SOTL in 5 minutes?!
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Chiko
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 Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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And I have just seen a SOTL in screenshots  |
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Sailor Scurvy
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:05 am Post subject: |
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| Chiko wrote: |
And I have just seen a SOTL in screenshots |
My trick is to follow all of Headrock's guide except the following.
I don't take over cities, it makes them poor and isn't necessary for a quick SOTL grab.
I emphasize staying out to sea. In fact I don't return to port without a SOTL in tow.
-If you need food steal it from other ships.
-If you need crew steal them from other ships
-If your ship gets damaged steal a fresh one and abandon your crapper.
Dead men tell no tales, and Land Lubbers don't sail SOTL.  |
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Chiko
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:26 am Post subject: |
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| Sailor Scurvy wrote: | | Chiko wrote: |
And I have just seen a SOTL in screenshots |
My trick is to follow all of Headrock's guide except the following.
I don't take over cities, it makes them poor and isn't necessary for a quick SOTL grab.
I emphasize staying out to sea. In fact I don't return to port without a SOTL in tow.
-If you need food steal it from other ships.
-If you need crew steal them from other ships
-If your ship gets damaged steal a fresh one and abandon your crapper.
Dead men tell no tales, and Land Lubbers don't sail SOTL. |
yeah I've played like that still haven't seen any SOTL...
anyway, I prefer a Sloop or a Pinnace. less cannons but much more fun to play  |
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Yellowbeard
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| Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 1:32 pm Post subject: Re: SOTL in 5 minutes?! |
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| Sailor Scurvy wrote: | | Using Headrock's guide in a 1660 scenario I was able to obtain a SOTL by March 21 1660, and it came with a gunner. I play on XBOX so I just kept that save as my new starting point. I really didn't even have to harrass a terrible number of merchants either. Mostly smugglers, escorts, etc. |
I think it's fairly well-documented, the console versions of Pirates spawn SotL a LOT faster then the PC version does, so it's hard to compare a console result vs a PC result... I also would bet my parrot that the initial poster who got a SotL in 5-minutes was playing a console version, not the PC version. |
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Dave the Knave
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I think it's fairly well-documented, the console versions of Pirates spawn SotL a LOT faster then the PC version does... |
If that is the case, matey, then capturing a Ship of the Line on the PC is a tougher challenge, and therefore a sweeter victory...
In my humble opinion (since I'm a privateer speaking of purely pirate matters), I think that capturing an SotL on the PC is possible in the first five minutes...a great deal of luck is involved, but I believe it could happen!
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RobbyL9
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:52 am Post subject: |
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Whenever I read the acronym for Ship of the Line (SOL) I pretend it stands for Shit Out of Luck because that's what you are if you're facing all 48 loaded guns of one!
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| Dave the Knave wrote: | | Quote: | | I think it's fairly well-documented, the console versions of Pirates spawn SotL a LOT faster then the PC version does... |
If that is the case, matey, then capturing a Ship of the Line on the PC is a tougher challenge, and therefore a sweeter victory...
In my humble opinion (since I'm a privateer speaking of purely pirate matters), I think that capturing an SotL on the PC is possible in the first five minutes...a great deal of luck is involved, but I believe it could happen! |
yeah id have to agree with that
i was playing my PsP pirates the other day
after taking out 5 merchentmen, and 2 pirate hunters, in a short amount of time
a SOTL came to get me, and after 2 pirate hunters i was worn out so i docked at an english port, replenished myself, and got outta there fast |
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Sailor Scurvy
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:03 am Post subject: |
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| caster89 wrote: | | Dave the Knave wrote: | | Quote: | | I think it's fairly well-documented, the console versions of Pirates spawn SotL a LOT faster then the PC version does... |
If that is the case, matey, then capturing a Ship of the Line on the PC is a tougher challenge, and therefore a sweeter victory...
In my humble opinion (since I'm a privateer speaking of purely pirate matters), I think that capturing an SotL on the PC is possible in the first five minutes...a great deal of luck is involved, but I believe it could happen! |
yeah id have to agree with that
i was playing my PsP pirates the other day
after taking out 5 merchentmen, and 2 pirate hunters, in a short amount of time
a SOTL came to get me, and after 2 pirate hunters i was worn out so i docked at an english port, replenished myself, and got outta there fast |
Yea, I didn't even take out more than two merchants. Just a handful of smugglers and raiders. |
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Dave the Knave
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | yeah id have to agree with that
i was playing my PsP pirates the other day
after taking out 5 merchentmen, and 2 pirate hunters, in a short amount of time
a SOTL came to get me, and after 2 pirate hunters i was worn out so i docked at an english port, replenished myself, and got outta there fast. |
You took out seven ships and they sent out the super heavyweight to deal with you? Wow...
| Quote: | | Yea, I didn't even take out more than two merchants. Just a handful of smugglers and raiders. |
Amazing! I usually have to face sloop-class ships...although, my main target is usually the deep-pocketed Spanish, and they spawn not a single frigate-class type of ship...
Once a pinnace dared to act as a pirate hunter against my Large Frigate. I was insulted, believe ye me.
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SlipperyJim
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| Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Dave the Knave wrote: | | Once a pinnace dared to act as a pirate hunter against my Large Frigate. I was insulted, believe ye me. |
That's always good for a laugh. Here I am, sailin' around in my newly-captured Ship O' The Line (you can hardly see the bloodstains!), and some punk in a toy boat decides to challenge me.
Him: "Stand and fight, you coward!"
Me: "What? Who said that?"
Him: "ME! Face your doom, scurvy pirate!"
Me: "No, really! Who are you? Are the voices in me head actin' up again?"
Him: "Down here! I am Julio Martinez Vargas de la Chinchilla, feared pirate hunter!"
Me: "Never heard of you. Helmsman, steer a point or two toward starboard, if you please...."
*CRUNCH*
Him: "Argh! Blub blub blub blub...."
Me: "Did we just hit something? Ah, never mind. Set course for Port Royale!"
Seriously, though ... I usually just sink the toy boats with a few good broadsides unless I'm really desperate for gold. Let 'em try to arrest the bloody sharks....
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Captain Blood
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| Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject: |
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SJ,
I've often wished that the game would allow me to go ship to ship. And I mean REALLY ship to ship.
I would like, just once, to hear that lovely grating sound as a sloop or pinnace class ship gets ground beneath my stately bohemoth...
But maybe that's just me. 
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| Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Blood wrote: | SJ,I would like, just once, to hear that lovely grating sound as a sloop or pinnace class ship gets ground beneath my stately bohemoth...
But maybe that's just me. |
I had this happen in the "It could be worse challenge" just yesterday. I had Morgans Large Frigate that I recently acquired in my attempts to gather a sizable crew to confront the Marquis de Montalban in his fortress. In my zeal to garner gold stars with the other Nations, I attacked an Indian war canoe that was perilously close to the shallows. Rather than wasting good powder I elected to just board the silly buggers, but upon my coming up alongside of the this Canoe she suddenly blew up up in me face, leaving me with a few paltry, sputtering souls. swimmin in me wake, to claim part of my booty. |
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Dave the Knave
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| Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I would like, just once, to hear that lovely grating sound as a sloop or pinnace class ship gets ground beneath my stately bohemoth... |
| Quote: | | I usually just sink the toy boats with a few good broadsides... |
Aye, it's a tossup on whether it's insulting or laughable when when one of these (obviously) amateur Pirate Hunters offers a "challenge."
I consider it an affront that any ship should be so insane or foolish to even tangle with my frigate-class ships.
If any lesser ship happens to even slightly graze my Ship of the Line with a cannon ball, I often raise my red flag of no quarter, and shout, "That's not a broadside...here's a real broadside!" And I duly take my turn at bat.
"Look out!" shouts the enemy crew. It's raining cannonballs!"
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:03 am Post subject: |
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| Captain Blood wrote: | SJ,
I've often wished that the game would allow me to go ship to ship. And I mean REALLY ship to ship.
I would like, just once, to hear that lovely grating sound as a sloop or pinnace class ship gets ground beneath my stately bohemoth...
But maybe that's just me. |
There is one circumstance in Pirates! where you can do this. If you engage a War Canoe and a second War Canoe acts as an escort, when you ram the escort you will demolish it rather than capture it. |
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SlipperyJim
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Captain Blood wrote: | I would like, just once, to hear that lovely grating sound as a sloop or pinnace class ship gets ground beneath my stately bohemoth...
But maybe that's just me. |
It's not just you. I'd love to be able to crush a pinnace into matchsticks with the reinforced keel of a Ship O' The Line or Flag Galleon.
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