(Release) Pirates: Storm over Europe

[Pirate]

Yes the water needs black or transparent or it’s just a painted scene. I’ll look at it tomorrow I didn’t pay any attention to that part I just worked on the scene itself. I took out some trees that didn’t blend in right etc

[themodelcitizen]

Well it works in-game which is the main thing. Now I'm noticing little things, like the bananas at the merchant despite the fact that "the first recorded sale of bananas in England was in 1633" (ref), hahah do you have any merchant edits lying around that might fit? I think my East Indies one kept bananas but just added spices in the background. Actually just throwing one together with the existing graphics for tobacco leaves in there instead. EDIT: https://i.imgur.com/x9Xj30D.png

[Pirate]

Nope I never edited the fruit. Bananas were in the Caribbean by 327 BC but so it fits the Caribbean as long as it’s not a trade item because shipping was slow in those days. Most bananas were eating locally then.

[Pirate]

What’s the logo on the crate with the tobacco in it?

[themodelcitizen]

A merchant symbol I found, apparently they were common to mark out your goods from others. That one might have been Galway, looks generic enough. Not a secret mason rune or anything, don't worry, lol.

Does anyone have a link to the saved game editor? Or do you just change your saved game with a hex editor? Can you change settlement nationalities and into havens/Indian villages?

Just thinking of the possibilities with releasing an optional saved game where everything is in the right place - France's coast being largely French, the Barbary coast being covered with ports like Algiers and Tunis, top 10 pirates in their correct spot, etc...

[Pirate]

Should be one in Jinglangsdos mods. Hex is fine. I’ve never changed nationality’s in a saved game that I remember about. Should be doable same way you change England to France in the cities. I believe Pirates are 4 the Indians 5 and Jesuits 6 the settlements start down a couple slots after the last city so finding the cities should get you close enough to find the settlements too. Another thing I thought about doing but never took the time to do it is add them in executable. Get the location of the settlements villages etc you have now and try placing them the way you want in the executable. Might fry your pc but might not either.

[themodelcitizen]

I was changing settlement nationalities with the trainer, eg. its annoying seeing English villages on the coast of France. This makes it even more realistic for ports like Jersey to be so isolated, while ports like Palma and Palermo would be constantly facing Barbary raids.

Instead I can probably just start a game, give myself the rutters with the Trainer and make note of what need changing, then take the special items away and make the edits to the saved game.

But as you say, a pre-game executable edit would be even better, maybe we should experiment with those empty slots under the city entries

[corsair91]

More Pirates Scripts sub-folder added by jlangsdo
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8utvz6nnqu2fick/AABoMb6sw_PWz38T87nWgcLda?dl=0

Perl script
savegame_editor.pl

(renamed text file, see comments in the script for further help)

Converts a savegame file to a readable and editable text file and back Perl Script


Original Release Thread

Working on a perl savegame editor (for Mac)
http://www.hookedonpirates.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6491

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[themodelcitizen]

This is about as good as I can get changing the totem into a Celtic Cross without altering the nif:

old/new

More of a gargoyle

[Pirate]

Nice Iron work . Maybe a singing Angel with short wingspan if you paint it good. Might could use the treasure rock and paint a cross on it so you know it’s not treasure. That would require hex edit or the rock will use the default texture.

[themodelcitizen]

Quick update before I take a holiday break.

Considering the feedback, and the fact that the Portuguese Restoration War raged until 1668 - so Spain at least had a claim to Lisbon and Porto in that era, even if not actual control - those cities are active as Spanish ports in 1660.

[Guardacostas]

Beautiful mod, just tried it out today, very addicting. One thing i saw is that some ships have pink flags?? And having a city with 1200 soldiers may be a bit much to sack, but the payroll curriers do net a cool 8000 in gold

[fleetp]

[Guest]

Rather than being pink if something wasn’t renamed correctly then it would simply revert to the game’s fpk pack for the file. I would take a look at the custom folder and see what’s in it this is your ship flags. Perhaps one is missing or corrupted but the ship flags are in the fpk packs too. If the game draws ship flags exclusively from the customs then it’s probably a missing file.

[Guardacostas]

Thanks fleetp and guest


I Liked the barbary pirates idea. Kind of wish there were more settlements, pirate havens and Jesuit missions but i guess you can't have it all. Same old game though, sad pirate