Why im not a huge fan of sins online - edited with my galaxy forge maps added

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ive played two games now - 1 in in entrenchment and 1 in rebellion - i really enjoyed the rebellion game even though i lost . I love the game and i have games running all year round, even if the game just gets a few hours from me and the rest of the time its just running away as the AI's duke it out or try and get into my territorry - i love the game is my point .

I love getting a box set of a show thats ended (of something ive seen before) and watching all the episodes back to back while playing sins and sometimes playing sins while the shows in the backround and sometimes the other way around if im not under attack or i am turtleing - but i like to be able to pause - go bathroom, shop ect

Anyway to my point i just did something really cool that i wouldnt have been able to do online

its early in my game so no slowdown from unit caps, my titan is attacking an ai planet to my suprise they attack with allot of corvettes and the usual 3 or 4 caps and support ships - because i could pause the game i was able to get the timing/angle perfect to turn and hit them with scatter shot - the corvettes all attacked then spun around then i fired the explosive shot before they spread out - took out almost all of their non cap ships, fired my snipe - cap ship goes down followed by a second cap ship two seconds later - i was zoomed in, cinematic mode - i spent ages advancing the game frame by frame in micro pauses to get the perfect shots in and enjoy the combat in all its glory - game time about 7 seconds but i was having a great time with it paused checking out the action from all angles - its why ive been playing sins and its mods all these years.

In general in online rts games some tactics like mass spamming a single unit can prove quite effective and can also slow down games and ruin the fun - not talking sins in particular here  but in sins im talking about mass spamming preventing a diverse fleet - if not effective but a diverse fleet does look great - ive only ever encountered slow games when lanning with a guy who only has the min specs

I used to be big into competitive online rts years ago - 2nd best in europe at red alert 2 : (sorry had to throw in that brag its been years since i mentioned that online) used to play allot of total annilation, sub com (obviously not the second one) I knew going into sins online there would be rushes and taticts i havent seen beforei just wanted to say a big thankyou to the players in my first online game it was great fun and you guys thought me allot in just a few hours.

I  love to play big games of sins i feel that online games would be too rushed for my liking - myself and a friend are 70-odd hours into a lan game thats been gong for months (im a 9-5ver and he is nights and weekends so we hardly ever get a chance to play it)

If anyone would be up for it id love to arrange big 24+ hour marathon games - or games where you agree in advance to do the game in a few 12 or 15 hour segments 

Ill show you one of the maps we played on before - its a 2v2v2v2 - 4 players each get their own - prebuilt identical solar system - then theres a 5th central solar system with 4 players - one in each corner. its mostly played as a 4ffa human map - each human player getting 1 AI ally in the central system - the idea being the 4 people with fully built systems move early from the second the game starts to support their AI player in the central system and attack your enemies ai alys because the AI allies in the central system basically scounts and monitors all fleet movement of your enemies

only played on it twice but i love it because it suits both turtlers and rushes as you get your home planets pre conquered worlds but are also forced into a conflict 

https://picasaweb.google.com/109325325194440061179/April182012

 

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Ur link is not working

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

that map sounds intresting.

 

I would love to try to see what would happen if pro players tried playing on it.  :)

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v386/User45701/SINS/

Hope you guyd like it

 

here are a few more

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v386/User45701/szins/

the names tell you what they are

one map called 3v3andmeobserve is a weird one basically i get a 12 world and i just sit back, i never play i just let the ai battle against itself in a 3v3 for balance testing

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

I agree with the OP... I keep meaning to drop by and play a MP game just to say I did it, but I can't get myself into that mode. I play Sins to relax, I can't do that by going all schitzo and rushing things. I like to experiment.

I think I'm going to d/l that observer map, that sounds great. I used to leave my tv running soul calibur CPU vs CPU matches for hours. You'd be amazed what kinds of crazy stunts the CPU can pull off given enough time :)

I suppose that's a terrible thing to admit on Earth day though...

EDIT: yeah, so the link on the main post doesn't work and the others you listed above are just pictures.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

I appreciate the symmetry in those maps, but realistically, they are probably unplayable for real games (online multiplayer with all human players).  It seems like they had too many planets, many of which were the most valuable planets (terrans, deserts).

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

ye they take ages - we play them as lan games - one time , only one we litterly fought to a standstill when there was just two of us left 

 

this map never takes long - because even with 1 way in you wont win if someone else controlls the whole map so you are forced into a massive early conflict for controll of the top systems - everyone has their fortified starting points that produce money but all the effort and combat takes place in the top cause you cant let your enemy get that - is a massive battle 5ffa locked teams and all have the exact same planets/money - its fair and it comes down to tactics - i dont like random because one player can get lucky starting planets - i know you can as well and it is fun fighting with your back against the wall but we like it all to be even

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v386/User45701/szins/?action=view&current=5ffa.png

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

That last one does look kind of interesting, now that I see it.  The central asteroid is almost like a "king of the hill" type of planet.  It's going to be hotly contested continuously.