Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu!v125lqbx From: v125lqbx@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Brian T McColpin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Pirates! How do you score? Message-ID: <63902@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 8 Mar 91 01:38:14 GMT References: <24206@frog.UUCP> <1991Mar5.061156.7557@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <2463@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk> Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Reply-To: v125lqbx@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4.5 In article <2463@odin.cs.hw.ac.uk>, adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt) writes... >In article <1991Mar5.061156.7557@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> sss10@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Samuel S Sostre) writes: >> >>For nationality, choose which one? or does it not matter? I usually choose >>English or Dutch. A friend of mine has gotten over 100 points on Pirates. He did it by methodically sacking every Spanich town, while the English and French got rich. Then he changed loyalties, and plundered all the English towns (this was after he was already an English Duke). Then he coninued that pattern with all the other nationalities. He ended up a "triple- Duke", and something like a Baron in the other. Other stupid tricks: You can get men from a town, leave town, turn around and use those same men to plunder the town. If you're titled, you can do anything you want to a country and not have them be hostile to you. My friend would plunder a "friendly" town of all it's goods, and if he didn't get all the money as well, he would turn right back around, sail into the harbor, and sell their own goods right back to them. They won't fire on you as you enter the harbor, as long as you have a title. When I borrowed my friend's copy of pirates, I had tremendously good results in hand to hand combat by just using a cutlass and going for head shots all the time. I won against -ridiculous- odds by doing that. I conquered Panama (400+ troops) with 47 men. Of course, you MUST take a fencing skill to do this. :-) Happy pirating!