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I like the fact that you dont know the price of wares in other ports, though other than that there is a lot to add to trade. The graphics are great etc (all said before), however i'd like to be able to pan the screen, maybe some ports could be more build ships based, possibly a map-route option could be added and... theres so much! I'll just let others say the rest!
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Sometimes you don't enter a port when you go near it... You just ram the shoreline until you try to leave and reenter.
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I don't get it... I start with 500k, then I'm attacked until my ship is destroyed and afterwards it tells me I have to start over? Sorry, 1/5 until there is are real instructions or a tutorial.
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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!)
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Move the little Available on the IPhone notice on bottom of screen. It is covering up something - and also covers up $$ when in store / repair view.
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After taking a sample of each islands goods and prices twice (22 total excluding Curacao which is bugged) I have compiled a list of high and low prices for the goods you trade. Fish low=20 high=50,, Rugs low=40 high=90,, Sugar low=80 high=170,, Rum low=100 high=210,, Coffee low=110 high=260.
I have noticed no correlation between location and the prices so far.
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most of the problems was already mentioned, but I have few tips that are missing here:
1) you should know what was in barrels that you've picked up 2) you should be able to change view. 3) sometimes, when camera change on last second, you can't enter a dock, and you need to go away and back. 4) sometimes the stearing stuck and you need to push arrow again. 5) when you are buying upgrades for your ship, they should be visible on the ship, and you should know what they are for. 6) when you are buying new ship, you should be able to sold you previous ship at last or have option to leave it somewhere. 7) costumizes for ship would be great. 8) ships hitting each other should damange each other. 9) barrels should just drop into water instead of flying for 10 seconds.
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This is just a demo and worse is that even if you buy the iPhone version for $0.99 you then have to pay an additional $2 for the rest of the game, which apparently is still just attacking other ships and a mediocre trade system, you don't get a story or anything else! It's also doubtful that the developer will bother to make suggested improvements like a non-terrible camera system as that would require him to maintain two different codes since the iPhone version wouldn't use the same camera system as the Kong version. As others have said this demo game has potential but not even the full iPhone version delivers, so unless we vote accordingly then developers will think it's okay to use this site as a dumping ground for demos and previews.
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So far this is a pretty good game. I enjoy the naval combat, the graphics are nice, and the interface is good. However, my biggest complaint is with trade goods. I left Barbados when sugar was going for 150. I made one stop at another island to pick up sugar going for 110. By the time I made it back to Barbados sugar was selling for 100. This kind of rapid change in prices makes trading pretty much impossible. Otherwise, great game!
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EXCELLENT GAME. Change the Money to GOLD. Pirates at that time rarely used cash. Also add bounties. Have like 6 factions: red sail pirate, black sail pirate, England, France, Spain, Independent Merchant. You could also do missions: Courier (passanger or document or item), Escort, Search and Destroy, Rescue.
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Really like this game! Only fix I would add is the control error where the ship stops turning left/right after shooting. The player has to press left or right again after shooting to continue turning. 4/5
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repairing your ship is expensive, so I wish you could choose how much you want your ship repaired. instead of only being able to fully repair it.
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Would love to see a game like this not just with missions, but also an actual story. More RPG awesome stuffs too. Also, buying and selling doesn't really work, products act like the stock market, they go up and they go down, and when they're cheap in one town they're also cheap everywhere else... much better off killing people for loot, at least in the beginning
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It's great game, and i love it, but it's "unworked". My english is poor, but i'll try to explain, what i mean...
I havn't anything versus Camera system, but I realy need minimap when I am in fights... Opening map and looking which direction i should go drives me crazy :/
I hope You will finaly bring minimap on the screen.
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Couple more points: camera controls are critical. Need to able to trade-in current ship.
For future enhancements, also consider floating multi-ship convoys.
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This game is sometimes unplayable. The ship is heading straight when you desperately try to make it turn, and it may happen that you do not see your enemy firing at you. Very bad things to correct urgently
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Inaddition to the first few comments saw, please remove the iPhone advert in the lower left, it's blocking some pretty important numbers.
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Less fun, clunkier version of sidmiers pirates.
Maybe if I didn't own that old game I'd play this as the free alternative though.
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Man potential seems to be the watchword here. Got interested quick in the beautifully detailed world. I understand that this isn't supposed to be super in depth so I'm not expecting tons of detail like some people with quests and twenty other game changing add ons, but THE TRADING SYSTEM IS TERRIBLE!!!!! The prices swing so wildly that all I'm doing is buying low and then wondering around for an absurd amount of time trying to find which random new place wants what I got. I just saw that one island was buying salt for 110, so when I went to the nearest island and saw salt for 80, I bought a ship full and went back... to see that the price is now 80. Now, I'm done. Fun at first but there has to be some rhyme and reason to it, like certain goods always being high or low at certain ports, especially when I'm trying to buy a ship that can do something besides run. Intriguing to annoying.
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"Age of Wind" and yet there is no wind direction or at least none I see. The iPhone App Store icon is useless unless its purpose is to cover up useful information in the HUD. If I can open the map with Tab is should be able to close it with it also. There seems to be no purpose or reason to this game because there is no instructions, no story line and what is with the first battle? I battled for 10 minutes just to find out that I didn't die and I come back with a smaller almost useless ship and have no idea what I should be doing. If your going to design a Pirate game go play Sid Meier's Pirates and take some pointers from the game design.
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Here's some more constructive criticism (1k char cap). (6) better starting ships at a reasonable price.....one with high speed/low cargo and another with low speed/high cargo is necessary. (7) Make trading a more viable option....for now it's just a war game that has a basic trade function. (8) The map does not work....tab does nothing. (9) allow players to switch camera views (10) work on the lag when multiple ships attk...the player ship will often fail to turn just before the enemies fire....its like it freezes for 1-1.5 seconds.
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So... I accidently hit the app store button... Not a big deal really, if it wasn't for the fact that it didn't open in a new window or tab, but inside the game window, ruining my current game -.-
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@yogsloth: Unity 3d is absolutely fine. If I see one more post like that I will shoot something. Everyone else on Kongregate downloaded the stupid program, and kongregate has obviously okay-ed it, so what do you people have against it?
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no actually there is one, but IO went through it without seing it............
There sure are bugs, like the one that makes you stop turning
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the game has potential, but thats about it :/ would make a list of things but everything i can think of has been mentioned
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Could be a great Pirates clone, but there's still a lot of work to do.
Right now it is just a little more than a graphics demo, which are btw very nice...
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why doesi t appear that the crew can't handle to maintain the boat in control and steer it without pausing and takeing a piss every minute?
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Love it!!! But it needs a lot of work, For one, i have had ships dissapear while im fighting them, not sink, just go poof. Second, Some times it doesn't let you into a port for no apparent reason, so i find myself going in and out of the same port five or six times just to dock. Even worse, i've had a whole island dissapear on me, it actually let me into that port though, then the island disappeared AGAIN, and now im staring at a blank screen and can't do a thing. Bug fixes, and it'll earn that last star!!!
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my steering just failed causing me to plow straight into a broadside from 2 enemy ships. please fix that glitch, it is starting to become a nuisance
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Camera ruins it, sometimes cannonballs just appears out of nowhere for me because my range of sight is so small and i cant see other ships