented (for historical correct depiction of the era, it simply wasn't a very humane time). It's a very "hot iron" though, and as long as the devs don't give a statement about if and how they'd see it implemented, I'll keep my vote at "No".

That is amazing news. And while I can understand the people that are dissapointed if they can't preorder for the next couple of days, I have to congratulate the devs, well, your game and your concept/ideas surely deserve it (much more even). Keep up the good work!

Some "heavy action" going on there. I'd rather have Nornica have a go at me

Rattlessssssnake. Need more smaller ships and more ships for traders (my 2nd vote would have gone for the "Amsterdam"). Not a big fan of the behemoths, I like my ships versatile and this little ship would suit me well in Open World.

Galleons were kinda "Dual Purpose", a warship on one side, but also a transport vessel with considerable amount of cargo hold (transporting the riches from the colonies back to Spain), that's why they're as huge and have those "castles" and quite impressive amount of cannon. Their flaws however became very apparent when the Spanish Armada had their nightmare off the coasts of England. The heavy spanish galleons were slow and not very maneuverable, while the then newly designed, "race built" (razeed, without castles) english ships were faster, more maneuverable and carried longer range cannons. After the defeat of the Armada the Spanish also reiterated their naval doctrins and priorities and started to adapt the new designs. I'm by no means an expert on the matter however, so if anyone here has better knowledge feel free to correct and/or complete what I said, plz.

As long as religions aren't a major factor in gameplay, I don't mind them being integrated, but to make them influence ship/crew performance? Plz no. Make them like independent minor factions that can provide assignments/quests. They might also have small missions/abbeys on the world map that could provide certain special trade goods (incense, etc. or something like that).

This is something that I thought of as well. (But I was too tired to write it down last night ^^) +1

How much fun would it be for those "notorious" captains to be recognized instantly and being avoided like the plague, though?

Thanks for sharing, looks very promising indeed. And having Charles Dance in the movie is another +. Looking forward to watching this movie and seeing "De Zeven Provinciën" in action.

Potbs name: Jean de Metz (retired in 2012, short comeback 2013) Potbs server : Antigua Potbs society: Order of the Phoenix Potbs nation: France NA IG name: ThePfeil

I used to avoid steam like the bubonic plague when it came out, kept away from it and didn't have any feeling of "missing out". That all changed with "Empire: Total War" (would have lasted longer, had I only known what a mess this title was at release....). Since then I aquired a bunch of games through steam and other DRMs and so far haven't run into any issues. But if given the chance, I still prefer games that I don't have to run/install through steam. Guess I'm just old school in that way... or simply: just old ^^.

I like this idea a lot. As long as we don't have a customisation option ingame yet, I think this would be the best solution to avoid huge friendly fire incidents., while giving our "celebrities" a break from being "Public Enemy No.1" ^^.

Is this based on the "Graña" from the poll? Edit: She's beautiful. Love those lines on her