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Reply to The "serious imbalances" thread in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

This isn't a serious imbalances thread.

Reply to No weapon effects in Technical Sins Forums

Turn down your effects settings, especially for textures. Go to the user.setting file and bring up your particle count. Doing that fixed this issue for me.

Reply to Phase jump inhibitors in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Use gravity warhead already. Asteroids in strategic areas are immensely valuable, bypass or not. Mass raid fleets only happen if a game has bogged down entirely. You have to have immense reserves to throw a fleet away like that.

Reply to How To: Increase Fighter Squads? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

The stuff in the game directory is packaged...yeah, read the PDF.

Reply to phase missles and phasing through shields in Strategy Sins Forums

You're probably using subverter cruisers, which tack 25% shield penetration to everything.

Reply to Freespace 2 mod any one? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

That's not a sound file, its the blue blob for the psi-beam origin.

Reply to selecting fleet empire tree issue in Technical Sins Forums

You can turn off planet autopinning in the Options->User Interface screen.

Reply to Planet Underdevelopment in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Planets with zero population infrastructure suffer an underdevelopment penalty to tax income that makes them a liability for your empire. The number of levels to eliminate the penalty varies based on planet type.

Reply to So.. what are Vasari about? in Strategy Sins Forums

The Carrier repair cloud isn't great, but it heals fighters. Progenitor shield cloud doesn't.

Reply to "No Pirates" in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Pirates are the heavy metal fans whose ships leak green goo. They have a crappy attitude, crappier ships, and suicidal bravery - they love to attack built up defenses. Planetary militia are handfuls of TEC ships guarding the uncolonized planets in order to slow down expansion and give you an opportunity to level up your capital a bit. Some of them are Zapp Brannigan types dashing themselves against hopelessly superior firepower, but some of the Desert and Terran militias can be downr

Reply to Freespace 2 mod any one? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Sadly, no. :| The real question mark for any mod is how many different squadron types you can put on a carrier. I'm not really sure how many the game supports. There's some ways you could take the fighter combat, too. For example you could make stripping fighter coverage more important by turning off antimatter regeneration and adding antimatter restore to repair bays. Although that would horribly nerf the AI...Hrm.

Reply to Anybody using carrier/drone cruisers? in Strategy Sins Forums

Some food for thought :) TEC has the most focus on hull of all 3 races, and they have the best armor tech. Advent and Vasari are more likely to put resources into shield techs, which don't benefit strikecraft at all. Vasari fighters get no damage upgrades [i]at all[/i] until NME warheads, which only goes up to 20%. The phase shield skips arn't very useful unless you go Subverters, or in support of Evacuators. (Ideally both.) TEC gets antimatter restoration in culture,

Reply to The Unstoppable Advent Bombers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

If they really are kiting like mad, you might want to look into the Vasari Marauder's Distort Gravity ability. You can also phase out the capital to shut down its aura. Another suggestion would be de-fleeting your pursuit frigates. If you decimate his bomber strength, the carriers *will* take some time to recover. Chase them down. They lose most of their antimatter jumping, so they arn't going to be rebuilding their squadrons anytime soon. Kiting is a lot easier to

Reply to 1v1 strategy - replays included in Strategy Sins Forums

I have gotten pretty good results from early Marzas myself. It's well suited to aggressive early gameplay; even level 2 raze planet lets it destroy 1500-hp colonies in short order. Some math: Raze Planet level 2: 320 damage/45s -> 7dps. Bombing: 56.5 damage/10s -> 5.65 dps -> about 2 minutes to kill a colony. And Radiation Bomb is an impressive anti blob ability. In fact I like those abilities so much I almost never take the incendiary passive...<br

Reply to Any chance for an epic moving cinematic camera? (Like in SW: EAW) in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

It would be a good thing to add. SINS is a reasonably cinematic game. Theoretically not difficult, though of course there may be engine related difficulties. I doubt it though.

Reply to Freespace 2 mod any one? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote] So far the only things I see which can be a bit problematic is the fact that, beam weapons do not power up/power down in Sins [/quote] This is actually possible. Cleansing Brilliance, the super beam gun of SINS, uses a charging effect. Of course, it's an ability, so that method wouldn't really work on capital ships with many beam cannons. Ships like the Deimos or Lucifer would be fine though. :) Although the Colossus supposedly has 60 fighter wings, that was kind o

Reply to TEC Scenario: stalemate --> slow pillow suffocation in Strategy Sins Forums

Painfully fast for your enemies ;)

Reply to Pervasive economy in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote] MaxNumResearchLevels 2 priority 1.000000 researchBoolModifiers 0 researchFloatModifiers 2 researchModifier modifierType "DerivativeCreditsFromPurchasesPercent" baseValue 0.000000 perLevelValue 0.100000 researchModifier modifierType "DerivativeCreditsFromTradePercent" baseValue 0.000000 perLevelValue 0.075000 [/quote] Never actually used this tech. I usually prefer military solutions. But the modifier name implies that it's cr

Reply to The Unstoppable Advent Bombers in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

I'd have to watch the replay to really be able to comment. But there's one thing I can say off the bat: since you apparently knew that he had a fighter focus, you probably should have built light frigates instead of heavy cruisers; bombers do loads of damage to heavy cruisers, and light frigates do loads of damage against carrier cruisers. Another strategy would be to send in the Sentinels a couple minutes ahead of your main fleet. When you've lost a good portion of them and they've be

Reply to Carriers overpowered? in Strategy Sins Forums

[quote] think you kind of skimmed through my post, I was stating/implying how you can kill a few structures and even level 10 caps with enough bombers long before the flaks kill the bombers (even if theres nearly an equal ratio of carriers to flaks) and thus its great for harassment and assassination (just stay at edge of enemy system, kill few caps) or in many cases make the opponent just decide to quit, I wasnt stating how the carriers are actually fighting the rest of the fleet. <br

Reply to Proper Planet Defenses in Strategy Sins Forums

I prefer close orbit, usually clustered around important infrastructure if it's not an asteroid. Spread out defenses make it harder for raiders to move around, but they are almost useless at stopping determined attacks.

Reply to Moons and space stations in Strategy Sins Forums

We need moons. And beer! And hookers! In fact, forget the moons.

Reply to Damage and Armor Type by Ship Class (Charts inside!) in Strategy Sins Forums

Noone's actually sure how armor works. :|

Reply to General Warfare Strategy in Strategy Sins Forums

I like to use Raze Planet Marzas for econ harass. They rip things up and and require a lot more resources to counter than a few siege frigates.

Reply to Carriers overpowered? in Strategy Sins Forums

The cap itself doesnt have to have the anti fighter abilities, theres no way a fleet with 40 bombers is going to be facing only one capital ;)