New (Dutch) cities/corrected names

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 862 **14635 Gold** -

In the default game, Curacao is actually on Bonaire (thanks to fleetp for pointing this out to me), so this moves it. St. Eustatius is actually on St. Barthelemy.

To be fair to the Dutch for losing a city (St. Barts), it also adds Aruba, the real Bonaire, and Saint Croix.

Geography is stretched slightly to also add New Netherland and Paramaribo at the map's extremes.

To round things out, England gets Anguilla.

I would love to add Saba, but it looks too small to land and march on if a city is added there. The real St. Eustatius I don't think you can land on at all.

Download (please endorse at Nexus)

Screenshots:
ABC Islands
Leeward Islands

If you like playing as the Dutch, check out the East Indies mod.

fleetp · Boatswain Posts: 3721 **36050 Gold** -

Nice work!
I need to remember to completely remove old mods when I install new ones (I forgot to delete the landscape.ini file from another mod).
Rolling Eyes

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 862 **14635 Gold** -

lol, for me it's text.ini. It's always so jarring to see the wrong city name or something

I think I'll end up playing on some kind of hybrid of this and the Bermuda mod, I'll post it up to share when I'm done playing around. Maybe limiting the newbies at Bermuda/Belize/Anguilla/Saint Croix/Guayana

Pirate · Helmsman Posts: 5589 **109759 Gold** -

I have a different way of installing and uninstalling mods that helps eliminate mistakes like that. What I do is create a new folder in the assets folder and name it East Indies for example. This is where I stick every single thing so the text.ini is already in the mix alone with everything else. The only thing I put in customs is the flags needed to replace the original flags with and sails if u modded them. That makes it easier to if you want to change flags in the game you donâ€™t have to sort through half a million flags because only the ship flags are in it. The other flags are for the cities and settlements. Iâ€™ve got a backup copy of the mod and customs folder and when Iâ€™m ready to change directions all I need to do is delete the mod folder and replace the customs. For mods with executable modifications like what yâ€™all doing here and the East Indies I have a backup named East Indies instead of Pirates and Iâ€™ll take a copy of the East Indies executable and drop it inside my game folder that way it doesnâ€™t overwrite my original executable but with the challenge pack at hand keeping hold of the original isnâ€™t a big issue as it once was. Like anything else being organized and finding a way to install mods eliminates most mistakes and this method has served me well.

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 862 **14635 Gold** -

Ok so stuff doesn't really need to be in "custom", just the custom flags for ships/sails? Everything else (except text which needs to go in assets) can go aywhere in the Sid Meiers Pirates folder, maybe? And I like that executable idea, I hadn't thought to change the filename

also I can't get my old bald avatar back, lol I tried messing with the "avatar" function and now it's stuck on the custom one

Pirate · Helmsman Posts: 5589 **109759 Gold** -

Yeah just the ship flags and sails. All the text textures nifs etc can go in assets. I like to make a folder inside to dump my mods in then just delete when done. Anyway Ive been having fun.

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themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 862 **14635 Gold** -

Bump, ye scallywags

JakeTheScot1 · Powder Monkey Posts: 42 **339 Gold** -

Great mod. I Really like it.

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 862 **14635 Gold** -

Thanks for playing and giving feedback! I'm guessing the ABC Islands just keep reinforcing each other's economy given how close they are? Do you get enough local Dutch settlements to send new governors?

locu · Powder Monkey Posts: 1 **14 Gold** -

Hi, I recently downloaded your mod because I love playing as the dutch lol. I'm having some trouble, any time I replace pirates.exe on my desktop and try to launch it, it says the .dll files are missing. I don't suppose you'd know how to fix that? Thanks for your time!!

corsair91 · Sailing Master Posts: 8162 **210870 Gold** -

pirates!.exe does not go on the desktop

backup your existing pirates!.exe in your game install folder
(stash a copy somewhere else)

Place the mod pirates!.exe in the game install folder

run this pirates!.exe only from the game install folder
(typically via a Desktop shortcut)

See the mod included readme.txt file

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 862 **14635 Gold** -

Thanks for joining locu!!

The .exe (along with the other contents of the download) go here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Pirates!

Or whatever the mac version of that folder is. Let us know if you're still having issues

corsair91 · Sailing Master Posts: 8162 **210870 Gold** -

themodelcitizen · Gunner Posts: 862 **14635 Gold** -

This map got a lot of love at other places even though it was pretty low-effort on my part, if you look at the screenshots I hadn't got the hang of maplabel yet (or just didn't have time). Could use a touch-up anyway. I never really played as the Dutch (no good starting ships and I'd rather replace them with Scotland anyway Razz

) so guess I never took to this one

Pirate · Helmsman Posts: 5589 **109759 Gold** -

Aw put a bonnet on the head and a pair of wooden clogs and sign up for the Netherlands. Starting ships I been getting a sloop the French get the best. Sloop is fine Iâ€™m in something bigger really quick.