Uncharted Waters New Horizons

First of all, what a great web site. Finally a place to discuss one of my favorite games of all time. I am hoping somebody will be able to answer some questions about a letter of marque from your king. According to the description "It authorizes the bearer
to commit acts of piracy against other countries, in the name of COUNTRY". Piracy without this letter affects only your friendship with countries. Does piracy with a letter of Marque affect your countries relations with other countries? If so, should I only attack countries that my king already dislikes, or should I just attack everybody and make everyone hate my home country? Or, does the letter only improve my relations with my own country. In my current game, Portugal hates me at -100 but Hollands relationship with them is still positive. I would love to get my home country behind me to go to war with portugal also, but I do not know if this is possible. OR, is there any other means to affect country to country relations? So far as I can tell, I can only affect my own relationship with the other countries.

Thanks in advance for your help. Any advice would be great.

I am relatively new to hacking and editing, but I am currently searching for a way to change country to country relations. Some of the current relations in the game just don't make sense. For example, if Italy hates Turkey and Turkey hates Italy, if I play as Otto and start decimating either the Italians or the Turkish, and I have a letter of Marque, then England's relationship with these countries should shift, even if only a point or two. If any knows of any way to change country-country relationship, please let me know.

Well, I din't found the strings to change nation to nation relationship, but, when I started my piracy with a Letter of Marque (hexediting the items), my country to country relationship changed on every attack I've made. I played as Ernst, and I've attacked 2 English fllets (a merchant and a battlefleet). I also made an alliance ith the Oslo and Stockholm ports (English ports at beggining of game). After that, Holland started a war agains't England; the Dutch Governor-Geral started to ask me to destroy the English fleet (and the Dutch relationship with England felt down to 1).

of course the relationship can be edited!

in my save game, for example Ali, the relationship rate between Ali and Turkey is 100 and with other countries all -100.

all can be done with hex editing. i even finished the catalina erantzo's main quest with duke rank!

i'm in my office right now, but i promise to upload the all 6 saves tomorrow, so you all could determine the hex code. the saves are in my computer at home.

HI
I TRY TO EDIT FILE "KOUKAI.DAT" IN WORDPAD. CAN I EDIT THE FILE "KOUKAI.DAT" BY USING WORDPAD BESIDE USING HEX EDIT SOFTWARE? IF CAN WHERE SHOULD I GET START EDIT IN WORDPAD?

THANK