Wicked Mouse

Haha

Anyone interested in the player base development: http://steamspy.com/app/311310

Top seller! Way to go Game Labs!

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Excellent!

Well otherwise Valve will take a cut =)

That release date is VERY close to my birthday. Very nice!

Valve is the corporation that owns and maintains the Steam platform, among a few other things.

I made it in Blender And I tested unwrapping temporarily. I probably will have to change things later. Once I have more official requirements, I will continue on this project.

I got Radeon HD 5870 and I experience the same. It's indeed only in sunset and sunrise skies where it tries to shine through the stars of the night sky, but calculates this incorrectly.

I don't know, but way too much. And counting it of the entire model would mean I have to go into edit mode on every single object and note the amount of triangles and then add them later all together. But the count is very high mainly because of the statues, because that's a hi-poly model and thus I'd need to manually clean it up. I can use un-subdevide modifiers, but that's not too pretty. One statue on the rear counts 17k

Yeah it's indeed fairly high. You got a source for that number?

So far I haven't made much more than on the last picture. I'm kinda waiting for details about requirements for any user created content

I'm afraid not. A retourschip is a class of Eastindiaman, like the Amsterdam that's being made already.

Great! So the late 18th C by the French referred to as flûte looked differently! That's excellent work. That's that out of the way. But it doesn't deny the fact that the Dutch ships still existed and were built in the 18th century, by the Dutch.

The Dutch also used fully armed fluyts. That's something else then than the .. fluyts? Haes in 't Veld was a fluyt hired by the Dutch navy and carried 30 guns. Believe it or not, they were sometimes actually fitted as warships! Unless you have of course design drawings of those fluyts, flutes or flûtes with more than usual guns that do not resemble the Dutch original idea, then I'd like to see them! EDIT: oh found some more interesting stuff: English flute/fluyt, drawing from 1750, to be seen in the Maritiem Museum Rotterdam and Fries Scheepvaartmuseum. Or posters of fluyts that are being sold/auctioned in 1719 and 1757.

I'm terribly sorry, good sir, but it is said that (source): "...its usefulness caused the fluyt to gain such popularity that similar designs were soon developed by seagoing competitors of the Dutch. For example, the English shipbuilding industry began to adapt the design of the fluyt during the later part of the 17th century as English merchants, seeing how much cheaper the Dutch shipping was, acquired Dutch-built ships that were captured during Anglo-Dutch wars." The Rise of the English Shipping Industry in the 17th and 18th Centuries by Ralph Davis page 47 to 54 was referenced as the source of this information. I don't have the book, so I cannot verify this. To those that would say that the fluyt is a pure 17th century ship, I'd say this: next to the British also the French adopted the design, as mentioned before. And for example throughout the years they built several named (Le) Loire (named after their largest river). One in 1668, in 1686 and..... in 1720. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ship_Loire http://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_ship&id=15766 More so, searching on Three Decks .org finds 128 ships of the class flûte, ranging from 1690 to 1811. One in the list is the La Bienvenue. Searching on Fluit it lists 43, of which 13 are from 1701 to 1799. And for flute it finds 14 all ranging from 1720 to 1810. The name of the ship even became for the French synonymous for a reduced armament on a warship to make room for cargo: En flûte as opposed to En guerre. Swedes and Danes also used flutes. For example Analysis of a Swedish ship wreck turned out to be made of oak from around 1700 and a flute called Anna Maria.

I'd say that a dedicated trading/exploration ship would be useful and would also have a very unique aesthetic seen in no other ship. But if it doesn't make the voting, then so be it.

Where was that request? I don't see it:

I've seen many 17th century ships being offered everywhere on the forum. What makes the fluyts so much different?

It's all historical, they all exist, so donno what you're talking about And I'd very much would like to see the Fluyt class ship in the game. Not because it's an awesome war machine or has such an awesome looking stern. None of that. But because it's such a unique looking ship that was used a lot during the 17th century and I bet well into 18th as well, since it was such an efficient cargo ship. It needed little crew to handle and had to pay less toll at the Danish straight to the Baltic Sea.

I think that the Dutch fluyt trading ships should be up for voting IMHO:

Some Dutch Eastindiamen Model of Bossen Hooven ( Source ): Model of Prins Willem (Prince William; Source): "Eastindaman at anchor", drawing by Jan Brandes 1738 (at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam): "Jacob van Strij - Het jacht van de kamer Rotterdam begroet een Oostindiëvaarder." Jacob van Strij (painter) - The yacht of the chamber of Rotterdam greets an Eastindiaman. Judging from these pictures and paintings I think that the paint scheme of the Amsterdam ship at the museum isn't too far off: Personally I'd say that that what is brown painted there, is just blank wood on the originals. Maybe treated with oils to make it last longer.