Hamachi is one of those virtual servers and i believe SINS games already running on it

In a 4s or 5s, there are acknowledged roles yes, but by virture of the random map placement, this varies considerably to the point that you can't possibly assume any predetermined role for each until positions have been scouted with an eye to race dependant considerations.  The ensuing team effort develops from there. There are far too many variables to just say, "...ok, you spam lrms, you spam carriers, and you sb!"  

As Nightraider so eloquently put it,

You might as well just unistall.

I do believe diplomacy still has cca 50 players on evening times (after 7-8 pm GMT) .

According to other threads vanila and entrenchment versions have mostly private comp stomp games. 

Dirty you should get paid for this.

I am new to the community but not to the game. i have a buddy that comes over to play Sins on my home network i have two !7s with GTX480s win7 proffessionla on 64 GB SSD drives where Win 7 is installed. We have been playing sins of and on for about a year now just the two of us, and a few beers while we play. All of our games are coop play and we spread  the difficulty around for the other 8 Ai players.

On point what we have noticed is that when we use a random large multi star map that the game IS MORE about your start location than about your skill as a player. If you get a good start spot, with minimal points of approach you can really kick ass BUT if you get stuck next to a wormhole or in the middle with poor planets to colonize your going to be in big trouble quick.

A skilled player with a poor start versus a skilled player with a better start how do you think that is going to work out? I appreciate random but there needs to be balance. In a MP game the start spots have to be identical because this game is especially difficult if one is in a poor start spot. Add to that the trash talk and the unruley people who yell alot if your not johnny on the spot reading thier minds, like i am supposed to know what you are doing with out you even telling me, a complete stranger who did not even know you existed until you joined my game, what you expect of me, and some how i am the noob?

More and more it is not the technical asopects of the game that are killing the community it is the assholes who kill the community. You can say all you want about how noobs should not even be allowed in MP but then that leaves only assholes left, which for the most part i will pass on, with all sincerity THANKS but no thanks.

Asai 

 Sadly, custom maps where everyone gets an equal starting position won't auto-download for this game, so sometimes people do get screwed.  On the other hand, dealing with the starting situation you are dealt is part of the game and skilled players will deal with it better than lesser-skilled players.

Online multiplayer in any game is not for everyone.  It's not for, how shall I put it, girly-men with thin skins who overreact to every little comment someone makes.  I suppose it isn't for sensitive people with low self-esteem.  It's for laid-back cool people who can roll with the punches.  There are some jerks online and some people who take the game way too seriously, but having to suffer them is a small price to pay in order to enjoy a higher-quality game.  You have to be able to laugh at other people's behavior; it's all part of the fun.

From what I have ascertained, it will show stats from across all the names of the account.  It will not necessarily be limited to 1 name per account.  While not doing away with smurfing altogether, you would be able to tell how experienced someone is.  People could still get away with hiding who they are but it would be possible to figure out by keeping track of stats who is who if you played regularly enough.  This is just my speculation however not knowing exactly how they would implement it.

[_]-Greyfox

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