I, for one, welcome the arrival of our new badge showering overlords! Never, in the course of human endeavor has so much been achieved by so few, for so little (sorry Winston!)
Wow! Unity is your friend! Picking up on a couple of previous complaints ... move the fruggin' AppStore ad, please!
More constructively... it'll be hard work getting a viewpoint manipulator into the battles (won't it?!?) - I'd suggest giving the tracking arrows (when your coming into a battle) a little more info - like orientation of the ship you're attacking and possibly wind direction. Also, ship orientation on the map would be nice (+1 for tab exit!) - that way you could at least work out where the hell you are after a battle!
Those should be straight forward .... bigies are the ones mentioned by others:
1) Ability to find out the trading costs of the goods before you enter ports (see 3);
2) Barrel's of loot give information of what they contain before you pic them up (see 3));
3) Those last two points are what gave Elite (the best trading / shooting the c#$p out of everyone game in existence) the edge .... you're ooooh so close with this - but with pirates (which is kind of a win!)
@timothyh411: Really?!? I'd say 15 points (tops) for 1 gold medal on each castle. I blasted (sic) through it in an hour tops to knock down all castles. Get the super bomb and then return to all th castles you got silver / bronze for... easy!
Hint - go up, right, right, down, left... run pass all the guards and pick up the Zampogna (or something like that)... spam "z" when entering into an area and everyone starts attacking each other... simples
@Skrylius - The english dude in the car is Sir Clive Sinclair, creator of (amongst other things) the ZX Spectrum (ask your dad) and the Sinclair C5 (the car he's in). Darn nice reference by the team (but I prefer the Prisoner one - nice Pennyfarthing!)
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