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Reply to how does Marza dreadnaught Missile barrage work? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

If you are using an early version of SINS the missile barrage will not work properly. [quote]Does it stack with multiple missile barrage? IE, can I have 2 of them and hit them both at the same time, or can a ship only be under the effect of 1 missile barrage at a time?[/quote] Damage abilities stack infinitely. [quote]Also toe to toe and level for level The Mazra will own the Kol. [/quote] Using base statistics, the Marza has 4652 effective HP a

Reply to Chuck Norris facts in Sins in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

You have to bomb planets because Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked every soldier in the SINSverse Chuck Norris was going to be implemented, but the DPS on his infocard took up the whole screen Chuck Norris requires 9 labs to research Chuck Norris used all of the Dark Fleet's throat lozenges Chuck Norris: The original phase missile Ships stick to phase lanes because Chuck Norris punched the rest of phase space You don't need to research Desert Colon

Reply to Lots of questions and modifications in Sins Modding Sins Forums

* The weapon fires for the damage listed every BuffCoolDown period. Burst and PointStagger settings are mainly graphical. The tooltip listing is the damage-per-second of all 4 facings added together. * change the relevant Ability*.entity file so it has a shorter recharge. * Change the relevant Frigate* or Capital*.entity files so the ships have more hipoints. *Add or remove abilities from the Ability#:"" lines in a Frigate* or Capital*.entity file *

Reply to Phase jump pathfinding is, at best, game-breakingly moronic. in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Yeah, I turn off group move if I need to retreat in a hurry. Most of your ships are combat ineffective when they start turning to jump anyway, so there's no reason for them to hang around.

Reply to Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy wish list in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Skimmed the thread, *Count me in for additional planet types. A more interesting environment is a more interesting game. I'll admit that it would be difficult to differentiate new planets gameplay-wise. Perhaps exotic planet types that require 5 or 6 labs to colonize. Or gigantic 'neutral' space stations. But even if they were just graphical differences, the game would be more interesting. *Trade revamp. The current trade system just

Reply to [Modeling] What to do with turrets? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

If they had infinite money and time, they could implement both animated turrets and stationary turrets and let players choose which to use so there is no performance impact. But they don't. They had to draw the line somewhere. They could choose to implement a turreted system, a turretless system, or do both and eliminate some other significant feature (pirates? super-cannons?). They chose a turretless system because it offered better performance. It's

Reply to Remnants in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Nice. I think story conflicts a bit with the universe background but you write well enough that it's enjoyable anyway. :)

Reply to Nerf the damn marza in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Guys, just because something is counterable doesn't mean it's balanced. You could nerf missile barrage quite heavily and it would still be a pretty damn good ability, and it would still be counterable the same way. But the entire game wouldn't hinge on the level 6 Marzas.

Reply to "Star Wars - Requiem" mod for Entrenchment and Diplomacy in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote]I assure you, the lancer is the Empire's anti starfighter ship.[/quote] You have to admit, the Tartan looks better. ;) It is not like the Lancer is from a movie. Speaking in terms of the established Star Wars background, you could argue that the Nebulon-B was a far more important anti-fighter ship than the Lancer, since it was designed to escort convoys and mass produced in huge quantities. Which is not to say the Nebulon-B or Tartan should replace

Reply to quick shield question in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Have the ability drop a generator which does 100% damage sharing for ships within its radius, basing the ability on the Advent Guardian's damage sharing. You could also just do damage sharing on the ship itself without using a generator, but I'm not sure that's what your aiming for. There's no way to create an independent shield 'pool' that's not linked to a game object.

Reply to Is there a simple Strike Craft Mod? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

It would be simple to do yourself. The toughest part would be getting hold of the reference data.

Reply to Where are the heroes? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

The idea is that you create the history for your hero units during gameplay. I'm sure that if SINS ever gets singleplayer we'll have hero admirals and such (like the guy in the intro). They'll be necessary for telling the game story.

Reply to The Novalith-Akkan-Pirate Strategy (NAP) in Strategy Sins Forums

Pirates arn't intended to be another player really.

Reply to Starbase designation in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Not possible as far as I am aware. You could set TerranHome and DesertHome planets to have 2 starbases in the definition files, but that's the closest you could come. It wouldn't be purchasable or switchable.

Reply to Weapon Hit Chance in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Missiles will always hit eventually. "Projectile" class weapons can 'miss' traversing targets graphically, but that's an error in the prediction code. They are actually hits as far as the game is concerned (the shield effect goes off even) and you can't control when the misses happen.

Reply to [Modeling] What to do with turrets? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

No it's performance reasons. SINS is targeted at low end systems and turrets take up a lot of CPU time. In any case, the weapons implementation is woefully unsuited for tacking animated turrets. There's no provision for holding fire until turrets have acquired a target, and every single turret having a firing arc of exactly 90 degrees would be silly. so they'd have to create a new behavior/data/balance format for a properly turreted ship. It would be a lot of work.&

Reply to Starbases - Which upgrades and why? in Strategy Sins Forums

I rarely use all of my starbase upgrade slots. It costs a lot of resources that could be put into ships instead. This is particularly true for 'trade' starbases; unless you have good reason to think the enemy is going to be raiding that sector, don't bother putting on anything except civilian upgrades. [quote]So do you mean to say that the starbase actually rebuilds squads faster? Keep in mind that the hangars are being repaired by both repair bays and the dockin

Reply to [SUG] Low-end box support: 'disable shield bubble' entry in .setting file in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

You could mod out the shield bubbles. I would do it in the entity files, but simply deleting the .mesh file might work.

Reply to [Modeling] What to do with turrets? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

before you ask the next question, the answer is 'performance reasons'

Reply to YAMT (Yet another marza thread) in Strategy Sins Forums

the gamer's fallacy - just because something is counterable, that doesn't mean it's balanced... a heavily nerfed missile barrage would still occupy the same place in the counter scheme, and it would still be a very powerful ability.

Reply to Weapon Hit Chance in Sins Modding Sins Forums

For the most part, accuracy is just another damage modifier. You can't make weapons miss graphically anyway.... I recall reading that abilities can have chances of success, but I don't know how that works.

Reply to mods wont show up on list in Sins Modding Sins Forums

What directory are you extracting them into, what's your operating system, and what version of the game are you running?

Reply to Should Fleet Upkeep be proportional instead of a definite value? in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Over time I've come to think a compromise would be best. While there should still be a judgement call, a player who only has 1/3 the fleet of another player should gain some economic advantage from it. So perhaps something like this: level 0 upkeep has 100 supply and 0%-0% upkeep level 1 upkeep has 250 supply and 10-20% upkeep level 2 upkeep has 500 supply and 15-25% upkeep The percentage of supply you are using determines where in the upke

Reply to Petition for Cloak (Discusion) in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote] Can't the call to the icon be removed? -Teal[/quote] Only if you remove it from the ship itself. I think it would be enough to give the cloaking ship a tradeship icon onscreen (something small and usually ignored :) ), it can use a more normal icon in the Infocard.

Reply to [MOD] Bailknight`s Graphic Mod for Entrenchment ver 1.02 Fixed 1 in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Looks great so far, I was fiddling with the files though and I have some questions. -A lot of the GameInfo changes only turn Autocast from FALSE to TRUE. Is it supposed to be that way? -The Kol Battleship has this change made to it: beamGlowTextureName "TechCapitalBeam_Core" beamCoreTextureName "TechCapitalBeam_Glow" Note that beamGlowTextureName has the _Core texture and beamCoreTextureName has the _Glow texture. Is th