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The great quick game ! Great idea, I really like it, but the GUI is so slow ? Why all those animations of moving ships I can't cancel or speed up ? Why to move 4 ships it takes half of minute, because I'm waiting for the GUI to show unnecessary "animations" ? Fail :(
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Computer clearly starts with more resources or gains them at an unusual rate; By turn three France had 3 Frigates, 2 sloops, 2 Brigantines, and a Fortress outside their local capital. This amounts to a total of 600 gold, which is more than could possibly be earned in only three turns, not to mention any forces they may have had in the spaces I did not attack. I could also mention the fact that 3 Frigates should not be possible by turn three, as you start with 1, get only 1 more from the military tech, and cannot build more until researching the requisite tech.
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I love this kind of games. Turn-Based.
The scenario reminds me to Port Royale 2.
This game has potential. Good music. Good game.
Of course, needs some improvments.
Keep working in this idea, please.
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Great game. 4/5. Battles are annoying though. Please include a surrender button and speed up the gameplay in this part of the game.
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Stay away from the fortresses until you've eliminated the enemy ships. Then simply move in, shoot them, then retreat back to safety. Rinse & repeat ftw.
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Honestly one of my biggest complaints is that this is just too damn easy even on Hard, like I can see that the AI gets boosts in technology and ship quality but if they can barely put it to use and they don't know how to make most of what they have (Ex. They usually just send 1 ship at a time in a battle and not just charge the entire fleet into battle) Which is just plain stupid. Not to mention you can easily knock off one of the major powers in like turn 2 or 3.
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Another thing that could've made this game have more replayability is that if each nation had a custom tech tree or special perks, because if they just all have the same tech tree then it's kinda not worth much
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Good idea, poor execution: 1) Horrible AI - both tactical and strategic; one of its biggest mistakes is it keeps sending stuff at you one by one instead of in larger numbers. 2) Ships are too one-dimensional; it would be nice to have two ships where one can shoot down the other but will lose a boarding; might also be nice if there was a reward for boarding or several ships could join the same boarding 3) Damage to ships costs nothing after the battle; this makes things snowball quickly whether you're winning or losing; 4) Useless diplomacy is useless.
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the critical hit thing is infuriating and made me quit the game. Why would a guy on a surfboard take out an aircraft carrier with a "critical hit"?
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Potential, but poor execution. Ship levels are too linear. Need to vary them with some being better for bombarding, and others better for boarding. In the current state, I'd argue that crits 1-shotting is a good thing because without it, the person with highest ship upgrade auto-wins everything.
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I have a found a bug. Apparently 2 ships on opposite edges of the map can board each other. http://i.imgur.com/xhNYxYZ.png Otherwise this is a great game and I'm having a lot of fun.
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the computer cheats it can board my ships on the opposite end of the map by going to the border yet i cant return the favor
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The enemy attacks me, but its ships just sit there. After 10 turns of them not moving I should automatically win. I should not have to leave my defensive position to attack them.
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There's just so much problems in this game, I really loved the concept of a turn-based strategy game using ships in the Caribbean and you have to manage your economy and such but the execution is just horrible in my opinion. You barely even need to manage your economy or strategy since all you need to do is have a better and larger fleet and common sense, the combat is just so stiff with moving ships taking like seconds. Not to mention you can't undo moves if you accidental did something wrong nor can you retreat when you realized you can't win the engagement from the start. And what's with not being able to move your ship pass another of your ships? It's not like the passageway only can fit like 1 entire ship or something. Basically I honestly think this could've been done better than this. It had potential but Jesus Christ how sloppy everything is in this game.
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Never mind. I was wrong. It has nothing to do with castles. At some random point in the game I simply stop being able to attack. And if I board on these battles I automatically loose. No enemy casualties. (Even to a MUCH smaller ship.)
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This game isn't so much bad as it is lazy. the concept is lazy as in there are at least a dozen games on this site just like it and I even think one of them was made by armor games (the group that made this game). The controls are lazy, as in they work but they are not intuitive and take some figuring out. The combat is lazy, there is really no strategy to it just attack with a bigger fleet and tediously picks away their defenses. Just everything about this game is subpar; this game really feels like it was made a decade ago
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I liked the game, until I had two galleons taken down by sloops on lucky crits. And when I was defending in Cartagena and the enemy refused to move at all because I had two forts.
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Combat is a waste... no time-out, no forced moves... enemy fleets just sit and wait and you can't retreat... it takes forever
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crits are way too powerful. Sloops killing galleons in one hit, and brigantes killing fortresses in one hit, just crazy.
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Well... Seems if I have a castle, my ships are not allowed to shoot at enemy attackers. Gonna have to quit now. Sad. I was liking this.
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OK so a Spanish galleon on the right edge of the battle map boarded and destroyed my frigate which was on the left edge of the map. WTF?
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I control 15 territories, have 4 fleets of 6 galleons and masses of money. My only remaining option is to break a peace treaty with the only remaining country, which is no threat to me.
I'm going to count that as a win.
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I think it's pretty annoying that enemies can attack your cities and just sit there doing nothing until you come out and meet them.
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It's a nice, enjoyable, quick game. One issue, though. during battle I sometimes had a bug were my ships had to target empty ocean in order to hit the enemy ship.