User Guide
The End of the Dance
Your success is dependent upon the size of the heart monitor at the
end of the dance. If the heart monitor is small, you didn’t much
impress the governor’s daughter, and she’ll let you know it. If the
heart monitor is huge, you danced like Fred Astaire and the gover-
nor’s daughter will look upon you with great approval - you’re well on
the way to winning the young lady’s heart!
Promotions
Overview
You gain promotions from governors by performing valuable services
for their nations. Each promotion marks an increase in the nation’s
esteem and favour. Each also earns you a benefit from that nation. In
order to get promoted at all, you first need a Letter of Marque from
that nation.
Book Three Sid Meier’s Pirates!
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Pirouette Right: You and your partner perform a
counterclockwise spin.
Pirouette Left: You and your partner spin clock-
wise.
Missteps
If you make an incorrect manoeuvre or don’t make any manoeuvre in
time, you stumble and she frowns.
Dancing Shoes
If you possess the “calfskin boots” special item, there’s a chance that
you’ll perform the correct manoeuvre even if you make a mistake.
“Dancing slippers” give you an even better chance.
Flourishes
If you perform the correct manoeuvre in time with the beat of the
music (on the count of ONE in ONE, two, three or ONE in ONE,
two, three, four), you and your partner perform a “flourish” – a cool-
er version of the standard dance manoeuvre.
The Heart Monitor
The heart monitor (the heart in the upper-centre of the screen)
tracks your success in dancing. The monitor grows in size each time
you perform a correct dance step. Flourishes cause the monitor to
grow at an accelerated pace: the more flourishes you perform in a
row, the faster it grows. Each misstep causes the heart monitor to
shrink in size.
Sid Meier’s Pirates!
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Book Three
The Memoirs of Captain Sydney
Now me old mate Cap’n Briggs, he was a man fer collectin’
titles, by the Powers! By the time he retired he was an English
Duke, a French Baron, and a Dutch Admiral.
Me, farthest I got was English Colonel and French Admiral. I
never could stay friendly enough with them Dutch to get any promo-
tions. Briggs had a stronger stomach, the sly dog.
Them titles weren’t just fer show, neither. Shipwrights would
fix yer ship fer nearly nuthin’ once ye was a Colonel, and once ye
made Baron, men would fall all over themselves to join yer crew.
Sailors love a lord, so they say. The daft fools.
Spanish title? No, I never got me one o’ them. Didn’t want one,
neither. But one day this barmaid told me that the Dons had put a
10,000 doubloon reward on me head - and that, my lad, is better ‘n’
any title you may care to mention.
Briggs was never worth more ‘n’ 8,000 doubloons to the
Spanish, and I never let him forget it.
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