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Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for today's gamers.


Sid Meier


#been #cases #enhancing #experience #game

Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.


Sid Meier


#civilization #couple #developing #development #finishing

The new Pirates! builds on that legacy delivering an even more powerful and fun experience to players... and is still unmatched in offering a blend of genres in one great game.


Sid Meier


#builds #delivering #even #experience #fun

Well Connor thought ruefully At least now I know who to thank for my anger issues.


Justin Somper


#connor #funny #vampirates #anger

We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others.


Sid Meier


#about #also #asked #century #colonization

Death is death. Whether you die smiling or with tears in your eyes, it amounts to the same thing. A whole heap of nothing


Justin Somper


#death

However bad your life appears, things could be far, far worse


Justin Somper


#life

Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner's servants, landsmen--being all that is left faithful of the ship's company--with stores for ten days at short rations, came ashore this day and flew British colours on the log-house in Treasure Island. Thomas Redruth, owner's servant, landsman, shot by the mutineers; James Hawkins, cabin boy--' And at the same time, I was wondering over poor Jim Hawkins' fate.


Robert Louis Stevenson


#dr-livesey #jim-hawkins #pirates #faith

Hoddan began suddenly to see real possibilities. This was not a direct move toward the realization of his personal ambitions. But on the other hand, it wasn't a movement away from them. Hoddan suddenly remembered an oration he'd heard his grandfather give many, many times in the past. "Straight thinkin'," the old man had said obstinately, "is a delusion. You think things out clear and simple, and you can see yourself ruined and your family starving any day! But real things ain't simple! They ain't clear! Any time you try to figure things out so they're simple and straightforward, you're goin' against nature and you're going to get 'em mixed up! So when something happens and you're in a straightforward, hopeless fix—why, you go along with nature! Make it as complicated as you can, and the people who want you in trouble will get hopeless confused and you can get out!


Murray Leinster


#family

Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands?' Most likely Trelawney's own men," said the doctor; 'those he had picked up for himself, before he lit on Silver.' Nay,' replied the squire. 'Hands was one of mine.' I did think I could have trusted Hands,' added the captain.


Robert Louis Stevenson


#humour #pirates #pun #wit #wordplay