Uncharted Waters New Horizons

You had asked about one of the characters in Massawa that says something about Aksum. I did a little research and that was a kingdom or empire that was in that area about 1400 years before New Horizons.

I think it was just a nice little historical reference, but they might have intended to put one of the villages (discoveries) in the area. It doesn't have anything to do with Atlantis or have any other purpose in the game.

I looked at the text dumps to see if there were any villages that fit the description of Aksum, so that part came from the game. The part about it being an empire from 1400 years before New Horizons was from a web search for Aksum.

My guess about St. Elmo Fire is that it is one of the "hazards" at sea that is described as a phosphorescent light and it has no visible effects on the ships or the crew when you encounter it.

I know of two locations where you can find the phosphorescent light, the first is west of the English Channel (London, Bristol) at 52N 13W if you are using a Theodolite. The second location is north of Capetown at 23S 13E using a Theodolite.

Maybe someone can answer this because I have no idea.

I got this from wikipedia, "The game is a port of the original game for both iMode and Yahoo Mobile capable mobile phones in Japan." So, it appears to have been only in Japan (normal for Koei) and only on certain phones.

Oh, there are a lot of Koei games from the NES and the SNES that I would love to see on something like the DS. I can only guess that they keep their translators busy on more current games and they have a few online versions, like the free-to-play version of a new horizons type of game. There are a few topics here about the Uncharted Waters Online, but I don't know what languages are available for it.

I don't think they have had much success, comparatively, outside of Japan. I think a good bit of that is due to the lack of promotion or at least the type of promotion. While there may be 50,000 people outside of Japan that want to play a certain game, it isn't really worthwhile for them unless there are ten times that many and that is just for one of the games.

It doesn't seem like much to translate a few games and make them available, but when you start translating you have to decide how many languages you need to translate a game into and if it was as easy as it sounds there would be a lot of games available that aren't.

When New Horizons became available on the Wii for download, I don't think they had much success and I don't think it was promoted at all. The only people that downloaded the game on Wii were the people that had already played the game or someone that was trying to play some of the classics.

As much as I would like to see their games made available, especially the ones you mentioned, I understand why they are not...and I still don't like it. 😉

Rank certainly seems to affect the amount you are able to get, or it might be fame or both. Another likely factor is the profit number reported by the guild for your country. I was surprised at how early I could get 100,000 gold when the profit for Portugal went above 20,000. I don't have a lot of numbers to back this information, so for now all I can say for sure is that rank is important.