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 Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:35 pm Post subject: Royal Sloops |
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I've been finding royal sloops particuarly hard to come by lately on my current game and just as I really want one  . Can anyone think of any reasons why I haven't seen one around for ages?
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Captain Riddle
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I usually get them off of Spanish pirate hunters and the couple named pirates that sail one.
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yup, piss the spanish off enough and they will come by plenty  sometimes disguised as "new warship"s
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Thanks for the help guys,  have you got any tips on finding frigates as well?
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You get Frigates, the same way you get the Royal Sloops. However, instead of the Spanish, you need to go after any other country but Spain.
| Kristian95 wrote: | | yup, piss the spanish off enough and they will come by plenty sometimes disguised as "new warship"s |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Privateer wrote: | | Thanks for the help guys, have you got any tips on finding frigates as well? |
Get Tortuga really wealthy and then sit there and reap the frigatey benifits!!!   
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What are they usually labled as, cause I found one outside Tortuga labled as a French Raider. It started shooting at me and I engaged it, I's really pleased when i found out was a frigate. 
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Privateer wrote: | | What are they usually labled as |
The Frigates will come around with all sorts of "Labels".
"Raider", "Military Payroll", "Pirate Hunter" and "Invasion Force" are a few that come to mind. They'll also say "Frigate", in the PC Version, not sure in the XBOX or PSP games.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the help Asclepius and btw, nice sig 
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Privateer wrote: | | Thanks for the help Asclepius and btw, nice sig |
Thank You Privateer, I like it for now.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:00 am Post subject: |
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| Asclepius wrote: | You get Frigates, the same way you get the Royal Sloops. However, instead of the Spanish, you need to go after any other country but Spain.
| Kristian95 wrote: | | yup, piss the spanish off enough and they will come by plenty sometimes disguised as "new warship"s |
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The Spanish "unique" form of the Frigate is the Galleon. You'll find no other nation has them..Fairly useless in combat, but if you be interested in taking up a peaceful life as a merchant, you may want one.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Roocey wrote: | The Spanish "unique" form of the Frigate is the Galleon. You'll find no other nation has them..Fairly useless in combat, but if you be interested in taking up a peaceful life as a merchant, you may want one.
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Yeah definately a must in a merchant fleet, especially in case you need a ship capable to fight to ward off any pirates.
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| Roocey wrote: | | Asclepius wrote: | You get Frigates, the same way you get the Royal Sloops. However, instead of the Spanish, you need to go after any other country but Spain.
| Kristian95 wrote: | | yup, piss the spanish off enough and they will come by plenty sometimes disguised as "new warship"s |
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The Spanish "unique" form of the Frigate is the Galleon. You'll find no other nation has them..Fairly useless in combat, but if you be interested in taking up a peaceful life as a merchant, you may want one.
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I know, my comment was aimed at how to get more Royal Sloops
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| Roocey wrote: | | The Spanish "unique" form of the Frigate is the Galleon. You'll find no other nation has them..Fairly useless in combat, but if you be interested in taking up a peaceful life as a merchant, you may want one. |
I thought about "taking up a peaceful life as a merchant" until I captured five or six of those peaceful merchant ships, took all of them, and their cargo to the nearest friendly port and pocketed more gold from the Merchant and Shipwright than the peaceful merchant could make in 3 or 4 years, all in about 3 months.
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| Quote: | | I thought about "taking up a peaceful life as a merchant..." |
Aye, I did that for about three days in January 1640 once. Then I realized two major factors that motivate my success in the game:
1) My crew joined me to go for adventure, not to wander around the Caribbean and get seasick and poor. Besides, if I wanted to impress a Spanish or French governor's daughter, I couldn't- because the upper class of those nations saw trade as beneath them- those snobs!
2) To score maximum points in the game, you have to attack other ships- the Evil Spaniards and Named Pirates. Why not practice a little on some other ships? Why not practice a lot-  and change the political balance of the Caribbean as I see fit?
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