Okay my take on it too

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Alright I just mostly finished a game on easy...

1. The texture glitches are odd... missing textures for the cursor, the dreadnaught, the light carrier, the heavy shipyard... and space elevators still disappear.

2. Pirate bases are great, and I think the pirates are adequately defended, though over time the pirates should build up a few turrets, hell even squadron hangers. Also I feel that a few pirate versions of the ... hmmm utility capital ship IE the one which can colonize would be great. They could show up in the middle to late game and set up camps of pirates in places that no one bothered to colonize. All in all very happy with it right now.

3. The tech tree is much better now. Also the 2 tech buildings is a good thing, forces us to make a few more decisions, I even like that we need twice as many now; it means that a empire with 15 or so planets still has budget constraints.

4. I still find the crystal issue annoying, but maybe we just need to suffer through lol.

5. The AI is much improved, it even uses capital ships, though they need to upgrade them! Also the AI needs to value trade stations more! Too little is spent on its own economy.

6. The culture system works defensively now, but not offensively which is too bad, it would be nice to sit back and take a few nearbye systems with my influence...

7. I love the exploration system! Awesome! Some more things to find would be even cooler... as many have suggested.

8. Why did my custom match options go away>?


All in all this patch is great, adds allot to the game, Beta 3 should be a hoot!
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
1. The texture glitches are odd... missing textures for the cursor, the dreadnaught, the light carrier, the heavy shipyard... and space elevators still disappear.


Did you remember to uninstall then reinstall? That sounds really weird.

Pirate bases are great, and I think the pirates are adequately defended, though over time the pirates should build up a few turrets, hell even squadron hangers. Also I feel that a few pirate versions of the ... hmmm utility capital ship IE the one which can colonize would be great. They could show up in the middle to late game and set up camps of pirates in places that no one bothered to colonize. All in all very happy with it right now.


I agree, the idea is great. And they definitely need to build defenses -- in fact, IMO, they should *start* with the defenses -- make them hard to take out, so their raids keep coming even in the mid-game!

. I still find the crystal issue annoying, but maybe we just need to suffer through lol.


Actually, I think that was halfway decently balanced -- I actually found myself with an excess of crystal at times (relative to metal / credits).

Edit: I need to be more careful about hitting the "post" button by accident.

I wanted to say that yeah, the AI needs to work on developing its economy more than it is, but also it needs to get improved routing for its economy ships. At one point last night I just about laughed my rear end off watching ships fly *through* my territory to get from one end of its empire to the other.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
6. The culture system works defensively now, but not offensively which is too bad, it would be nice to sit back and take a few nearbye systems with my influence...


culture system is being tweaked... or so they say

7. I love the exploration system! Awesome! Some more things to find would be even cooler... as many have suggested.


twas siad that they only put a 'few' in

8. Why did my custom match options go away>?


cause of Al Gore and global warming. Also, some problems with it and multiplayer
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Yes I did uninstall and reinstall... if anything I'm imagining that the installation somehow missed those files and I plan on uninstalling and reinstalling... Again.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
If the problem persists, please zip up screenshots of the issues, your dxdiag report, and save games that show this and send them to [email protected]. Thanks.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Well fascinating, did a uninstall and reinstall, and applied those beta drivers... my missing textures have returned but sadly I can no longer load save games, as that crashes the game.

I made new save games first of course, i didn't load up old ones.

Sadly this means I won't know if my space elevators are disappearing...