Those who played MicroProse's classic game Pirates! will find many of the same basic elements in Port Royale, including real-time ship-to-ship combat, career advancement, treasure maps, and story-based missions involving the search for lost family members. Port Royale drops you in the beautiful-and dangerous-waters of the Caribbean to trade peaceably or engage in piracy. Once you get past Port Royale's steep learning curve, you may find yourself enthralled by the game's promise of profiteering and pirating on the high seas. Port Royale sets you loose in the middle of this world to make your way as a trader, privateer, pirate, or some combination of the three. Intermittent wars between colonial nations made this frontier even wilder-well-armed traders would often be pressed into duty as privateers with a license to sink or capture enemy ships. At the time, huge Spanish galleons loaded with gold carried enough cannons to keep ordinary pirates at bay, but there were still plenty of less-defended trade ships that were easy prey for dastardly pirates and buccaneers looking to amass a quick fortune. The firm that inspected the building was asked to supervise the work and this week “noticed that one of the main beams in the garage had experienced a structural deflection of approximately ½ inch and also the existing crack that was marked for repair had extended,” Vioar said in the email.Ascaron's strategy game Port Royale takes place in one of the most exciting seagoing settings for a game: the pirate-infested Caribbean of the 16th and 17th centuries. The building’s association selected a contractor and the repairs started about four weeks ago. That will be followed by another inspection of the building, which was constructed in 1971.ĭuring an inspection about 10 months ago, engineers found “areas of concern that we designated as a priority to be repaired,” Arshad Vioar said in an email sent to the Miami Beach Building Department.

said in a letter to the city that it's working to obtain a city permit so that “comprehensive shoring” can be installed within 10 days. “I was never able to get a response,” he said, adding that he was feeling “unsafe” living in the building and with the way the building’s maintenance was handled. He said he tried to report the issues – including cracks in a column and water standing in the garage area for weeks at a time – to the building management and to the city’s building department. “I’ve seen the issues for many years,” Markaj told The Associated Press.

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