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Originally posted by vicious@May 11 2005, 05:08 PM
Hey guys, thanks for this great game!

I seem to have a problem though. Everytime a get a mission from a governor I go to the town he asked but I don't seem to find his cousin, spy or whatever... Then I return and he is just disapointed at me! :not_ok:

Can anyone help me on that? Thanks...

The spy is usually in the bar at the doorway. Hes just a shadow and can be hard to see.

[tristanzz]

Any advice on these would be great.

1. What's your favorite trait? I've been liking the navigation now that I've tried it. Medicine would be good, too, though I wonder what the tradeoff is between having a longer career and sailing faster!

2. Health appears to decline to "fine" after a couple of years. I only squeezed in two expeditions (but they were monsters), and I decided to retire to avoid winding up in poor health. I picked up quite a few red spots in combat and I was wondering if these speed up your decline

3. Practicing fencing - I think the manual says this blows a week, but you get a higher skill in fencing after doing it a few times. Might be nice if you are waiting for the treasure fleet/silver train schedule, but again, health worries...

4. Land skirmishes - you can move both pirate units simultaneously if you hold down Enter. But what if you want to make both of them stop? You could park both of them at the edge of a forest and cream a garrison unit if it's running by to where it last saw one of your units. As it stands, though, since you can't park both units it seems better to sneak them both through the forests and reach the fort. They won't attack unless they are standing still.

5. Favorite era - mine is the Silver Empire. Huge towns, lots of galleons and war galleons laden with stuff (these ships sell for a ton of money, too). Drawback: no sloops or frigates