@Gunner: I bought the game, after your and other's recommendations, as it was very cheap ..

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Sorry, no pun intended I am old enough to know thats not your fault .. you are entitled to likeing the game and so am I to say that - the game, even with build 13 installed, is the most ridiculous junk I have seen in a long time - it is absolutely off to compare this with the original Pirates! as most of the time you will do boring things like running through silly looking land environments, wondering why a PC game could have release with such a painfully inadequate interface, and looking for a way how to switch off the awful soundtrack.

My verdict: the mod may be nice, but the game sucks so much that it really doesn't matter. Every fan of the original Pirates! and Pirates! Gold should stay clear of this - otherwise he might buy a console as well.

I have Age of Pirates, but got bored ( a lot of repetition ) with it pretty quick. If they would have applied SH3 stuff to it it would have been much better

imo both series seem pretty similar. Mainly roaming the seas looking for targets, and imo sh3 is pretty repetitive too. Think I'll give AoP a go. Sitting on a boat in the middle of an ocean with an amazing backdrop is half of what makes these games ;)

Pirate simulator is a private effort - it might be good, but looking at the screenshots it might never be really finished.

It's in alpha testing, so things are progressing. The same team that is heavily involved in community mods for potc/aop so it's likely the game will be pretty good. I don't think they would have attempted a game that doesn't satisfy much of that community.

EIC looks very promising but they haven't updated their site in ages.

True. Expect the worst, hope for the best.

Well if UBI would just pay somebody to make a Pirate or a Jules Verne game with the Silent Hunter engine

Why not just a stable AoP with better hand 2 hand, deep crew/vessle management (love that cutaway EIC screen), engaging diplomacy, bustling towns and a huge variety of missions? :D

I know this isn't strictly speaking the point of this thread so forgive me getting a little off-topic... In POTC, is there as far as you know any mod or planned mod that would replace the very limited play area (a scattering of fictitious tiny islands in the middle of, well, endless empty sea) with a proper real-world area to sail in?

It's one of the things that's always put me off POTC and Age of Pirates - I like the real-world maps used in Sid Meier's Pirates and Cutthroats, etc.

They have already modded the hell out of it (see my post above about build 13), but imo its hopeless. These programs are feckering console games and, no matter how many tons of new textures you put on top of them, will never offer anything of substance to the realism folk

POTC may not be everyones cup of tea, for me I love play'n the game with mods.I don't spend much time on land exploring, many people wanted that feature, so it was left in. Prefer to be out on the open sea loot'n an pluder'n, sacking the occasional fort and town.Interface may seem junky to someone new,I'm used to it since I've played the game since release and startrd tweaking and modding the game to my own tastes. As for the world map, the additional Islands were imported to game from Russian mod, as there are to few islands in vannila game.
Doesn't look to be a decent pirate game released to soon other than ones already mentioned.
Pirates Of The Burning Sea looks very promising, but is an online game only unfortunatly.In the meantime will continue play'n SH4:arrgh!:

Anyone know whatever happened to this? I seem to remember it looked quite promising.

EDIT: wow a 4 year bump :p that must a personal best lol