to hard?
Number 1: its to hard
Number 2: Its impossebol to find the secound ship on the battle map
Number 3: HOW DO I MAKE MONEY??
Reviews for "Black Sails"
a bit familiar...
Someone really likes the game Port Royale...
hard
its kinf of boring doing the same thing over it takes me ages to find the small fast ships like 'notahero' needs a mini map
I like it
it's a good game its a kind of game I like, but I wish there's a minimap in battle because sometimes those corvettes are dissappeared and it took me long time to find them.
A rum game, matey.
Ok, I've finally spent enough time playing this to write an informed review.
I've never played Pirates or anything else similar to this, so it's new to me.
Battle: The battle options are intelligently set up. I like that you can upgrade your ship either by hijacking other ships, or by buying them. I didn't have to spend much time searching for the other ships MOST of the time by doing two things. Usually all the ships start out near the center of the map. If there's a ship you can take out quickly, do that first. Then, look in the last place you saw the other ship. Don't go where it was headed.
Instructions: It's very hard to write complete instructions for a game like this, that are short enough to put within the game, I'm sure, but the instructions for battle had some deficiencies which make this game difficult to play at first. I had to restart about 10 times, trying different things out. You should make it clear in the instructions that the way to take an enemy ship is to take out all the crew with grapeshot, and NOT by an abordage fight, which just destroys the enemy ship.
Travel: Good balance. Both the speed at which you move around and the rate of enemy encounters are perfect.
Trade: Good scaling between money from battles and cost of materials and upgraded ships. Chainshot was a great value. Because enemy ships have no sails, as far as battle is concerned, you can save a lot of time by using chain rather than roundshot. I thought that abordage was sort of a waste, though, because buying men, guns, and swords is much more expensive than buying ammo. It would be worth it if you made it so that we could take over enemy ships via abordage, then it would be a trade-off between the cost of supplies and the cost of new ships.
Town attack: Sorry, I haven't got to this yet. I'm waiting 'til I can get the best ship and stock it with crew and weapons. So far I'm up to the 30K ship.
And for anyone who read this far, a hint: cannon upgrade is THE MOST IMPORTANT thing to ALWAYS have. It doesn't matter what kind of ammo you use, you can always win with fully upgraded cannons, even against stronger ships with better ammo, coz you can reach them without them getting you.
Dang. I donno how you're doing it, Ignatus Zuk, but all these games you've released lately are excellent strategy games that supply me with days of entertainment. Good job. Go make tons of money with your skills. Go Lithuania !=P