Expansions

The second one will be focused on diplomacy. They also said something about some extra minor changes, like visuals and stuff like that.

Nobody has any clue about the third one though...

Yes the second expansion will also have some MP goodies tucked away in it.... or there will be HELL TO PAY!

can't wait for the expansion. hope less bugs and fixes by that time!

Diplomacy is fun! I can't wait.  

To be honest, I just might buy the next expansion pack so I can continue to play the mod. I am the kind of person who like locked team

Moo out

Locked teams definitely makes things easier, but I like the depth added to the game with diplomacy, especially on multiplayer, when the others cannot be trusted as much as the AI.    

back when they first announced the new expansions, they said the second one was diplomacy and the third was new weapons technologies, ship designs, attack stuff, etc. they also said they would take about 6-8 months each, and we all know what happened to that.

also, i'm thinking that along with the diplomacy will be a story mode, and that's why its been taking so long. too much to hope for? i dont think so

Even though it's been quoted so you can see directly what I said, I'm nixing my post. Felt like an ass after I wrote it.

GPD Devlopes Demigod.... Stardock does the netrelate stuff...

Ironclad did sins... and have nothing THE FCK to do with gpg or demigod.....

And considering the succes sins had its hard to believe it will be dropped.

The issues probably is: Just what should diplomacy entail in sins? I'm pretty sure they will not go and add functionalitys like ins civIV or galciv and then ask us to fork over money for that. Im sure they currently are thinking pretty hard on what to do in detail.

its ok raging amish. i believe i worded that badly. i meant that obviously it was taking much longer than they said it would. when they first announced it, i guessed that the diplomacy xpansion would include a campaign, mostly because i couldnt think of anything else they could put it.

i refuse to believe that they are abandoning us. if they were just in it for the money, they wouldnt have done what they did with DRM and copy protection. they know that they are one or two balance patches away from making the game near-perfect again (assuming they still read the forums). i'm optimistic about this. considering its been two months since we've heard anything from the developers, i'm hoping we see something soon

Speaking about no clue, no one really has any clue about the second one either. All we know is its called Diplomacy (maybe) and its about the diplomatic and maybe economic sides of the game.

But more than that... no one knows.... and alot of people are getting sick and tired of being kept in the dark about it!

I hope in future expensions they just give us the option to turn diplomacy off and make the ally ai my mindless monkey sometimes i want to play it like that.    right now this demanding monkey wants MEEE todo the tricks.

Diplomacy is the 2nd expansion  and if we belive some of the more populer sugestions the Pirates should be gettign a rehaul their should also be spying and sabotage tools. For single player their should be new tools that allow you to accept or decline missions from AI as well as give them missions. And lots of other stuff. But we realy don't know. Ironclad has been dead quite on it.

As for the 3rd expansion no one knows. How ever I hope it rihmes with Escalation were SUB-CAPITAL ships are introduced and were their is a new research tree added that improves only Capital and Sub-Capital. Their can be a few goddies for reguler ships however I don't see what much more could be added.

DO WANT

SORT OF WANT

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Seriously, what I want in the 3rd expansion, is a suicide mission function. I wish I could order that doomed capital ship to ram itself into the enemy to save something else, just like Last Resort on the Argonev starbase. Just like in the movies!

Check out the Fleet Diversification mod here: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/358359

I am well aware of that mod but have fallen out of faith with it as the ships desing last I saw them did not give me the feeling of beign ships I would see in sins. And for making an expansion mod like that they would to me need to look to come from the original game. They look to different fromt he style used in sins.

So why not come back and give your opinions? I do agree that some of the designs arent exactly Sins congruent... but then neither were some of the new entrenchment ships until people got used to them.

but if you have an opinion, feel free to post it

I was trying to do that at first but it wasn't hitting home. So I just decided to meh. I might snach the mod int he future if I get good a moding and chnage the ships my self. Gonan simpler that way. Plus right now I am busy working on game balance.

well, thanks anyway, your comment made me realise how right you are and ive started to try to think like an advent or vasari... not easy, the Advent have NO sense of aesthetics...

regardless, you are welcome to stop by

i hope you're kidding. advent ships are beautiful IMO

no, im not... i think they are generally ugly or just confusing to the point of being an eyesore.

its completely my own preference, i just prefer things to be a certain way, and Advent dont accomplish that.

Some of their ships are very nice. The Disciple, The Illum, The Destra, The Tallion, The Radiance and the Rapture, all very nice

then some are just butt ugly: the Aeria, the Defense Vessel, the Progenitor (to a degree), the Revelation, or Hot Chilli Pepper (As i like to call it), the Domina (to a degree), the assembly drone, their fighters and bombers (to a degree) and their structures generally... some less than others

urgh... its really one of the reasons i dont play them, i just cant stand to look at my own ships...

I like the new Advent Fighters (SR-71 Blackbird anyone?), Disciples are awesome looking, so are Illums, the Radiance, Rapture, and also Halcyon are pretty neat.

But I do agree, some are just CONFUSING!

And this also proves I am not the only person who thinks the Revelation should get a funny name. I vote for 'Space Jalapeno', on a steek.

Silence! I KEEEL YOU! (what the Advent Seeker says when it commits martyrdom)

What I want in an expansion is vastly improved AI. I play a lot of singleplayer and LAN, and have a fairly nice machine. Having better AI, and the option to still further increase the AI skill via higher CPU usageage would be great. While multiplayer is fine and all, advanced AI is something everyone who's not a multiplayer expert could use. There's planty of topics here on the AI's greatest weaknesses in Entrenchment, but here's an especially good one.