Moofaa

You mentioned windows firewall, etc. It might be an obvious question but I am assuming you checked your ROUTER's firewall as well? All else failing try running Sins on another comp while at your house. If you don't have another comp borrow a freinds. If your freinds dont have any computers able to run Sins, take yours to their house and try it. Reason being is to be sure its an ISP/Router type of issue or if its just your PC.

www.portforward.com Not that I don't agree with you, I like how StarCraft has always worked on pretty much any network aside from school. However I could never get Warcraft III to host games no matter what I did, always claimed I was behind a firewall even when I was on dial-up at the time and NO (and I mean NO) antivirus/firewall software installed (wiped the HD to make sure, and no windows firewall either) But its a good idea to learn about port forwarding anyways.

Depending on the fleet mix I prefer to target capital ships with my own offensive caps while missile frigates go wild. I also like to have 10 or so heavy cruisers to serve the multi-purpose role of anti-frigate spam and targeting capitals.

I play Vasari a lot and must agree with Cykur's strat. When I see I am up against advent I got heavy on the missile frigates and upgrade sheild bypassing tech. If you see a Vasari player your best bet is early-mid game harrassment to gain advantage. Missile frigates cost crystal so if you can deny him that you should do well.

Intel Q6600 4gb RAM 8800gtx Vista latest drivers Everything on highest, has yet to slow down on me ever except for a few random hitches during the larger battles.