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From: jcc@frog.UUCP (Jim Chagnon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Pirates! How do you score?
Message-ID: <24462@frog.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 91 23:24:00 GMT
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Reply-To: jcc@frog.UUCP (Jim Chagnon)
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In article <9103121921.00@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
>In article <24389@frog.UUCP> jcc@frog.UUCP (Jim Chagnon) writes:

>> I agree. But you *can* retreat, you know. If you restart, "history" isn't
>> the same. Your country just might be at peace with everyone in the new
>> game. Another point: If you are playing at journeyman level, getting captured 
>> lowers you to apprentice, but the game difficulty remains at journeyman.

>Of course, retreating can set you back in terms of increasing your rank.
>Governors don't like wimps.

  That's another thing. News travels faster than YOU do.  If you take a ship
 100 miles from the nearest town, that town knows about it, before you get
 there. Perhaps there should be a "Plunder + Sink Ship, + Kill all Survivors"
 option, that affects crew happiness so you don't go wild with it.  Dead men
 tell no tales etc.  After all, it's called "Pirates" not Privateers. 
 L'Ollonaise would be proud.

  Another option that would give me great pleasure: If some of your crew
 mutinies or jumps ship, you might recognise some of them the next time
 you recruit a crew.  Imagine a menu  with options like "Keel haul them",
 "Hang them from the yard arm", "Make them walk the plank", or "Forgive
 and Forget", with appropriate animations.  Yeah, I have a tendency to
 stay active just a _little bit_ too long. ;)

>> Has anyone managed to take every Spanish town? Can it be done?

>I think history would get in your way.

  It doesn't get in the way of anything else.  I've managed to 
 take all but 2 or 3, and no matter what the odds, I can't seem to 
 get the last of them.  I think it's more like the code for the
 Treasure Fleet and Silver Train gets in the way.

jcc

.......good to hear from you, ricko......