Lake-locked ships, Argghh matey!

[gurachn]

Quite frequently I find that there are faction and rebel ships stuck in the little lakes around the map.

Do they have any effect on your population happiness? (I wouldnt be too happy if I couldnt go swimming or fishing because of the pesky lake-pirates!)

Second, regardless of their effect, is there any way to get rid of them?

[Shifty67]

dont know what effect they have, to get rid recruit merc ships beside the lake and kill them?

[strife1013]

They are annoying!

[Wolfgrin]

And they leave their beer cans all over the shore, the slobs.

[Aldwen]

Maybe one can "move_character" them away and into the open seas?

[aduellist]

Maybe one can "move_character" them away and into the open seas?

Yup, that's what I do. IIRC, the issue is that if a rebel sub-faction can recruit ships and the lake has an "ocean" tile (but not a "deep ocean" tile), then it'll recruit a ship there. A "fix" would be to redo the map so all lakes are "deep ocean". That, at least for me, is non-trivial (which is to say it's beyond my abilities). Also wouldn't be save compatible, since you'd have to delete map.rwm and let the game rebuild it.

[gurachn]

Sorry for the noobish question, but how exactly does one, "move_character"?

[Brewskii]

I think he means moving the stratmodel

[Aldwen]

Hit the ~ to bring the council down and then find a space out in the open sea and type

show_cursorstat

Hit enter and it will display a series off numbers. Next you have to find out the Pirates Captains name by hovering over him. Then type in the console

move_character "[Captains Name]",xxx,xxx

You have to use the quotation makes and when it comes to ships Admiral/Capitan serves as their first name. XXX are the coordinates of where this character will be moved. After you type all that up, hit enter and the pirate should appear wherever XXX by XXX is.

[gurachn]

That worked a treat, Aldwen!

Thanks and +1 for you

[DenniZ]

Gonna try that too, thanks man +rep