Thanks for your answer. After playing hours on Corsair difficulty, I decided to give Admiral a try and finally found the difficulty level adjusted to my style of play. Now the experience is really exciting for me.
Luckily, this game offers many possibilities to adjust the level of difficulty. For example, if I select the Admiral level, I have to adjust the strength stats to 8 points and stamina to 9 points, to better face the character's fencing matches.
Power 8
Perception 6
Reaction 6
Authority 10
Talent 4 + 1 (Item)
Resistance 9
Success 5
Now the fencing matches are harder, but also more balanced for me. Of course, there are missions that are really difficult at low levels. It's a matter of patience.
To balance the economy, I have left the Success skill at 5.
As for the Admiral difficulty level in naval battles, it is now really hard, but rewarding. Again, you have to be patient, wait for your chance, initially avoid punitive expeditions, progressively improve skills, hire better officers, assign them ships appropriate to their level...
In short, GOF Eras II is really playable, with a lot of content and lots of beautiful details.
I have also played other modifications, I guess the best known. Although it was years ago. I will definitely try the mods you have recommended.
In relation to GOF 1.2 (if my memory serves me correctly), a few years ago I worked on the Spanish translation. But unfortunately, I abandoned the translation for personal reasons. Now I have seen that someone has modified the translation to adapt it to Eras II. I have simply reviewed all the files, adding the missing ones, translating and updating for the latest version of the mod. The translation of Eras II is almost finished (98%), but I can't find a way to translate the texts in the intro menu of the game.
New Game
Load Game
Options
Credits
Exit
When I add the line cfgLang = spanish in the languaje.ini file (in \RESOURCE\INI\texts) the main menu bars stay blank.
[ConfigList]
cfgLang = English
cfgLang = Portuguese
cfgLang = spanish
Thanks again, for responding, ChezJfrey.
Edit.
I forgot to mention that loyalty and reputation in GOF Eras II work correctly without the need to install any external mod.
Re-Edit:
Sorry for my bad memory. I've searched and found my own prints on New Horizons (on my Nexusmods account), but I don't remember my link email on piratesahoy. I have seen that a group of guys have continued and finished the translation of New Horizons. Most of the Resource and Program files have been translated by me personally in June 2019.
I don't know why I have confused both mods, since New Horizons and GOF 1.2 are mods created for different games. In any case, the translation of Eras II is almost finished and it works correctly, but I have not been able to contact JTem to let him know and send him the zip file with the finished translation.
I must also clarify that I have finished the translation for Eras II for my personal use. Actually I didn't plan to get too involved, but I don't have any problem sharing it either.
Greetings and apologies for the confusion.