There is actually alot you could do with events like that...

• meteors randomly kill off some of your population, 
• rogue asteroids get captured and now there's more resource asteroids, 
• comets turn a desert world into a terran world for a time/turn a volcanic into a desert for a time/turn a terran into a water world (kills off some of the population too), 
• militias could randomly decide to join a player (which might suck if you're on the other side of the system), 
• uprisings create a huge allegiance drain,
• Phasic storms™ create/rearrange a phase lane or two, potentially opening up a path to a new world (would actually like to see this done for the occupation planet, and triggered every game after a certain period of time).
• Worm holes spontaneously appear
• random new AI player phase jumps to the star with a big force and plenty of research, but obviously has no planets at this time... could even be pirates... but Vasari Loyalists would be very interesting to see randomly appear...
• After the game has gone on for a very long time.... a planet... disappears.... then the one next to it.... then the next... forces on said planets are gone forever...
• Can give scouts a new ability 'Deep space Exploration'. you only get this after you've researched the multi-star phase drive tech. The scout goes out into deep space (disappears from the map) for a period of time, and if it succeeds (has a chance to fail), it finds a new star with a random distribution of planets and potentially has a new AI player there...
• any of the planetary attributes can be changed via event systems as well.
• can do a ton of different things involving artifacts
• can have random missions not attached to players. success could even trigger some unique rewards. (for example "Planet JibbaJabba feels it would be much more secure if it had a phase gate". placing one there, you get some of the money invested back and a free ship or two out of the gate)

Well, I can see BRB being OP against Advent [Maybe Solonus Buff will help... Maybe...], but Vasari? Kostura. TEC? Ogorovs.

Hell, I remember this coming up with Wail. "Its OP", "No its not, you just need to scout and not let the enemy hold the planet that whole time, you're sacrificing a planet for this, so it had better be worth it!" and how it forced players to play a certain way, yet we were constantly told it was balanced.

I'm seeing the same sort of thing with BRB. You are potentially wasting a ton of resources to deal a lot of damage to the enemy fleet. Both cases can be solved by scouting and very careful fleet movement, though that's just not practical in a lot of games. Unless its been patched, last time I used the Red Button, Autocast had it activate the second the SB was attacked. So you can't auto-cast it, or else lose the SB to a tiny set of scout frigates.

If its not auto-cast, there is a small chance you could sneak past, but a far better idea would likely be to just jump in a few Ogorovs and attack the SB. They don't jump in a fleet, the SB possibly goes down without too much of a fight [Maybe send some percherons with fighters to be sure]. They do, then they risk sacrificing their fleet too if they activate the button.

In theory it could possibly be countered, but in practice will be where this matters. So, go out and test it. If it is OP, it will hopefully be nerfed next patch, or something buffed to counter it. If its not OP, then alls good. Must be tested vs other players in online matches however. Simply pointing out its strengths without doing so isn't very helpful.

Kostura does not work against Starbases. And Ogrovs do not outrange a full upgraded Red Button.

I thought the multiplayer crowd were always the ones advocating scouting. if you're jumping into a grav well with your entire fleet and didn't see the SB there.... you deserve to be BRB'd. if you scout and you see a SB there, you can either see if you can find a way to get in there without damage, see if you really do need to go that way and not some easier way, trickle through your forces, send decoy fleets with dominas held back... You might not have your hand on the button, but you dictate what might be worth the cost of using BRB. 

do any of the advent abilities such as detonate AM delay the BRB? I'm not sure off the top of my head what stuff is only frigates.

Thank you for updating the shields, hope you can get them to be more coloured and each race has a specific colour (i.e. Tec are orange/yellow shield effect).

Shields and explosions are currently the achilles heel of sins graphics. 

Look at haegemonia:

cool looking explosion at 1:30 and nice shield effect visible  at 3:13... how old is haegemonia again? Why cant these things look in Sins like this?

Yeah I think it did, performance seems worse, even though the AI performs better.

What I would love to see:

• Vasari (of course)

• The ability to disable superweapons when starting the game

• AI *not* prematurely give up

"Fixed some player Achievements that weren't working as intended."

What are these then, is there any detail as to which ones ?

I really don't see a difference... the skybox is clearly more detailed, and the ships have a bit more polygons, but then again, sins has way more ships on the screen.

I also never got to play haegemonia... I bought it, and then it didnt work... so I returned it, and I think that's actually how I came across Sins... I was actually looking for a space flight simulator. Seems SW: X-wing Alliance was the last one ever made...

Some comments on the Vasari Rebel Titan: You nerfed Nano Leech heavily which is ok to bring it in line, it was clearly too strong while it is still good in the beginning and powerful later on. I noticed that all its abilities cannot target enemy titans.

At least the HP drain from Nano Leech and Dissever (along its damage) should work.

I was talking exclusively about the graphic representation of shields and explosions. They are way better looking on Haegemonia than on Sins, despite Heagemonia being few years older.

Otherwise, i prefer Sins ship models, races and as a game overall over Haegemonia any day. Actually, with Rebellion i am starting to think i like Sins even more than Homeworld, which i consider to this date to be the best game ever. You cant do better than that. 

I think you miss the point, Even when scouted there is no actual way AROUND a Starbase with BRB if its on a small gravity well.

Hello All,

Yes, this build seems to be much more sluggish, although entry and exiting the game is better.

I thought I would read more about crashes. I play mulitplayer usually with one or two people and and 7 or 8 AI on Vicious. It seems to minidump a lot. If I go down to cruel, it doesn't. But huge map with with all 10 slots filled, usually 8 AI, all random and on Vicious, the game dumps

Anyone else?

Also, the AI appears to be much better. But the cannon being built 15 minutes into the game sure makes you scramble with SB aux government.

Definitely, after some performance improvements in previous patches this one feels like a couple steps back.  With multiple AIs the game seems to bog down quickly.  The AIs do perform better that is for sure, but it seems that it is at a pretty heavy expense to performance.

You guys gotta fix the accumulating rebels...when a player has a treaty with the rebels...you gotta turn them off.  No reason I gotta fight 500 dormant rebels when I invade a planet.  How hard is this to code?  I've been complaining for months.

When an ally Titan is destroyed appear String not Found

Still seeing random planet defense militias attacking colonizers/ fleets after TAR completed.

Not all the time, but usually one particular faction (and that faction seems to be different every game) will attack if it is found around multiple planets. 

I'm curious if there's ever going to be a fix for fleet formations when titans are involved.  Regular cap ships and frigates seem to be afraid of it or something with the way they sit off to one side.  they also tend not to engage much unless you micro manage them.  I'd just like the titan to be sitting in the center of the fleet or something.  Maybe in the back if its a Ragnarov but still in the center of the formation.

I still see both Advent Titans firing some of their weapons from their walls, no weapons emplacements or weapons ports, just from the very walls a laser or plasma burst comes out (I see this visual bug/glitch only with the plasma, laser and point defense weapons, the beams all fire from correct positions). It's the same thing I see on the Discord battleship. Now the Discord fires its beams and plasma weapons correctly (from the front and from their respective weapons ports/emplacements). But the lasers of the Discord just fire from the side of the ship where there are no turrets or anything else that looks like it can fire something, just from the walls of the ship, and sometimes (when, for example, all of the enemy ships are on the right side of the Discord), it fires its left side lasers through itself (the lasers go through the ship) and attack the enemies on the right side.

I already posted this elsewhere, but nobody commented on it or said anything about it. I'm sure somebody else has seen this and, well, they really should fix these visual bugs/glitches because it ruins a little of the beauty of this game. Maybe add some new turrets/weapons emplacements on the side of the Discord and on the titans as well.

Other than that, great beta!

pretty sure its intended, they fire from cracks/lines where speperate plates join eachother in the armor so they're supposed to be hidden I guess. I havent seen the discord fireing through itself in the new patch yet, so i'm hoping that got fixed. Afaik its just laser/point defense on the new ships, cant say it bothers me. But I do find the advent ships a bit lackluster compared to ther other races, visual design is great, its just the finish so to speak.

Pienso que por la forma del juego: "Sins of..." recien en la   realizacion final los programadores van a poner todos los elementos... (es una idea que se me ocurre)

I think that the shape of the game: "Sins of..." just in the final realization programmers are going to put all the elements... (it is an idea that occurs to me)

Flak burst on the Kol and TK push on the Halcyon don't seem to do anything anymore.

Never have seen any effect from militia weaponry although militia armour is working fine.

Obviously this game is a labour of love - truly impressive.

The counter I have found is either stifle its abilities or pull a truce right before it blows.

Yeah! Exactly. That's the kind of stuff I'm talking about. Ever play Overlord on the Amiga? It had that sort of thing. It provides more atmosphere.