QUOTE(The Vulture @ Oct 1 2006, 01:19 AM)
you should have more than 8 hireable pirates at a time. You can hire as many as the hideout and the ship can handle, but you choose who you want to go on a voyage with, and who stays to guard the hideout.
also a quest that allows you to take care of some..competition.
I can make 2 seperate groups of pirates you can hire for, the hideout and the ship. But due to scripting and AI package demands its rather difficult to make a combined group, so that you can take pirates from your hideout to your ship if you need them. The other thing is pirates at the hideout don't do much except add ambience
Though theres a couple that offer training.
Would people prefer to hire pirates individually for their hideout? Or hire them as a group (like an upgrade)? Currently they appear when you acquire the allied ships.Competition wise, you will actually run into pirates on the sea, they're one of the possible opponents.
There will be a special quest regarding some specific enemy, the imperial navy
QUOTE(Plycat430 @ Oct 1 2006, 07:10 PM)
Here is an idea for a quest
The search for the Black Pearl (or any other ship name)
After u got your ship and u sleep inside it u get a dream and thenu are told to go to the bar (that place were u buy the pirates-can't remember the name) then when u speak to the owner about your dream he tells u, u are the chosen one to find the black pearl and gives u a peace of paper with an image of a key on, u are then sent to the other town were all the imperial guards guy's are to talk to Black Boot Jhon a famous old pirate who once was captian of the Black Pearl. Then he talls u were the boat is hidden but that u must find the key to it. Th Black Pearl u can hide on the original island u start off at but on the other side between rocks and stuff. U can let Black boot Jhon tell u that the key is hidden at the top of the island and then u give a map marker to the the player to where it is , then u find the black pearl and its key an then take it for yuor self.
Given the complications of scripting the blackmoon movement wise, and the pirate flags, theres only going to be one ship you can acquire.