When my wife tells me to not get upset when she goes into rant mode, that's usually a cue for a brouhaha. I totally get that vibe reading the top post, although I absolutely do not want the make-up sex in this case.

I don't think it's kosher to say what you want and then deny others their own opinion, although it's a common enough strategy in my household when someone wants to pick a fight. It just doesn't seem to me a very productive means of communication, unless you like fights.

When Galactic Civilizations III came out, people were considering the idea of having a real-time 4X game. Sometimes combining concepts to make a new concept works (creates synergy), and sometimes it doesn't.

Consider the El Dorado, the iconic pickup-truck/car out of the 1970's. It was a car with a pickup truck back. It had the wimpy suspension and low torque of a small car coupled with just enough storage space to make your friends beg you to bring over your El Dorado to help them move their apartment belongings across town. Some people loved the El Dorado, others hated it, and the result is that you can't find very many around any more these days. Of course, we have all of these crazy post-SUV "recreational trucks" that aren't quite cars but aren't really trucks either, the great grandchildren of the El Dorado.

I would humbly suggest that Sins is the El Dorado of the gaming world. I really did not think that the real-time 4X would be a workable game. Still, I went out and bought Sins, and I enjoy it enough to make the purchase worthwhile. I still believe the real-time 4X is a clunky concept, but Sins makes it work as well as could be expected, perhaps even better, given the good product support from the devs.

I would be disappointed if Sins turned out to be the final word in real-time 4X games, though. I'll have to look out of my front window: if my neighbour to the left is polishing his green Gremlin and my neighbour to the right is taking out his orange Pacer for a spin, and I have a burnt-sienna El Dorado with the plastic wood panels in my own driveway, then Sins will be the last 4X game I will ever need.

I think you mean the El Camino, but I get your drift. Great analogy. At least Sins isn't the AMC Pacer of strategy games!

Right now, Sins is not for anyone, mini-dumps make the game completely unplayable. SD/IC should get this fixed before anything else.

Yes, if you looked at other threads, I am hardly the only one with this problem. Running the game on a high-end gaming computer, there is no reason the game should be crashing. You try playing a game, you pay $40 on, for over 4hrs just for it to continuously mini-dump every time you get to a particular point in the game. And this has happened for every game I have begun. This problem makes playing multiplayer not plausible.

Sins of a Solar Empire is one of the poorest exuses for a first person shooter I've ever played.

Let me summarize the main problems I have with it as a FPS:

• The "bosses" totally lack character. There is no dialog between them.
• An utter lack of health packs around the map.
• The game seems to try to force the player into a "third person" perspective which, clearly, demonstrates how clueless Stardock/Ironclad were about making a first person shooter.Hello, FIRST person.
• Not a single decent jump puzzle in the game.
• Utterly lacking in a wise cracking side kick.

I could go on but why bother. Back to the store with this one...

Go troll somewhere else, please. You're deterring people without broken computers from buying the game when they could be enjoying it. as for other people with the same problem, it's called "vocal minority." ie, you dont hear people go "OMG i so DIDNT get a minidump error," every time the game works for them.

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/304957

There you go blair.

There. I have the feeling that thread still needs additional contributions.

EDIT: 1m10s too late...

LMAO!!!!!!

I'm sorry I didn't notice that guy pointing a gun at your head and making you read the threads you don't like.

At least people who complain about something usually do so because there is something they would maybe like changed or improved for the better - in their opinion. If nobody ever complained about anything nothing would ever get improved on and we would all still be living in caves.

Agree or disagree with complaints but to moan about them being there to begin with? Well maybe there really is a guy with a gun...

Hi - your computer sucks, or you suck with computers, or both.

Installed and running flawlessly on three separate and different systems without issues.

Perhaps before you start throwing stones you should check the mirror first to find the problem.

Idiot.

You're pre-disposed to not accepting advice, that's apparent, so why waste my time?

Ok - pepsi challenge - find an old hard drive - install XP on it from scratch - install latest drivers - then install the game.

If it works - I'm right.

If it doesn't work - you're right.

Write back with your results. This is the only way to rule out your system in it's current condition as being the culprit.