New Features in Future Patches or Expansions

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I bought Sins of a Solar Empire right after playing the demo and it is my favorite strategy game. The one thing that I love is the scope of the ships and planets. The skyboxes are definitely my favorite. (so on and so on...) When I heard that a large patch was releasing I read the specs to see what was new and what was being changed. I was a little disappointed that there is not going to be any new ships, new portraits, new planets, new anomalies, and no new skyboxes. (or maybe there is and I just didn't see it) Anyway I love the game and what would make this game perfect in my opinion is this: variety. For instance, when you increase civilian infrastructure, the planet (depending on what type) changes, the surface would change and you would see cities covering the planet until the planet is covered with cities. Other small things like trade ships going inside trade ports and coming out the other end would add to the realism. Well, thats all the time I have today, I would like to read other suggestions.

      <excuse my spelling errors>   Rival2
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Most of that (New ships/other stuff, animations for trade ship and extra cities) is more for an expansion rather than a patch. Sins is a pretty big game as it is, and patches are usually for fixing bugs and balancing.

They are upgrading the graphics, though.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Very few games ever release content through patches, usualy they keep unreleased content that didn't make it into the game for the expack (sneaky devils! lol) so they can make it look more impressive.

Im not sure what will be in the sins expansion other than a campaign of some sort... (All I really want it as many hard limits as possible removing and a really good trigger/event handling system).
Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
I'd like to have Heroes like in master of Orion 2, maybe you need to bid on them.
Then they give you bonuses like extra production/money or in conbat. Also they should have their own unique ship. Also random Monsters at unexplored planets, or an elite heavily fortified planet like Orion with powerful technology. Maybe an alternate winning condition (Like Antares) that could be a way to win the game, or get serious artifacts while you hold it. Of course I wouldn't expect any of this for free, I'm actually happy to pay for an expansion and hope there are several to keeps SINS evolving and interesting for years to come.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
I think it would be cool if they added a destroyer ship class that is specialized in taking out capitals, they would be something between a capship and a cruiser in size.

Also an ability to completly destroy a planet with super weapons or something would be totally awesome.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Also an ability to completly destroy a planet with super weapons or something would be totally awesome.
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Why do people always say this? Blowing up planets is hardly original (star wars) and isn't that fun past the novelty of actualy blowing up a planet. Think of the multiplayer crapiness lol.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
I think it would be cool if they added a destroyer ship class that is specialized in taking out capitals, they would be something between a capship and a cruiser in size.Also an ability to completly destroy a planet with super weapons or something would be totally awesome.
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Umm - aren't cruisers are generally larger then destroyers??? - more powerful but not as fast
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
Umm - aren't cruisers are generally larger then destroyers??? - more powerful but not as fast
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They are unless you play Freespace were it goes Cruiser -> Corvette -> Destroyer... which is odd.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
I dunno about Ironclad, but Stardock seems to be in favor of actual content patches.

Who knows what the future may bring? :P