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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goodsport" data-source="post: 3047169" data-attributes="member: 1550">Now that Take 2 Interactive has taken over the rights of this game (and other games) from Atari, you can now find the game's website <a href="http://www.2kgames.com/pirates/pirates/home.php" target="_blank">here</a>, and can download the 1.02 patch from <a href="http://www.2kgames.com/pirates/pirates/news_story.php?id=126" target="_blank">here</a>.In any case, I just started playing this game again for the first time in a while, and oh man does it still rock!Actually, it rocks even more than before after the solution occured to me to the mistake I kept making the first time I played:Before, I'd (as the pirate captain) immediately spend our hard-earned money on ship upgrades to improve our chances of not sinking or going down in battle, on food so that the crew wouldn't starve out at sea, etc., yet I'd notice that crew morale would sing rapidly anyway (sometimes to Mutinous levels).It seems that the crew only really cares about the gold that'll eventually be divied up between us, and any spending of that gold (even on essentials) lowers how much they'll eventually get.  They're kinda like children in they don't appreciate what needs to be spent on food, shelter, clothing and such... they just want their toys, even at the expense of those necessities.So once I started paying closer attention to keeping the crew's morale up while still purchasing what was necessary, I was able to sail longer.  That led me to attack more ships (thus far, mainly other pirate ships) to supplement the necessary food and cargo while not having to spend the gold (as a matter of fact, to gain more gold and other cargo) further led me into the truer spirit of the game, and the rest of the game-experience flowed from there.Other aspects include no longer being afraid to battle other established pirate captains, finding buried treasure often and courting governors' daughters. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />It seems that this game has a lot more depth than I'd previously realized, and I'm having more of a blast playing this now that I know what I need to do to survive and thrive as a pirate/privateer.  I can't wait to play this game again soon. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />-G</blockquote>

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