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It's a good game but you need a way to control the camera. Not being able to see what you're about to hit, or what is heading towards you is pretty horrible. Almost ran aground several times because the camera got stuck looking at the side of my ship! Even a wider top down view would be better.
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More tooltips and info about stuff.
For instance, what does the red cross in the top left corner do?
Abandon ship, blow up the ship, return to closest port, quit current game?
I've not dared to click it yet..
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The "app store" icon gets inn the way of seeing how much money you have while purchasing upgrades and whatnot.
While turning the game randomly decides to have me stop turning, which is how I lose most of the health I lose.
I often can't see enemies before they can fire and hit me.
Good concept, relatively poor and buggy execution.
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Nice gameplay, very nice graphics. There are certain points missing in my opinion, litte things, easy to add. A "sell all button" is needed and if you can see the stats of other ships (buyable) you also should be able to see your own stats at the moment. The tab key was mentioned above, please add that you can leave the map via pressing tab.
A wish for the future would be a "reputation bar" as mentioned above and the option to complete side quests such as "deliver message von x to y" oder "deliver person from x to y". This would be a nice side flavour. Also some medals would be nice.
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Things you should add: The option to leave the map by pressing Tab again, quests, camera controls, a volume control, the option to actually see your money (or quit the iphone ad) and maybe an Ingame Tutorial or something like that (help function...).
Except for these things missing, which impact the quality very much n my opinion (was fun to play, but it could have been way better) it's a great concept and it's fun to play.
Personally, I'm gonna wait for it to be upgraded from "good" to "awesome".
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wish every ship on the sea didnt attack me. and sometimes im just trying to go my own way and i get ganged up on. and fix the being able to see the money thing
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This is a great stress releiver (cant spell tht word D:) its simple, not complicated at all and has soothing music 5/5
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Showing the price of goods in various ports would be the biggest thing for me in this game. So hard to decide where to go and what to buy without hitting every single city first and making your own charts :(
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The beginning is like arcadian crusade--you can't win. Now why anyone would take inspiration from that crappy game is beyond me. Change the beginning to something more user friendly (duh, like a tutorial) and get rid of those stupid ads and add a quality control switch and add directions on the map itself and...honestly, take the game back and just make lots of changes, because right now it's half-done.
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also I'm not convinced trading works at the moment very well? prices in the shops seem to change randomly in each island, I bought wood from one island where it was cheep since the previous Island I was at had much higher prices for it but when I got back the price at that island had dropped even lower than the price I bought it at
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WTF?
don't get it, you start in a strange circle full of enemie ship's, and the only way to get out is failure? and then you're ship/money/goods are all gone...
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Love this game, the game play and quality is excellent, however the lack of any tool tips, advice, help, the iphone app add blocking how much money you have when you want to upgrade things and afew other things means that I'm only giving it a 2/5 dispite the game having the potential to be one of the best games on here.
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awesome game, great graphics, nice gamplay, a bit similiar to the pirates of caribian game, whatever, change view button, remove iphoneapp, add a list with pricelist to trade. also a small tutorial would be great, also it would be great when not all ships are enemys ;D at the moment there is no chance to trade peacefull :D but all in all, awesome game, love it!
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It has potential, apart from that it is pretty darn boring. Make this an interesting game. I can't see my cash, I don't know anything about my ship...etc.
If I wanted to play a game like this I would just download VCO. I expected this to be less complicated, it was so dumbed down it wasn't fun.
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This will defiantly become a favourite if you add view toggle control and perhaps a mission or two.
Nice work so far.
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Sailor on other boat-"Sir a friendly boat with no carge is peaceful sailing to another island"
Captain on another boat-"Call all ships withen 20mile radius for suicide mission!"
You-"ooooooh shi-"
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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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Tips :
1. Be careful when choosing your ship. It's very pricey and no refund for the previous ship
2. Don't upgrade your ship unless you are pretty sure that you will stick with that ship for a pretty long time. Upgrade lost when you buy a new one
3. santa catalina with the greatest ship "Victory" can be found at the secret island in the map with the ship and octopus picture. It's 400.000 so be sure to save some money.
4. The trick to easily collect money is via trading and leave some in your cargo compartment for looting. Buy fish at around 20's, textile at 60's, log at 80's, salt at 90's , barrel at 100's (i've seen one around 80's) , and cocoa at 130's.
5. Big or small ship rarely made a difference in cargo loots. Small ship which is destroyable in 2 shoots drop pretty same loot with the holy man-o-war. So choose your battle carefully.
6. Do an S pattern. DO TURN after you shoot your cannon. Avoid being trapped between 2 ships.
+ so everyone can see
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Simply amazing, though there is a lot to say about this game. First off, I love the fact that you allowed us to see a preview of the end-game ship in the opening introduction, in others words the best possible upgrades we can get. The game's AI was actually quite clever, and they didn't allow you to simple cut corners and shoot at them, they put up a fight. The game itself starts off slow, and there are issues with the camera and sailing off the map but in all it makes a great start for an updated version. 5/5
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continue: 3> there are too many ships and most of them just want to kill you. Even some louzy fisherman's boat start shooting at you (why does it have a cannon at all?). There should be some good ships(army and enforcements), bad ships (pirates), and neutral ships, like merchants, fishermans and ferries. each should treat you difrently concerning your REPUTATION (as good, neutral or pirate). maby some islands be neutral or good, and thier forts shoot at you if you are not welcome?.4> Crew mannagement! Better crew reload faster, keeps your ship functioning under damage, producing more speed and reduce turning radius. if you got hit you would lose some crew, producing less of all of the above. finaly, getting you (or the enemy) to a low speed. What about Boarding enemy ships? Or they boarding you? that's is where crew number would be crucial. and the treasure you'll get from succesfully taking over a ship would have to be much bigger, and with money.
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Great graphics(!!!!), GREAT Views! but not a lot more... There ought to be more options and more realism to make this game better. 1> first I wana say that the Controls are OK, but cammera angles are a little bit not comfortable at battles. Not many would get the point that the speed of the ships at battles are some kind of an avarage, so you could controll your ship at high speeds, but faster ships would have an advantage over slower and smaller ships. that's very good work! I would do it a little bit less frastrating, like making your ship not going to a halt. 2>The prices for goods are at a random algorithm of some kind, that there is not a lot of point on remembering where you can buy something cheap and sell it high. So there's no real point being a merchant.!
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Do a repeated "S" pattern and you can dodge 90% of shots while landing 90% of your own. At least, you could, if your ship didn't occasionally decide to stop responding.
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the game seems pretty good but I would really like to be able to toggle between the views at sea so I can tell what kind of ship I'm heading towards - bigger than me? smaller than me? seems an important consideration :p graphics are great. pretty much agree with everything zstick said, especially 4) TAKE THE IPHONE AD OFF so you can see how much money you have!
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I must say I'm rather impressed with the game thus far. By the way, cacao beans sell in Tortuga for 230. So if you're smashing ships and come across some cacao save it for Tortuga