The Game Editor
That’s
right, mateys, there be an editor hidden in the game! Damoclese, from the
Forum, brings it and it’s initial instructions to our attention.
Go into the game directory, and find a file named engine.ini. Edit it
with notebook, changing the first value from
CORE_MODULE core
to
CORE_MODULE tools_launcher
Save and exit, and when you’ve done it, start the game, ‘Esc’
through the Bethesda and Akella banners, and you’ll be at the helm of
the editor!
If you go to Ship Editor, Doc Austin tells us and I’ve experienced,
you can find the ship ‘Principio’, and change it to whatever you want.
The effect will be that your beginning ship will be changed to that. Do
show a little honor and respect and refrain from giving yourself a MMOW.
Actually, if you give yourself a ship above the class you can command at
the beginning, your skills will reflect a negative value. Which leads us
to the…
Character Editor. Page down and look for Nicholas Sharp. You can change
a lot of things, like apparently the 3D model (temptations, temptations! I
reckon it might be possible for you lasses to change the lead character to
one of female models, like Carla, but you’d be limited from the Pirate
and French Campaigns…unless yer playin’ someone with an alternate
lifestyle). What would be fruitful is to change the skills levels. First
Mate jojobeans tells us that if you set your sailing skill to 90 (the
highest he recommends without the game "going buggy"), you can
watch your ships fly (though this is rougher on the larger ships). It
begins to have a negative effect at that high a rating, so I’d recommend
down in the teens to be the excessive upper limit. Similar effects come
from a boarding skill of 90. He recommends a high grappling skill, but you
still have to get close. He says that reload rates are best set between 10
and 20.
I recommend the above if you want to a game with some of the more
colorful ships, like my favorite, the Galleon. I’ll tell ye, sailing the
Archipelago in one o’ them tubs is tough, both since it’s hard to find
one to buy, and it’s murder having encounters with ships you can’t
out-run or out fight. If you wonder about the values of ships in the game,
this editor is for you, as long as you remember the original values.
One of the options of the game editor is… ‘game’. Hit it, and the
game begins. Afterwards, when you check the Engine ini, it has gone back
to it’s original CORE_MODULE core !
Introduction - The Man himself brings you up to speed on the how's and why's of the Sea Dogs Walkthroughs.
English Walkthrough - The game starts in the English island of Highrock. Take the guv'nor's Letter of Marque and sail under the Union Jack.
Pirate Walkthrough - Too cool to sail for the civilized nations, eh? We like your style. Hoist up the Jolly Roger, matey, and let's sink some English!
Spanish Walkthrough - What brings someone to take on the allegiance of a hated nation? A desire for vindication? The desire to hunt for the individuals responsible for a crime (and not blaming the entire nation)? Perhaps a little too much rum?
French Walkthrough - Maybe it’s the idea of the wine, or the food, or the idea that like them, you think you’re better that anybody else (J ), but you’ve decided to head on out to Belflor to get yourself a French Letter of Marque!
Missing Pieces - Some quests fit in multiple campaigns, or are not in the ‘cricical path’.
Places and People - Who-boy, there's lots of folks in the Archipelago to keep up with. Sailor Al has sketches on all of them here.
The Cheats! - Any real guide to a computer game will have a section on cheats.
The Fifth Campaign - The Fifth Campaign is… that of a free trader at sea!
The Stores - a guide to lucrative trading.
The Game Editor! - That’s right, mateys, there be an editor hidden in the game!
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