Playlogic Announces Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships for PC Hitting Retail Shelves May 12, 2009
Playlogic Entertainment, Inc. (Nasdaq OTC: PLGC.OB), an independent worldwide publisher of entertainment software, announced today that Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships is coming to retail stores nationwide May 12, 2009. The action-packed pirate adventure role playing game (RPG) for PC features dozens of quests and infinite challenges, where players can sail the high seas as a swashbuckling dread pirate or assume the role of a dashing naval captain.

FAQ from Russian Developers and gamers.

Q: Where is Des Mojnes?
A: Close to Maracaibo (you have to land on Cape of Delusive Hopes).

Q: I faced a problem in Edward Law’s quest! When I had come to Cumana, I found that Low is on a brig. Then I re-loaded, bought better ship, and came to Cumana fully equipped. But now there is no either Edward Low, or any log in the my questbook.
A: Bought the better ship – that’s a mistake. The pirate is coward and will not appear, if his opponent has an equal or forcer ship. 5-6th ship grade is the right choice for this purpose.

Q: I can not find the quest about “beggars”. In what city can I get it?
A: In the Main city of your nation. There you should talk with Oliver Trust. You can meet him on the streets.

Q: Where can I get "Bluebird" quest?
A: The quest to be given by a random store owner. Search for the corresponding log in your dialogs with them.

Q: I have run away from the island taking Spanish ship. What to do now?
A: Now you are absolutely free in your actions/wishes. There are many interesting quests. But in the very beginning you’d better to develop skills of your hero.

Q: I have complete mess in game interface. The main menu is caused on F1, I cant walk, cant open anything etc. What to do?
A: Probably, you moved savegames which are linked to a game profile. Set game options by default and save game after that.

Q: Where can I find a key for a chest which is on a balcony (Blood Character)?
A: It’s on a coffee table (ground floor).

Q: I cant equip a musket. Why?
A: Musketeers can use musket only.
There is an officer in the game who can use a very special musket. But you will be able to employ him, after you fulfilled his quest.

Q: I’ve chosen Blood Character. I killed all the Spanish in a city. Nobody is in the city now. What’s the next?
A: You should go to the shipyard and talk with officers there. They run away as you did, and now they’d like to join you.

Q: I cant come in the shipyard! It’s locked!
A: Look for another way. Through the sea.

Q: Where can I find the requested weapon I need for a bine?
You can find it inside of some houses. There are also other places at this location.

Q: Quest "Kill all the beggars"! Where can I find “the right beggar” to talk with and get the next mission hint? No one either on the streets, or in the houses. Learned nothing in a tavern.
A: All the beggars appear afternoon only.

Q: Is the contract on killing all the beggars the beginning of the main quest of the City of Abandoned Ships?
A: The quest of the City of Abandoned Ships is definitely linked to beggars. So you should decide - kill them or not.

Q: How to search for usurers’ stones?
A: Search along footpaths, walls, borders of location. The icon with a hand will appear on your screen when you're at the right place. Stones should be visible, but hardly. You can also get rid grass off (switch it off in game options).

Q: I’ve left quested frigate on the parking, so that to get rid penalties off. Then I bought a caravel - no penalties. OK. I opened at ship interface and found that it costs me 20 000 a month as a salary for my crew. But in the payment day I have been asked by 330 000 !!! What’s wrong?
A: Probably all your bad/old debts (unpaid salaries for previous months) were transferred to the next month.

Q: Why there is such a huge difference between purchase/selling prices? To purchase ship I have to pay about 50 000, but after that I can sell it only for 400?
A: That’s because of penalties in your trading skill. They appear if you use ship which doesn’t fit your navigation skill. Take the ship with a lower grade or employ high-skilled navigator.
Or just because your trading skill is too low. Then you’d better to employ high-skilled treasurer.

Q: Where can I find a key lost by Chad Kapper in the City of Abandoned Ships?
A: On a random ship, in a random place, but on the main deck only.


Q: Is it allowed to pass piracy and national mission simultaneously?
A: NO. You have to complete all the missions for your nation before the Panama take over suggested by Henry Morgan. Otherwise national quests become inaccessible.

Q: Archipelago is too big. I cannot find the island/town required. What to do?
A: You can buy detailed archipelago map at street traders or store owners. It randomly appears in their list-price.
You can also press button Tab while you’re on the global map. It makes your camera free, so that you are able to move it wherever you want.

Q: All my PIRATES competences are reduced (in brackets is written (-X)). How to get rid it off?
A: There are several reasons for such penalties:
- Your ship grade doesn’t fit your navigation skill
- Weight of things in your inventory might be higher than it’s allowed
- Your health became worth (check your health-bar at F2 interface. If it’s just good, not perfect, than you should avoid fighting for some period of time until your health restored).

Q: The governor has given a quest to kill bandits in jungles. But I cant find them. Why?
Walk once again, check all the locations. Bandits also move among locations.

Q: The governor has given a quest to find a spy in a city.
A: There are two possible scenarios:
1) He’s on the streets – then a corresponded log appears in dialogs with citizens
2) Absence of such a log means he’s definitely inside a house ( any house (!), any room (!) ).

Q: The governor has given the task to find smugglers. Where are they?
A: Their representative sits in a tavern. You should talk to him and appoint a meeting (you must have goods which are illegal on this territory).

Q: How to pass a governor’s quest “to destroy a pirate”?
A: Use function “reach to” on the local sea map. You’ll find several boats around. Check each of them using “reach to”. Usually the pirate change national flag to the pirate’s one when you’re close to him. But sometimes it doesn’t happen. So you’d better to additionally check each captain talking to him on the main deck of his boat.

Q: I get the order to destroy La Vega, but how can i do this?There isnt any fort to attack.
A: You should press Enter button being in the location of town's gate. There is an option like "think about..." Press it and see a log like "take over the town" or " attack the town" or so on...

Q: I wonder how can I get to Henry Morgans house?
A: If on Jamaica - Through the door. The house with collumns. Pass by tavern and store moving away from the sea and turn leftward.
If you mean his residence on Antigua - through the city underground. His secretary should tell you this. Find a small cellar entrance between the side walls of two houses.
A TIP: You will not need to go through tis labyrinth back to the streets: outside you may get through the door.

Q: How to steal in a city which is hostile to the hero’s nation?
A: 1)You can buy the trading licence of the nation (diplomat in pirate town->tavern), then set the proper flag (if you have the corresponding perc), then moor at the city port or at a bay/coast near the city (in this case you have to get to the city through jungles).
OR
2) Same actions without licence but having well developed stealth skill.

Q: Where can I buy a Man-of-war? There is no it in shipyards` list-price!
A: That’s right. There isn’t. You can take over the Man-of-war in battles only. You can meet such a ship within squadrons that attack towns or within the big flotillas on a global card.

Q: Where can I get the Ascold quest?
A: A random store owner asks you to bring a mummy ashes.

Q: Where can I get Isabella quest?
A: The Bermudas, Atilla.

Q: Where does the piracy quest-line start?
A: You should talk with captain Goodly (Puerto-Prinsipe) or Bermudas Governor.

Q: Is the pyramid of Indians open now?
A: Yes it is. It’s a part of the Ascold quest.

Q: Isabella has been stolen. I’ve found just a dead body of her servant. Where should I look for Isabella now?
A: She’s in a cave in jungles. The cave looks like a mine.

Q: I was heated by the Flying Dutch. Now I am alone at the coast. No ship, no money! What to do?
A: You should get to the closest town. There you have to earn money (take a governor quest or steal some things from houses’ chests etc), so that you’re able to buy a boat.
OR
You can agree with smugglers (tavern) about transportation to another island (in this case you also need money, as transportation is not free).

Q: I can not find a treasure! What’s wrong?
A: 1) If you came into the right cave the treasure’s map would disappear from your inventory. In addition there will be a log on your screen "a treasure somewhere nearby". If nothing out of those things has happened, then it’s a wrong cave, look for another one.
2) If the map has disappeared, check all the chests in the cave.

Q: Where can I find the mummy ashes?
A: A random street trader sells the mummy ashes. Ask each of them about the ashes until he/she refuses to deal with you. Finally you will find the right person, who’ll sell you the ashes after you asked him 5th time.

Q: Where can I find/collect damned pearls?
A: Take the quest from governors to protect a town from a skeletons attack. Each death of skeleton will automatically generate random quantity of pearls in your inventory.

Q: How to prevent/reduce my crew losses during a boarding?
A: First of all, you should have enough of medicines and weapon at your ship. Appointed officer-doctor which has percs: “doctor” and “life-saver”. It also helps to reduce losses.


Q: I faced a problem/bug with the nation relationship. The nation’s relationship to the hero has shown as friendly, but a fort shoots at me and soldiers attack my hero.
A: There is a difference between nation-hero relationship and nation1-nation2 relationship. If fort shoots at you that means nation of your hero is hostile to the nation fort belongs to. And/Or flag on your ship belongs to a hostile nation. In this case the hero isn’t a friend but just a representative of a hostile nation. You’d better to use flag of a nation-friend or flag of a nation this town belongs to. Of course to change flags you need the corresponding perc within hero’s personal abilities.

Q: What is the patent? How can I get it?
A: The patent is a confirmation that your hero works for the certain nation. You can get it after you fulfilled several quests of one governor, or you can buy it in any pirate town (diplomat in tavern). Having the patent you’re able to start corresponding national quest-line. The quest-line to be given by a governor-general.

Q: How to get and use the trading licence? I’ve bought the trading licence, but a fort shoots me anyway.
A: You can buy the trading licence in any pirate town (diplomat in tavern). To properly use the trading licence of the hostile nation you have to set flag of this nation or flag of the nation-friend.

Q: How can I become the owner of a captured town? I killed all the soldiers in a city, then I killed governor’s guards, but there is no corresponding sentence in dialogue with the governor.
A: You can capture towns after you completed national/piracy quest-line. Or you should break/ruin the quest-line, so that a governor-general refused to deal with you. Then towns taking over becomes available.

Q: I did nothing, touched nobody, but suddenly a log "your reputation has gone down..." appeared. What happened?
A: The reputation aspires to the medium level. So it will go up or down (depends on your current status – you’re extremely bad guy or vice versa), if your hero does nothing out of actions that usually influence on the reputation.

Q: A pirate has suggested to meet on the board of his ship. The corresponding record has appeared in my logbook. But I cant find his ship around the port. There is no his ship name in the list when I use option "reach to". What to do?
A: Sometimes it is impossible to reach the ship directly from port location. Check all the bays/coasts/beaches around the island and there try "reach to".

Q: A strange man has approached to me on the street and suggested to meet in a cave/dungeon. Should I go?
A: It’s up to you. That’s a beginning of a difficult, but quite profitable quest. If you decided to pass the quest you should follow the man (if possible, as sometimes the cave is in jungles and you have to find it by yourself), so that to meet him (sometimes them!) at the above mentioned place. If you missed at least one meeting you ruined the quest. There’re 6 towns where you can meet such strange guys:
- Fort-de-France,
- Marigo,
- St. John's,
- Santa Catalina,
- Panama,
- Cartagena

Q: How to find a unique shipyard where I can improve characteristics of my ship?
A: On the Bermudas.

Q: Where is Fort Orange?
A: On Jamaica.

Deinstall Codec Pack,install again in manual mode.Don't install ffdshow.
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Hi i dont know russian langaugae so well, thats why ill be writing in english.

I red in some topics abot my same problem with the Engine.exe, but the solution for their problem hasnt resulted for me with a succes. So problem is that when the storm engine is launched it gets to the engine part and it shows runtime error Engine.exe has stopped unexpectedly and so far.... I tried to put the newest framework and the Sp1 framework pack but it still doesnt work. By the way i have Vista Intel core2 due 2.0 ghz geforce 9600m 512 mb 4gb ram those are the most important things. I have the newest video driver sound driver(lol) directx adobe. I just dont know whats the problem so ill be waiting for good solutions

Check,please.What you have written permission to Engine.ini?No errors?

Engine.ini permission is not set on read-only so it has writing permissions

I don't see Europe version AoP2 .As you change game resolution?

i got the russian version because of the patches and you cant put russian patches on english version i have changed many times the resolution now its the lowest

English version include last official patch yet. Russian will have no more official patces. Game relized at 2007 and pathced well before eng relize

Unistall AoP2 and install english version only.

the english version works but then the patches which you make at your forum arent working because the english version is 1.3.0 patch...

thats why i cant put for example your hardcore patch with those cool changes is there another way?

Sorry.Patch 1.2.3 Hardcore Edition compatibly russian version only.

try to reinstall game with latest official patch, if it will start normaly, install 1.2.3 HE Then tell us result

which version ? english reinstall or russian?

If you want to play with 1.2.3.HE patch you should use russian version of Age of Pirates 2 updated to version 1.2. Then you may install 1.2.3. HE

English version of AoP 2 includes all official patches(1.1 an 1.2), but probably it's impossible to install 1.2.3. on English version of the game.

But you can try and

if I've correctly understood, what Navy means.

Patch 1.2.3 has only Russian-language edition of the texts and descriptions of characters and objects/items and will not work correctly with the English version.
I believe for its successful use in the game requires adaptation (translation and maybe change some scripts).

In addition, the Russian version use a different system of protection. I think install the patch with English version "as is" not possible.


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But you should know that the patch will work only with the official Russian version.
NoDVD program for version 1.2.12 conflicts with 1.2.3...

by the way already tried to patch eng version it just didnt start after the storm engine and what can you suggest which is the fastest way to get money? Mission(what mission specific?),Treasure map,smuggling(which cant be done in first levels because of the ships attacking you),trading(which is very slow), so whats the best way maybe some other is better?

How much?
I get a few money (first capital) by:
Searching for lost stones to moneylenders.
Using a row for the delivery of goods to the shop and sell goods.
Looking for a spy from the governor.
Luting in the caves with skeletons.

thanks i wanted to hear that

Moved.

i think there are changes in custom stuff mostly the all official patches are already in english version so you just dont get the custom stuff which has been modified!



Question : Guys how can i know how much officers i can hire?because it shows i have full crew, so whats the limit or maximum?

maximum={Authority} х 2

(counts only officer' positions on the boat and associated companions)

is it possible to increase authority somehow?

Ascold quest, the final.

where can i find mummy powder? And is the quest repeatable? How much authority it increases? Are there otther quests or items which might increase authority?

Answer is in the first post. Dont be so lazy
Q: Where can I find the mummy ashes?
A: A random street trader sells the mummy ashes. Ask each of them about the ashes until he/she refuses to deal with you. Finally you will find the right person, who’ll sell you the ashes after you asked him 5th time.

No

+1 point

No. There are no any items in the game which change the PIRATES stats

Powder gives to random trader at the game beginin. So you need to find it.
Quest is not repeatable. There is no other way to increase PIRATES

If you're going to do this only for +1 to authority please change your mind, because that quest is realy, REALY freaking hard and gruelling. Absurdly hard. It is in the game specially for very developed fans, who can't find a worthy opponent and want more and more of difficulty.

i remembered that on age of pirates carribean tales you coulds walk around the ship deck in the battle mode, so you could aim better, but in AOP 2 you are fixed in one location and i cant see the front where i am mostly shooting and because i cant move my widness range of shooting is decreased. And here the shooting is somehow more difficult i am correctly on to it i shoot i should hit him when the red appears but it just fires like 3 kms away from him (too much but you understood my idea). Are there any tips fixes moddings, so you could walk on the ship deck?

It's not a problem.
Just enter the options mode and Look there what button control necessary action.

As i remember in AoP 2 walk forward set on the right mouse button, back - on the scroll button.

Questions about some quests:
1. The Ship of souls i went to the white boy he told me about his father and mother? what should i do now? he told me something about his mother that shes mom was a child of a tribal medice man where to find him?
2. Find the person amongst pearl divers who gives sharp... info.. asked in botg pearl divers villages to every guard! where is he?
3.The Enchanced city : what i must do? it says investigate get more info where?

1. Drink with visitors in taverns untill someone told that saw the Ship near the town. Then go to the global map immediately and meet the Ship to fight. It doesnt matter who wins the battle. After that go to the White boy again. He'll give you new hint.

2. It must be a redskin

3. What stage? Caracas? Then barman, then barman in Maracaibo

3. the stage when they killed the werewolf which wasnt a werewolf

I've got... Talk to a barman. He should say that the werewolf came from Maracaibo. Go to Maracaibo and discuss this topic with local barman

hello smile.gif where do I find sharp? I madame told me he's in brothels and He's on Martinique - Port de France. So I went there to find him but nn brothel, shipyard, port control - no dialogue about him. Where to search next?

Talk to a parishioner's in church.

well, this time I was told he's on the streets but I couldn't find him! Tried to reload the savegame and try again and the result -> sent to other city, then told he's left the port and after going to worldmap in the questbook is line like this: "I should search in brothels". When I go in brothel this whole thing repeats.... What to do?

There're two places in the game where you can get info about Sharp - borthel and church. There you could learn that "Sharp left the town. He went to "some town". Then you should go to "some town" and ask about Sharp there.
You have to iterate this cyrcle until somone/somewere said "Sharp's on the streets". BUT that means Sharp is in the bay near the town. So go to your ship and look for Sharp's one through the "Enter" menu.... (I have no any idea about the name of Sharp's ship in your localisation. But I'm sure that "sharp" is a part of ship's name)...
After you found his ship press "reach to" and talk to Sharp on the board of his ship.

You have to be faster Sharp.
Try again, and you're lucky

the only ship I found after learning sharp's on the streets was the town guard ship....

Check all the bays/bights around using "reach to" and try to look for him there using "Enter" menu

Just to clarify : Enter -> reach to -> list of available places to visit or ships you can approach to

I ran into a strange bug... After I stole pearls from the tartanes by just passing by them I moored on Jamaica and noticed that my character CAN'T RUN!!!! Nothing helped... How to fix it?

EDIT: I figured it out... I'm carriyng too much stuff

Your character is overloaded.
This is normal.
Go to Morgan, and everything will be OK

I'm stuck again... This time I have to find John Avory. I was told he's in the taverns. My first stop is suposed to be Charlestown. So I go there, ask the innkeeper what's new but he mentions nothing bout Ivory. The business discuss option doesn't work too... The brothel - no result, Church - nothing, Moneylender - nothing, Shipyard - nothing, Governor - nothing.... I just don't know what to do next....

Why Charlestown? The first stop is Willemstad (Curacao), then Port-of-Spane... After that -> Main...

I think it's randomly generated... I even opened the quest texts file and there the colonie and city names are replaced by variables which means there's no strict order of locations for this character...

PS: Charlestown is after I got to Willemstad The moneylender there told me to look in Charlestown

Any hints now?

yep... my mistake lllypuK is abs right... It's time to drink for your hero

Talk to a vizitor's in Charlestown tavern.

thanks a lot! just finished the quest

stuck again.... Ascold quest...searching for powder.

The merchants on SanJuan mentioned something about powder, but they refused to talk further about it, and after the 4th question about powder they refuse to bargain! The next day they don't even know what's mummy and etc. That's an endless circle and I'm really sick of it! Someone with similar problems?