Friendly Native Guide: Some Tips and Advice on Treasure Maps

[Steve2000]

Great guide - I just joined the forum and this looked very helpfull. I got the INCA treasure map as South-East of Campeche - and tried the Lost Lake suggestion - and an amazing thing happened...

I accidentally found Montalban's hideout! I only had 1/4 of the map to it, so I wasn't even looking for it - but it just happened to be in the vicinity of the lost Lake! Awesome.

[Swordeater]

Thanks, this is nice. Didn't know about the coastal landmarks being a starting point... now I can find that hideout!
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[Mysander]

I´ve beem searching for my father, whos is supposed to be south of Campeche.

Here is link to the map: http://dump.1964artwork.dk/1.jpg

And here: http://dump.1964artwork.dk/1.jpg

I´ve found a Cutthroat Reef south west of Campeche, but it is not there. There is another Cutthroat Reef, longer down south. This is west of Puerto Bell, but thats not it. Please, can anybody help me. I´m goint completely crazy here:-)

Best regards,

Mysander

Denmark

[Asclepius]

[Rabid Weasel]

That tip about landing at coastal landmarks when there's no shore in the map works wonders. I wound up with a Monty map that had nothing, and thought I'd go insane trying to find it.


Then I read this topic, sailed north, found a seamark, landed, and saw the tower of his hideout as plain as day. We did have a few landing difficulties however....

[BeastOfSoda]

hey guys. i've started playing this game just a few days ago, but it's nice to see it has such an active fan community still cherishing it.

i'm actually posting because of a quirk: i've found the treasure of one of the pirates, somewhere north of st. domingo, and when i found it the quest finished ad the ma disappeared as usual. here's the puzzler tho': when i passed by there again today, on my way to cumana, the same landmark that brought me to the treasure was blinking with a "treasure nearby" notice. of course i found it odd, because i didn't have the mission active anymore and i was without the map to boot, and when i searched around the place to see if i could find it there wasn't much at all to be dug.

now, i'm not sure if this is due to a couple of things: first, i installed the update earlier today, and i found that treasure still using the unpatched version; could that have borked something up? also popping to mind is the montalban map, which is not complete yet tho', and even then i doubt it would notify me of a hidden treasure (more like a hidden dou***, but that's beside the point). has anyone had this happen to them, and will it be of any consequence on my game? thanks!

[EDIT] never mind, i sorted it out: i just found captain kidd's treasure, and the message stopped appearing on the other landmark. maybe the flag hadn't been reset properly, and finding the next loot reset it somehow? go figure O_o at any rate, everything looks fine now

[Guru]

Hi BeastOfSoda and welcome to Cutlass Isle!

Hooked On Pirates' days of glory are long gone, but we are a bunch of hardcore fans here still enjoying the game

[BeastOfSoda]

i see, that's some useful insight. but actually, i'm playing on journeyman difficulty, it shouldn't be showing more cues than necessary; besides, i had the very same thing happen again with another landmark, only difference is i got that treasure much earlier on (come to think about it, the last one i discovered was an incan one), so i don't think it's supposed to be that way since i found them all. it doesn't really bug me much, since i cleared all the pirate treasures and all (i'm only missing the incan ones), but thanks for your exhaustive reply

[Ladysman217]

No joke the advice on objects not having collision when your not by the treasure was a life saver when I had no costal landmarks on the map

[themodelcitizen]

Timeless advice!