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From: beck@red15 (Sullivan Beck)
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Subject: Re: Pirates! How do you score?
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Date: 23 Mar 91 16:25:50 GMT
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>>Heres a curious question. In the manual it says "silver train/Treasure fleet
>>in whatever year". I was wondering if its accurate for a period of time. in
>>other words, in 1662, early march is the silver train always going to be in
>>cumana?  this would make capturing it a bit easier.
>
>I believe this is random.  It's their form of copy protection.
>

Actually, it's not random.  For the first year, it actually does follow that
schedule.  My sister plays this game a lot and always starts the game off by
capturing one or both of the fleets.  I've done it a couple of times, but don't
play Pirates that regularly.  The problem is that you always start the game in
one of the years listed so you really have to move quickly to get enough men
and ships to capture the fleet and all it's cargo (of course if you're only
interested in the money, you don't need as many ships).  If you goof up... the
next chance is 20 years away.