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[quote who="-Ue_Carbon" reply="961" id="2365717"]Noted there Draakjacht. I for sure will push for the AA guns for Pirates. But Im not convinced about colonization. Let me ponder on that. Im worried that it may increase CPU power if you do. Lets us ponder it.[/quote] I'm not 100% sold on it, but think it could be good. Basically, early game, pirates are really powerful and deadly. By late game, you can easily take out pirate bases (while this would be suici

Sorry Whippersnapper, I've been in a sour mood today... While your solution works, it still is leaps and bounds behind other multiplayer games. Ironclad (or Stardock) ought to give us a better solution. Even if that just means they give you a place to specify a CLICKABLE download URL.

[quote who="Whippersnapper-DirtySanchez" reply="56" id="2365561"] Downloading and adding maps, especially Sins maps which are just tiny little text files, really isn't a big deal at all. However, it seems like gamers have just become increasingly lazy over time (consolized?) and won't bother to take the 2 minutes needed to add a custom map to their game. It just takes a 2 minute investment of time to have a better 2 hour game. Can't say I understand players' reluc

[quote who="CaptainAanderson" reply="7" id="2365257"] NOT want a repeat of the left 4 dead riot with the sins community after all) but who knows if we will ever see it. By mid next year we will know for sure, they aren't going to announce anything now and steal diplomacy's thunder.[/quote] I think Stardock/Ironclad themselves have already taken the thunder out of Diplomacy. Time will tell.

[quote who="chris0101" reply="24" id="2365167"]At this point, I think that a better AI is probably more important. I mean, lets face it, multiplayer for this game didn't take off. A better single player AI could very well be a better selling point than upgrading the multiplayer.[/quote] Well, when Stardock updates the client, the multiplayer experience should improve.

[quote who="Star Dragon" reply="2" id="2364822"]Yep, it either a full expansion after Diplomacy or a true sequel (which I think is most likely, IMO).[/quote] After seeing that one semibootleg video on youtube of diplomacy, there had better be some real changes coming...

[quote who="Whippersnapper-DirtySanchez" reply="51" id="2365114"] Allow for custom map auto-download. (I'm referring to Galaxy Forge-made maps.) [/quote] That is SORELY needed. The map system needs an overhaul. You can't download maps in-game, and in order to even get them into Entrenchment, you have to modify the manifest. That's just dumb. I understand the point of the manifests, and it sorta makes sens

[quote who="Guesswho69" reply="47" id="2365016"]I want a galatic council that I can get elected to. I want to win because my culture is 1000x times stronger than my enemies, and their huge production planet will defect to my side. I want to steal research from my enemies, I want to sabatoge mineral production, I want to cause civil unrest, I want to coerce two sides to go to open war with each other, while they pay me tribute to help them. I want to pass a ban

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="29" id="2364502"] What you seem to be underwhelmed by is what people have been asking for since the beta, even. The main complaint about the current diplomacy system was always that it was one sided, you could never give AI missions.[/quote] Yeah, but it should have been in a patch. It's not even worth $1 to me. If I want an AI to attack someone, as long as they're an ally, I just need to click on one of their planets, then say, "Set Ally Attack Targ

[quote who="Tkins" reply="17" id="2364380"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7_bHIDRAnA Alright I'll calm down and see if anything else comes out. Notice how it says "Battleships improved"? Wonder wha that means.[/quote] I'm really hoping they make it have more substance than that. (From JUST the video), it looks like the only thing they're really adding is the ability to give missions

[quote who="eoncommander" reply="22" id="2364418"]anyone else think its weird that diplomatic upgrades provide damage bonuses? [/quote] Maybe you're hiring sabeteurs :D

[quote who="Tkins" reply="8" id="2364051"]So nothing was announced? No info? I've been scrounging all the gamesights I can and not one mention, no article at all on Diplomacy. Guess I won't be buying it [/quote] Yeah, I'm finding this all VERY strange. The weblogs I read all of the time haven't mentioned Sins at all, or barely any Stardock coverage. Just a brief preview of Elemental. I've tried google searches and more, and found nil. It's all very strange, considering they sa

[quote who="TheRezonator" reply="20" id="2363355"] well, its not entirely true, i was playing a Distant Stars map of our Solar System, and as it turned out, the planet Uranus became a frontline planet... every 5 mins had the AI saying "Im coming for Uranus" or "Uranus will be mine"... I could barely stop laughing long enough to beat back the invasion attempt =P[/quote] hahahahaha

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="1" id="2358941"]There will always be jerks around. Don't let them get to you and try to enjoy the game. Honestly, the most satisfying moment you can imagine is when you finally beat one of those jerks and watch him quit in a rage. If you stick with it, then you'll get there one day.[/quote] I did that with Perfect Dark Zero once. This guy was being an ass and swearing people out, so I just kept running up to him, disarming h

From Joystiq today: [quote]Fans of the space strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire might remember that around this time last year developer Ironclad Games and publisher Stardock announced plans for three micro-expansions for the game to be available via digital download for $9

I tried it today, and it looks like it still works with the latest Sins. However, I didn't notice independant planets trying to colonize and fight back... this was the whole exciting thing for me. Where'd it go?

[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="155" id="2360808"]well, I know that it is a possible and EXTREMELY TIME CONSUMING task to update something from 1.1/1.12 to 1.17, using something like WinMerge (which I happen to have). Also, you think that he'd be alright with me using his warped meshes&textures?[/quote] I'd imagine he wouldn't have an issue as long as you gave him full credit for them and didn't really change anything in the mod. You should probably find h

[quote who="-Ue_Carbon" reply="912" id="2361502"]Guess no one was in the mood for DS online. Oh well, AI Comp Stomp for 1 please.[/quote] I would have been but don't really want my ass handed to me :D I've never played against a human, just with humans against computers I'll try that AI Comp Stomp map a few times to build my confidence up

*POSSIBLE MINI-SPOILER =P * This might be a silly ?, but... does Distant Stars affect the "Space Ponies" planet bonus? It's the only achievement I can't seem to get, and I figure DS might be disabling the bonus.

[quote who="Website"]Diplomacy will be released digitally during the first quarter of 2010 for $9.95[/quote] My hunch is that it might be a miscommunication. If not, then there still hasn't been an official announcement regarding the third one getting canned. Besides, I'm pretty sure I read a few days ago that Diplomacy would go into beta this year, and not be out of beta until mid-to-late next years. In any

If you look atKiedjor's other recent posts, he discontinued this mod. Which is unfortunate, because I have no interest in his new mod, but do in this one.

[quote who="-Ue_Carbon" reply="903" id="2360132"] Quoting TheDal, reply 902 Quoting Draakjacht, reply 893 Actually, this research tree has more than teh Mad Scientist tree, quantity wise. The research tree will burn out a bit slower than vanilla per single research point. The tree will last vastly longer. That's exactly the problem; you're spending way too much time and energy for too little gain. It's not about quantity or length, it's about results.<br

[quote] Also, will you guys, in your capital ship strengthener upgrade, give the capital carriers more squadrons? They currently are underwhelming, even in DS. Perhaps 14-16 squads at level 10 would make them more useful? The problem is, all the capital carriers have abilities which improve their squads, But since their squadrons are so few and wimpy, they don't make much [/quote] I dunno on that... I had about a dozen capitol ships last night, and over a thousand squadron

[quote who="Ryat" reply="882" id="2357319"]next patch[/quote] I know I'm somewhat impatient here, but why not release a quickfix IMMEDIATELY if you think it's been fixed? As it stands, 9/10 games I start minidump, and if I manage to get one that doesn't, it usually crashes an hour or two in, and i need to reload from an autosave. I played a 2 hour match last night and had to reload autosaves like 5 times. Pain in the ass.

One feature I would really like to see in SoaSE is a "build queue." I've seen it in another RTS, which I won't name. Really helped eliminate some micromanaging. Basically, the way it worked is that once you'd queued up some units to be built, you could click a button and it would just keep building that sequence. So if you went light-frigate x2, long-range-frigate x3, then clicked the button, once it built the first light frigate, it would place another on the back on the en