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Reply to Problems with Adding Planets w/ Moons to Vanilla Rebellion + DLC in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="4" id="3399921"] Welcome to the wonderful skillset of reverse engineering. This is a useful skillset to learn.[/quote] It's how I learned to mod Sins.

Reply to CINEMATIC ENB for Sins of a Solar Empire in Sins Modding Sins Forums

It's too damn dark to use. You also have things fading at the distance they shouldn't be. What's with the directx 8 dll in there?

Reply to when is sins 2 coming out? / raging on single threadedness in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Andrew7588" reply="7" id="3399659"] What a mature opening to a response, so I'll respond in kind. Thats the wrong you're. You just wrote "you are sweet, sweet tears of suffering are so tasty..." which isn't a sentence.[/quote] Fixed. I was halfway out the door to renew the sticker on my car. Unfortunately, I ran late on waiting, and had to book it to work. Nevertheless, the general idea still applies. [quote]I wasn't bitching

Reply to when is sins 2 coming out? / raging on single threadedness in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Andrew7588" reply="5" id="3399618"] I'd want the same question answered. I'm gonna be building a new gaming tower early next year, and Sins is a favourite of mine to the point that my steam library has it categorized as "all time greats", but its reached a point where no matter how much better the PC gets, Sins is gonna hit the same limitations because speed doesn't scale on a single core to any significant degree anymore. So I could get a 64 core 3.5GHz PC with

Reply to [MOD] Maelstrom [Trinity | Rebellion] in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Dark_Ansem" reply="1549" id="3397881"] where did you get the inspiration for the new races?[/quote] Drugs. [quote who="BrightGALAXY" reply="1550" id="3398597"] Windows 8[/quote] I'd say that's the source of many of your issues. Even if it claims to support 8, I know many older game engines still aren't fully optimized on the 8 platform yet. Rebuilding the kernel always has drawbacks like this. Usually takes until the 2

Reply to Adding a New Planet Type in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Technically, you will never add a new "type" of planet. It'll just be a rehashed "terran/desert/invalid/barren/whatever" class of planet.

Reply to A couple questions in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Dark_Ansem" reply="20" id="3397077"] how can I set a custom skybox for a Galaxy?[/quote] Adjust the RGB on your monitor. Done and done.

Reply to A couple questions in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Dark_Ansem" reply="16" id="3396896"] ah, you mean ACTUALLY reduced smaller ships![/quote] All the tiny ships.

Reply to [SotF] Sins of the Fallen in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Question/suggestion: Would it be possible to add a colonizing effect onto the Nephilim cannon? Each cannon shot would flood the area with culture and/or colonize it if it's a free to colonize planet. For concept, you can inject the idea of "transferring Nephilim life energies" into the planet's denizens.

Reply to Modder's "Get-an-Answer" Thread in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="1941" id="3396862"] Alright, I should know this but I'm blanking out right now. Can you use buffInstantActionType "ColonizePlanet" in a buff or will it only work in ability entity files?[/quote] Everything I can think says "no". Methinks you can only use it in standard abilities.

Reply to A couple questions in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Playing with a reduced fleet size helps, too. My mod has rescaled fleet requirements of ships and runs on 1000 fleet supply. I also have rescaled strikecraft squadrens, trade/refinery ships, TSOP, etc. I can generally go 3+ hours before I see any lag whatsoever (of course, clusterfuck battles do encourage lag if you're zoomed all the way in). I'm using an OCed AMD A10 5800K.

Reply to A couple questions in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="ZombiesRus5" reply="10" id="3396775"] Your preference of 75 might not be his... I was leaving it more open ended [/quote] Despite Zombie's fascination with errr... zombies [e digicons]<_<[/e] , I am accounting for a game that is PLAYABLE, from start to finish, without so much lag to discourage people from not wanting to finish it. I do realize specs account for playability, and I can handle much more that (I have a 4+ Ghz CPU for Christ's sake), but I am a

Reply to A couple questions in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="Dark_Ansem" reply="8" id="3396768"] I thought the latest patch allowed for more multicore support?[/quote] They'd have to rebuild the game engine to do that. You can't simply fix it with a patch. If they could, it would have been done LOOOONNNNG ago. It's not cost effective for Stardock or Ironclad to redo the game to add this support. They'd only do this in whatever next proper (not Sins of a Dark Age) incarnation that Sins

Reply to A couple questions in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote] 5. how big can the galaxy map be before performance hits appear? is there a limit? [/quote] Despite what Zombie is saying, from my many years of playing this game in my LAN group, and modding it, I'd say to make the maps no bigger than 75. Seems to be the sweet spot for size while retaining competitiveness, discovery, and good length to the game. TSOP does wonders for the game, and raw CPU power is the way to go. Multicore means nothing

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion 1.79 BETA Change Log in Change Logs Sins Forums

[quote who="Ryat" reply="63" id="3396305"] He didn't pirate the game Xathos. He just doesn't have it.[/quote] He didn't specify which game he owns or didn't own at the time I was typing what I did, and nor did I take his posts the way you did. He had bad usage on referencing what he owned and used the broadest term he could use. His posts are also incoherent. The fault lied with the poster being able to accurately express his points.

Reply to [MOD] Maelstrom [Trinity | Rebellion] in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="soase-maelstrom" reply="1545" id="3396271"] Number of research items for the new races is similar to the original races[/quote] It still doesn't help the tangled mess you call a tech tree. I haven't torn through it fully to see what you specifically dropped, and what you kept, but it looks just as overly complex as before. Research and balance was always this mod's weakness. It is getting better with each release, though. Means less wo

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion 1.79 BETA Change Log in Change Logs Sins Forums

[quote who="starkiller-0117" reply="55" id="3396277"] so in order for me to get the beta i have to buy the full game?[/quote] To pirate an overly expensive AAA game due to oppressive DRMs, or region locking, is one thing. It's another to pirate from a medium, or smaller, publisher/developer responsible for the DRM friendly Impulse and the "Gamer's Bill of Rights". At very least, you should have bought the damn thing by now. You give piracy a bad name.

Reply to [MOD] Maelstrom [Trinity | Rebellion] in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I read that you removed lots of research. I was happy... until I loaded up the game. [e digicons]X|[/e] I think you added just as much as your "removed". The tech trees still look like an entangled mess with far too much on each faction.

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion 1.79 BETA Change Log in Change Logs Sins Forums

[quote who="starkiller-0117" reply="49" id="3396219"] how do i get the rebellion beta?[/quote] By reading the original post, and not self-imposing ignorance.

Reply to [Mods-Mod Links] Ricks Galaxy in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Any idea how far along you are towards a release?

Reply to Stardock turns 20: Very very humble beginnings in Stardockians Sins Forums

Nifty. Now, where is my GalCiv 3 announcement?

Reply to Should I Buy the Game? in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Any game in Sins can take a long time. I only play with friends, and much of the that was LAN or direct connect. I never played through ICO. Is it worth it? Absolutely. Sins, despite it's overambitious design for the game engine, is still one of the best 4X strategies on the market (especially for newbies to the genre since it's 4X light).

Reply to FANS CALL FOR A REJOIN GAME OPTION in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote who="ZenMode" reply="25" id="3392752"] They don't have to copy the entirety of the game files over, just a convenient function that they happened to implement in DotA.[/quote] You still missed the point.

Reply to FANS CALL FOR A REJOIN GAME OPTION in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

[quote who="ZenMode" reply="23" id="3392746"] DotA 2 has a rejoin game function.[/quote] That's a terrible justification for a comparison. Two different games by two different companies on two different engines and massively different budgets.

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion 1.79 BETA Change Log in Change Logs Sins Forums

[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="26" id="3391857"] An opinion, some people do care about them.[/quote] You don't need the game to tell you what goals to accomplish in it. Surely, you can figure that out on your own. Besides, achievements are just a fad, and not a selling point like some titles make it out to be. If they do, it's wasted development time.