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Sid Meier's Pirates! (PC DVD)

from: Mastertronic Ltd

June 28, 2007
In the interests of Science I decided to see how long it would take me, on the highest difficulty setting to go from the starting ship, to one of the most powerful base ship - the type used by the famous pirates. 8:49 minutes. Well, that was easy, now just to upgrade it a bit and away I go. But I can't, because the nearest shipward which sells the upgrade I want is to the North-East, and the perpetual westerly winds make sailing in that direction a time consuming and mind numbing chore. Well at least I can pick up some more crew members at a more convenient dock...oh wait, no I can't, because at this difficulty level my crew get so frustrated if they spend more than a day without landing or taking another ship that half of them run away as ... Read More: